Linda Stotch entered the kitchen and put down her heavy bags on the floor. This shopping once a week was probably a good idea, but the combination of groceries by the ton and a long walk from the car to the house was not so good.
"Butters!" she shouted as she started unloading the bags and unloading the refrigerator and all the other places food went. What was the point of putting it all in different places, anyways? Butters would just mix it up in the end.
"Hiya Mom!" Eighteen year old Butters walked into the kitchen, his hair still wet from the shower he just finished.
"Hi, honey." She kissed him on the cheek. "Help me get all this stuff in place?"
"Sure." Butters smiled radiantly, and within a minute, everything was in place.
"What's wrong, honey?" asked Linda when Butters set up a puzzled face.
"Didn't you get my stuff for me?"
"Oh!" Linda blushed a little and reached for her purse, retrieved a small package wrapped in paper and handed it to her son.
"Oh gee thanks mom! I really needed some more of this, I'm all out."
"Oh, well…" muttered Linda.
"Anything wrong, mom?"
"Well, no, son. It's just… I don't feel too comfortable buying that kind of stuff. You know."
"Golly, don't worry about it, mom. It's just K-Y. Kenny and I use it for sex. It's no big deal. And don't tell me you got embarrassed in the store."
Linda was deep red by this stage.
"No Butters, it's not that. It's just that it's such a tangible reminder that my little boy, my baby, is so grown up. I'm sure kids don't like to think about their parents having sex, and most parents don't like to think about their children doing it, at least not when they're your age."
"Oh hamburgers, I'm 18! And so is Kenny. We're young, we're healthy. What do you think we get up to when we're all alone and want some fun? We don't play Monopoly, that's for sure. Heck, we've been doing it since we were fifteen!"
"You have? Leopold Butters Stotch, you never told me that!" The menace in her voice was clear. Butters backed a few steps.
"Oh Jesus, sorry mom!" he said in a small voice. "I didn't think you needed to know. And anyways, none of us got hurt, we weren't caught, and we're still in love. So what's the problem?" Butters made and expansive gesture and smiled his prettiest smile, somehow making Linda's anger go away.
"Oh, nothing I guess. But I wish you'd told me. Then again I wish you hadn't. Oh, I don't know what I mean. Let's talk about something else!"