Chapter 3
Tricked Into Meeting The Parents
One Year Later
Matt thought waking up in his boyfriend's arms was wonderful. They had come home the night before with eyes only for one another and started ripping at each other's clothes. He hoped Zack's neighbors wouldn't complain; he was sure they were loud. They were going at one another all night, but if the cops were called, at least he knew all of them.
Matt dragged his ass out of bed around eight that next morning. He needed to leave. He sat on the edge of the bed and started to get dressed. Zack rubbed his foot along his back, "Do you have to?"
"I work at three and need to get some real sleep." Matt smiled at him, and Zack gave him a grin back. "We'll have lunch tomorrow before my shift." He pulled his t-shirt on as he said that and bent down to kiss Zack.
"Hey, my parents are coming in today."
"Your parents?" Matt stood there in shock. Zack had never mentioned it before today. They had been in twice before; the first time, their relationship was too new. This second time, Matt was 'conveniently' out of town.
"Yeah, they will be here for a week; just letting you know so you're prepared to meet them."
"Again, your parents?"
"Are you afraid to meet them?" Zack asked.
"No, you could have given me the heads up, so I could have been a little more prepared than the day they were due to come in. You know I love you, and I won't run." He bent back down and kissed him again. "But I do have to leave; I need some real sleep because I know if I stay, all we'll do is fuck more." Zack laughed; he knew it, too.
"Love you." Then Zack turned over onto his stomach and settled back asleep.
Matt walked into the bathroom first to relieve himself. He noticed something was off but didn't think much of it. When he went into the kitchen to grab water before leaving, he found out what was throwing his warning signals off. "Hello, you must be the boyfriend, Matt, is it?"
"Ahhh, Umm." Matt was shell-shocked. Sitting at the kitchen table, he could only assume it was Zack's mother and father. "Yes, Sir."
"My name's Darren, and this is my wife, Patty; if you haven't already guessed, we're Zachary's parents. We came in last night."
"Oh God." Matt turned red and ran his hand through his hair. "I think I'll leave now." And he went to turn around.
"Wait a minute." Matt closed his eyes and turned back. "When will we get to see you again?"
"Next year?" He grimaced and chuckled. "Tomorrow, I work tonight."
"Okay, we will see you tomorrow, Matt," Darren responded.
Matt walked out; he didn't remember seeing the Malibu sitting in the driveway when they pulled in last night. God, did neither hear them come into the house? Matt started his car and texted Zack while sitting in the driveway. Zack didn't respond. He was sure Zack was already being talked to. Shit, nothing like being in your thirties and feeling like you're five again.
When Matt woke and got ready for work. He had a long series of texts from Zack, telling him his parents would like to have lunch tomorrow. He just responded okay to all of it and left for work.
As always, Matt was out with Frank on patrol that night. They pulled a few people over for speeding before their dinner break. At dinner, Matt told Frank about the fiasco of waking up to Zack's parents being there. Frank laughed his ass off.
After dinner, they sat off Main Street, waiting for speeders to go by or run the red. An out-of-state Malibu went by them, going fifteen over, and Frank pulled them over. The license plate returned in the system as a rental car. They could see three occupants in the vehicle.
Frank approached the driver, and Matt stood back at the rear of the car on the passenger side. The driver already had his window down. "Hello, Sir. Can I see your license?"
"Yes, but what did I do?" The driver asked as he retrieved his wallet from his back pocket.
"Ask for Matt, Dad." A passenger could be heard.
"Sir, who's in your backseat?
"My son, don't listen to him. I'm not getting out of a ticket because he's dating a cop." He hands Frank the license.
"Darren!" The front passenger exclaimed.
"Just because this is a small town and all the cops know one another, I'm not going to ask for his boyfriend. I want to know what I did first."
Frank laughed and looked up at Matt. Matt could already hear everything and knew he was fucked. First, loudly fucking his son and then pulling him over; boy, this is looking better and better.
Then Matt heard Zack, "Frank, is that you?"
"Yeah, Zack, how are you doing?" Once Zack confirmed it was Frank, he opened his car door and got out.
"Zack, what are you doing?" Darren asked.
"Hi," Matt said sheepishly.
"You pulled my father over?"
"Technically, I didn't," Matt responded.
Patty and Darren exited the car and looked at their son, talking to Matt. "You gotta be fucking kidding me," Darren responded.
Frank was standing next to Darren. "Excuse me, Sir?"
"His boyfriend pulled me over?"
"Actually, Sir, I did," Frank responded. "Would you like to discuss that ticket now?"
Darren looked at Frank, could tell he was serious, and became remorseful. "Ah, officer, I'm sorry."
"I thought that would change your tune," Frank responded. "Sir, give your son a few minutes, and you can drive away." Frank returned Darren's license and returned to the patrol car to log the stop.
Darren sat in the car. He didn't want to talk to Matt. Patty shook her head and walked over to her son. "Hello, Matt. I'm sorry we seem to have met under the most. Excuse my French. Fucked up possible ways ever."
"No, ma'am, that pretty much sums it up." Matt looked back at the patrol car. "I better get back to work and let you all get on your way before Mr. Pierce finds more ways to hate me."
Patty went back to the car. "See you tomorrow at eleven?" Zack knew not to try to hug or kiss Matt. They didn't need that on the dashcam.
"Do I have to?" Matt pleaded.
"Yes." Zack smiled, turned, and got into the car. Darren didn't wait to leave. He pulled away before Matt turned to walk back to the patrol car.
"Wow, you're in the shithouse." Frank laughed.
Matt chuckled, "Yeah, I'm sure I won't be staying over there on my next two days off."
"Shit, I don't blame you. How long have you two been dating?"
"Just over a year now."
*
"Dad, you were the one that came a day early and didn't tell me you were here." Zack was in his living room talking to his parents.
"Well, I didn't think you would be fucking your boyfriend loud all night long," Darren responded.
"Darren, just calm down." Patty was trying to calm the situation. "Why can't we just act like none of this happened and give Matt a chance."
"Because he fucking pulled me over after he was fucking my son all night long in the bedroom next to us."
"Damn it, Darren. You won't get pulled over if you go the speed limit like you are supposed to. And I told you we needed to tell Zack we were here, but you were the one who was adamant that we surprised him. Well, surprise him we did, or I should say surprise us he did. We were the ones that intruded on him."