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The old car stereo in my car crackled as I turned it off and parked my car alongside the curb. Once again I was in a familiar part of town; it was a place where I had parked my car many times during the past two years or so. Once again, I was on my way to band rehearsal, and again I was running a bit late, as was the case more often than not. To be honest, I really didn't care that much. A few months ago, things had been different. Our band had picked up some momentum; the 'right' people had started talking about us. We had even had a few interesting offers from two or three record labels, and things had been looking pretty good. But, our expectations had been if not dashed then at least considerably dented. Some of the offers had been, shall we say, less than serious, and the one that looked most promising was turned down after Paul and Andy had decided that the record label in question was not 'our style'... Since then, the atmosphere in the band had taken a turn for the worse. Paul and Andy's reluctance to the record company naturally played a big part, but there was something else brewing underneath, at least between Paul and me. Ever since we played at his mom's birthday party a little more than three months ago, he had acted a bit weird whenever I was around. But let's face it – why wouldn't he? Things were not the same anymore. Heck, I wasn't the same anymore! What happened at that party was a secret of mine, a secret shared only by Paul's mom, Mrs. Freemont – Amy. The passionate, sexual encounter that she and I had that summer's day was between me and her alone, but Paul's suspicions were as painfully obvious now as they were then.
This night was grey and damp. It had been raining all day, and the streets were still wet. Small drops of water were still falling, and they reflected the yellow glow of the streetlamps as I walked the short distance from my parked car to the building were we used to rehearse. It was an old building, pretty worn down, with very few tenants. Paul and Andy rented a big loft four stories up together, so it really was a combined apartment and rehearsal room for them. Although the loft was originally laid out as one, big, single room, Paul and Andy had used curtains and sheets to split it up into separate sections. They both had a 'room' of their own, and besides the part of the room where our instruments were set up, they had also managed to create a sort of a living room and a make-do kitchen with just a hot-plate and a microwave oven. The place simply shouted out 'bachelor pad', but still it actually had a cosy feel to it.
One bad thing about this building was that it had no elevator. So, as I started walking up the stairs I couldn't help but wonder if this was just another one of those nights. The sessions during last couple of weeks had not been so much about rehearsing as it had been about arguing and bickering. Somewhere deep down we were all hell-bent on taking this band to great heights, I guess that's why we kept on going after all. But lately there had been so many different opinions about everything that I felt that I was coming closer to a point where I would have to decide whether or not to stay in the band. The way things were now, I really couldn't see the point anymore, but I was still willing to give it another chance.
Having ascended the staircase, I reached the entrance to Paul and Andy's place. Without knocking or anything, I went right in. That was they way I used to do it. Taking off my shoes and coat, I called out a hello. I heard the guys reply from the 'kitchen', which was adjacent to the entrance. I went in and found them all three gathered there, Paul, Andy and Greg. Greg lived at his own place, but it was just a five-minute walk from the loft. I was the only one who had to drive to get there, so I was the one who was running late most frequently. Tonight I was about fifteen minutes late, so the guys gave me the usual treatment.
'Glad you could show up', Andy said in a sarcastic tone of voice.
'Yeah, sorry about that. I've had a lot to do today, and got a little held back at work. The company had the paperwork on a big order screwed up bad, and as usual it's always the blue collars who pays the price by having to work overtime...'
'Ok' was the group's mutual, short reply. Andy was the one who said the actual word, but looking at Paul I could see that he was just as bugged at me for being late as Andy was. Greg, as usual, felt the tension and stepped in to mediate.
'Oh, it's no big deal, is it? John's only fifteen minutes late, and we're running a bit behind too, aren't we?', Greg said to Andy and Paul. Then he turned to me:
'We've had company here tonight, so we're not really ready to begin rehearsals either.'
The question of course hit me; who else was here? The guys were just putting some coffee mugs on a tray – five of them – and as we left the kitchen and headed for the living room, Paul said:
'My mom is here for a short visit.' He looked at me as if he was scanning me for a reaction.
In that same instant, I could have sworn that my heart skipped a beat. I continued to follow the guys to the living room, but although it took us just a few seconds to get there, thousands of thoughts had the time to fly through my head. For the past three months, I had not been able to stop thinking about Paul's mom and what had happened between us. What we had shared had been more than I had ever experienced before up to that point, and the image of her in her sexy satin lingerie and white pearls had burned itself firmly in my mind. Not a day had gone by that summer and autumn that I hadn't thought about her, and every time it had brought me to such emotional chaos. I had wanted to see her again, to touch her again, to fuck her again, but it had always felt so impossible, so unreal. The more time that had passed since the party, the more I had told myself that it had been a one-time thing. A wild, sexual adventure that she had used me for. For Christ's sake, she was a married woman. Sure, she had told me that she and Paul's dad were going through some hard times, but the fact that I hadn't heard from her at all since then told me that she had wanted nothing more to do with me. And it was Paul's mom... Every time that he had looked at me, I had felt such guilt. Not that I hadn't loved every second of our time together, but the fact that I was her son's friend made things unimaginably complicated. And now she was here. She was just a few feet away from me, and we were going to see each other again for the first time since I threw her a kiss as she lay naked on her bed. A thousand more thoughts shot through me; what was she wearing, how would she smell, what was she going to say, how was she going to act?
As Andy, who was going first, turned and went through the opening between a pair of curtains that lead into the living room, I heard that beautiful voice again:
'That coffee will sure taste good. Thanks.' Her voice was just as I remembered it.
I turned and came into the room, and there she was. I could feel my heart pounding like a drum as I looked at this sexy and beautiful woman. Her appearance was quite different from what it had been at the party of course, and her clothes were more casual. She was wearing a pair of dark blue trousers and a simple, light grey blouse with short sleeves to go with it. She wore her hair down this time, and it fell straight down to her shoulder blades. I noticed that the fringe of her hair was shorter now, but it still reached down to just above her eyebrows. The glamour of the black and white dress that I hadn't been able to get out of my head since our last meeting was not there now, but now she radiated more of a business woman sexiness instead. Yet underneath it all, I knew she was the same, knock-out woman, and I couldn't help but think about the feel of her tits against my skin, and her warm, wet pussy. That's when I saw it; the one detail that was still there. She was wearing the same pearl bracelet as she had three months ago. The two strings of white beads and the golden clasp encircled her wrist, but this time it was on her left arm. As I looked at the bracelet, she gave me a look as if to remind me of how she had wanted to use her left hand to stroke my dick, and how I had asked her to use her right hand because I wanted to see the pearls. Now she had moved it, as if to compromise and give us both what we wanted. I must have been standing there as if in a daydream, but I snapped out of it as she suddenly said:
'Oh John, so you've arrived too! It's so nice to see you again. Thanks again for playing at my party, everyone appreciated it so much.'
'Don't mention it', was all I could muster.
Just being in front of her again was so overwhelming. In this situation, it almost felt like a dream that she and I had fucked each other. With Andy, Greg and above all Paul present, she again took on the role as mother, and it was such a contrast to the image of her in my mind that I didn't know how to act or behave. Feeling a desperate need to keep up appearances, I soon managed to continue:
'So what are you doing in town, Am... Mrs. Freemont?'