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He put an arm around Janey's shoulder and got exactly the reaction he expected. An irritated shrug, followed by an angry, "Leave it out, Kyle."
As they reached her house he just had to try, though again, knew what the response would be. "My folks are away -- I thought maybe..."
"Think again then. It's that time of the month." Without even a farewell kiss, she headed down the path to her front door. She took a final pull on her cigarette and dropped it onto the path, grinding it out under a booted foot.
"See you next week?"
Her shoulders slumped as she turned to him. "Oh, for fuck's sake Kyle -- don't you ever listen? I'm staying at my Dad's up in Scotland next weekend. It's his fiftieth, remember? God, are you cloth-eared or something?"
She had mentioned it ages ago, but he really had forgotten. "Sorry Janey -- just forgot. Ok, Tuesday after you get back then? Maybe pizza and drinks?"
He barely warranted a backward glance. "Yeah, whatever..."
Kyle took in her tall, slim figure as she fumbled for her key. The long blonde hair almost to her waist, those sleek wet-look leggings that defined every shapely curve. The long boots she wore almost habitually, despite the warm weather -- the ones that had just metaphorically ground him into the dust just like her cigarette butt. She looked sensational as ever, but somehow he couldn't shake the feeling that as the door closed on her, she was walking out of his life.
In a way, it was almost a relief. She looked like an angel but had a nasty temper and it took very little to rile her. When he was - as he then thought - lucky enough to score with her, Kyle expected the sex to be sensational, but it was vanilla and mechanical. One of his friends said he envied him being in bed with a pneumatic box of tricks like her. In reality it was like being in bed with a fashion-store mannequin.
Her excuse of 'time of the month' was the latest in a long line. His previous girlfriend had relished that time of the month as it meant they could use 'the back door' as she called it. She was nowhere near Janey in looks, but her bedroom skills had been lightyears ahead. If Janey could somehow match Rosie's insatiable desires, she would probably be one of the most sought after porn stars out there. Recently, when Kyle tried to finger her darker hole, she almost snapped it off and he was left to sort himself out as she sulked, turned away on her side.
But Rosie was long gone -- at University in Manchester, a very long way away. And now it appeared that very soon Kyle would be back on the hunt again.
At least his folks were away. It meant he could link his tablet to the widescreen TV and watch some porn in style, instead of on the usual tiny screen.
It took him a while to find the video he wanted. The things that featured in the action had a fair bit to do with Janey's attitude towards him. To be fair, although she was a bitch, it was a decent enough reason. It was those leggings and her boots that she wore that did it for him. He had longed to fuck her with those boots on, running the leather across his back as he lapped at her, digging the heels in to urge him on.
A week or so earlier, when his luck was in and they were both a little drunk, she was about to take off her boots before they tumbled into bed. Kyle somehow persuaded her to keep them on, despite a few choice comments about being a dirty old perv. The way she dug her heels into his buttocks and thighs rather painfully left him under no illusions that she was paying him back for his new-found perversions.
A relationship that had never exactly been stable took a major blow to the foundations from a very large sledgehammer and rocked it to its core. It was downhill very fast from there on in.
His video finally found, Kyle watched a tall, leggy blonde wearing thigh-length boots, blowing smoke on a cock the size of a milk bottle before the guy took her up the arse until she screamed the place down. He preferred Janey's vaping to her smoking, but it was the best fit he could find. Given her reaction to wearing boots in bed, he shuddered to think what would happen if he asked her to vape on him.
When he messaged her on the Tuesday to say he was on his way, Kyle knew the game was up. Usually she responded quickly with a smiley, even though he rarely got such a beaming smile from the sender of said message. This time, the message went unanswered and he almost turned tail and went back home.
In the end he was so glad he didn't.
He rang the doorbell and waited a few moments; not exactly filled with dread, but an increasing inevitability that no-one was going to answer. He was just about to turn away when the door opened. Janey's mother looked on in astonishment.
"Kyle! Good God, I wasn't expecting to see you again!"
Well that reaction certainly put the tin hat on it. They had only met briefly on three or four occasions and he was surprised she even remembered his name. He knew it was pointless but had to say something.
"Hi Mrs. Coughlan. Just came to pick Janey up - we're heading into town."
She looked askance. "Into town? I would imagine she may well be off into town, but if she is, that town is a long way away -- she's moved up to Edinburgh."
Despite expecting to hear he was yesterday's news, Kyle couldn't take in what she was saying. She was only supposed to be up for the birthday weekend. "Edinburgh?"
"Big city in Scotland. Castle, kilts, bagpipes, shortbread."
He looked at her blankly.
"Sorry, Kyle -- not the time for what passes for my sense of humour, eh? It's where her father - my former husband now resides. She's moved in with him for an unspecified duration following what she described to me as a 'harrowing breakup' with a guy called Kyle Marshall. I never got your last name. I take it that you are the Kyle in question, rather than some other unspecified lad of the same name?"
All he could do was nod mutely.
Mrs. Coughlan then closed her eyes and clenched her fists. Her words were forced out through gritted teeth as though she really wanted to scream out loud. "Oh, that fucking girl. She never bloody well told you, did she? That's why you're here now. The little bitch never even had the courage to tell you."
At least Kyle managed to change his reaction. Instead of nodding his head mutely, he shook it mutely.
"That fucking girl! Oops, I said it again. Sorry Kyle -- but she does my bloody head in. Treats people like shit, so she does. Drives me mad. I'm so sorry. What can I say? To be perfectly honest, I think we're both better off without the little madam because she's been driving me apeshit with her attitude these last few months and it was a relief when she upped sticks."
Somehow, he found his voice. "It's ok, Mrs. Coughlan. Been coming for a while, but no great shock. Not a nice way to find out, but at least I now know."
If Mrs. Coughlan thought she was helping with her next action, she only made matters worse.
She hugged him. "Oh, Kyle, I'm so sorry. What a way to find out, you poor lad!"
In itself, that would not have been an issue - but for one thing.
Mrs. Coughlan was an absolute stunner. She and Janey could have passed for sisters they were so alike. Many a night after being spurned by Janey, Kyle had imagined Jude Coughlan comforting him.
He squirmed uncomfortably in her embrace, trying to recall when Janey had last held him that tenderly. There was a musky scent to her, a faint hint of wine on her breath as she spoke. He didn't know how to respond so just stood there like the mannequin Janey had been in bed and endured it as it went on way longer than it should have.
They may have looked similar, but there was one significant difference between them. Forty-something Jude Coughlan's breasts were significantly larger than her twenty-one-year-old daughter's. They crushed very alluringly against Kyle's chest and it crossed his mind that maybe they had been enhanced. Rosie had bars in her nipples, so he was no stranger to them. By the time he was released from his little ordeal, he was pretty convinced that his assailant also had piercings.
Just when he thought he may be about to embarrass himself, she mercifully let go. "All I can do is apologise for her. I'm so sorry, Kyle. I'll swing for her, so help me. No consideration for others. Picks them up and drops them like hot bricks. Shit, I may be divorced, but at least we had the balls to look each other in the eye when it all fell apart."
Stepping back in relief, he sighed. "Thanks, but as I said -- no real surprise. Oh well, doesn't look like I'll be back this way again. See you around."
"Bye Kyle. What a silly girl -- lovely lad like you."
Reddening, he turned to go. Halfway down the path, Mrs Coughlan called out his name and he turned back.
"Erm, Kyle... no, sorry. Forget it. It's a shitty time to be asking. Pay no attention to me, sorry to have stopped you."
Looking back at this older clone of his ex-girlfriend, Kyle wondered what she wanted. She was utterly drop-dead gorgeous, despite her age. The same friend that had been jealous of his relationship with Janey once said that he always looked at his girlfriend's mothers with interest as it gave an indication of what they would be like when older.
If Janey Coughlan looked half as good as her mother at her age, she would still have people craning their necks to see her. Her hair was not much shorter and a little darker, but she wore her years well. There were a few more curves to her than her daughter and having just felt a few of them rather more intimately than he could ever have imagined, Kyle had to fight down the thought of what she would look like naked. She wouldn't have looked out of place in a racy internet movie in which an older blonde seduces her babysitter.