As told by cathy:
"Come on, Jane, it's not like I'm gonna hurt him!"
"Cathy, you can't be serious! I mean, what kind of mother would I be?"
I looked across the breakfast table at her, divorced for 12 years, an 18 year old son she dotes over. Both really nice people, but she's been sheltered, and now so has he. I said, "You're a concerned mother who wants what's best for her son. Nothing wrong with that."
"He's not just shy," she argued. "There's something else there! I wish he would meet the right girl and all this will be a thing of the past, but I don't think it will happen."
"Maybe," I replied, "if he is put in the right situation? He obviously has the desires, it's just a matter of channeling them."
Tim's father had abandoned them before I met her. Tim was six at the time, Jane was 27. Many years later she found out her ex had died in a bar fight in Denver.
I met Jane because my daughter sat for Jane. Lisa is ten years older than Tim, and he adored her. She was married now, living in LA, but Jane and I stayed close, and Tim was almost like a nephew to me.
When he turned 12, he had the normal teen reaction to girls, shy but curious. The accidental discoveries in his room told Jane he developed a collection of porn, including some of her undies that she thought she had lost. This worried her.
I tried to explain that this was fairly common among teens, that he was curious of females in general, and wasn't a perv because he liked to peek at Mom in her undies. Se just happened to be handy.
Jane saw this as a sign of a deeper problem. Without a male influence in his life, she had no one to talk to him. And since I was her closest friend, she bounced these things off me.
I had become sort of like her big sister, since I was nine years older, at 48. Our personalities couldn't be more different. I'm out-going, strong-willed, self-assured, most times, and she's not.
I'm a full figured girl, 5'8, 150, with a 38DD chest that always turns heads, while Jane is 5'3, slight, not quite petite, and a 34B. We are both red heads, but she's a natural, I'm a Clairol Girl. Our choices in make up are just as drastic, as you can imagine. I never go out without it, and she barely wears any.
But, we have remained close friends, even now, and Jane knew that if she asked my opinion on something, I didn't hold back.
Tim was his mother's son, alright. At 5'9, and 140, I towered over him in my always-present heels. He was red-headed, freckled, sort of a Richie Cunningham-type, who was so shy around girls his age, but was right at home with Mom and me.
Now, to the problem: Where I took Tim to be a normal kid, with normal curiosities, Jane took his actions to mean he was a future cross-dresser, who would some day die on an operating table in Copenhagen in the middle of sex-change surgery!
She poured more coffee, thinking about my proposal. "You really think it would work?"
I shrugged. "Only one way to find out, and the worst that can happen is he realizes that you think there's a problem. That alone can open lines of communication."
"And, you have no problem with this?"
Another of our differences is Jane has pretty much given up on sex. I, on the other hand, would not even tell Jane of all my male friends for fear of shocking her. And among my favorites is younger men.
I reached across and touched her hand. "Honey, you know how I feel about you both. If I can do something so simple to help, I have no problem at all."
And so it was that we began to plan The Seduction! Over the next few weeks, I had to hide my excitement as we discussed plans, finally coming up with me needing help painting on the same weekend she was to visit her sister.
She would ask Tim to stay with me that weekend, to help me move things. During that weekend, I would make advances, using my unmistakable sexuality to seduce him and turn him from the Dark Side forever!
Through it all, I never mentioned how Tim would give me extra big hugs when she wasn't around, and occasionally brush up against me in the kitchen, and how I would feel his eyes taking in my 38DD's. This kid was no more gay or confused than I was. He was just shy with girls, and this may actually work! If nothing else, I would sample a fresh young cock.
Tim was just as happy not to be going to Aunt Mary's, and I had a big screen tv, with video hook-ups so he could play his x-box or whatever it was.
I picked him up Friday after school, Jane had him waiting like he was going to summer camp. "Do you have everything, Honey? You sure? An extra pair of boxers? PJ's?"
Tim blushed, rolling his eyes at me as we loaded up. She gave him a big hug like he was going off to war, and he sheepishly climbed into my SUV. "Bye, Honey, love you! Be good, okay? You listen to Cathy!"
I started the car. "You ready to go?"
He smiled, "Get me away from this crazy lady!"
We both laughed, and I'm sure Jane wondered what the joke was.
It was dark by now, no sense to start any projects. We picked up a pizza for dinner. Since he's 18 now, Jane lets him have a beer or two, and I knew he wasn't going out, so I had a 12 pack at home, along with my wine.
The baseball game was almost over, but we watched the end while we ate, with Tim being his normal self (for when she's not around!)and he downed 3 beers quickly with the slices, talking busily about school, sports, anything but his Mom. It was apparent that he loved her, but the pressure was building, even if he didn't know why.
A girl came on TV and I mentioned, "She looks something like my Lisa, huh?"