I shut the front door behind me and savor the cool air flowing through the house. The weather is lovely, but the June summer heat is hard to bear unless you're sunbathing nude. With sweat dripping down my face, I enter the kitchen and pour myself a cold drink of water.
My husband is already there eating a late lunch. His light-brown hair is a wild mess as he looks up at me with his blue eyes. He smiles at me in a silent 'welcome home', and I kiss his cheek to show I'm glad to be home before heading upstairs. The waistband of my sweatpants chafes against my skin, and I can't wait to get out of these clothes and take a nice shower.
I reach the landing and head to the bathroom, passing by my daughters' shared bedroom and remembering that they're out of the house all day with friends.
I don't bother closing the bathroom door all the way as I remove my sweat-drenched T-shirt and toss it in the hamper while trying not to dwell on how I must have looked in public. With no bra on, I'm sure the men were staring at my perky nipples through the fabric.
As I pull my sweatpants down my toned legs, I notice something colorful on the floor. It's a paper party crown with the number 18 emblazoned in gold on the front. It's from my son's eighteenth birthday party the previous week, although what it's doing in here is a mystery.
Into the wastebin the paper crown goes, and I kick off my sweatpants and toss them into the hamper along with my cotton panties. Before starting the shower, I take a moment to admire myself in the mirror, a daily ritual of mine to remind myself that I still look good.
My body has been toned with daily Pilates and jogging. My slender thighs lead up to a neatly trimmed golden bush on my crotch, framed by hips that are curved from three pregnancies and the ordeal of three vaginal deliveries. They're complemented by a beautifully snatched waist leading up to a pair of C-cups which still look plump for a woman in her late thirties.
Finally, there's my heart-shaped face with blue eyes like my husband's, a button nose, and thin lips, all framed by luscious golden hair flowing down past my shoulders. I look ten years younger than I actually am, and there's no shame in indulging in a little vanity.
But I'm still covered in dirt and sweat. Time to get clean.
As I turn around to enter the shower, I notice that the door is still open. I couldn't be bothered to close it properly, let alone lock it, but that's not the only thing that catches my attention. I march over to the door and yank it wide open.
The young man on the other side staggers back in surprise, his boxers around his thighs, and his hand still gripping the shaft of his penis. We just stare at each other silently, neither one of us able to articulate anything to say about what I just caught him doing.
"...I...I..." my firstborn child stammers, "...I was just waiting for you finish."
"And you were passing the time by masturbating while watching me?" My eyebrow is raised in parental skepticism as I take in the sight of his naked body.
"You're the one who didn't lock the door." As if that excuses him being a peeping tom.
But then I realize that I'm completely naked in front of him and I opened the door without any thought towards covering myself up. A little gasp escapes my lips and I raise my hands in an attempt to cover up my modesty, but then I think better of it.
Of course, most women with an ounce of dignity would already have slammed the door in this teenaged pervert's face, but something restrains me from doing that. That something is keeping my eyes glued to his naked body just as his are glued to mine.
A shameful idea pops into my head and escapes my lips before I can stop it.
"Get in here."
My son flinches in surprise at the command. I can't quite believe that an instruction like that would escape my lips, and he can't either, but eventually he steps over the threshold. I shut the door behind him, and this time I lock it. God forbid my husband walks in on the two of us.
I turn on the shower and hold my hand under the water to make sure the temperature is right while my son removes his boxers and stands there waiting for my signal.
"Put your underwear in the hamper, please." There's a sharp tone in my voice. I'm sick of the kids leaving their clothes lying on the floor everywhere.
My son snaps to attention and does as he's told while I step into the shower cubicle. As I let the cool water flow over me, I see my son hesitate, wary of the line we'll be crossing once he steps into the shower cubicle with me.
"Get in here," I order him. "There's nothing to be ashamed of."
I'm not so sure about that last part, and neither is he as he joins me.
My son started lifting weights regularly when he was fifteen, and three years later the results would make any woman weak in the knees. His arms and chest are toned and muscular, he has the faint outline of a six-pack on his stomach, tapering to a V-shape just above his crotch. His thighs and ass also look strong, and I mentally restrain myself from grabbing his glutes.
But I like what I see from the neck upwards, too. He kind of has my heart-shaped face, just like his two younger sisters, but the rest of his facial features come from his father. Our genes compromised on his hair color and mixed my own golden locks with my husband's light brown hair to form a kind of dirty blond color that almost looks dyed.
And then there's what he has between his legs.
He's still hard from playing with himself earlier. His boner stands at an impressive six inches, and it's thick enough to make any girl squeal. He keeps his pubic hair neatly trimmed -- a habit I very much appreciate -- and below is a sack big enough to rest in the palm of my hand.
I'm actually examining my son's genitals in the shower. This is so perverted and wrong, but I have no intention of kicking him out.
The sexual tension is already simmering between us. We haven't been naked together since I gave him baths as a baby, and I certainly didn't see him as anything more than my son until he legally became a man. When did he start to see me as a woman?
"How long have you been peeping on me?" The question comes out of my mouth, but also out of the blue for both of us.