Willow: My Mother, My Lover
As the door to their bedroom was half open, I barged in without pausing. My mother, Rowan, was standing with her back to the room talking into her mobile, her naked body reflected in the mirror of the dressing table. My heart gave a jump. It was like looking at a reflection of my newly found lover and, true to its reaction to that reflection, a reaction acquired over the past week, my cock began to stiffen and grow and thrust against the flimsy confines of my lacy nylon panties and the light summer skirt that I'd exchanged for my jeans on my journey back from the airport.
'Might have been better if you'd knocked,' my mother rebuked me mildly, as she caught sight of my reflection in her mirror. 'Mind you' she added with a little grin on her face as she looked deliberately at my tented out skirt front, 'it's nice to know that, even at my age, a girl can still evoke that kind of reception.'
I suppose there comes a moment in everyone's life when they realise that their parent is a sexual being in their own right, that they have needs and desires and that they have bodies that react and function like everyone else's. That moment for me came at the sight of my mother's reflected naked beauty β her sallow but flawless skin, pretty tight little breasts, B-cup at most, with pert nipples and bubbling aureole, flat stomach and slim waist descending into a slightly mounded shaven pudenda, and shapely hips and legs; surmounted by an elfin face and rich chestnut hair cut in 'Pageboy' style β a beauty that filled me with a sudden, bewilderingly intense desire. The same desire I'd experienced when I'd stood on our hotel room balcony with a naked Hazel, and looked at the star studied night sky. And that desire had led to Hazel and me becoming lovers within minutes of that arousal.
My mother and Hazel, whom I'd called 'Aunty Hazel' for the first twelve or so years of my life until her true relation ship of cousin to my mother and therefore to me had been explained, that woman who had become my lover ... my first and only lover, were children of sisters who had married brothers. By their looks and temperaments they could have been sisters at least, if not twins.
Until Hazel and I shared a bedroom and a bed in that hotel in France, I'd never really been consciously aware of any sexual desire for any specific woman ... or man. Maybe, my sexuality had been satisfied by my transformation from William into Willow, subsumed into the effort needed for me to continue maintaining that feminine alter-ego; a transformation that had begun nearly six years before in experimentation following the use of a chance sobriquet by a master at school. By now most of the time I felt as much feminine as masculine ... maybe more feminine. Now I was faced with the sudden knowledge that the very masculine arousal and desire that Hazel had awakened in me was now replicated by equally masculine feelings for my mother β as a woman, as a lover.
[Willow's relationship with Hazel and Rowan, and the explanation of Willow's transformation from William, are recorded in 'A story of Forbidden Love, Chapters 1, 2 and 3.1' fp]
I didn't realise then of course that, like the exchange between Hazel and Marianne in the hotel in France, the whole episode that led to my discovering my mother naked in her bedroom was staged. Hazel had been in constant contact with my mother since we'd landed, and during the drive back home, by text. It was my mother who had ensured the phone rang as we entered; and Hazel had ensured she was first to cross the threshold and pick up the hall 'phone. And my mother had had plenty of time to ensure she was naked, place herself in front of the dressing table mirror and arrange the open bedroom door.
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Still troubled by my arousal I left the room to enter my own, unpack, strip, shower and change for the evening meal that my mother had prepared.
With my body back under control β under a slim skirted, sleeveless, collarless summer dress and lacy satin lingerie β I descended the stairs to find the two of them waiting to start eating. During the early part of the meal we reported the outcome of our meetings and discussed the implications for the family perfumery business. Hazel was fulsome in her appreciation of my efforts to assist, particularly in the area of translation.
'Willow was invaluable,' she told my mother, 'it'll pay us to make sure she's ... he's always with us when we're over there β and probably anywhere else on the Continent for that matter.'