Wendi's Story
"Mum's at it again, asking me what time I'll be home."
"Why doesn't your dad stop it?"
"Toby, you know my mum was a pro."
"Yeah but then she settled down and had you. Well okay she didn't settle down, but surely your dad could stop it."
I sit in the grass making a daisy chain.
"I think they made some sort of pact. You've seen the car my dad drives, he can't afford one of those on the money he gets working at your dad's import company. So I reckon they made this pact, she carries on as a pro, as long as she stops before he gets home from work."
"You do okay out of it. Hey, does that make your dad her pimp?"
"Fucking hell Toby," I growl at him.
"I'm only trying to lighten things up. It must be pretty shit though. My dad fucks anything he can, so I know what you mean."
"Does that make me her pimp taking pocket money?" I ask.
He looks at me and his smile drops.
"Christ Wendi, are you getting bothered about it now?"
"I've always been bothered about it. You don't know what it's like when we sit at the dinner table, and they start talking about their day like we are a normal fucking family. Hell, you know about the headmaster and me too. All three of us sit there watching some crap on the telly like normal families do, pretending it is all cool. I guess we are as bad as each other."
"So what are you going to do?"
"I could tell my mum I know, and if any of her so called, insurance men, fancy a younger version of her without the saggy tits, I'll be waiting in the bedroom next door."
He stares at me in silence for a few moments.
"Look I reckon you should tell them you've had enough of it. They must know you know what's going on, don't they?"
"I'm going to leave home next year when I've finished my exams. I'll get a flat somewhere out of Tarton, away from it all."
"Yeah I can see that happening. Come on let's get back in school. That new fucking teacher is right prick. We did something to his door, you'll love this."
We watch Mr Fording put the key in the classroom door, which he locks lunchtimes. His face twist as the key won't turn. He pulls the key out and a string of chew gum is stuck to the end of the key. He curses under his breath as we giggle.
"Who did this!" he shouts.
"Did what Sir?" Toby asks all innocently.
Mr Fording holds up the key with white and pink gum stuck to the end.
We wait in the corridor, as the janitor has to take the door lock apart. Toby and a few others have been marched to the headmaster's office. The janitor turns round and looks at us shaking his head. Then I realise I've seen him coming from my house a few months ago. I can't get away from what my mother does, even when I'm in fucking school!
Sylvia's Story
I answer the door to Jason. He thrust out a bunch of flowers without saying anything. I ignore the slight tremor of the flowers, due to his shaking hand.
"Oh, these are for you," he says after a few moments.
I smile and think about teasing him, and then I do, "Oh Jason, I never knew you cared."
His face drops as my words circle round his head, "God no, I mean they are for you, for well letting me stay the night the other day."
"Oh that's a shame; I thought you were going to ask me out."
A word gets stuck in his throat. His mouth makes strange movements, but nothing comes out.
"Oh Jason sorry, I'm teasing you."
He smiles with relief and laughs a little nervously.
I give him a drink and he sits at the kitchen table, as I cut the ends of the stems and arrange them in a vase. I talk about getting some plants for the garden. He tells me, enthusiastically, which ones would look good, and in what part of the garden. After a few minutes I have to stop his babble.
"Jason, I just want plants that grow when I water them, and stop telling me the botanical names. I'd like a Rose plant and some Geraniums, and anything else you think would grow out there, I like Bamboo too."
"Bamboo will spread over the whole garden if you don't get a root barrier."
"Well forget the bamboo then."
"I could come with you to the garden centre if you like, after school?"
I'm standing next to my car outside the school gate, watching all the kids come out, and a rather fit looking teacher. I've come here straight from tennis with May. I'm all in white with a tight top, and a short white pleated skirt. My dark hair is up in a white ribbon and I guess I'm stirring a few pulses. I spot Jason in his school blazer. His head is down and he is reading from a text book.
"Hi Jason," I say.
He stops dead in his tracks, and looks up, and almost does a double take.
The girl behind him bumps into him, and Jason drops his books.
"You fucking dork," she mumbles, and others around her giggle.
"Sorry Vanessa," he replies.
"Hey, is that your mum?" a girl calls out.
"Hello Mrs Williams, I didn't realise your son had such a fit mum," a rather cute boy says.
The group giggle as Jason blushes.
We walk round the garden centre picking things out. I ignore the dirty old man that has followed us half way round, like a useless spy in a comedy film trying not to be noticed, but actually doing the opposite. I can't resist bending over a little and showing my panties.
"I hope you're going to put your friend's right about me being your mum?"
"Oh yeah, sorry about that," Jason mumbles.
Again he peeps down at my thighs as I drive. I smile inwardly at the thought of having to fend Jason off like I did his father.
"You're not old enough to be my mum anyway."
I smile behind my sunglasses.
"Well, I'm too old to be your girlfriend, so you had better tell them I'm your neighbour."
I can see his knuckles turning white, on the edge of the books he has in his lap.
"Sorry I turned up in my tennis gear, I didn't have time to change."
"That's okay."
"So I haven't embarrassed you?"
"N, no, not at all."
"I must smell a bit too?"
"No, well all I can smell is your deodorant. It is nice, not like what mum wears."
He closes his eyes, like a boy who thinks he has said the wrong thing.
"Thanks, I'll have a shower, and then help you in the garden," I say as I pull up.
I can see a figure through the frosted shower glass, just a shape in the bathroom doorway. An arm is moving quickly, in front of grey trousers. As I switch off the shower the figure quickly disappears. I get out the shower and wrap myself in a towel. I go out of the bathroom, and look out of the landing window. Jason is knelt in the garden, digging the flower bed. I go back to the bathroom, and pick up my tennis outfit off the floor, and put it in the washing basket.
I'm in my bedroom now, where I laid out my denim miniskirt, a yellow vest top, a white bra, and white panties with a little pink bow on the waist band. The panties are gone, so I open the drawer and choose black ones.
I'm staring out of the kitchen window, as Jason works away in my garden. I have options, some cruel, some very cruel, but I remind myself I teased him. So do I go out there and demand my underwear back? Maybe I should tell his father that his son has stolen my panties? I could drag him round to his father by his ear, and shout and scream that his son is a pervert, who peeped on me taking a shower, and who pocketed my panties. I could even call the police. I smile, because I have all these options, but remind myself that I'm living next door to him and his father. What would life be like for all of us after confronting him?
Why would he steal panties that I had put on my bed to put on? Does he think I wouldn't notice, maybe he thought I would only think I had got them out of the drawer. I go out into the garden just watching him for a while, the gawky, shy kid. I look at the flower beds and the plants he has put in.
"You've done a really good job," I say still wondering how to confront him.
He jumps and looks round, for a split second I see fear in his eyes, like I had popped a balloon right by his ear. I can see now how shocked and scared he would look, if I told I knew he had my underwear in his pocket.
He smiles and says he likes doing my garden.
"In that case you can start on ours," his father says as he looks over the fence.