Bill sat across from his mother eating lunch in her apartment. She chattered away as usual as he tried to listen. But his mind was 600 miles away. He had just returned from visiting his uncle in South Carolina, and remembering how his very drunk uncle related to him how he had bedded his sister in their youth. How it had lasted two years without her becoming pregnant. "A minor miracle", was his uncle's words. Most surprising was Uncle William only had one sister, and that was his mom.
Bill's thoughts wandered to the things his mother had said and done when they had lived in an apartment together seven years earlier; asking him to close his eyes as she ran through the living room with just her panties on and mildly scolding him when she caught him peeking, the time she had accusingly questioned him about the stains on the backseat of his used car and commenting on the possibility of getting one of his girlfriends pregnant. There were countless examples added to the most recent; the relentless accusation that he was screwing the gal on the second floor of her apartment building, which he had denied, scolding her for suggesting he would mess around on his wife.
"I saw you and that bitch talking this morning when you got out of your car. It was like she was waiting for you? How does she know when you are coming by? What were you and her talking about? Setting up a meeting, I suppose?" Margaret accused, snapping him back to the present.
"You're talking about Betty? That's her name you know." He began. "I'll be honest with you mom. She does want me to come see her. Half of the men at the bus company have screwed her but I'm a bit choosy about who I stick my dick in." He replied, looking directly at her, seeing her eyebrows lift as he used the generational words "screw and dick". "The ones that have screwed her call her pincushion." Then. "If you're going to accuse me of taking up with some woman be realistic. For instance, you need to look for a woman more like you. That's kind of woman I would be looking for. I like older women. Ones that know they have a great body, a hellva nice ass and they like the way men look at them. They dress in a manner to attract men's attention. But, they're very choosy. Or, should I say a man hater. A tease but they're not going to give up their treasure to just anyone."
"A tease?" She cut in, instantly applying his references to her. "You think I'm a tease? You're being silly, but you are right about one thing, that little bitch in apartment 203 will spread her legs for anyone. You've been watching me that close?"
"Oh! It took all of that stuff personally?" He exclaimed, then.
"Mom! You really need to forget about Betty." Bill cut in. "She is nothing to either of us. So let's get back to you and me."
"You and me? I thought we were being hypothetical? Now, it's about you and me." She then inserted quickly. "There is no you and me.
"We are having a conversation about you and me. Or, me and a woman like you." He inserted and corrected just as quickly. "Naw!, let's leave it you and me. Of late, I've been thinking you've been teasing me for years with all of your sexual accusations and innuendos. And surely, you remember running through the old apartment with just your panties on? You did that a number of times even after you knew I was peeking. And, how about the stains on the backseat of my Chrysler? I remember you sounded kind of jealous?
Bill refused to look away from his mother's surprised stare.
"I should knock hell out of you!" Margaret threatened, breaking eye contact after a very long 12 or 15 seconds. She stood and began clearing the table, letting her eyes wander, refusing to make eye contact. She quietly moved around the large column and counter to the small kitchen, and standing at the sink;
"Youhave covered a lot of ground there, my boy. "Let me see if I can be just as honest. I guess I was teasing you and being jealous. I haven't had, nor wanted, a man around for years to take care of...... things..... and I suppose I just wanted someone to notice me. And you're absolutely right about my hatred of men. You were the only male available for me to be a bit of a tease and to be a jealous bitch. It was obvious that you enjoyed the view and you never seemed to mind the bitching. Mother and son are closer than any married couple or girlfriend and boyfriend. And surely you must have known there could never be anything intimate between you and me."
"So, you don't think that showing off your body to me didn't put sexual visions and fantasies in my mind." He asked. "In the apartment, you, lying in your bed not 15 feet away! That I wouldn't think that you and me couldn't somehow.............."
"Dammit! Bill!" Margaret snapped. "We've been out of that apartment for near 7 years, you've been married for four and you're bringing this stuff up now? You're my son and I'm your mom and never the two should meet. Sexually anyway!"
"It's, shall meet, mom. Not, should meet. Entirely two different meanings." He corrected. "You could be accused of showing your inner desires. And, tell me you didn't dress for provocatively when I putting the bookcase together last week? Just a thin sleeping gown and just panties? Hell! Standing in front of the light............"
"Smartass!" She barked, ignoring the tone of the questions, refusing any reply.
Bill continued. "My visit to see uncle William? One night while fishing uncle William got drunk, as usual, and sort of...... spilled the beans."
"What do you mean? Spilled the beans?" She asked, with concern in her voice.
"Two years." He replied. "You and him? You two were together?"
"That drunken son-of-a-bitch!" She spat. "I can't believe! So! you think because I screwed my brother that I should spread my legs for you? Let you screw me? You're a son-of a-bitch too! You........"
Bill cut her off, "is uncle William the reason why you are so down on men?"
Margaret walked back around the column back to her side of the table, but flopped down on the sofa that sat up against the wall. She sat for a moment, calming herself before speaking. "No. Actually that was a good time in my life. After the first couple of times, cause it hurt like hell." She said with a smile. "I really enjoyed being with him. I've always loved William but he was my brother and I had to get away before I got pregnant by him. After the operation a couple years ago that is not a problem anymore and if he wasn't a drunk I would be quite content being with him again. You're father and the other men in my life created my hatred for men. And now I might have to add you to that list. "
Mother and son sat silent for many minutes, each lost in our own thoughts. The operation, Bill remembered, was forefront in his thoughts. Bill was the first to speak;
"You letting ME screw YOU was never a thought." He said, pointing to each of them. "I've always felt that a man and woman should screw together."
"Are you trying to convince me that you are different from all the other son-of-a-bitches?"
"You will always be mom and I will always be your son. That makes you the boss, as always." Bill reasoned.
More long moments passed without speech.
"Come sit next to me." Margaret asked, padding the sofa and watching her son comply. "So you think I got a great ass?"
"I do." Bill replied. "Why do you think I linger behind you when we're in the grocery store?"
"Aren't you the sly one!" Margaret said, padding her son's leg. "So what do you think Pat would say if she knew you were trying to seduce your mom? Which is not going to happen anytime soon, if ever, mind you."
It was Bill's time to be surprised but he recovered quickly. "We are just having a conversation here? You going to tell her?"
"I'm not going to tell her a damn thing!" Margaret replied. "I don't even like her. You know that."
"I'm not going to tell her. Sons visit their moms all the time. If we were to get a little crazy, only we would know, right?"
"Point well spoken." Margaret acknowledged. "I can't say that this little discussion hasn't got me to thinking a little. When I mentioned the results of the operation, I could see the wheels turning in that head of yours. And there are options short of screwing that we could explore a little bit. You agree?"
"I don't want to be on that list you mentioned. I want you to know I am not like the other men you have known, mom." Bill informed her. "Especially dad. If I ever make you feel used or uncomfortable, you can stop me at any time."
"Spoken like a man trying to get in a woman's pants." Margaret said. "Since you made that visit to uncle William's, have you had the notion to seduce me. If so, you sure went about it in a strange way."
"I have only pondered more intently what it would be like, you know, to be with you."
"To be with me? I'll say To fuck me, you mean?" She injected. "Modesty is not my thing, just the blunt."
"For us to fuck, yes." Bill replied. "I've always found you sexually attractive. Especially, after you ran through the apartment with just your panties on. After all these years, I still remember the turquoise blue and the red hair trying to escape underneath those panties." After a moment. "What color are your panties today?"
Margaret looked at her son curiously.
"And now, with the knowledge that I cannot get pregnant, you just figure that I should succumb and lay down, spread my legs and give up my treasure?"
"Yes!" He answered, and waited. "You did say to be blunt?"
"Sorry, I was just.......... thinking." Her son did have a very good point. That sons do visit their moms resonated positively with her, and who would be the wiser? Added to that, there were men in the apartment building that were attractive to her, but she knew her name would become like Betty's should she let her guard down. "What you are suggesting will change our relationship, for ever. Regardless of what you say, I will not be just your mother. I will not tolerate a demanding man."
"Well, I think it could be just fine. I won't be pushy because Pat will be picking up a lot of the slack. You say, no. No, it will be." He rationalized.