Over recent years she had begun to think of the Thompsons as friends rather than acquaintances of hers; an association with them that had slowly formed because of Nancy Thomson's only child, her son Matt, being a prodigiously artistic young man of eighteen and whom she had taught in High School. He now attended many of the art classes that she organised for the town's art society.
Nancy would often come over to the venue to collect him and they would spend a few moments chattering about his skills and how to use them in the advertising agency where he had been offered an internship, rather than go to an accredited art school straightaway. He had yet to decide whether to follow that route into a career.
"I learn, I work, and I get paid for what I do," had been his stock answer when asked why he had chosen this career path.
The art society's reputation had been founded on figure drawing, along with the imaginative use of sketching materials and colours, all of it in pursuit of creativity and fun. The society always met on a Thursday evening when a piece of work was started and those attending had the weekend, and the early days of the following week, to complete their work before it was assessed at the next meeting by all who attended.
At such meetings compliments and criticism flew around the room like bees around a honey pot; no one held anything back and, as the leader of the society on such nights, she had to arbitrate and, on occasion, soothe frayed nerves and tempers.
Now, late in the evening and with everyone gathering up what had been brought for a session where Matt had posed for them, she caught him looking her way. She sensed that what had happened and been said, during the session, had taken a toll on him and there was a week before they all met again to consider what had been created, or in some cases simply produced by those less skilled in their craft.
"You did fine, Matt," she smiled as he was seen buttoning up his checkered shirt and cinching the belt in his chino shorts tight around his slender waist. Being almost six foot tall, he was a head above her, but Matt possessed an athletic grace when he moved. It was a clichΓ© to use the phrase, but the young man before her had a 'washboard' stomach and taut abs, his biceps nicely toned and all of it a sign of being a sportsman too.
"I didn't want to let you or the class down, Connie, seeing...seeing as Tom Lennard didn't show up. I posed as you wanted, but I heard some say I hadn't gone far enough."
She saw him push back his mop of unruly sandy-blonde hair and met the enquiring gaze of his eyes upon her and paused, wondering just what to say in reply.
Like the others, she had held her sketch pad in hand and had drawn what she saw of him as he stood in various poses or was asked to sit casually on a bar stool and staying still, for a few minutes, before he was told to move into a new position, on her instructions. The whole idea was that various poses would test the drawing skills of those present.
What neither she nor those women present had expected was the sight of him in his pouch briefs. Some male models, whom they paid to attend, were unashamed to expose themselves. However, Matt was not to be persuaded as the session went on, and she felt no need to encourage him to change his mind. She had seen more than enough, shaped in those briefs, and had felt an uncommon thrill course through her belly, given her age and the circumstances. One of the women had even been heard to remark that he was
'monstrously well-hung
', and she had agreed with that quietly and only to herself.
"You've let no one down, Matt," she said and smiled to reassure him, but the sight of that bulge, the length and thickness of what was shaped under a thin cover of cotton cloth had not been missed. "You did what we asked of you...and even I had time to draw."
She kept from showing him what she had drawn; it would be for her eyes only and when she was at home and alone with the memory of what she had seen.
"Yeah, that's something I guess," he sighed, yet wondering what she had made of what he had. "Well, I'll head off home or my mom will wonder where I've got to."
She nodded as he gazed at her, a drawing pad still clutched and held against the swell of her breasts, an artist's smock managing, somehow, to flatter a fulsome figure. The young man before her was both talented and precocious, and she had wondered who the lucky young woman might be to be in his life.
"Until next week, then, Matt, and put what was said tonight about you from your mind. Some people reckon you can just say what you want."
"I noticed."
She wondered how she would do the same, and put everything from her mind, after what she had seen of him and was sketched out in her drawing pad. The precociously talented young man had other attributes that she had sketched with a trembling hand.
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Nancy listened attentively as her son told her of his day that had ended with the art club meeting and his decision to pose for those in attendance, more women than men.
"Connie was let down by the guy who agreed to pose, so I took his place. It got to be embarrassing because of...because of you know what. Some of the women there couldn't stop saying things..."
"About what you have, darling?"
"Yeah, that!" he answered sharply. "Connie was discreet, but I knew that she was surprised too. At least...at least she understood that I'd only agree to do it if I kept my briefs on and not have my dick swinging around every time that I had to change the pose that she wanted."
He remembered the classes when one of the younger women posed and he'd sure been glad to be in jeans and a T-shirt that he wore to his work. No one knew that Becky Williams, and the sight of her in a diaphanous shawl and wearing nothing more than a thong, had made him so hard that it ached without any chance of relief.
"But they still saw what you packed in your briefs?"
"Yeah, Mom, they did, and it was enough. Please don't go on about it, or I'll think you're wondering too, why I've been given what I have down there. The guys at college and on the basketball team don't have it like I do. It makes me feel like a freak. Have I got that louse of a father to blame for this? Did he have a length like mine too?"
She went to stand in front of him and stroked his cheek. Admitting that she was glad to have him still living with her went unsaid. It was good to have a man about the house that made her pay continuing attention to her appearance and what she wore. At times she'd meet his look upon her and know what lay behind it.
"No darling, he didn't, and what he did have I sure don't miss...where he's concerned at least."
She had her moments of frustration and eased them away whenever they threatened to overwhelm her. As Matt grew through his teens, she was always curious if there was any girlfriend who knew just what he had been blessed with and what she had seen when he had been much younger.