After our surreal meeting with my principal, a meeting where my mother had turned once again into a terrifying harpy, I longed for peace and tranquility. I would have been quite happy to drive home in silence, but no, of course not. Mom couldn't leave well enough alone.
"That girl, Bridget, she's very pretty."
"Yes."
"Really, she's about the most beautiful girl I've ever seen."
"Uh-huh."
There was a bit of a pause, I stopped at a red light, and when the light turned green Mom said, "I can get her for you. I mean, I can arrange it so that she becomes your girlfriend. Totally devoted, obedient..."
"No! Don't even think about it! Leave her alone. And," I tried to make my voice as commanding as commanding as possible, "I want you to leave Julia alone. Whatever you're doing to her, stop it!"
That was a mistake. Mom grabbed the steering wheel, yanked hard right, and pulled us off the road. I jammed on the brakes and as we slid to a stop I screamed, "What the fuck are you..."
I didn't finish. I saw her eyes, which blazed with the anger and fury I'd seen that day in the hospital, where she ended up after barging into my bedroom to find me blowing myself. "Don't ever, EVER presume to tell me what I should do! Especially with that bitch! That's none of your business. I don't ask you what you and Elaine are doing, do I?"
She lowered her voice just a bit. "How many mothers would be liberated and sensitive enough to arrange an outlet for their son's sexual energies? Especially after seeing the incre...um...the disgusting way you satisfies those urges?"
She was suddenly very flustered, I figured she was again remembering that Saturday morning when she walked into my bedroom and found my face covered with my semen after I sucked myself off. "You don't think it bothers me knowing that my son is having sex with a good friend of mine, that you're humping your brains out with a woman I used to watch take on a three men at once, including my own husband?"
"Mom, stop! We shouldn't be talking about this!" She started to speak, but I cut her off by screaming, "STOP!"
I think I got through to her, because the tension ebbed out of her body. She lay back in her seat, and looked out her window. She took a few deep breaths, then said, "I won't intervene with that girl if you don't want me too. I shouldn't be so nosey."
She stopped, and after five seconds I realized that it was my turn. "I shouldn't tell you what to do either. We should respect each other's privacy."
Mom nodded. "You're right."
"OK. Good."
I started the car and pulled back on the road. About five seconds later Mom said, "Are you still sucking your own cock?"
"Mom!"
"Are you gay?"
"No!"
"It's OK if you are, really."
"I'm not gay!"
"Bi-sexual? It's OK. I am."
Jesus Christ. "I'm not bi-sexual, I'm not gay, I don't suck...I don't do that anymore. Please, let it rest!"
"All right, all right." Another ten seconds, and then, "Why don't you do that anymore?"
I sighed. "It's too painful. It's getting too hard to bend myself that way."
"You've been putting on weight. You should do sit-ups."
"Wait, you WANT me to do that to myself?"
"Oh, no, no..." she said. "You shouldn't abuse yourself that way."
"It's not abuse. Except when Julia made me do it so Bridget could watch."
Mom's jaw clenched. "Oh, she'll be sorry she did that."
"Mom," I begged.
She shook her head, "Remember, you said you'd respect my privacy."
"Then keep it private. You say she's going to be sorry, I have a right to speak up." I was pissed off, really mad, and so I said, "You know what? I like sucking myself off. I totally LOVE it! I love licking myself, I love getting my cock all wet, and I love it when I come in my mouth! I swallow my own come and I love it! And I'm not ashamed of it!"
My mom looked much the same as she did when she walked in on me blowing myself. She looked like she was having a stroke. I tried to keep my eyes on the road, but it wasn't easy. "I like regular sex more," I said, trying to soften the impact of what I'd just said. It didn't work. She just sat there, looking like she was either going to cry, spank me, or leap out of the car.
We were getting close to home, and I didn't want this cloud hanging over us when we went in the house. I said, "We're going to start from the beginning. I'm sorry about what I said back there. I wish I'd never said it, and I want you to forget I ever did."
She started to cry. "Mom..." She shook her head. She collected herself, and then she said, "Your father used to," she paused a bit, "he used to give himself oral pleasure too." I didn't say anything, not knowing where this was going. With sudden, determined intensity she said, "I LOVED watching him do it, I mean, nothing turned me on so much as watching him suck his cock."
She sighed. "When I was younger, just a few years older than you, I started swinging with the group Elaine belonged to. I guess you know that I was pretty wild. You've talked to Elaine, and, well, you saw what happened yesterday."
Oh, how I wish I hadn't. "Uh-huh."
"I had a bit of a reputation. I was the girl who would do anything, with anybody, any place, at any time."
"Such a flattering compliment."
She was beyond sarcasm, she was confessing her sins and nothing would stop her now. "After awhile, it started to get boring. The fucking, I mean. That's something you'll learn, that sex can get dull, become just another form of exercise." Her eyes took on a faraway look. "I was at this party...well, it was really an orgy. I'd just done a triple penetration..." She looked at me. "That's when three men put their cocks in a woman's..."
"I can do the math!" I yelled.