Once a line is crossed, you can't go back
My every waking thought was about my Gran.
I went to bed thinking about her, she was the first thing I thought about when I woke up. I thought about her at work and when I was home in the evening.
It had been four days since my fateful phone call. In that time, I had heard nothing from my gran.
The way my mother and father were behaving, indicated that they had heard nothing either. For that, I was grateful.
I was wondering if I could call her again, but use a different pseudonym. I had masturbated several times since the event. It wasn't as good as when I did it with her her.
When I eventually summoned up the courage to call again, she was not on the rota. I tried a couple more times, before giving up. I dread to think how much money I'd wasted.
This weekend, I wouldn't need an excuse not to go round. My mother and father were driving up to see his sister. I'm sure my mother was just going so she could demonstrate her superiority in all things to Auntie Nicola.
That gave me a little more time to work out what the hell I was going to do.
They left about 9 on Saturday morning. I heard them go, but I decided to stay in bed.
I had the day and the house to myself.
Laying in bed, I tried to run various scenarios through my brain. I was not content, as things had, so far, failed to play out at all like I had hoped or foreseen.
Whatever my next move would be, I knew it would likely lead to something unexpected.
I got out of bed, with purpose. First things first, I made breakfast. Whatever I was going to do, I wasn't going to do it on an empty stomach.
As I ate my toast and drank my tea, I resolved that I needed to move beyond this impasse.
I picked up the land line phone and dialled Grans' number.
It rang longer than I was expecting. I was on the verge of putting the phone down, when the receiver was raised at the other end.
"Hello." My Gran's voice on the line.
She sounded terse. Did she have something to indicate who was calling? Was she expecting a further confrontation with my mum?
"Hello Gran, it's Kenny." I began.
I didn't get much further, as she put the phone down.
I was a bit annoyed, in my mind it had taken a lot of courage to pick up the phone and call her.
I called again. This time there was no answer. I let it ring and ring and ring.
Frustrated, I slammed the receiver down and put the television on.
I must have dozed off. The cookery program I was watching had not held my attention.
I was jolted back to consciousness by the phone ringing.
The cookery programme had been replaced by a travel documentary.
In one move, l muted the tv and looked at my watch. I'd been asleep for, maybe, twenty minutes.
I picked up the phone. I didn't speak, I gave myself a second to adjust to being awake.
"Kenny?... Are you there?" Said Gran.
"Yes" I replied.
"Are you on your own?" She asked.
"Yes, I am." I said carefully, wondering what was going on.
"That's good." She continued. "We need to have a frank conversation, and it's probably better if there's no one else there to overhear."
"Mum and dad are at auntie Nicola's" I explained.
I sensed that my Gran was trying to work out the best way to say what she had to say.
"I'm glad." She sounded like she was sighing down the other end of the phone.
"We have a problem Kenny."
Interesting. I would have thought she would say that I had a problem. It was telling that she included herself in my situation.
"What problem is that?" I asked, feigning ignorance.
I could sense that she was irritated.
"You know exactly what I'm bloody well talking about." I heard her rasp down the line.
"I think you're over exaggerating gran." I said, knowing full well that this would spark another outburst.
"Listen to me very carefully." She intoned. "This is a very serious problem and we need to sort it out right now."
I took a breath, and said with more confidence than I was feeling.
"There is nothing to sort out. You do what you do, and I do what I do. Neither is anyone else's business but ours. I'm not telling anyone. You're not telling anyone. End of matter."
There was a pause, it could only have lasted a couple of seconds, but it felt like a lifetime.
"It's not the end of the matter. It's not as simple as that, and you know it." She said.
it was then that I had my genius idea.
"Come on over and we'll discuss it face to face."
There was another long pause.
"I don't think that's a good idea, Kenny. Do you?"
I couldn't believe I had suggested it. Now that I had, I thought it was a fantastic idea.
"Well, I do. I'll see you in about half an hour"
With that, I put down the phone. When she didn't ring back immediately, I knew my plan was in motion.
l turned off the television and sat on the sofa, in quiet contemplation. Trying to remain calm, and not predict how this was going to play out.
I tried not to look at the clock. In the end it lasted about ten minutes. From then on, I was checking and rechecking every couple of minutes.
Then I heard the front door bell ring.
I stood. My guts churned. I had been kidding myself that I was, in anyway, in control.
Anticipation had turned to dread as I moved down the hallway to answer the door.
It was worse than I could have imagined. Gran was there, of course. I began to wilt in her presence.
She had a stern look on her face. That wasn't what was bothering me.
It was what she was wearing.
Another one of her summer dresses. Accentuating all her curves. plump breasts, podgy tummy and curvy arse.
The white dress ended just above her knees. I knew that when she sat down, it would expose her chunky thighs.
It was topped off by a pair of white plimsoles, on her feet. Once again, they were something that a slightly younger woman would wear.
The ensemble was a little awkward, especially as it was turning me on.
"Please come in." I said nervously.
Silently, she walked past me and into the living room.
I stood there alone in the hallway, and counted to ten. I was still feeling nervous. I counted to ten again.
Girding my loins, I followed her into the living room.
She was standing, waiting for me.
I chose to sit. We were less likely to have a row if we were sitting, I reasoned.
Gran followed suit. Choosing the sofa. So that she was looking directly at me, sitting in the armchair my father usually occupied.
"Okay." Gran said.
It was followed by a long pause. I wondered if she had planned out what she wanted to say.
Now we were both in the same room, was she finding out that it wasn't as easy as she thought it would be?
I didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable, so I said.
"Well, this is a bit awkward isn't it?"
"More than a bit, Kenny."
"I'm sorry if I embarrassed you Gran "
"I'm not so much embarrassed, as worried about you Kenny. Whatever were you thinking?"
Fortunately, this,at least, was something I had expected from her.
"I was thinking..." I began. Taking a big breath.
"That it is so great that you embraced doing something so out there, so unlike you that I kinda got wrapped up in it."
She was looking at me intently. There were no giveaway signs on her face, or in her body language.
"I'm sorry if I ruined your thing. That wasn't my intention."
"So, why were you mocking me?"
I was confused.
"I wasn't." I said.
"Then you've got some serious issues, my boy " She said.
"Men have called me with some peculiar stuff, but you take the biscuit."
"Sorry.." I said.
I didn't mean it, and what's more, she didn't believe it either.
"What is going on in your head, boy?"
I didn't reply. I didn't know what to say to these direct questions.
I mean, I knew what I was thinking. However, under her withering gaze I was folding.
"Those things you said. What you wanted to do with me...to me,"
She took a deep breath.
"They are." She was struggling to find the right expression. "Deplorable."
I closed my eyes, reeling from the rebuke.
"I hear that from men all the time."
"And, it doesn't bother you?" I asked.
i could hear my voice cracking.
"It doesn't bother me when strangers do it. When it's my own grandson,that's when it causes me issues."
I could feel my heart beating rapidly.
"I'm not sure if I'm feeling disgust or shock."
"Sorry." I repeated.
"Stop saying that." Gran said. "Stop saying that, because I don't believe you."
She could read me like book.
"You'd have sex with me right now given half a chance,"
I was broken. I could not deny it. I was starting to get an erection. I wanted her to tell me I was a pervert as she smothered me with her large breasts. Tell me what we were doing was wrong, and a sin, even as she was sliding herself onto my cock.
I adjusted my sitting position. Trying not to draw attention to the bulge pressing against my jogging bottoms.
Had she seen? I wasn't sure.
Maybe she had, as she declared.
"I really don't know what to do. This was a mistake. I shouldn't have come here."
She got up.
"I thought, if I looked you in the eye, make you see reason. I could put a stop to this."
She shook her head.
Unfortunately, this is only heading in one direction and it's going to cause trouble."
I was staring at the floor between my legs. I didn't look up as she left the room. I just sat there in silence as I heard the door slam.
She was probably right. Once I was sure she wasn't coming back, I removed my bottoms and masturbated furiously.
I could still smell her perfume in the room and I ejaculated thinking about her body, heavily scented and sweating with the exertions of making love to me.
As the streams of spunk shot out, i was screaming out.
"Bunty, Bunty, Bunty." over and over again.
I didn't feel like going out that evening. So, for the first time in ages, I found myself watching Saturday night TV with my parents.
Nothing much was said about their excursion. Mum was a bit subdued.
I wondered if Nicola had some new gadget or item of clothing that she was jealous of. Dad was also quiet. Par for the course.
We sat in silence, watching some terrible gameshow.
Truth be told, I doubt any of us was actually paying attention. It just meant we could avoid speaking to each other.
I think all three of us were surprised when the landline rang.