It had been more than a week since his birthday, and Justin still hadn't heard anything from his parents. All his father kept saying to his inquiries was "Go ask your mother." Yet he couldn't find the nerve to broach the subject with her.
Tonight when he got home from work, his father was still not home. He never seemed to be home anymore, since he got that new supervisory position at work.
He would rather have talked to his father, but his father probably would have deferred to his mother anyhow. Justin was at the end of his rope and he thought that he was missing out on something that was owed to him, so he decided that he had to talk to his mother tonight.
As he sat at the kitchen table eating dinner, his mother was at the other end of the table immersed in something on her tablet.
"Mom."
"Yeah sweetie?" She said as she took off her reading glasses and looked up at him.
"Have we come up with anything about, you know?"
"No I don't know. What are you referring to?" She feigned ignorance.
"You know."
"You mean your oath?" She said irritated.
"Yeah."
"I thought we resolved that situation. I know I did with your father."
"No one has said anything to me."
"Well we're not getting you a woman. If that's what you mean?"
"What the fuck?"
"Watch you language with me young man."
"But why?"
"I don't think that I have to give you any reasons, but I'll humor you. It's barbaric and wrong."
"Mom, I completed the oath, along with all of my friends. They are getting courtesans. It's not fair."
"I don't care about that oath. I never agreed to this oath. In fact we never even discussed it. You just went along with all of your friends, recited some inane oath, and assumed that I would agree to it. Well I don't. And besides the oath is redundant anyhow.
As far as I know, it is illegal for minors to engage in sexual behavior, and they changed the age of consent to eighteen back in 1965. So you, by law, have to be a virgin at eighteen no matter what."
"Mom?"
"No one ever brings that up when they are talking about that stupid oath and how they are getting their sons a prostitutes for agreeing to abstinence, when the law commands it anyhow."
Justin put his head in his hands out of frustration. "It's not fair, Mom."
Her heart went out to him. Not because of why he was frustrated, but that he had his mind set on something, and now she was denying him. She had never denied him anything before. He was always such a good boy, and now he was so heartbroken.
Was she being too hard on him? Was she being too prudish, like her husband kept saying? It did seem that every boy in town got a woman on their eighteenth birthday, and their mothers not only agreed to it, but also were active in procuring the woman. She herself had been asked twice to be one, and the mothers took it as an affront when she turned them down. As if she was insulting their sons.
"It's not fair," he repeated pulling on her heartstrings.
"If you really want one, I'll be your courtesan," and as soon as she said it she knew that she had said the wrong thing.
"What? What are you talking about?"
"Well, I just thought that if you wanted it that badly, I could ...ahh." She started back tracking.
"Eww gross, Mom! You're my Mom!
"I know, stupid idea. I just thought that it was an option." She didn't know what else to say. "Am I that gross?" She got up out of her chair and looked at herself in a mirror across the room. Justin looked at her too.
She really wasn't that bad looking, he thought. In fact she had a nice ass, even in dress slacks, and of course she had those big tits that she always showed off. But she's my mom, he thought, and yet after this night he never looked at her the same again.
They were both feeling a little embarrassed since the subject of having sex came up, and so there was an awkward silence in the room.
"I'm going to my room," he said finally as he got up from the table, and noticed that he had an incredible hard on for some reason. He could hardly wait to get up stairs and rub one out.
Katie watched her son exit the room. "I've laid out clothes for you for tomorrow. Don't wrinkle them."
Oh great, she thought, now she had done it. Her suggestion was over the top, but she was that adamant about the subject. She wasn't going to provide a whore for her son's pleasure.
What would have happened if he had accepted her suggestion? What then would she have done? Would she have really had sex with her son to prove a point? But he didn't accept so thank God.
She looked at herself in the mirror. He's right though. I am hideous. I need to go on a diet, and start working out. Tomorrow morning I'm going to start running, she thought and she headed for her own room to get out her workout gear.
Sometimes an idea starts as a germ, a zygote, and then in the right environment it takes root, and finally matures into a full-grown entity with a life of its own.