Author's note: The following is a work of fiction. All characters engaged in sexual activity are over the age of eighteen. This is the first installment in a three-part series. I hope you enjoy reading it!
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MRS. MANDALUCCI, CHAPTER ONE
by Eosphorus
Tonight didn't turn out as advertised. So many promises. A party. Tons of girls.
All bullshit.
When I showed up, Dave and a couple friends were already drinking. Guess who got designated driver duty? Or that was the plan all along.
Then the alleged party. No chicks. Just a bunch of losers getting ever more shitfaced. At least I manage to get Dave's drunk ass upstairs where he passes out face-down in his bed.
Time to split. I'm not tired and it's only a ninety minute ride home. I'm suddenly glad Mom and I moved after graduation. This fucking town and all the users and false friends.
I pause by the stairs, looking towards Mrs. Mandalucci's bedroom. I resist the urge to take a peek where that most lovely of ladies rests her precious head. How she ever gave birth to a douchebag like Dave is beyond me. She deserves better.
She'll be home any minute, won't she? Hmm. Maybe I'll stick around after all. A few minutes talking to her will salvage something from the evening, at least.
I go downstairs thinking of her. Her smile! Her blue eyes! The way stray locks of her long black hair always break free from her ponytail. That killer body. And her sly smile, hinting at a playful side I wish I could get to know.
She's perfect. At least to me.
A car pulls into the driveway, light from the headlights sweeping across the living room.
Mrs. Mandalucci
.
My stomach tightens. I take a deep breath.
Why am I nervous? I'm a grown man. I've talked to women before. Hell, I've made love to five of them. Five!
Play it cool. Relax
.
The front door opens. Mrs. Mandalucci's face lights up. "Hey, Justin! Dave said you were staying over. I'd forgotten until I saw your car out front."
She hugs me. Her breasts pressing into my chest, her aroma filling my nostrils. Instant arousal.
I back off. Can't have her notice my current state.
"You've grown, haven't you?" she says.
Our eyes meet for a passing moment. Her glasses are so cute. "An inch or two."
"Where's Dave?"
"Upstairs asleep. He may have had a bit too much to drink tonight."
She sighs, looking down. "Thanks for getting him home safe. I appreciate it."
"No big deal."
She swats my arm. "You poor thing, now you're stuck here with me. Not what you planned, I'm sure."
No, but what I might've dreamed.
"It's okay."
"Are you hungry?" Mrs. Mandalucci asks.
"Actually, yeah."
"Let's see what we've got," she says.
I follow Mrs. Mandalucci into the kitchen. Her pink scrubs show off her figure Especially her delightful butt.
She opens the fridge. "I should try and cook more, but I'm always alone."
Always alone? No, no, no. We can't have that. I'd eat dinner with her every night. I'd learn to cook so she'd always have something delicious awaiting her.
We'd go upstairs afterwards. I'd make sure she came at least once before I worry about my own needs. Yeah. Make her come two or three times.
The positions we'd try! I wonder what her favorite is? Maybe on all fours, her fantastic ass stuck up in the air.
Or maybe she's the more dominant type.
Fuck, yeah!
She could take charge of me anytime.
Calm down. You're torturing yourself.
Mrs. Mandalucci opens the freezer, peering inside. "Let's see."
I stare at her ass. My pulse races.
I've had it bad for her forever. Then that day last summer. Getting back from the shore early. Going into the house first to pee while the guys were unloading the car.
Spotting Mrs. Mandalucci by the pool sunbathing topless. Standing there frozen. Transfixed. Hearing the guys walking, Dave seconds from seeing his mom's tits. Not to mention four of his friends.
Who needed that awkward situation?
Sweeping a steel mixing bowl onto the floor where it made a giant racket clanging around. Mrs. Mandalucci throwing on on a tank top just in time. Smirking at me when she came in from the yard.
She knew what I'd seen, hadn't she?
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Mrs. Mandalucci slides reheated pizza onto plates. She places them down. For the briefest moment, our eyes meet.
"I suppose a glass of wine right now would make me look pathetic." She raises an expectant eyebrow. "Unless I wasn't drinking alone?"
There's that hidden playfulness.
"I wouldn't mind a glass."
Mrs. Mandalucci pours us wine and sits across from me. She smiles at me and I take the moment to admire her looks. The angular beauty of her face. Her fair complexion and clear skin.
She raises her glass. "To midnight pizza!"
I sample the wine. It's not bad, I guess. I haven't had a lot of wine. It's not exactly the beverage of choice at the team parties.
We make small talk. She asks how Mom's doing and about my sister Holly's doings.
"What about you?" Mrs. Mandalucci asks. "How's college?"
"Actually," I say. "That's kind of a mixed bag."
Her eyebrows scrunch, a concerned look on her face. "How so?"
I shouldn't have said anything. She doesn't want to hear about my problems. "I don't want to burden you."
"Do I look like I have anywhere to go? Burden me all you want."
I stare into her eyes for a moment, then look away. "I loved my classes. I had some good times, too."
"But?"
"I really didn't make any friends. I'm
friendly
with people, but that's all."
"No girlfriend?" she asks.
I shake my head.
"But I bet the girls are crazy for you. You're personable, an athlete, gorgeous-looking."
Gorgeous-looking.
"They like me. I like them. But that's all it is. Then there are the users, like Chloe."
Mrs. Mandalucci winces. "I'd forgotten she goes there. At least you still have your old friends like Dave?"
I shrug.
Mrs. Mandalucci picks up on my tone. "What is it?"
"We've grown apart," I say. "We just don't have anything in common anymore. It's like Aristotle says..."
I stop myself.
She grins. "Aristotle? Go on."
"Just something I read in philosophy class," I say. "I know, I'm a nerd."
"I love nerds." Mrs. Mandalucci rests her chin upon her knuckles. "And now you have to tell me what Aristotle said."
"He wondered if it was worth being friends just because you were friends when you were kids. Especially if you have nothing in common."
"I'm sorry to hear that about you and Dave," Mrs. Mandalucci says. "I always thought you were a positive influence."
"He'll be okay. He's not a bad dude. He's just stuck in adolescence."
She sips wine. "But you, on the other hand, are oddly mature."
"I feel like I've got the brain of a forty-year-old."
"In the body of a man half that age," she says. "Sounds like a win-win."
"Maybe. But what about you? How've you been?"
She looks surprised. "I don't think I've ever had one of Dave's friends ask me that."
"I'd really like to know."
Mrs. Mandalucci scrutinizes me. As if taking my measure. "I'm not sure you do."
I shrug. "I didn't mean to pry."
She sighs. "You didn't. The truth is I put on a happy face. But every day's the same. Sometimes I think just getting through it is a victory."
"Sometimes it is."