Many thanks to ChancesAre for helping me with wording and giving me some much-needed feedback. I cannot thank them enough, really.
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I should've known this would become a problem for me later on. Maybe I did, and, much like any man when he is aroused, I just chose to ignore it. Having sex with a friend's mom is practically the textbook stupid porn plotline everyone makes fun of. You cannot be prepared for a conscious decision once an opportunity to do it actually presents itself.
The thing about Karla was she didn't really like me. Actually, that's an understatement. She fucking despised me, and over the years I learned to despise her back. I'll spare you the bullshit about love and hate being close on the spectrum, because what we shared couldn't be further from love if we tried. I'll also spare my (let's be honest, former) friend from being named in these sordid little tales, for old times' sake.
I do not know what Karla saw in me. I was not widely craved by women. There were no interesting rumors about my dick size. If there were any, there would've been little veracity to them anyway. Barring my height, I was as average a guy as you could conjure up when it came to attractiveness.
If I had to think of something to explain her sudden lewdness, I would say it was my long-lasting saintly reputation. As a kid, I didn't curse or make a mess. As a teen, I didn't hit on girls or break rules. As an adult, I did and do not drive over the speed limit, and I try to control my anger the best I can. These, I suppose, made me some sort of incorruptible entity in the eyes of everyone who knew me. It couldn't possibly be further from the truth. I'm as angry and horny as anyone else you'll meet. I just happen to be more reserved.
Perhaps
that
notion was what drove Karla, though. Maybe she wanted to see for herself if her son's saintly friend had been wearing a mask all along. It certainly explains why her advances started the summer before I went to college. My recent arrival into adulthood and the fact I was leaving town the next fall gave her the perfect opportunity to test me, either way.
I still remember that summer afternoon. It was rare for me to be with her son in their house. I always took the chance to play videogames at his place if Karla wasn't there to antagonize me for whatever reason. Unfortunately, barring her job as a Scout leader every Saturday, she was always there, working with her laptop. On
that
particular Saturday, she arrived a bit earlier than I'd expected.
"Hello, boys!"
How I hated her bombastic arrivals. I was almost certain she enjoyed opening the front door as suddenly and loudly as she could. If it made us jump on our seats, there would always be a sardonic grin on her face afterwards.
"Dear, I have some shopping bags in the trunk," she told her son. "Call your brother and bring them upstairs."
There was nothing unusual about her behavior so far. In fact, one of the reasons why she got on my nerves was because she always managed to interrupt anything her son did with me. From an online gaming session to a simple chat, Karla was guaranteed to break it up if she was anywhere around. Even when we were outside, I never knew when she could order him to go back home because of some bogus excuse.
My friend gave me an apologetic smile and handed me his controller, before leaving to fetch his little brother Ricky. Call me rude if you want, but I wasn't in the mood to do anything for Karla. Even if I were (as I'd been on certain previous occasions), she wouldn't have let me. You see, this gave her the perfect occasion to have some fun at my expense for a short while. Whenever I found myself alone on the couch of her living room, Karla would say nothing, lean on the door and
stare
at me.
Don't think I never tried to stop this. I tried, desperately in many cases, to strike up a conversation with her. Karla's answer would always either be a head shake, a nod, or silence if neither of those would work. No smiles, no laughter, no words. Karla delighted in making me writhe under her stone-cold expression. The only changes in her expression, I eventually found out, were its small hints of satisfaction whenever I rubbed my neck with discomfort.
I could practically
feel
her eyes on the back of my head that day. Something about it made her gaze more intense than usual. Normally, this would be the part where I'd wait for my friend to come back, before offering some shitty excuse to leave.
The last thing I expected was for her to sit by my side. I immediately worried she was taking the torture to a whole new level. You may think this is a petty struggle, but at that moment all I wanted was my friend to come back so I could fuck off from his damn apartment.
I must've been completely distracted from the game, because Karla noticed the words 'GAME OVER' on the screen a lot sooner than I.
"You lost."
Even a purely informative statement from hers dripped with the nastiest sort of disapproval. Hearing her voice surprised me a lot, however. So much that I couldn't help but turn around to face her.