Abby/Kerry - fluff #38 for the prompt ask ?💛
Fluff #38: “Are you alright?” “I will be.”
Kerry gasped and bit her lip as Abby entered her, moaning softly.
Abby enjoyed watching Kerry unfurl before her. “Now this is much more pleasurable,” Abby teased, bending down to kiss Kerry but instead sucking her lip.
“Oh fuck,” Kerry moaned, Abby blind as her hair draped either side of her face, the two weeks they had just spent apart well and truly brought to a close as she and her girlfriend reunited under the covers.
“Mom, would you be able to...” a voice said, opening the door to their bedroom.
“Henry!” Kerry would have yelled were it not 11pm, so it instead came out in a stern whisper.
Abby immediately climbed off of Kerry and began to wriggle her harness off beneath the covers, only then aware that all of her clothes were strewn across the floor beside the bed.
“Henry, why on Earth did you not knock?” was the first sentence Kerry was able to string together. Ever the disciplinarian.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry...” Henry backed away, screwing up his face and slamming the door as he left.
Abby sourced her sweatpants and began to redress as Kerry ran to their bathroom. “Shit,” Abby whispered under her breath.
Kerry said nothing, struggling to form a coherent sentence, breathing deeply as she sat in only her underwear, her head in one hand. “Shit, Abby...I can’t do this.”
“Kerry, baby, are you alright?”
“I will be…” Kerry shrugged slightly, shivering in the cold of their room. “Can you...talk to him?”
Abby nodded. “I’ll go get him. But I want you to come join us, even if you sit there and let me do the talking”
“Henry? Henry, can we talk?” Abby asked him, finding him in the main bathroom holding his head over the sink and staring into the mirror. “Henry, it’s ok, come talk to me,” she said, standing in the doorway and knocking, which awoke Joe in the room opposite from which he emerged, rubbing his eyes. “What’s happening?”
“I need to talk to you about something, honey. Henry too.”
“Is everything ok?” Joe asked, alarm in his voice.
“Yeah, it’s good, don’t worry, come here,” Abby said, wrapping her arms around her son. “Henry, come out when you’re ready yeah? I want to speak to you and Joe about this together.”
“About what?” Joe asked as he waited impatiently, yawning.
His Mom, desperate for a cigarette, occupied herself making hot cocoa instead, three regulars for herself and the two boys, plus a fourth with some whisky at the bottom for Kerry once she decided to emerge from the bedroom. She looked up as Joe approached her in the kitchen, handing him the drink, his first sip giving him a whipped cream moustache. “Honey...,I want you to know that everything we’re going to talk about now doesn’t change a thing about how much I love you, ok?”
“Ok?” Joe said, unsure what anything had to do with that.
“Ker, are you coming out?” Abby said, at the bedroom door, not meaning to make a pun at her choice of words.
Kerry soon emerged, face drained of color.
“There’s whisky in yours,” Abby said, pushing the mug towards her.
As Kerry picked up her mug, smiling weakly with thanks towards her girlfriend, a long, dark-skinned arm came to take the last remaining one.
“Like mother like son huh?” Abby said softly, smiling. “I didn’t think either of you would be coming to talk to me anytime soon.”
“Yeah, I’m sorry, I just…” Henry began. “So are you...together?”
“What’s happened?” Joe asked, still in the dark and confused as he was ten minutes ago.
“Joe, honey…” Abby took his hand. “Kerry and I...we’re more than just friends. We’ve been...seeing each other for a few months now,” she said softly, pushing his long overgrown bangs out of his face.
“Mom, I don’t understand,” Joe said.
“What don’t you understand, hon?”
“No, I don’t believe so honey.”
Abby moved over and sat on the arm of the chair beside her son. “I loved him for a long time, but you already know why things didn’t work out for us.”
“No...I only realised how I could have feelings for women after what happened with your father.”
Taken aback, having hoped she could merely sit and observe in silence, Kerry was pretty certain this was the first time Joe had spoken to her without being first spoken to. She stood and walked towards Abby, putting a hand on her shoulder. “No, I wouldn’t, Joe. I love your Mom, very much.”
Joe nodded, too tired to really think or ask anything else. “I’m tired, I’m gonna go to bed,” he sighed. “Goodnight,” he said to the others, and gave his Mom a hug. Kerry, equally looking exhausted, also made her excuses to go to bed, kissing Henry goodnight first before giving Abby an affectionate squeeze on her shoulder.
Henry stood up to follow Joe to their room but Abby put out her hand. “Henry...hang on a second.”
Henry sighed and sat back down.
“Are you angry at us? At me?”
“I’m sorry we didn’t tell you sooner. We didn’t think it was fair to tell you and not Joe, which is the only reason you haven’t known all along. We both really wanted to tell you, as soon as we were serious, but I just didn’t think it was fair on Joe.”
Henry nodded, “I guess that makes sense. You could trust me not to tell him, though.”
“It was never about not trusting you, Henry. Just...I know how it feels to be the last to know that your life is crashing down around you. And I had no idea how Joe was going to take this news...he hasn’t long known that his father and I were getting divorced.”
Henry nodded again, trying to make a move back to the room he shared with Joe.
“And I’m sorry you...saw what you did. It’s never a good thing for kids to experience, seeing your parents like that, but I’ll assure you, an awful lot of people have...walked in on their parents.”
“At least...you’re not my parent though. And like, I always knew my Mom was gay, that’s not the issue.”
“No, I know...but if you look from my perspective, I’ve been a part of your life since the moment you were born. I know you haven’t been as aware of that, and I haven’t ever had the opportunity to get to know you quite as well as I’d have liked, what with me being overseas most of your life. Since your Mom had her operation when you were tiny. She asked me if I would be there if anything happened to her, so I’ve to some extent also been your Guardian this entire time. Now of course things are different now, but let me assure you, I love your Mom, and you, like you are my family. I would never do anything to hurt either of you.”
“I know you feel betrayed, and while it might feel like that right now, I hope we’ll soon be close friends, or like a second Mom, if that’s what you want. But that’s entirely up to you. If you just want me to be Abby, I’ll just be Abby, ok? And if you have any questions, anything, you want to ask, as a parent, as a friend, I’m here, and so is your Mom. Ok?”
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