"1,001 Writing Prompts to Ignite Your Creative Spark" by Heather Wallace
#2. It was the perfect guy's night out, until she showed up...
..."Mom, what are you doing here?!" Cameron practically shrieked the words.
"Oh, Hi Honey," replied Carmen, somewhat embarrassed, "I am supposed to be meeting my date here."
"Date? What date!?" Cameron always thought of his mom as the sweet quiet soccer mom type. What in the world was she doing in Bubba's Pub on a Friday night, dressed like.... like THAT! "Mom, what are you doing, shouldn't you be at a church group, or a book club or playing bridge, or, or... or something like other old ladies do!?" Carmen was flabbergasted. Sure she was older, anyone with a 22 year old son, would automatically, mathematically have to be older, but she was only just turning 40. She sighed aloud, she knew the last few years have been hard on Cameron, and the thought of her dating other men, she knew would be shocking to him at best.
It was just 5 years ago, when she & Cameron had learned of her husband's death. Ronnie had been the best husband and father any woman could have hoped for. He was Cameron's hero, and hers as well. And as heroes sometimes do, Ronnie had tried to intervene when he saw a woman being mugged in the parking lot of the local grocery store. It had cost him his life. That was when Carmen sold the house, took her son out of the public school, and moved out of the city. It was not an easy change at first, but it was becoming the best decision by and by.
... to be continued.
