The tension while waiting for Penelope to get back home was something that I had never experienced before. The person I loved, the one I cared about the most was coming back home, and when she did, we were going to talk about how our relationship was going to evolve because what this kiss told me was that she was ready and willing to be in a relationship with me. While it was a bit weird, being in a relationship with my best friend's mother, that didn't mean that I wasn't still going to pursue it. I wasn't the only one involved in this relationship that would suffer if I suddenly decided that I didn't want to go out with her, as she had also shown her attraction toward me.
I heard a car pulling into the driveway and got excited for a second before remembering that it was Mark who had taken the car out earlier, and Penelope was taking public transport back now that she didn't have to rush. I sat in the kitchen, hoping that Mark would go upstairs without bothering me but as the door shut and the footsteps started to approach, I prepared myself.
"Mum?" I heard Mark call out, stumbling around in the hallway. "Mum?!"
He stumbled into the kitchen, and the smell of alcohol followed in waves. I looked at the man that used to be my best friend and felt disappointed. He had so much potential, and we had planned on doing so much together and yet here he was, coming in drunk once more. It was then that it hit me, that not only had he come in drunk, but he had driven over here in that state.
I barely contained the surge of anger, but I took a deep breath, reminding myself that getting angry and lashing out wasn't going to solve anything. He walked into the room, his head turning as he scanned for Penelope, but instead, he found me.
"Where is my mum?" he asked, slurring his speech.
"She's not back from work yet," I replied, wanting any sort of acknowledgement for his wrongdoings but knowing that the likelihood was minimal. "You've not brought any friends home this time?"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Y'know, how you and your friends have destroyed this house multiple times and always left it for your mother to clean up afterwards," I said casually because I knew he wasn't going to see it as anything big and screaming at him would only make his reaction worse.
"I don't mess up the house, it's always clean whenever I come down in the day," he scoffed, acting like I was the dumbest person in the world for implying that he didn't pay attention to the state of the house.
"Exactly, when you come done it does like fine because your mother has already cleaned it," I said, getting annoyed at his constant dismissal of his mother's efforts.
"Whatever man, I never knew you were this much of a bore. If I had known I never would have become friends with you," he said, and it hurt to hear. "Let me know when she's back because I need some money."
I had known that he had grown apart a lot, of course, I wasn't blind, but the way he looked at me now, and his words made me feel like we were complete strangers to one another and not two people who had been really close friends only a few months earlier. I dropped my head, sighing as he walked upstairs. I hadn't expected much, but I did think that he would have a little bit more respect for me because of how much time we spent together in the past, but I was probably just too optimistic. Real life wasn't all fairy tales and rainbows, and sometimes when someone good happens to you, you like likes to balance it out by making something bad happen.
After a few minutes of contemplation, I heard a key in the door and stood up quickly, wondering if she was going to have regretted what we did this morning. My fears were instantly quenched once I saw the beautiful beaming smile on her face as she saw me.
I walked up to her, taking her face in my hands and bringing my face down to hers and giving her a light peck on the lips. "Welcome back..." I whispered, following it up with more light kisses on her incredibly inviting lips.
"Mmh," A quiet moan came from her mouth and as I pulled back, I saw that she was embarrassed at the sound that she had let out. To show her that I had no problem with what she had done, and instead loved it. I pulled her towards me, feeling bold enough to let my erection, though it was covered by my trousers, rest on her stomach so she could clearly feel it. "Oh!" She blushed but gave me a cute grin as if she was embarrassed but also liked what she was feeling. "I'm not ready for that."
"I know, babe," I said, pushing my luck.
"Babe?" she said, laughing slightly through the blush. "God, you're making me feel young again."
"What do you mean," I said, indignantly. "You are young."
"No way..." she said, but she looked away, and her smile told volumes over her words with what she thought of my comments.
"So," I said, turning the conversation serious as I knew that we were going to have to talk about what we expected from this relationship, or whether we expecting anything at all otherwise it wouldn't last for long. "What are we doing?"
"We're doing whatever we like," she said, smiling at me. "I don't know where it is going to take us, but I do know that you're kind, caring, you care about me, and you make me feel loved..." She then looked down and blushed. "...and you're also really sexy and aren't lacking in...any areas."
"I really care for you," I said, wanting to make sure that my feelings were clear to her. "And here you go."
I handed her a pink striped alternating bag and felt the excitement build as I saw her confused face. "I bought this when we went out last time, I just didn't give it to you because of what happened afterwards."
"Oh!" she exclaimed, seeing all the lingerie inside, all having been chosen by her before, with her only having tried one of them on. "Dylan..."
I had heard her say my name a lot, especially within the last few months mostly in a complaining tone, but this time it was different. We weren't best friend's mother and son's best friend anymore, we were together romantically, and I could get things like this for her without it being weird or creepy because that is what lovers did for each other.
"I know that I didn't have to buy it all for you, and you can change it out any time you like, but I want you to see you wearing this sometimes when you're ready," I then leaned into her ear. "Because although I don't think there is a piece of clothing that you won't look good in, I'm not going to lie and say that I don't think you'll look beyond sexy while wearing any one of those undergarments."
"Not yet, but..." she said, leaning further, conspiratorially. "...but be prepared because you're definitely going to get to see me in everything you bought."
She walked away after giving me a hug, but I was still a horny teenager, so I walked up behind her, pulling her back to be chest and burying my face in her neck.
"Dylan?" she asked, although she didn't resist, and instead leaned into my touch. "What is it?"
"I just felt that I hadn't said a proper goodnight to you," I replied, shrugging as I turned her around to face me. I leaned in, seeing her close her eyes as our lips connected.
This time I didn't hold back my roaming hands as I knew that she was expecting something out of this relationship, and I was going to be allowed to do what I wanted to her, within reason soon. I slipped my hands onto her hips, slipping them under her shirt and feeling her stomach. I had felt it once before, but that was when she had been asleep, and it was completely different now that I was getting to touch her properly without having to hold back much and had her unequivocal consent.
I stoked her stomach, remembering what she said earlier about not being ready for more and didn't slip my hands as far up her body as I wanted to. Instead, I lightly pressed on her lower stomach with one hand, like I was giving her a massage, and pulled her closer by her lower back using my other arm. Even though I knew this wasn't going to be the last time this happened, not in the slightest, I savoured the feeling as I had never done anything with anyone before and all I knew about relationships, foreplay and sex was what I had read, or listened to, from other people.
This time, unlike the last kiss, Penelope was the one who was feeling more adventurous and stuck her tongue into my mouth. The battle of our tongues raged on before I felt her hands drift down and graze over my groin. I felt like I was on the verge of cumming, so I pulled back with a moan, staring at Penelope's flushed face as the heavy breathing filled up all the silence within the room.
"Come over here," I said, pulling her to me once more and pressing my lips hard against hers, before pulling back. "I was...on the verge of...cumming, so I had to stop there. Unless you wanted to do more?"
"Not yet," she said, and her face flushed even more as she realised what I was talking about. "And I actually have to go up to sleep or I am going to be too tired to go to work tomorrow."
"I'll see you tomorrow beautiful," I whispered as I gave her one last kiss, giving her ass a light smack as she walked past. I was her beautiful red blush as she rushed on by, going upstairs with the bag containing all the lingerie in hand. I couldn't wait until she decided she was ready for more and I would get to see her in the lingerie, and also when she took it off.