Backstory: I've been staying with my parents for the past two weeks. Just got out of a really bad breakup with my long term girlfriend, and I just wanted to be around my parents since, despite being 25 years of age, it as the first breakup I have experienced. Its been a normal visit with my parents, nothing really to write home about, until tonight that is when everything changes.
It's late at night, and the house is quiet. My mother, Britney, is unable to sleep, so she decided to get a snack from the kitchen. She comes downstairs and sees the tv on in the living room and goes over to investigate, because she had assumed everyone had gone to bed already. She enters the living room and pretends like she didn't see her son masturbating to something on his phone while the tv was on in the background and suddenly speaks as to announce her presence.
"What are you still doing up? You should be asleep by now?"
Startled I quickly turn my phone off and fix my clothing and turned around to look behind me, hoping she hadn't seen what I was just doing and I answered back hoarsely.
"I couldn't get to sleep mommy, so I thought I would just read something on my phone while the tv was still going." I added, hoping that she believed me and didn't see what I had been doing, much less what I was doing it to.
Britney came around in front of the tv and had a soft expression on her face as the soft blue glow of the television illuminated her sleep-tousled auburn hair and cast shadows across her voluptuous figure beneath her cotton robe. Britney, realizing that her robe had slightly opened up, casually adjusted the robe to deny her son any unneeded visuals, but it was all for naught. Her son had noticed the sheer edging of her baby doll that barely hid the her cleavage. Her tired blue eyes looked at her son with maternal concern.
"Well, I couldn't sleep either, if I'm being honest. I know you've been having a rough time, and your father and I have been trying not to pry, but we are worried about you. I wish you would open up to at least one of us and let us try and help you if there was anything we could do to help you get through this."
She sighed, moving toward the couch and settling down next to me. The robe parts slightly at her thick thighs as she sits, revealing a glimpse of smooth, pail skin before she adjusts it.
"I had the strangest dream.. woke me right up. You know how that goes. I tried to go back to sleep but I just couldn't shake it off so I figured I'd come down and get a snack and hopefully the dream would be gone from my memory and I could get back to sleep."
She laughs softly, a nervous habit of hers when she felt vulnerable. She brushed some loose bang hair back behind her ear, her face slightly flushed.
"What's your excuse, my handsome little man. Something on your mind? Like I said, if you want to talk now about anything, I'm all ears. Let mommy take care of her baby boy"
"I'm sad and lonely. I don't know how to get over her mom. We we're together for song long, I'm not even sure how I am supposed to function by myself now. She was just so engrained in almost every aspect of my life that i can't seem to find any joy in the things I did before her that we did as a couple. Everything reminds me of her." I put my face in my hands as I try to hide the tears that were forming in my eyes.
Britney's face forms a look of maternal concern. She moves to her son on the couch, her ample figure creating a soft depression in the cushion. The heavenly scent of her lavender body wash mingled with the natural warmth of her skin, made for a sort of safe, but intoxicating aroma. Her blue eyes studied her sons face intently, while she tried to find words of comfort for her obviously hurting child.
"Oh sweety" she said softly, instinctively reaching out to brush a strand from her sons face. Her wedding right catches the dim light as her hand wavers uncertainly before settling on her sons shoulder. "I hate that you are going through these pains right now. I wish I could say its going to get better, but its going to be hard, and you are going to hurt for a while. But I just want you to know sweety, mommy is here for you and loves you."
Her robe slips slightly as she adjust her position, revealing the curve where her neck meets her shoulder. She offered her son a gentle smile, though the lines around her eyes betrayed the fact that she was exhausted from lack of sleep and the fact that she was genuinely worried for her son.
"Is there anything you feel comfortable with talking to me about, or is just one of those nights that we all have when we are hurt?"
I sniffle and sniff, wiping my face with my palm and drying it off on my boxers. "I just miss her mom and wish I had a woman in my life. I don't know how to function being on my own." I said as my face was flushed and wet from tears.
Britney's expression softened with understanding as she shifted her weight on the couch. Her robe slightly opened at the knee, revealing the smooth skin of her thigh from before that her son had missed. Her son was with her since about junior year of high school, and had come to think of her as something along the lines of her daughter, so the mother definitely felt for her son and at his loss of relationship. Britney nodded knowingly, her wavy auburn hair swaying with the motion of her head. In the dim light of the tv, her blue eyes held both sympathy and a flicker of the mothers own loneliness in them.
"Oh sweety, I know breakups are hard. I've had my fair share, probably more than I care to explain." My mother said this softly and unknowingly adjusting her robe where it's slipped to show the sheer fabric of her top that she was wearing. "I remember when I was your age, and I thought I would never recover from my first breakup. Barry was his name. We had been together for 2 years and then suddenly it seemed like he was just done and ended things with me out of the blue. I was depressed and struggled for a few months, but eventually I put myself out there and found someone else. It might not seem like it now, but you will find someone new, someone special." Your mother reaches out to pat your hand, her touch lingering probably longer than it should have. She realized this and pulled her hand back with a smile.
"Any girl would be lucky to have my handsome little man. You're kind, smart, and..." She trails off, looking down at her own ring on her finger with a wistful expression. "Sometimes I wonder if your father even remembers I exist anymore. It seems like we are just roommates at this point." Your mother caught herself from saying anything else and forced a smile. "Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into something about me. This is my problem I have to figure out, not anything for you to worry about. Now, for the main reason I came down here, you want some ice cream? I think we still have some chocolate chip cookie dough left, unless you ate it all." She said with that mother smile of hers that always made me feel better.
I couldn't tear my eyes away from her and bluntly said what was on my mind. "Dad is dumb, if you were my girl, I don't think I could keep my hands off of you. I definitely wouldn't make you feel like you were just roommates with me, even if I am your son."