After dinner Rhonda went out to meet some friends from work and mom and I were left to do the dishes. After cleaning up, we sat in the living room and watched a movie. Mom drank some wine and I had a couple of beers. We were quiet through the movie, but when it was over, mom turned to me.
"Is Rhonda doing okay?" She asked.
My heart leapt in my chest -- I was afraid she was making reference to our incestuous relations. "Yeah. I think so. I think the Pete thing is hitting her a little hard."
Mom looked thoughtful. "Yeah. Breakups really mess with your mind."
"Are you doing okay, mom?"
She nodded and sipped some wine. "Oh yes. Doing good. I'm thinking about getting into on-line dating. I think with spring coming I need to get back out there."
I nodded, "That'd be good for you."
"I know it would be strange, if I met someone and brought him home to meet you guys."
"Don't worry about that." I said with a little concern, thinking of another man in our house, a guy trying to be my dad. "You need to take care of yourself. Besides, Rhonda is probably going to move out this summer and if I do go full-time with the job, I'll be moving out before too long myself."
"I hate to think of being in this big house, alone."
"Maybe the guy you meet will have kids and they can move in here." I laughed.
Mom laughed, "Oh no, no more kids in the house until I get grand-babies. And I'm not in any rush for those!"
"So, have you checked out the on-line dating scene already?"
She blushed a little, "Some. It's kind of scary. I'm ready to join one site, but I don't have a recent picture."
"We could take some pictures and load them to your computer real quick, mom."
"We could?"
I got up and went to the closet where our digital camera had been stored. I pulled out the camera. "Look, we can take pictures and download them in minutes." I tried to turn the camera on, but the battery was dead. "Well, we need to charge the camera first."
Mom stood up from the couch with a big smile on her face. "It's okay. We can do that this weekend. I'm not in a big rush to dive in."
"You got that new phone, mom." I said and picked her phone up from the coffee table. "This probably takes great pictures. Have you used the camera much?"
Mom reached out for her phone. "Oh, I've messed around with it a little, but not much."
I found the camera icon and turned the phone toward my mother. "Smile." The phone clicked and flashed before mom could react.
I quickly opened up her photo gallery to show her the picture. I flipped past the first picture and the second picture took the wind from me. There was the little vibrator I had seen in mom's closet, buried half way into mom's snatch. I'm sure my face was flushed with color as I quickly attempted to push the to the last picture on the phone just as mom grabbed the camera from me. "Don't go snapping pictures of me at the end of a long day. I probably look like hell." She looked down at the phone and turned crimson. She clutched the phone to her chest. "Rick, I -- I -- I don't know if you saw this or not, but --"
"I was trying to find that picture I just took of you mom, I didn't see any of your pics." I lied, "I'm not familiar with your phone. Did that picture turn out okay?"
Mom nodded and turned away. She sat heavily on the couch. "Yes. It's fine." She picked up her wine and took a long drink. "This weekend let's get the digital camera out and we'll take some pictures for my dating profile." She didn't look at me. "Okay?"
"Sure mom." I said, adding, "I'm going to grab a beer and head off to bed. I've got a project due next week I should be working on."
Mom looked down at her phone, then to me. "You didn't see the picture on the phone?"
"It just came up when you grabbed the phone."
"Okay." She finished the wine in her glass, "It's a terrible picture of me."
I felt very awkward and seeing how mom was feeling made me feel worse. I went to her and hugged her shoulders. "You're too pretty to take a bad picture!"
She patted my shoulder and gave me a light kiss on the cheek. "You're sweet."
I left her sitting there with the phone in her lap. I went upstairs and sat on the bed. I didn't know if mom noticed or not, but my cock had sprung to life when I saw the pic of her vibrator in her pussy. I thought she was too freaked out to even pay attention.
As I thought about it, it occurred to me that if she had taken that picture she had probably sent it to someone online. There was no doubt that she was being pretty promiscuous online these days. I guessed that she needed it. Hell, I was jerking off sometimes twice a day myself. My family must just be exceptionally horny, I thought.
A couple days passed and then it was the weekend. Rhonda was busy with work and school so we didn't see much of each other. 1HotTigress had disappeared from chat, but then again, she had told me she was going to be gone. I finally made a date with Creamgirl for Saturday afternoon as she wanted to keep it simple for our first meeting.
Saturday morning I saw Rhonda coming out of the bathroom with only a towel wrapped around her body. When I gave her a cat call she opened the towel and flashed me her body. She waved for me to come into her room, but mom came up the stairs just then and I went back to my room.
Mom followed me into my room. "I've got a few errands to run, but I was hoping that when I came home you'd take a couple pictures." She said it rather quickly and plainly.
Trying to assess her situation I asked what was up. She waved it off and looked away, saying, "Nothing.'
I approached her carefully, "Mom? What's up?" I put a hand on her shoulder.
She patted my hand and shook her head, "Nothing, just kind of blah. I was hoping the pictures and the promise of getting a date would cheer me up some."
"As pretty as you are, you'll have no problem getting a date."
She patted my hand again and pulled away. "Thanks honey." She stopped as she turned into the hallway.
Mom stayed in the doorway, "Any suggestions on what to wear?"
I turned back to her and looked her over. In jeans and a Rolling Rock t-shirt, she looked great. "Let's do one casual, one dressy and one.... uhm..."