Well, he's ever hopeful

Mrs. Phuan drove silently for the first few minutes while Matt tried to figure out a way to move things to a more hopeful place.

"I'm not a parent," he finally said. "But I think I understand where you're coming from and your concerns. I think every parent wants their children to be happy and successful and you're worried that this relationship is not going to help them. Am I right?"

She abruptly pulled over on the side of the road. "Listen, Matt. Would you say it's healthy for your daughters to share the same guy? What happens when they want to go to the prom? What happens when they're both invited to a party? We Vietnamese are conservative. Maybe you Americans are okay with fucking everything that moves but we aren't so modern."

"It's funny that you say that because I'm pretty sure you were born in America."

"Don't twist my words. My parents were born in Vietnam and raised me with those attitudes."

"All I can say is that I will do my best to make your girls happy."

"By letting them rub their tits and pussies on you. Yeah, I can see you making them happy."

He shrugged. "You're making it sound like there's nothing there but sex."

"For them there is. You should have seen Pam when she got home from her party Saturday. She was so happy, so excited about having a boyfriend, so jazzed about one-upping her cousin. And Cindi has been floating on air for the past week. After you took her ice skating, she gushed about you for an hour. And then there's you... the American guy who has an Asian girl fetish and can't wait to get both of them in bed at once... with their mom if you can possibly manage it. Typical porn fantasies and I don't really blame you for having them, you're a teenage boy... you're supposed to have fantasies. But those fantasies involve the girls I love."

That was, Matt thought, hitting a little close to home. He was a teenage boy. He was ruled, more than he would normally admit, by his hormones. He certainly did want both girls in his bed at once... with their mom if he could possibly manage it.

"I'm honored that I made them happy and I'm going to try to keep making them happy, Mrs. Phuan. I'm not pressuring them into sex. I won't pressure them into doing anything they aren't willing to do. And I'm not going to pressure you into doing anything you don't want to do."

"It's not that we don't want to do things, Matt. It's that I know we'll regret them later... and the girls don't have enough experience to realize that."

She shifted back into gear and drove him the rest of the way home in silence.

Matt played back her last words in his head. She'd said "we want to do things." That sounded to him like she wanted to do things as well as the girls. So, how could he show her that she, and the girls, would never regret anything they did together?

"Thank you, Mrs. Phuan," he said as she pulled into his driveway and he got out. "Dinner was delicious and I appreciate your understanding and your concerns. I hope to see you soon."