University Changes Many Things

Everything is the wonderfull Susan Cooper’s I own not

“The Telling”

Will looked at his mother in shock, “How did you know?” he asked.

“Will, I’m your mother, of course I noticed” Alice Stanton smiled at her youngest son, she wasn’t sure how children, no matter their ages, thought they could hide anything of real importance from their Mothers, Will had been hiding something since he was eleven, something that made his eyes look old on occasion, and now finally he had told her, six years was definitely the longest one of her children had managed to hold onto a secret, even though she had known the secret existed and had figured it out for herself nearly four years ago.

“Well, I’m the one who is inarticulate with shock, and I rather thought you would be Mum” Will chewed his lip and looked hesitantly at his mother through the fringe of brown hair that still stubbornly flopped over his forehead, and hesitantly asked “Does Dad know?”

Alice Stanton smiled again, “Will love, of course he does, you don’t think I would keep something of such importance from your father do you?”

“And does he umm mind?” Will’s voice was even more hesitant, and worry shone in his eyes.

Alice Stanton walked to her son and hugged him “Oh Will, we love you, nothing changes that, your being gay is just not a big deal, of course if we don’t like your boyfriends…..” She trailed off and gave her son a big grin.

“No worries there Mum, you and Dad already like Bran” Will smiled, inside he was so relieved, for a moment there he had thought his mother knew about his real secrets, that would have meant making her forget, and then he’d have had to go through Coming Out a second time, well actually a third time, he’d had to tell Bran first, and as the memory of that telling ignited inside his mind, Will finally got to see a shocked expression crossing Alice Stanton’s face.

“Bran Davies, but… I never had even an inkling Will” exclaimed his mother.

Will chuckled, remembering how he and Bran had finally told each other, “It was funny Mum, there were Bran and I talking about sharing a flat at uni, I was shaking in my boots because I was going to tell him, and he was feeling exactly the same”

“But you said he’s your Boyfriend Will”

“Yes he is, but we’ve only been…” Will paused obviously searching for an explanation suitable for mothers.

“Sleeping together?” chimed in his mother, with a rather wry smile on her face.

Will blushed “Muuuum” he exclaimed.

“Wiiiil” she retorted drily.

“We haven’t yet, I was due to catch the train barely an hour after I told him, we didn’t have time to do much more than admit we have secretly lusted after each other for years”