Josh had picked up on what his mother taught him. He was very tenacious when it came to what he wanted out of life. He didn’t even know how to give up on anything. Once Josh set a goal for himself he stayed with it until he either got it or something better. Working as a freelance personal trainer he could set his own hours. He charged more than the other trainers. He made good money at it too. Josh got results. He was tough on his clients, always pushing them beyond what they themselves thought they were capable of. He was voted best personal trainer four years in a row.
As soon as Josh was old enough to legally have a job, he did. Josh had been helping his mother pay bills ever since. He never griped about it. He just figured everyone in this world should pull their own weight if they could. Josh was kind to other people and he was very thoughtful of others. Almost everyone who knew him, liked him.
The first night of rehearsals was mostly about getting familiar with the script and getting to know each other. There was no one there that knew Mary or Josh so when the two leads were introduced they both stood up and shook hands as if meeting each other for the first time. Josh and Mary agreed the cast didn’t need to know mother and son were playing lovers. It was Mary’s idea to play it that way. She and Josh had talked about it at home. So even though they shared the same last name people would assume they were no relation. There were two others who shared the same last name as them. Smith is a quite common name.
With scripts in hand the actors disbanded and headed back to their perspective homes. Mary always read a script from front to back as soon as she could. She thought it best to know the whole story not just her parts. She was impressed with the writing. Then she got to the first love scene in act two. Her heart skipped a beat. It required partial nudity, but nothing too risqué. Mary thought to herself it won’t be that awkward. She would have her breasts on display briefly. She continued reading, when she got to act four scene three she had to read it several times. It was almost pornographic in it’s description. It was the scene where the two lovers are caught at it after promising other characters that they would stop. This required full nudity with no way to cover up.
Just then Mary heard a sharp knock on her bedroom door. She just about jumped out of her skin. Then she said with a trembling voice, “Yes Josh?”
Josh came in and sat down on the edge of his mother’s bed with script in hand on the same page as Mary. “Is this going to be a problem for us mom? If it is, you just say the word and we won’t do it.”
“Is it for you Josh?” she asked back with a slight tremble still in her voice.
Josh tried to gauge his mother. He could usually tell how she felt about things. This time Josh had trouble reading her. He sensed that she was apprehensive about the scene, but there was something more there. At first he didn’t recognize it, then he was taken aback by it when he realized it was excitement and sexual tension. His mother was turned on by the scene. That’s when Josh saw his mother kind of for the first time all over again.
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