"Hey Mark, you want something? I'm gonna go out to buy some veges", I heard my mom from the kitchen calling me out.

"No mom. Nothing really", I replied and continued on reading my romance manga.

About 5 minutes later I heard something at the door. I turned my head around and saw mom wearing her sandals.

"Lock the door after I'm gone. Okay?", she said standing at the door.

"Yea. Fine", I said as I put down the manga and walked up to the door where she was standing. And as she was wearing her footwear, I looked at her from behind trying to size up against her.

"Still up to the neck huh", I told myself in disappointment. It was the same as last time. I had lost all hopes of growing now at 18 but still somewhere I was hopeful.

"Okay sweetie. I'll leave" mom said while closing the door.

"MOM", I called her out.

"Yes, my boy" she said looking at me with half the door opened.

I walked up to her tall frame looking up at her, and stood on my tippy toes to kiss her on her cheek. She looked down at me all surprised.

I stood there for around 5-7 seconds. It was getting embarrassing for me. Even on tippy toes, I was nowhere even close to those chubby white cheeks.

Finally I jumped a little and ended up kissing somewhere on her chin. I was so embarrassed I looked down and took a few steps back. My face must've turned all red at the moment.

A few seconds later I looked up again as I heard her laughing "baby wants to give a kissy to mommy, eh?"

"Awww.... let me help!"

I said nothing. I was embarrassed. I wanted to surprise her with that kiss. Usually I'm very self-conscious about my height and try and avoid coming close to someone taller especially opposite gender. At times I have even been rude to mom in the past since she was so much bigger than me and that it made me angry. But since past few days I had decided to come to terms with things. "I can't stay awkward like this for the rest of my life and today is where I start this", I thought. Starting from something she used to do everyday before I went to school.

Mom bent down so we were face to face and looked down at me with a loving smile on her face. Then she held my head with both her hands and put a long and loving to kiss on my forehead. Then she put her left cheek in front of me.

"Come on!! Go ahead", she said.

I looked at her skin for a few seconds. Despite being 42, her cheeks were white as snow and with a small mole under the end of her eye corner which only enhanced her beauty. I always dreamt of kissing that mole of hers which in my opinion only added more to her sex appeal and now was my chance. I put my lips together and gave the mole a delicate kiss.

That kiss brought about a stimulation in my body. Something I had never felt before.

"Bye baby. Take care", she said while waving at me. I locked the door and went back to my couch and realized I'd got a boner.

I can't talk anything more about my mom than I already have. My mom is a very tall woman standing at 6 foot 4 inches. But despite that she is very very kind. She never denied anything I asked from her life. She gave me everything she had in her power. That's why I even called her 'Gentle Giant'. It always made me embarrassed looking up at her in my early teens when most of my classmates were almost as tall as their mothers (some even taller), I on the other hand was more than a foot shorter than her at that point. Which made my parents-teachers meeting very embarrassing.

Teachers and my friends would not believe this huge specimen was my mother.

Even today, 3 years down the line at 18, I am 5 foot 6. Almost 10 inches shorter than my divorcee mom.

But apart from that I had a secret, a secret only I shared with my mom. It felt good knowing something only you and the person you love the most in the world know. And it's something even me and mom have never talked about to one other.....