"So Harry what do you think?" Sheila asked, cocking both hands suggestively on her hips. She was wearing a matching bikini set, which left little to the imagination. She was practically falling out of her top, so heavy and full were her two breasts. The high riding bikini bottom showed off the dimples on her butt while draft tufts of pubic hair protruded from the sides. She had yet to be waxed. Harry was speechless.
"Is it that bad?" she inquired, standing before the full length mirror in the fitting room stall. "It's too young. Not age appropriate, right?"
Harry, mouth agape, shook his head. His mother looked ravishing. Age had treated her kindly. In fact, she seemed to blossom in middle age. The extra weight she had put on suited her and accentuated her curves. Her face that had always been pretty remained so, with the exception of a few crow's feet around her eyes which Harry didn't mind and in fact found enticing. She was full-bodied and unapologetic about her weight because, unlike other women, she carried it well. Most of it had gone to her breasts, thighs and ass, which gave her an hour glass figure to die for. As a young woman, she had been fairly flat chested, slim and narrow hipped; but now she was downright buxom.
"No," Harry said breathless. "You look great. Any woman would be happy to fill a bathing suit as well as you do."
Sheila titled her head to the side and regarded her only son. "Ahhhh," she said. "You're sweet, but I don't believe you. You're too nice. I mean, how many people want to see an old broad like me in such a skimpy suit?"
"You'd be surprised," Harry said.
Sheila threw him a sidelong glance. "Really? Like who?"
Harry stammered. "I don't know. All kinds of guys."
Sheila smirked and left it at that. "Besides," she added, examining herself in the mirror, "the bottom keeps riding up my butt."
"So?" Harry said.
"So...everyone will see how fat ass your mother is."
"Mom, don't say that. It isn't fat. You have a lovely ass." Harry couldn't believe what he was saying. He had just complimented his mother's ass.
Sheila let his off color remark slide and said, "You know what, maybe you're right. I'll keep it."
"Great," Harry said, grinning from ear to ear.
"But what about you, mister?" she said. "We still haven't picked out a bathing suit for you."
Harry said he didn't need one; he still had his one from last year.
"You're not getting off the hook that easily. Here, try these on," she said, handing him a pair of board shorts she had picked out in the store earlier.
"Here? In front of you?" he said.
"Where else? I need to see how it fits you."
"I'd rather not," he said.
"Harold Joseph Pickens, you're going to do as I say and you're going to try on these shorts."
"Yes, ma'am," Harry replied, chastened.
He took off his jeans and started to put the board shorts on over his underwear.
"No," she instructed. "Take those off, too. Otherwise we won't know if the shorts fit."
"Mom," Harry said.
"When have you become so shy? It's nothing I haven't seen before."
Harry sighed and turned around so his back was facing his mother and he pulled down his underwear and stepped into the board shorts, which he pulled up around his waist. "See," she said, "that wasn't so bad, was it?"
Harry shook his head. But then to his utter dismay his mother kneeled before him and tugged at the waistband of the shorts.
"Mom, what are you doing?"
"Why, I'm checking that it's right size, you silly goose."
"You're a silly goose," Harry said.
They smiled. Sheila smoothed out the front of the shorts with her hands, her fingers coming within inches of Harry's engorged penis. She could just make out its outline underneath the fabric. It was longer than she remembered, thicker too. Her little boy was growing up.
The next day, Sheila and Harry went to the beach. Sheila did the driving. They listened to the radio and talked about old times. They never failed to make each other laugh.
"Mom," Harry said after awhile. "I'm glad we're doing this too."
"Me too. We haven't been to the beach in an eternity. How long has it been?"
"Since the divorce," Harry was quick to reply. Far from being sad, Harry was happy that his mother had divorced his father two years ago; he was a prick who didn't deserve her, Harry always said.
"Has it been that long?" she said.
Harry nodded.
Sheila looked over and put her hand on Harry's thigh. "Listen, I'm sorry this has been a rough couple of years and I know I haven't always been there for you."
The feeling of her hand on his thigh was electric. "It's O.K. I'm just glad we're together now."
Sheila smirked to herself. Interesting choice of words, she thought. Together.
When they got to the beach, there was nowhere to change. "We'll have to hold towels up for each other," Sheila said.
"O.K." Harry said.
As Sheila sat on the edge of the backseat with the door open, Harry held up the towel across her. "No peeking," she grinned and Harry closed his eyes. "Don't be silly," she said. "I was only kidding. I don't care if you look or not. I'm only your mother."
Harry opened his eyes but tried not to stare. Though he still managed to catch a fleeting glimpse of his mother's hanging breasts, even a flash of her dark areolas, and the dark patch between her legs. She stood up in her new bikini. "Your turn," she said.
They switched positions, Harry sitting down and Sheila holding up the towel. "No peeking," Harry joked and his mother smiled. Her eyes were still open. Usually shy and quick to dress, this time Harry took this time. He wasn't ashamed if his mother saw his burgeoning manhood, in fact he was quite proud of it. Of all the boys he had seen in the locker room at school, he was by far the biggest. Sheila noticed it, too, and she caught herself staring. She seemed disturbed.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked once he was changed.
"Nothing," she said, though she couldn't lie to herself. Her little boy was now a grown man.
They frolicked in the surf, Harry splashing his mother, and they held each other under a wave, trying not to fall over. They laughed and swam and kicked in the surf. They were like a couple of kids. When they came out of the water, their suits clung to their wet bodies like a second skin. Nothing was left to the imagination. Harry could see his mother's semi erect nipples peeking through her top as well as the outline of her pussy lips. For his part, Harry's shorts molded his penis perfectly, showing off everything except the size of his balls.
They lay down on towels side by side. "That was fun," Harry said.
"Maybe for you," Sheila, "but I got a bunch of sand up my butt."
His mother didn't usually talk that way around him and the use of "sand" and "butt" in the same sentence had an arousing effect on Harry.
"I'm sorry," Harry said.
"It's O.K." she said. "I'll dig it out later."
Harry wondered what she meant, wondered whether she would actually reach her finger up her butt and clean out the sand. The image of his naked mother fingering her asshole gave Harry an instant boner and he immediately lay down on his towel on his belly.
"What's wrong, honey?"
"Oh nothing," Harry said. "It's just a tummy ache."
"Oh you poor thing. Let me rub your back for you so you feel better."
Harry didn't argue with her and Sheila straddled his back, kneading his shoulders.
"How does that feel?"
Harry's eyes were rolling back into his skull. He moaned. "Wonderful," he said.
Sheila smiled. "I'm pretty good, aren't I?"
"The best," Harry said. "And in more ways than one."
"What do you mean?"
"You're the best mother, the best dresser, the best looking."
"You're such a sweet talker," she said. "Keep it up."
"You have the best lips..."
"Keep going."
"The best eyes...the best face...the best thighs..." He looked up to see if his mother objected to what he was saying and seeing none continued, "the best breasts...the best ass...the best body." He stopped, waiting for his mother to say something, but she didn't. Instead, she rolled off him and lay back down her towel.
Sensing he had done wrong, Harry immediately apologized. "I'm sorry. I went too far."
Sheila was hugging her knees, staring off into the surf. "It's not your fault," she said. "It's mine. This was my idea. I brought us here. For all I know I was subconsciously planning for this all along."
Harry was confused. "What do you mean?"
"You're eighteen. Of course, you're going to act that way and say those things around a half naked woman, even your own mother. I should have known better. But I was being selfish. I was only thinking about myself and about all the good times we had here."
She faced him. Her eyes were tearing. "I'm sorry. Will you forgive your old mother?"
"Oh mom," Harry said and immediately embraced her. They stayed like that for awhile, hugging each other on the beach, rocking back and forth, his mother crying. "I love you, mom."
"I love you, too son."
Then their eyes locked and in the heat of the moment, half in tears, half in excitement, they kissed. This wasn't your typical mother/son kiss. This one had legs. It lasted and Sheila and Harry used their tongues to probe and polish each other's mouths. Instinctively, as if giving in to a higher power, Sheila laid back on the towel, while Harry moved on top of her, kissing her and rubbing his genitals against her crotch.
Suddenly realizing what was happing, Sheila shouted, "Harry, stop!"
He immediately desisted and rolled back onto his own towel. His head was spinning, so was Sheila's. Had they just been making out on the beach, in public no less? Sheila stood up and started to gather up their things. "We should go."
They didn't say anything to each other on the ride back. Harry tried to apologize but his mother wouldn't hear of it. When they got home, his mother headed straight for the shower to, Harry assumed, wash the sand out of her butt. Once she was done showering, he heard a door slam. She had locked herself in her room.
Whatever had been troubling in the night was gone by the following morning. "Good morning, sleepy head. How did you sleep?"
Harry stumbled into the kitchen, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. "Fine. You?"
"Slept like a baby. Here, eat your breakfast." She had prepared a feast.
"Thanks mom. This is great."
"Enjoy it while it lasts. You can't live at home forever and have me be your cook."