This is an unauthorized continuation of Jeremy Chandler’s, “My Summer in Pantyhose,” last added to by Jeremy 04/07/2023. The story line and characters belong to Jeremy Chandler and are used without express permission. What follows is intended as fan fiction with the greatest of admiration for Jeremy and appreciation for the original work.

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  Tabitha’s mother brought Tabitha over to Jamie’s house about noon. Jamie was really nervous about meeting her mother. Tabitha could sense it and wanted to spare him that.

  “Mom, it’s OK, you can just leave me here,” Tabitha told her mother as they walked up the walk.

  “I at least have to make sure that you get inside OK. But I really want to meet Jamie and his family. You said that you and Jamie would ride bikes over to a friend’s house. I want their assurance that this friend and his family can be trusted.”

  They knocked on the door and Jamie answered. He had on a tee shirt and jeans short with nude, sandal foot pantyhose and his sandals.

  “Hi Jamie, this is my mother,” Tabitha said.

  “Hello Jamie, nice to meet you. I’ve heard so much about you,” her mother said glancing at Jamie’s legs.

  “Hi,” Jamie offered.

  “Invite them in Jamie,” his mother called from the front room.

  “Ah, yes, please come in,” he told them.

  In the front room, Jamie’s mother stood to greet them.

  “Come in, come in sit down. Would you like something to drink. We have iced tea, soda and coffee,” she said, holding her coffee cup up.

  “A coffee would be great. Tabitha, would probably want a soda.”

  “Jamie, why don’t you go in the kitchen and get her mother some coffee and a soda for Tabitha?”

  “I’ll go with him. I know how Mom takes her coffee,” Tabitha offered.

  Jamie was obviously still nervous.

  “It’s OK Jamie. She knows all about you.”

  “Even about these?” Jamie asked pinching up his hose just below the hem of his shorts.

  “Yes, even about you wearing pantyhose. I told her that when you first came to work at the Fabric Barn. I told her that you had invited me to come over to go play computer games with a friend when she came to pick me up on Thursday. Lucille was right there and Mom asked her about you. Lucille gave you top marks and said she admired you because you were confident enough to be who you were publicly. She assured Mom that you were a great person and that your family was the best. It’s going to be fine. Come on. Mom’s coffee is getting cold.”

  “So why didn’t she just drop you off?” he hissed as they started back.

  “She wants to find out about your friend.”

  They could hear Tabitha’s mother as they left the kitchen.

  “When Tabitha first told me about Jamie, I was interested to learn more about him. It’s so nice to meet Jamie after all this time. Tabitha can’t talk about her job at the Fabric Barn without telling me something about Jamie. I understand he has a girlfriend.”

  “Ah, that’s kind of a ‘had’ a girlfriend now. I really shouldn’t talk about it it’s Jamie’s story to tell.”

  “Oh sorry. Well he seems to be a confident young man. I’m sure he’ll bounce back from it.”

  Tabitha stopped and looked at Jamie.

  “Later,” Jamie mouthed to her as he walked past her.

  “What time do you need to get back?” Aaron wanted to know.

  “If we leave for my place when the movie gets out, we can be there in time for me to get the chicken in the oven in time for it to be done for dinner.”

  “Oh, your night to cook… wait, did you say ‘we’?”

  “Yes ‘we’.”

  “OK, … last I heard; you were thinking of seeing if your mother was up for having me to dinner. This means you did it. How’d you convince her?”

  “Oh, it was easy. I just copped to everything.”

  “What!? … Everything?”

  “Yeah. Mom advised me not to ever play poker for money. When I introduced you to her, she read my face and saw that I saw you as more than a friend. So, after some discussion, she made me a deal. Total truth about our relationship for amnesty for past sins where you are concerned. She got me to tell her how long ago we first met then wheedled out of me that our lunch meetings weren’t always accidental. Then she offered the deal and after that I had no choice I spilled everything, including about Megan.”

  “And she still is OK with me coming to dinner?”

  “Amnesty, remember. The upshot is that we can pursue a relationship but we are on probation. One mistake, one little incident and it’s over.”

  “Wow, it looks like a relationship with you is going to be an uphill climb.”

  “Only where my mother is concerned. I’d say, from my point of view, our relationship is a done deal. All we have to do is walk the straight and narrow until I turn 18, which is only a year from now.”

  “That and I need to go out of my way to impress her with what a good guy I am.”

  “There is one thing I need to tell you before we head home.”

  “What’s that?”

  “My mom caught Jamie wearing her pantyhose the last day of school. She didn’t get angry, really, but she felt that he needed some kind of punishment so she gave him the choice of being grounded for an indefinite period or wearing pantyhose 24/7 all summer. He chose to wear pantyhose. Aside from church he wears shorts so it’s kind of obvious that he has pantyhose on.”

  “He chose pantyhose over grounding. If he’s like my lab partner in Physical Science, my freshman year that may not be a punishment. He would often wear girl’s blouses and pants to class. He was big time in the LGBT group.”

  “That may be the case, at least I think so. It seems that Mom’s trying to work that out. He’s working at the Fabric Barn and so Mom bought him some dressy shorts to wear there… women’s shorts with tops as well. He was a little self-conscious about wearing them at first, but now his only complaint is that they are of a style that’s too old for him. So the weekend that we rescued Megan, she took him out and bought him some more age-appropriate shorts and tops, so you may see him pretty much dressed as a girl.”

  Aaron smiled.

  “Interesting.”

  When they left Jamie’s house, her mother was still talking to Jamie’s mother. Tabitha borrowed Julie’s old bike. They rode a few blocks toward Mike’s house and Jamie stopped at a bus stop. He got off his bike, put the kick stand down and sat on the bench.

  Looking down, he said, “I suppose I should tell you about Megan.”

  Tabitha parked her bike and sat next to him.

  “You don’t have to if you don’t want to.”

  “No, but you were right the other day. I do really need to talk to someone about it. mom and Julie are too close. They tiptoe around the subject.”

  Tabitha put her hand on his.

  “Megan and I broke up. She was cheating on me with Josh Martins.”

  “Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. I don't blame you for breaking up with her.”

  “She broke up with me. Two week ago Julie went to the beach with her boyfriend and saw her necking with him and she was letting him touch her all over. Julie called her on it and well, in the end Megan agreed to break up with me if Julie didn’t tell her parents about it and that she was drinking. She sent out an email saying that she saw me as mercy project and that she wanted to be with Josh.”

  At that point Jamie broke down and cried. Tabitha took Jamie in her arms and held him. When he had cried himself out, Tabitha consoled him.

  “That’s a terrible thing to have happen to you. No wonder you were in a funk at work last week.”

  “I’ll just have to get over it,” Jamie said wiping his eyes.

  “I’ll help you. We’ll do things together. I’ll keep you so busy that you won’t be able to think about it.”

  She took tissue out of her purse and gave it to him.

  “I think I’d like that.”

  “Hi Tabitha, Jamie didn’t tell me the friend he was bringing over was a girl,” Mike said. “Are you really a gamer?”

  “Through and through. I started with D&D like everybody else, I guess.”

  “I’ve head of girl gamers, but I’ve never met one before. Hey Jamie, does Megan know you’re hanging out with another girl?”

  “That’s a sore subject,” Jamie said putting on a tough exterior to keep Mike from knowing he was crying inside.

  “Trouble in paradise?”

  “You could say that. We broke up.”

  “Oh wow. Didn’t see that coming.”

  “We came over so Tabitha could get a look at your new game. I’m sure that she’s anxious to do that.”

  “Right. Well, I’ve got it paused. You guys can watch me for a bit. I’m just about to move up to the next level. After I do, we’ll get Tabitha set up with an avatar and give her a turn.”

  Mike brought the game back to life and after a few minutes he reached the next level; about five levels above where Jamie had been his last time to play it. Then Mike walked Tabitha through setting up an avatar and turned her loose.

  She proved a natural and had quickly moved up to the third level.

  “You better watch out Jamie, she’s doing a lot better than you did when you first started.”

  “I know,” Jamie replied not believing her reaction time and how intuitive she was.

  “So you want to make this a regular Saturday thing, Tabitha?”

  “I think Jamie and I have plans for next weekend,” she replied without missing a beat in the game.

  When she reached the fourth level, she stood and said, “I guess I’ve hogged it long enough. I’m sure Jamie would like to get in some time with this game. It’s awesome.”

  “You better jump in there Jamie. At the rate she’s going, she’ll be ahead of you.”

  Jamie took his place at the game and called up his avatar and started playing.

  “Is there a bathroom I can use?” Tabitha asked.

  “Two doors down on the right,” Mike told her with a jerk of his thumb.

  After Tabitha cleared the room Mike leaned close to Jamie’s ear and asked, “So are you and Tabitha a thing now that Megan’s out of the picture?”

  “What?!! No, she’s just a friend from work.”

  “Some friend. She’s good looking and a gamer; a very good gamer. Sounds like perfect girlfriend material for a gamer nerd like you. Didn’t she say you guys had plans for next weekend? Are you sure you’re not an item?”

  “I don’t know. I’ve not really thought about Tabitha in that way.”

  “You should dude. She’s a much better fit than Megan. Not that Megan isn’t hot and a great catch. But Tabitha fits right into your lifestyle, well maybe not the hose, but everything else and she already knows about them.”

  “Well, I really must be going. I have a lot to do today. I’ll be back to pick up Tabitha about five. That will give us time to get home and get dinner at a decent hour,” Tabitha’s mother said as she stood.

  “Thank you for bring her over. It means a lot to Jamie. He’s been in quite a funk since his break up,” Jamie’s mom replied accompanying her guest to the door.

  “About that. Just between you and me,” Tabitha’s mother said, at the door. “I think Tabitha will be glad Jamie’s available. She’s quite taken with him. I wouldn’t be surprised if she didn’t drop some hints that they should get together more often.”

  Jamie’s mother smiled at that.

  “I think that would be good for Jamie.”

  “I’ll see you at five”

  Aaron and Julie walked to the parking lot hand in hand. Julie was feeling a little extra loving. Aaron had allowed her to pick the movie and said he actually enjoyed the chick flick she had chosen. When they got to his car he opened the passenger door for her and she turned, put her arms around his neck and planted a quick kiss on his lips. She then quickly turned back and got into the car.

  “That’s for being a perfect date today,” she said closing the door herself.

  After getting the car out of the lot and on the way to her house Aaron responded.

  “I get a kiss for being a perfect date. What do you expect when you’re a perfect date?”

  “That’s easy; another date.”

  Aaron laughed out loud.

  “That is easy and it seems a little unfair, since you’d get another date anyway.”

  “Not so unfair. You’d get a kiss even if you weren’t a perfect date.”

  “So the kiss wasn’t really anything special?”

  “Only the one who got the kiss.”

  “And the one who gave it.”

  They drove in silence, each thinking their own thoughts. Abruptly, Aaron turned into a supermarket.

  “Why are we stopping here?”

  “I want to contribute to the meal. You said chicken in the oven… how are you fixing it?”

  “I’m keeping it simple; breaded and baked.”

  “You know, I make a mean barbecue sauce from scratch. How about we broil it and make it oven barbecued chicken?”

  “That sounds good. I’m sure mom would like that. What do you need for the sauce?”

  “I assume you don’t have apple sauce.” Julie shook her head no. “Let’s see, I’ll list the ingredients and you let me know what you don’t have. Ketchup, brown sugar, lemon juice, salt, ground black pepper, paprika, garlic powder and ground cinnamon.”

  “I’m sure we have everything except maybe the lemon juice and the garlic powder.”

  With the missing ingredients and large can of baked beans they were soon on their way.

  “Mom, we’re here,” Julie called out a they entered the front door.

  Julie’s mom came out of the family room. “Hi Aaron. You guys are earlier than I thought you’d be.”

  “I wanted to have plenty of time to fix dinner. Aaron came up with a good idea. He’s going to make some homemade barbecue sauce. Instead of oven fried, we’ll do oven barbequed.”

  “You know we haven’t even uncovered the grill this year. If you want you could actually barbeque it.”

  Julie looked at Aaron.

  “My dad was the barbeque king. I learned at his knee.” Aaron smiled. “I guess that makes me the barbeque prince.”

  “The grill is on the back deck. There’s a gage on the tank. Why don’t you see if there’s enough gas to get the job done? Jule show him where it is.”

  After checking, they came back in with Aaron packing the tank.

  “It’s pretty low. I saw a U-Haul a couple of blocks away. I’ll just run down and fill it up.”

  “Let me give you some money,” Julie’s mom offered.

  “No need. I really want to contribute to the meal. The propane is on me.”