"Better late than never," Edward said as Heather entered the front door. He leaned in for a kiss as he passed. He carried carrying a large yellow drill through the living room.
"Why the drill?" Heather asked.
"I'm going to finally fix that shelf in the basement. Margaret keeps complaining." He winked.
"I have not! I just mentioned it," Margaret called out from the dining room. "I didn't know if you knew or not."
"Pizza's on the table, baby. Pepperoni and mushroom." Edward left, and Heather listened to him descend the stairs to the basement before joining her mom in the dining room.
"Did you have a good day, Heather?" Margaret asked, pulling another slice from the pizza.
"I did. Thanks." Heather joined Margaret, pulling away her own slice of pizza from the pie. "Mostly a standard day, I guess." She suppressed an impulsive grin remembering her day. Hiding things from her mom made her a little uneasy, but Heather knew her mom would be disappointed. Hiding it from Edward would be no less difficult. She hated herself for these lies.
She bemoaned herself, but, at the same time, she couldn't escape joyous visions of giving herself to however he wanted. She stopped wearing panties at Edward's request, but she couldn't blame him for the pasty cum leaking down her thigh as squeezed her thighs together. The squeezing only added pressure to her clit, making it worse. She sighed a little bringing the pizza top her mouth.
Margaret sniffed the air. "What is..?" She looked at Heather with wide eyes. She reached, reflexively, for Heather's skirt, then pulled her hand back. "Where have you been?"
Heather had dreaded this moment. It would be easy to make up something, but she was a horrible liar. She had cheated on her loving husband twice in the past week, but she would never be able to straight up lie about it. She appreciated the irony.
"I drove by the apartments. Lexington Villa." She didn't look at Margaret. She had not lied, technically.
"Why?" Margaret lay her plate on the table and followed Heather around the kitchen as she fixed a drink.
"I was wondering, you know," Heather pulled a glass from the cabinet, "if they had changed anything." She forced a smile to her mom. "They haven't, of course. Those same flowers line the entrance. Oh, Roger and Kurt work there again. I saw Roger while I was there."
"Roger?" Margaret furrowed her brow and shook her head. "Roger?"
"Yeah, Roger." Heather turned quickly to keep her mom behind her. "He parked the cart in the drive. I almost hit it."
"You almost hit it?" Margaret shook her head. "With Roger?"
She thinks I had sex with Roger! Fuck! Heather searched for a reply. If she continued skirting the questions, her mom would think she fucked a balding fat old man. But, if she cleared the air about Roger, her mom would know she fucked a balding fit hot man. "Almost hit it?" She wrinkled her face like she didn't understand. "I almost his his cart, mom, jeez!"
"Did you fuck Roger?" Margaret stamped her foot in the middle of the kitchen.
Direct and to the point. Hether's mom had never beat around any bushes. "What? No, Of course not. What is wrong with you?" Heather knew she protested too much when she forced laughter.
"Who then? You prance in here an hour late smelling like a well-used prom queen." Margaret pointed at Heather's crotch. "Why are you squeezing your legs together so tightly?"
Heather pointed to her mother with the hand holding her fresh glass of water. "You're crazy, Mom." She say at the table, folded a napkin over her lap, and pulled another slice of pizza from the pie. If she just kept a calm face, maybe this interrogation would end.
Margaret sat at the table opposite Heather. "Do you remember Mr. Simpkins?"
"Uncle Gary? Of course." Heather said. Her mom must be dropping her suspicions, good. Gary Simpkins use to come to there house most weekends, like all her parents friends, when she was a child. He was a tall dark-headed man. All Heather's parents' female friends crushed on him. She couldn't remember why she called him Uncle Gary.
"Yeah. Uncle Gary, as you always called him, fucked the holy shit out of me at your fourth birthday." Margaret sipped her soda as Heather choked a bit on her pizza.
"What?" Heather threw both hands, palm-down, on the table.
"That wasn't the first time he fucked me, or the last, or the best." She shrugged. "But for some reason, that time kind of sticks in my memory." She looked up in reverie. "I had just cleaned up a mess one of your friends made on the floor. Your dad had ushered everyone out of the room already." She looked at Heather. "You remember how that house had the large kitchen with that island between the living room and the utility room?"
"Yeah." Heather wanted to know where this story went, but her stomach was knotted. Her mom just admitted an affair with Uncle-Fucking-Gary.
"Well, I was carrying the dirty rags to the washer, and Mr. Simpkins grabbed me in the kitchen." She smiled. "I had not known him very long then, less than a year, and I had been feeling really guilty, so I tried to bat him off, but he was very insistent." She sighed. "He fucked me against that island in the middle of the kitchen. I could hear your father talking to you and your friends in the next room."
"Why are you telling me this?" Heather asked.