My last girlfriend had just broken up with me and left me in a pretty bad state. A friend of mine was kind enough to offer to let me stay with her until I got things settled out. I've slept over at her house countless times when I was younger, but I was feeling a bit anxious about staying there after so long. My friend, Mandy, and her mother were very kind to me growing up, but it had been so long since I had talked to Mandy's mom that I had no idea what to expect.
Once I picked up my things I made my way over to Mandy's house early and texted her when I arrived. Mandy opened the door and greeted me inside casually like I expected her to do. I felt a wave of nostalgia hit me as I looked around the house, barely anything had changed besides a few new pictures and couch changes. We made our way to the guest room where I dropped off my things before continuing over to the living room to just hang on for the rest of the day. Around noon Mandy and I heard a car park right outside, she made her way over to the door already knowing who it was while it took me a second to realize.
"Oh my dear Ken how good to see you again!" Suddenly Mandy's mom, Brenda, came barging in loudly. I was immediately bear hugged to near death by her as she lovingly kept repeating how much she missed me. Mandy meanwhile was off giggling and taking the groceries that Brenda bought inside.
As a kid I could always remember Brenda being incredibly kind and really peppy; she was always cheering up the kids and other folks as well during meet ups or parties. She had this young liveliness to her that real life stood out to me, even then she still looked rather healthy. She kept chatting on and on about things and barely giving me time to respond with how excited she was too see me, it took Mandy reminding her about dinner to get her off me.
"Sorry about mom, you know how she can be." Mandy began explaining how Brenda had recently also gone through a bad break up, albeit one that lasted longer and ended further back than mine. She also told me that her mom had gone on full overdrive when it came to how she acted, she began acting younger a lot more and dressing as such to an almost painful to watch kind of way.
It was quite obvious Brenda was trying to look younger than she was, she wore much more loose and trending clothing than what you would expect a someone like her to wear. Although Brenda was trying to seem young, she was pulling it off quite well and didn't seem too out of place besides maybe a few accessories or earrings. It was weird for me to even think it but Brenda was quite attractive, something I didn't think about that much before. Her curved body immediately sprung to mind when I thought of it, but I just as easily ignored it as it didn't stick in my mind that much.
Later that day Mandy and I watched countless old movies we used to watch as kids so we could reminisce on memories from before. Somewhere along the way Brenda had also joined in to watch some with us since she had free time and all. Understandably a tad irked by her joining at first, Mandy slowly accepted her mother's joining. To my surprise Brenda was catching various jokes normally a business woman like herself would not get from the movies, or at least not someone that I thought was all work and no play. It wasn't anything too incredible but Brenda did seem to know quite a fair bit, and not act it all out like some people who would.
Hours flew by and we all had our fair share of laughs through the day. We ate dinner and finished watching various movies before it was bed time. Mandy had work the next day and had to sleep early, as for me I had some work to finish on my own that night. I began my work on my laptop after cleaning my share of the mess and such. Brenda was off in the other room doing the dishes which I could hear as I worked. Seeing as I had nothing else going on I was not distracted and was able to finish my work quickly, a few minutes before midnight even. I leaned back on the couch stretching my arms and legs while yawning. I closed my eyes for a bit feeling exhausted, suddenly woken up by the sound of the television turning on.
"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you!" I looked to my side and opened my slightly groggy eyes to sight of Brenda's big wavy hair up in my face. She apologized for waking me up, saying she didn't see me and wanted to see if something was on.
"Oh it's no big deal madam. I wasn't fully out yet." I was rather exhausted from the day but luckily I was still carrying some energy, not enough to not seem like I was tired though. Brenda smiled and nodded before sitting on the couch next to me to watch television.
While Brenda was flipping through the channels I made sure to save my work and turn off my computer, once done I looked over to Brenda and noticed she seemed rather off. A wide smile was on her face which was starting to creep me out for some reason, she was flipping through the channels too fast to be anything on television. As I was about to ignore it though Brenda quickly inched over and turned to me.
