I left my car near my Stepmom's driveway. I needed to walk, to clear my head, and to think about what I had just seen. Ever since a child, walking has always made me feel better when struggling with a problem and this was a doozy. I started walking towards town. What to do? What to do? What to do?
"Hey, John, how the Hell are you? Wait up, where you running?"
"Oh, hi, Mike. I didn't recognize you. I can't believe it. Long time no see, Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas to you, too. I haven't seen you since high school," said Mike. The two men shook hands. "What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost."
"Worst than that, I'm afraid," said John sticking my hands in my pockets.
"C'mon, let's grab a beer."
"A beer? I could use a drink. Where though? It's Christmas. Everything is closed."
"I know a place," said Mike
The two men walked, as they talked, to a small bar down the block and around the corner. It was just a hole-in-the-wall bar that you'd walk by without even noticing it, had you not known it was there. A few regulars with nowhere to go, nothing to do, and no one to be with, even on Christmas, attached themselves to the bar, while making love to their beer. Mike and John grabbed a table in the corner.
"Two drafts," said Mike lifting his arm, along with his voice, when the bartender looked over at him. "I can't stay long. I have to get back home. My wife, Sheila, her family is coming in from Chicago to spend Christmas with us. Something tells me that I'll need this drink more than you," he said with a sad little grin. "So, what's up with you? I haven't seen you in ages, since you went off to college. How's your Dad?"
"He's the same. He works. That's all he knows. He's gone from early morning until a few hours before he goes to bed and then he does it all over again."
"You'd think after your Mom died, he'd slow down and take more time off."
"Nah, not my Dad. He says that he needs every hour of overtime they'll give him to keep him out of the poorhouse. He has 9 more years until retirement and he's determined to build himself a fat nest egg. Only, the way he's going with the drinking at night and on weekends, he'll be dead of a heart attack. Besides, someone like him can't retire. He's one of those guys who wouldn't know what to do with himself, when retired. He'll work until he drops."
"So, why the long face?"
"Yeah, well, you remember my stepmom?"
"Sure, Carol, wasn't it?"
"Yeah."
"She was pretty hot back then. Is she still with your Dad?"
"No, she left my Dad eleven years ago, Christmas day, as matter of fact. I caught up with her last night."
"Yeah, so? How is she? Is she still hot?"
The bartender brought over the beers and left.
"She's still hot enough that I had sex with her last night and again this morning."
"Whoa! Seriously? You banged your Stepmom? She must be fifty. What do you suddenly like older women," said Mike with a chuckle, "who are related to you, if only by marriage?"
"Now, that I'm older, 29-years-old, the differences in our ages shrinks in importance. She's forty-seven, but she looks thirty-seven. She still looks good. She still has that smokin' hot ass. Her ass is like a ripe piece of fruit that you just wanna squeeze before taking a bite out of it. I've always loved her ass."
"Yeah, I remember now. I remember her in her two piece bathing suit. Wow. She did have a nice ass," he said giving his hand a shake. "The neighbors hated her, not the guys, just the women. She had a nice little figure on her."
"Yeah, especially in that neighborhood, where most of the women were fat and didn't wear any makeup, she was a shining star."
"I remember now, you used to tell me about her flashing you her panties and bra and you started flashing her your cock. Is that how this all this started, having sex with your Stepmom, from the flashing you and she did, back then?"
"I guess. I dunno. Only, I ran into her on Christmas Eve, yesterday, after not having seen her in eleven years and we had a pleasant evening, that is, until she spanked me," said John with an uncomfortable laugh.
"She spanked you? Your Stepmom spanked you? A grown man? Are you kidding me?"
"Yeah, I mean, no, I'm not kidding you. She spanked me."
"Just kidding around kind of spanking or across her knee walloping?"
"Across her knee walloping and on my naked ass. She made me take off my pants and pull down my underwear."
"Fuck me," said Mike taking a big sip of beer. "This is what stories are written about my friend. You have a story there and I'm so glad you're telling it to me. Damn. I need a smoke."