[©2011 BY CLINTON09; ALL CHARACTERS ARE OVER THE AGE OF 18 WITH IDENTITIES DISGUISED; THIS STORY HAS A 'HARDER EDGE' THAN MOST; BE WARNED: HERE BE DRAGONS; FOR AGES 25 OR ABOVE]
[Mom and son celebrate her freedom/divorce with a Caribbean vacation; they go to a rarely visited cay and have quite an adventure.]
[Caveat: Note to reader: there are many 'kinder, gentler' stories than this one. You might consider that before embarking. Well, we warned you.]
It all came as a minor shock to me. I had no inkling that my parents were contemplating a divorce. As it turned out, they weren't—it just happened.
My mother, Sue, was thirty-six. She had let herself age 'gracefully' and not try to be some little ingénue or cover girl. From tanning and jogging outdoors, she had some facial lines (heavens!) and even a few lines of color in her legs that she hadn't had there as a teen. There were a very few extra pounds, here and there. She was a true soccer mom and looked the part.
Now that didn't give her husband/my father a license to fool around. Alas, that is what he did. When mom arrived at his office for an unplanned lunch outing, she instead found him and his dowdy secretary doing unspeakable things. His tubby 'girl Friday' couldn't type or do much else, but she was much younger than mom at twenty. My mother stormed out and filed for divorce the same day.
That brings us up to speed. Everyone in the office knew what was going on with 'the old man' and that Rosanne Barr-like secretary of his. My mom got a nice settlement. Sweet...
Mom kicked him to the curb. I was offered the choice of parents, since I was still a minor at seventeen (for one more week). I chose my mom.
Before our great trip, mom and I had never so much as looked at each other in the wrong way, let alone 'done anything'. Oh sure, there were nights when she'd 'tuck me in'. Sometimes tearful, she'd whisper sweet nothings about how much she loved me before a goodnight kiss.
It was innocent in the extreme, even if the kisses lingered depending upon her mood. Still and all, there was nothing untoward about a good-night kiss, even if it lasted one or two minutes...Well, okay, on those nights she gave me a really long goodnight kiss, I normally would have some pretty hot dreams.
Those dreams would feature me and guess who doing wild things ending in a long breeding session. The only other 'unusual things' between my mother and me was her 'attire' as I was growing up. Until I was 'too old' at nine, she didn't worry about what she was wearing, or not wearing, around me when we were alone.
She also called for me to get her this or that while she was taking a bubble bath. So it wasn't a big deal: a lingering kiss goodnight, our own private little birthday parties, mom's bubble baths, and doing her hair and nails. That was it: Just a normal boy and his gorgeous mom.
Okay, one last thing: when her old man was away on trips, she always had me lay out her clothes for the day. I never questioned her about that. It was so simple, too. Bottom drawer for undies, either thong or those 'defective' ones she got which lacked a front to them. Top drawer had her bras, all 34D. All of them were stretched to the maximum, her heavy breasts often making the clasps burst open in the back or the button in the front pop off.
For some reason, all of the bras had a pointed little dome inside at the center of the bra. Little did I know that mom's nipples erected whenever she saw--or even thought--of me.
So there we are. Mom and I were still together after the divorce. My mother was beautiful of face (blonde hair, blue eyes, Hollywood smile) and figure. If you ever saw that Farrah-Fawcett Playboy disk you'd have some idea of my mother's spectacular figure...and understand why those bras were worn out the way they were.
Anyway, she wanted something to spice up our lives and cheer her up after the shock of the divorce. She saw this ad for inexpensive luxury vacationing on a rarely visited cay in the Bahamas. Mom thought it'd be wild and daring to go off the 'beaten path' for once. Our neighbors were this marvelous black couple, both attorneys. They said they never heard of that island, though they frequently wintered in the Bahamas. They warned us about being too daring in our plans. Perhaps we should've heeded their warning.
Taking the Caulk flying service from Miami, we soon found ourselves at this remote cay, not much more than a speck of land in the Caribbean. The plane dumped us and our luggage (mostly mom's) on the driveway of the home. The place was frequented by small aircraft and sail (pontoon) planes.
We waited for a bellhop then gave up and headed to the main building to introduce ourselves and get schedules for meals and entertainment. Yes, sure...
We reached the main house where we found there were no other guests, no itinerary set up, and no males of any kind. There were a dozen females of various ages, with six elders obviously in charge.
Esther (one of the elders): "Well, we were wondering when someone would answer that damn ad in the Miami Herald; we'd run it for two years. If you haven't guessed by now, this isn't the Emerald Beach Hotel in Nassau. We like your money, even if it is only U.S. currency. However, the exchange rates have changed."
"So, we now need not just your cheap currency but some solid work out of you. We are putting the two of you to work tomorrow, tending and harvesting the crops that your heroes from Spain and England brought here for cash crops or to feed their slaves. You will be OUR slaves. It's only fair; I think you'd agree if you could see it from our viewpoint...our history. So, white devils, sleep well tonight; you will need all the rest you can get for tomorrow."
We weren't sure whether this was a joke or not. Then one of the elder women produced a Luger P08, no doubt left by some prior guest. I didn't know if it was loaded, but she sure knew how to pull back the bolt before she put it against my forehead. It was a quiet reminder that escape was 'frowned upon'. That got us quietly moving along to our pathetic 'guest house', a wooden shack that must have cost at least $20 to build.
Mom and I huddled together that night, literally quaking. The next morning at sunrise, we were given this horrible tasteless porridge (made from breadfruit I was told) and then taken to the fields.
At the start, I was pudgy, pale (from being an indoor video game jock), pasty and puny. My mother was only a few pounds and a few shades of pale short of perfection. This experience would even the playing field and bring us together.
Both of us had at least packed sports activity duds which could serve as work clothes. Our clothes were new and quite nice...at first. We kept one change of clothes intact in the vain hope that we might need them while escaping.
On my eighteenth birthday, we got back to the workers' home after an exhausting day. As usual, mom had to stoop over the low-lying crops, pinching excess flowers while jarring those damn Asian beetles. I for my part would do the same. I also had to do the heavy lifting when there were picked crops in the bushel baskets or heavy palettes to be off-loaded.
As a result of all this, my mom had dropped her excess weight of a pound or two really fast. My God, this place was like the beauty spa from hell, but it did make us tanned, lean, strong, and healthy. My mother's 'natural figure' now came into view like a Michelangelo sculpture hidden in marble. She had been a prematurely aging 'soccer mom'.
With the incredible hours of work, the relentless sun, the bending and lifting, my mother was now lithe and fit enough to be an NFL cheerleader. What was even better was that she was unbelievably toned, like the bikini models in those ESPN fitness competitions. Sleek, sexy, perfect; my aging soccer mom was now atomic hot.
I for my part was like an eighteen year old bodybuilder, with a great physique and outrageous 'guns' on my arms from all that lifting. As we toiled in the field, getting tanned (it only took days) and toned (that took weeks), our clothes were being used to the point of wearing out. Eventually, our clothes were mere tatters (except for that one set kept in reserve...just in case).