Just lovely.
The mother of 2 sat motionless on the couch, covered with the fuzzy blanket, slightly sweaty from her "moments ago" sexual coupling with her son and with a very sizeable deposit of his sperm still swimming at the gates to her womb, where her cervix has exactly zero chance of stopping anything from happening. Her daughter, Chloe, sat at her feet, holding her mother's legs on her lap under the same blanket. With her brother's jockstrap in her hand, she passed it to her mother.
"Tell you what, Mom. I need to change out of these clothes into something more comfortable. We have a bit to discuss, you and I. You hold this, and I'll be right back."
She added with a grin and pinched her mother's cheek as her mother so often did hers, her voice mixed with some sarcasm. "Now, don't you go anywhere just yet."
2 minutes later, Chloe returned. A loose tank top and summer shorts were in place, and she assumed the same position, lifting her mother's strappy heels onto her lap and covering her legs on top of hers with the blanket.
"So, Mom, may I please have that back?" Chloe extended her hand, and Kim sheepishly produced the lipstick-stained garment from under the covers back into her hand.
"Chloe, listen, what you saw..." But Chloe was quick to interrupt her. "What I saw, mother, was a man, my brother, pleasuring a woman, my mother, in the most sexual of manners. Let's start there, shall we?" Her countenance was somewhere between angry, surprised, and, well, more angry.
"Earlier I asked you to explain what I saw this morning, Mom. Pretty sure we're past needing to do that now, don't you think?"
Lying on her back, Kim turned her head to the side, absentmindedly gazing out the big bay window to the yard and the woods beyond it. "Yes, Chloe, we certainly are."
Silence.
Chloe stared at the jockstrap in her lap, her hands mindlessly exploring the fabric and texture.
"Why Cole, Mom? Did you seduce him, or did he seduce you? For how long? When did this start? And for crying out loud, why is your lipstick on his jockstrap? You know what? I don't want to know. I'm actually sorry. I know what I do now."
Endless silence.
Kim watched Chloe process her emotions along with her logic. It was atypical for a 3rd-year college student of psychology to be so much at a loss for words, especially her. She saw the crinkled brow, the genuine concern, and the curiosity of wanting to know more, but also the fear about actually knowing more. Kim decided to break the silence.
"It's how he smells, Chloe."
Chloe couldn't process this. She stopped, stared out the window at the fading sunlight now turning evening, and after a few more moments of thought, decided she didn't understand that.
"What are you talking about? How does he smell? Why is that important here at all?"
"Look, Chloe, I'm not going to try to explain it to you, but I am going to answer your questions, and the answer to that last one is--it's how he smells."
"How he smells. That's it. Really?"
"Yes, sweetie. Really."
Chloe turned to her left to face her on the couch, pulling her left leg up under her mother's in the process, and put her left arm on the couch back, leaning over her a bit. "You're telling me how Cole smells--my brother--how he smells--is the reason why you and he were having sex? Mom, how the fuck does that compute?" Her eyebrows furrowed deeper, and she was genuinely feeling as though this was just a big line of BS from her mother.
Kim lowered her voice. "You're not a child, Chloe. And I'm pretty sure you're aware that everyone has their 'thing,' as it were. You may not like it, but I can tell you some things about the opposite sex that throw your logical train off the track and jumpstart your sexual engine."
"Mom. Whatever. I'm really concerned here. I know you and Dad are trying to get pregnant. I know you're not on the pill, and with Dad's age, I know there must be some challenges, but--WHAT THE FUCK?" Chloe held the jockstrap up between them and raised the lipstick smudge into the light.
Kim bit her bottom lip; she stared at her daughter and raised her eyebrows.
More silence. Chloe turned back, straightening her legs and smoothing out the blanket.
Her voice was a whisper. "Well, here's what I know. We got home. Doors locked. Now I know why, I guess. I couldn't see into the house, so I went to the side door hoping to see someone and get in, but then I saw him."
"Chloe, I'm sorry you saw that."
Chloe giggled to herself, then raised her head to stare at the ceiling. "I thought he was just masturbating, but then my eyes adjusted, and I saw him pumping away, and, Jesus, Mom. That was you."
"Um, yes, Chloe. I know."
"You need to talk now, Mom. I've got to process this somehow. Why Cole? Why now? What are you going to tell Dad?"
"Chloe, dear, stop." Kim's eyes pierced through her daughter's psyche. "I love your father. I love you. I love Cole. But this, well, Chloe, this happened. Again, I'm very sorry you had to see that."
More silence.
"And the answer to your other question today is 'yes.'" Kim was being coy. Chloe may be shocked, but she's not "in shock," and she's a heck of a lot smarter and more experienced than this.
"What? What other question?"
Kim's eyes turned bright as she stared directly at her daughter. "Your brother IS a heavy cummer, Chloe." Kim winked at her.
Chloe's face softened, and she laughed out loud. "OH, my fucking God, are you kidding me, Mom?" Chloe was laughing now, all those bundled emotions getting some kind of good outlet.
"Oh, yes, daughter of mine, trust me, I know." Kim smiled openly. Chloe's face went flat, and her voice whispered out to her mom on the couch. "Oh, my God. Mom. Are you? Are you serious? Right now? Are you seriously lying out here like that right now with all that in you still?"