[Author's Note: I write this at about 6:00 in the morning. When I get up, I tend to check Literotica to see if something has been published and see if there are any comments on my work. I enjoy them. I was surprised when I found page after page of notifications that somebody had added this story to their "favorites." Evidently, I struck a nerve with this one so I'll be following up to see how things work out between David and his mother. Hell, maybe we'll even learn her name but, well, "Mom" seems right, when you get down to it, don't you think? So let's be a fly on the wall for a while, shall we, Gentle Reader? And please, feel free to leave a comment or even contact me. I'm always interested in knowing how I struck those nerves or created an image that pleased. And I'm always looking for story ideas. Anyway, I think David's mother is waking up now.]
Interlude
As hangovers go, this one was pretty damn epic. I may be a drunk, well, okay, I AM a drunk, but I'm a highly functioning drunk and don't have blackouts. That's a promise I made to myself long ago and have stuck to. If my drinking gets to be so much that I have missing memories, well, I'll dry out. But that hasn't happened so far and, well, I like what alcohol does for me so I have no intention of quitting.
So I lay there, eyes still closed, head pounding, room doing that slow spin of a morning after, and thought.
"Oh, Marilouise, you have surely fucked up this time" was my first clear thought as I remembered last night.
My date had turned out to be an absolute jerk. Christ, it was our first date, hell, our first dance, and already his hands were on my ass. When I told him to stop it he got pissy and called me a tight-ass bitch which made me laugh in his face. I mean, hell, I'm the one that old joke had been written for. You know the one - if she had so many dicks sticking out of her as she's had stuck into her she'd look like a porcupine.
What can I say? I like sex. Of course, that's why I have a son only 15 years my junior, but there it is. I like sex. Always have and I certainly hope, always will.
Anyway, George, my once and never date, tried to start a fight so I just said, "fuck this," and hopped into my car and went to a club I frequent. There weren't any interesting men there and I wound up in a stupid game of "Never Have I Ever," which, for a barfly like me, is never a good idea because I wound up drinking at practically every "Never Have I Ever" offering. I got to pass on the "Never have I ever been in a girls' only orgy," and was surprised by three of my acquaintances who giggled and tossed down their shots. I did drink at NHIE engaged in a threesome, NHIE had more than two men on one night, and NHIE been involved in a bukkake party, well, you get the picture.
But there were no interesting males so I just accepted that it would be BOB and me for the night, hopped into my car, and went home.
I guess I had lost more rounds in the NHIE game than I thought because about halfway home I realized that I was WAY too drunk to be driving. I got off of the main streets and slowly made my way home in the over-cautions way of a seriously drunk driver. I stopped completely at every stop sign, carefully looked both ways before moving, stayed as close to two miles per hour under the speed limit, and concentrated on not wandering across my lane. I guess I was successful because I made it, unarrested and unwrecked.
Inside I made myself a screwdriver, turned on the TV, and watched the news for a while as I wound down from the nerves of driving.
As happens sometimes, I suddenly realized I had to pee.
In the bathroom, my slacks and panties around my knees I peed and in the post-relief relaxation drifted into a doze. I guess I had more to drink than I realized because I suddenly snapped awake knowing I was going to be sick.
I managed to get off the seat and turned around. I flushed quickly, God, I didn't need piss splashing along with what was coming.
And it came with a vengeance.
I was surprised I had anything left to throw up, but I managed. I thought, at one point, I shit myself I threw up so hard, but later I found that I had avoided that indignity at least.
After a bout of dry heaves that wouldn't seem to end, I was too exhausted to move. My belly muscles ached and felt on the verge of cramping. My lower back muscles DID cramp, making me cry out and bend my back sharply to ease the pressure and the pain. When that passed I just hung there, my cheek against the cool porcelain.
It felt good.
I could feel the world slipping away and my last thought was, "Well, fuck, Marylouise, now you know what rock bottom is. Passing out with your face in the toilet has to be about it."
But I didn't try to get up.
Hell, the cool porcelain felt good on my cheek.
It actually felt kind of good to let myself pass out.
I was dreaming. It was a cold day and I was running and I was afraid although I didn't know what I was afraid of. I just knew that if I got caught I'd get hurt.
Suddenly, in the way of dreams, it was raining. I felt the raindrops spatter against my face. I was barefoot and running free, running like I had when I ran the 440 in high school, comfortable, breathing easy, legs pumping, arm swinging properly.
"Come on, Sluterella," I heard my son's voice, "Let's get you cleaned up."
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Finis
I woke, and it was one of those cases when I was asleep and then I was awake. There was no slow awakening. I was just awake.
And I was aware.
I remembered it all.
I got hard.
I rolled up onto my side and there she was.
" So, David," I thought, "now you're a motherfucker. What next?"
Which, of course, was a stupid question to ask myself. I was hard and she was there and she might say "no" after this but for now, well, it was a stupid question.
I felt that sudden rush, deep in my belly as she opened her eyes and met mine, and my adrenal glands squeezed flooding my system with adrenaline and triggering that fight or flight reflex that saved so many of my million times great grandparents as they started down from the trees into the waiting jaws of the fully evolved apex predators. For them, you ran, you fought, or you became leopard lunch.
So I felt that sudden rush and froze like a mouse seeing the snake.
She smiled.
"Sluterella?" she said.
And I knew, far below the level of thinking, that my life had changed.
She looked exactly like what she was, a drunk after a hard night. Her hair was a rat's nest. Her face, without makeup, showed every year in the lines around her eyes and mouth. Her nose had been running and there was a crust on her upper lip and around her nostrils. She had been drooling and a wet line ran from the corner of her mouth.
"Well," I said, running my fingers into the rat's nest on her head and unable to pull them through, "You are lookin' a little rough."
"And you took advantage, didn't you?" she asked, looking at me through squinted eyes.
"Fuck me, DAVID, FUCK MEEEEEeeeeeee," I said, grinning, mimicking her voice from last night.