Tina and Angela sat at the kitchen table for another hour talking, as they frequently did, about almost everything under the sun. The subject finally got around to Stan.
Knowing how frustrated and horny her daughter was, she wanted to tell the girl to go downstairs and wake her young man up. But, somehow, she couldn't bring herself to do it.
"It looks like you and Stan had a good time tonight," said Tina.
"Yeah," said her mother, "and I'm going get the dirty bastard back for it, too." She smirked as she said it.
"What the hell did he do?" Tina asked wide eyed.
Angela gave her daughter a blow by blow description of Stan's merciless teasing, her begging to be fucked, his demand that she describe how she felt when she saw Stan fucking Sarah, and finally how she had, with screeching desperation, begged him just to let her cum.
"I never knew that Stan could be that nasty," Tina observed with a chuckle, "I never knew he could be that much of a bastard!"
"Me neither," said Angela, smiling ruefully "I never knew that I could cum that hard either."
"So it was worth it?" Tina asked.
"More than worth it, but I'm still going to get even," Angela said firmly, "I'll tell you what I told him. My name is Payback and I'm a bitch!"
Tina nearly fell out of her chair laughing.
"Ooooh," she said in mock terror, "Mommy's revenge."
"Damned right!" Angela exclaimed with a smile.
When the two women stopped laughing Tina looked at her mother seriously and said, "Can I ask you a question, Mom?"
Angela sat down slowly, her body stiff with apprehension.
"Of course," she said.
"Well," said Tina, pausing to search for the right words, "are you starting to get really into him?"
"It's more like that big thing is getting into me," Angela joked lamely, trying to restart the banter.
"Mom," Tina said earnestly, "you know what I mean."
"You mean am I falling for him," Angela responded tentatively, "am I falling in love with him?"
Tina nodded.
Angela lowered her head and said softly, "I don't know."
The two women sat in silence for a few minutes.
After a time Tina reached out to put her hand over her mother's and said, "It's okay if you are. I'm not going to be upset or anything."
Angela grasped her daughter's hand and asked, "Are you sure?"
"Stan's my best friend," said Tina, "We grew up together, and, yeah, we're constant fuck buddies. But, that's all there is. I'm not in love with him or anything. It's never been like that with us."
They sat in silence for several minutes as Angela stared intently at her daughter. Whatever doubts she may have had about her ability as a parent suddenly melted away. She didn't completely know where Tina's maturity and compassion was coming from, but Angela had never been prouder of her daughter than she was at that moment.
Tina squeezed her mother's hand supportively and said, "It's alright, Mom. It really is." After a short pause she added, "Of course it would be kind of nice if you'd be willing to share him once in a while."
Angela smiled ruefully and rolled her eyes as she said, "You'd probably have to ask Stan about that."
Suddenly both women sat bolt upright as a sneaky smirk crossed each of their faces.
"Mom," said Tina, "You're not thinking what I think you're thinking. Are you?"
"Only if you're thinking the same thing," Angela answered.
"He's right downstairs," Tina giggled.
"We could ask him now," Her mother said with equal mirth.
"Naked."
"Of course."
The two women eagerly shed their clothing as they descended the stairs. Stepping out from behind the partition at the bottom of the stairway they stopped to look at the sleeping young man.
That's when the full reality of the whole situation suddenly hit Tina. The beatific smile on Angela's face as she looked at Stan was unmistakable. Her mother was deeply and desperately in love with her best friend.
She smiled and said, "You've really got it bad for him, don't you."
"So what if I do?" Angela said defensively.
"That wasn't a judgement, Mom," Tina answered, trying to sound reassuring, "just an observation. Actually, I think it's pretty cool."
"Really?" Angela asked.
"Mom, he's one of the best men either one of us knows," said Tina, "You could do lots worse than him."
Her mother nodded and murmured, "That's true enough."
Then her brow suddenly furrowed as she turned to her daughter to ask, "Be honest. Am I making a fool of myself?"
"What do you mean?" said Tina.
"He's less than half my age," said Angela.
"Dad once told me that the only barriers that you'll ever see as real are the ones you allow to stand in front of you," Tina said.
"This is a damned poor time to bring up your father," Angela said with a frown.
"Mom," said Tina, "what I mean is that age is only a problem if you let it be one."
"I hope you're right," said Angela, "He looks so beautiful lying there. It's almost a shame to wake him."
"It won't be if we do it right," Tina said with a mischievous grin.
The sleeping young man was stretched out on the largest of the beanbag chairs, his somnolent penis lying against one thigh.
Looking at Stan's flaccid manhood, Tina observed, "That thing is bigger soft than most of the guys I know when they're hard. That must be a third of his body weight."
"Don't be ridiculous," her mother responded.