I'll take one to go, go, please

 "Are you sure this is what you want to do?" Aaron was concerned he'd messed things up for Jody with Andrew. "I could move to that place first..if..if that would be best." He said that night when they got home. 

"I think it's one of those things, I just need to get over with," Jody shrugged back as if it was like getting an extra vaccine for the virus going around.

Aaron sighed with a smile, "But-" He felt a little sad to say it. He wasn't sure if he knew how. "I just want you to be happy," Aaron managed but there was a tickle at his nose and he was sure there wasn't anything funny about it.

"I am happy," she told him.

He managed a nod. He nursed back a smile. Although, he felt a little teary-eyed though. "I just don't want to mess it all up for you." He could feel the emotion coming like an avalanche. "I was always trouble for my mom. She could do nothing with me around."

"Stop it," Jody came closer there in the kitchen where they were going to have decaf coffee. She smoothed down his flannel shirt. "You know, you were her excuse. You shouldn't have been made to feel that way. You're smart. You're kind. You are where I want to be." She tugged at his shirt to pull him down. Their eyes met. And he never realized just how big her eyes were until now. 

And then she kissed him out of nowhere. It felt kind of like ripping off a bandaid of some kind. Really, he'd never been kissed before. He was always trying to get away from his mom because most of the time when she'd say, "Come here." She would swat him on the head. He never knew exactly what to expect from her. She drank a lot when he was a kid and he couldn't stand the stench of it. Yet, here he was serving alcohol at the bar. Something he would never partake of and neither would Jody.

But it was Jody. It was not his mother and she kept kissing him until he responded. Really, it felt like a quick lesson, and he might need another.