Carla Collins was a beautiful, intelligent, loving, uninhibited, freakpig of a girlfriend. The kind of girl men would fight over to possess and fantasize about for a lifetime after they lost her. I'm honest enough to admit I loved her. I love her still. Planned a life with her once, but it didn't work out.
Her parents loved me. My parents loved her. We both liked Jimmy Buffet and Gordon Lightfoot. We were great together. All the math added up to prove the two of us should have sailed the seas of life on a grand adventure. But that didn't happen. We definitely were great together. At least we were when times were good. When times were bad it was horrible. Cups and bowls shattering against the apartment walls type of horrible. Emotionally it was worse. For both of us.
We both knew it was no way to live a life and we were both, surprisingly, mature enough to admit it to ourselves and to each other. So we took one last trip. We went to the coast and spent a glorious week on a borrowed cabin cruiser. Both of us trying to pack a lifetime of love and sex and intimate conversation into seven days of naked skin, sunshine and rum. It was magical. It was heaven. But both of us knew it was the ending to the brief love story of Carla and Sam.
Bittersweet. But friends. Always "what if" friends. I still visited her parents, Jane and Doc, on Christmas Day. She was at my parents on Christmas Eve. Each of us dragging whatever person we were dating along and insisting that they accept the situation, as it wasn't going to change. It was comfortable. She was there for my sister's sweet sixteen birthday bash. I was there for the funeral of her brother. We were friends. As deeply intimate and emotionally open as that one word could ever describe.
Then one summer BBQ at my rent house changed everything. Music was playing, several cases of Dos Equis were on ice (Original brown bottle, of course) and there were ribeyes and sirloins cold smoking on the pit. Several co-eds were getting some sun in bikini tops and cut offs. The guys were throwing a Frisbee on the freshly cut grass and peacocking to get the attention of the tanning girls.
I was flirting with a svelte redhead named Melanie. She was sticking close to me, happy to be my little step and fetch it girl. The little slut was blessed with long thick copper hair, lots of freckles, long lean thighs, a firm ass and a submissive kink.
Yep, it was a good day. It looked to be an even better night. I had ropes already tied onto the bedframe in strategic locations and the redhead wannbe slavegirl had brought her leather gimp mask and a braided black leather cat o'nine tails that looked like it would leave scars.
I was busy planning out the patterns I would leave on the skin of the barely 18 Melanie when Carla walked in with her current loser boyfriend and I watched as he went straight to MY beer without even waving in my direction. Rude little fucker.
Carla gave me a hug and kiss on the cheek as I watched him take two beers and walk away from us to join the guys in the yard.
"Real winner you got there, babe. Rude. Didn't even bring you a beer," I whispered.
"Yeah, but he has a nice boat out on the lake that I use whenever I want - so I'll string him along for the summer," she laughed.
"Bitch," I said as I pecked her cheek.
"Man whore," she replied with a smile. Watching Melanie's face as she tried to figure out this new possible obstruction to my affections "You gonna wreck this little redhead's pussy tonight?"
Yep, that's my girl. Was my girl. Life's complicated.
"Melanie, go on out there and get some sun. Show off that tiny bikini and tease the boys a little bit. It's OK if they touch you," I ordered and she hopped to obey.
"Aw....I want one," Carla said in a pout.
"I'll share with you babe, you know that. She's got a really soft mouth."
"I need you to do me a favor and its a big one Sam," she said suddenly seriously, looking into my eyes.
"Anything Carla. You know I'm way past all in with you. Who do you want dead?"
"Nothing like that.....this time," she smiled. "I need you take care of my Mom."
"What's wrong with Jane? How can I help?" I said. I was worried and willing to shut down the party immediately if necessary.
"See that's why I'll always love you, Sam. You're half way to the door and don't even know what the problem is."
Evidently, that earned me another kiss. Right on the edge of my mouth. It was sweet.
"Tease," I said. "Really, what's wrong?"
"Mom is coming back to college for her Masters of Education degree and I want YOU to watch out for her. She'll be here Sunday night to Friday afternoon every week when Fall classes start and I'm worried she'll just sit in her apartment and study."
"Well, babe. I mean...what do you want me to do? Make sure she gets to class?"
"Take her out. Take her to the bars. Make her dance. Invite her to your parties. I want her to have fun. She deserves it."
"Carla. You have given me strict instructions to never speak to your mother about the parties I throw. Are you seriously saying that you want me to ask Jane to come to the annual Pajama Party? Does she even own a lace teddy?" I smirked.
"Well, maybe save that for next year. And I mean it. I want her to have fun but you have to keep all the horny freshmen away from my mom," Carla said.
"I don't know. That's a tall order, babe. Jane's a MILF if you get past the Mary Tyler Moore haircut and those sensible shoes. The boys'll be lining up for some....personal tutoring," I laughed as I danced out of range of the well thrown fist I knew was headed my way.
"Asshole!" Carla yelled at me with a smile as her punch mostly missed me. "Listen, I personally think Mom needs to get laid. And it needs to be someone who will take care of her. I just don't want to know about it. Understand?"
I was silent as I weighed what I thought I had just heard. Calculated. Rechecked. Did the mathin my head. It felt like my life might depend on me not misunderstanding what Carla just said.
"Sooooo...make Jane feel safe and welcome. Show Jane around. Take Jane out to dinner. Take Jane dancing and to the movies, etc. Make sure Jane gets home safely. And if Jane invites me into her apartment....you are saying...what? I check to see if she actually owns a lace teddy? I carry her to bed and show her why you really love me so much?"
"I'm saying that when you tell me about the nice dinner you had, the drinks you bought her, the movie you two saw together, you stop at the point where you walked my sweet, Christian, married, middle school teacher of a mother to her door and said goodnight," Carla said steadily. "And if she invites you in, I want you to keep her up all night and then make her late for class the next day like you used to make me, Sam. I always thought you had a really soft mouth baby. Be soft with my mother."
"But, what about Doc? Don't you think he'll be against this plan?" I asked as I was pretty confused.
"He doesn't ever need to know. He's had low testosterone since they've been married. Mom told me. She's pent up, Sam. She admitted that to me too. I need you to seduce her and turn her out. Gently. Make her feel like an attractive sexy woman again."