"CLICK, CLICK, CLICK"
Ch. 02
By Ghostwalker
(with input by
TheIrishLass
)
"Click, click, click."
I listened to the now familiar, and still alluring, sound of high heels as I sat at the kitchen table. "Good Morning, sweetheart," I said without even looking up.
"Good Morning, yourself," came the response.
"That voice!!" I screamed in my head as I spun around and found myself looking into a pair of piercing, emerald-green eyes.
"MOM?" I blurted, as I spit out some of the cereal I'd been eating.
"Yep, it's me," she replied as if her being here was the most natural thing in the world.
"I... I thought you were Connie," I tried to explain as I choked down the rest of my cereal... but I'm getting ahead of myself.
My mom and dad married just after they graduated from high school and mom supported him as he continued with college to get a degree in Chemical Engineering. While he was in college she also became pregnant but life was great according to them... at least for a while.
After he graduated, dad found a job and mom worked part-time while spending the rest of the time raising and taking care of me. Unfortunately, as dad advanced in the company, he spent less and less time at home with us, frequently being sent on trips that lasted from a few days to a week or more. So, it wasn't too surprising when, just before my 17th birthday, things completely fell apart. It seems that mom had found somebody else who was able to give her the attention she needed both in and out of the bedroom and she wanted a divorce. And so it went. They divorced, mom moved in with her 'gentleman friend', and I stayed with my dad.
Now flash forward two years. Dad met Connie at work where she was employed as a research assistant. They dated, they became lovers, they got married. Once again everything seemed great... or maybe not. Apparently, dad wasn't able to satisfy Connie's needs either which is where I came into the picture. To make a long story short, Connie and I became lovers, while she and dad got a quiet divorce, but nothing in life, at least not mine, is ever that simple.
You see, a few months ago, my mom came back into our lives. Things hadn't worked out between her and her 'friend' so she'd moved out and now had a condo of her own. Somehow she and dad hooked up and he ended up spending more and more nights at her place... that was until last night...
"Don't worry about it. I understand. It must be a little strange to see me back here especially dressed like this," she finished as she looked down at herself.
Up to that point, I hadn't even noticed that all she was wearing was one of my dad's white dress shirts, which did little to hide the dark shadow of her nipples or her red panties, along with a pair of red high heels. And to make matters worse, she only had the shirt closed with one button allowing it to flutter open when she twisted or moved quickly.
"Yeah, kinda," I said unable to take my eyes off her. Life had been good to her since she'd divorced my dad or maybe she had just been good to herself. Her previously mousy-brown hair, which she'd always worn in a bun, had been replaced by long tresses of sun-bleached blonde that cascaded over her shoulders and down to the upper curves of her bust. Her body was tanned and toned and, from what I could see, she'd stopped wearing a bra. "Not bad for a 40-year-old woman," I thought before remembering she was my mom and averting my eyes.
Pretending not to notice my stare, she asked, "So what do you have planned for the day?"
"Nothing much. I've only have a couple of weeks left before I go back to school and I want to take care of some last-minute details."
Never being one to 'beat around the bush' as the saying goes, she asked, "Have you thought about what Connie might want to do?" as she took a sip from the cup of coffee she'd poured herself.
"Actually, I've been thinking about that a lot. I was hoping to talk to her and dad about it tonight."
"I think that's an excellent idea especially since your dad and I have something we want to talk to both of you about as well."
"Like wha...?" I began to ask but she was already heading down the hallway to my old room where she had spent the night with my dad.
The rest of the day seemed a jumble as one task seemed to lead to two or three others. I finally finished just after 5 PM and when I walked in the door, I found everyone sitting around the dinner table getting ready to eat. "Sorry I'm late," I called over my shoulder as I rushed to the bathroom to wash up. I returned a few moments later and I was treated to some of my favorite foods. (I should have known something was up right then and there.)
Dinner was delicious and after cleaning the table, we all headed to the living room. Unlike other nights, my mom came along and started the conversation by asking, "So what did you do today, Jim?"
Taken by surprise, I ran through the things I'd done while leaving a few things out until I'd had a chance to talk with Connie privately.
Afterward, my dad spoke up, "Well, I have some good news. Your mom and I are getting back together and she's moving back in here."
Instead of looking at him, I found myself looking at Connie. I could see the uncertainty in her eyes at the announcement.
Silently, she stood and walked to the bedroom we shared.
"I'll be right back," I said as I followed her.
In the room, I found her sitting on the edge of the bed, tears running down her cheeks. "What's up?" I asked as I bent on one knee in front of her.
"What do you think? I came here as your father's girlfriend before becoming his wife, then I became his ex-wife and your lover. Now he's going back with your mom and you're going off to college. I don't think I heard anything in the conversation about me and what I'm supposed to do," she whispered as the tears continued to roll down her face.
I had been thinking about something for quite a while and though I hadn't planned on it happening this way I knew that now was the moment. "Do you remember asking me if I knew the difference between loving someone and being 'in love' with someone?"
"Yeah... so?" she replied, uncertainly.
"And do you remember telling me how you were 'in love' with me?" I asked as I wiped the tears from her cheeks and chin.
"Yeah," she answered, still unsure of where I was going with the conversation.
"Do you also remember what my answer was?"
She sat quietly for a few moments before replying, "You never said how you felt one way or the other."