Part One
(Nate)
Ever since my dad passed away earlier in the spring, shortly after my eighteenth birthday, my mom had just been wasting away and grieving herself to death. I could clearly see it, as well as everyone else. She never left the house anymore and she just sat around eating junk food and watching game shows and soap operas all day. She rarely even cooked anymore or did any laundry, and it had become very apparent that she was in a deep, deep depression and that she needed some kind of help.
My dad had been a pastor at the same church for almost twenty-five years, and as a pastor's wife, my mom was a dedicated, delicate woman. She had always been somewhat of a homebody as she and Dad did not approve of much of anything that happened out there in the harsh, sinful world. They just looked after the small church, and Mom cooked all of our meals, and they always appeared just as happy as they could be right there at home, all by themselves.
But Mom had taken things to a whole new level as I was now doing all of the cooking, grocery shopping, laundry, and running any errands that might be needed. She wasn't even attending church services anymore, and the people were beginning to talk. But she just simply didn't care anymore.
At forty years old, my mom was still a very nice-looking woman, even if she always dressed and carried herself like a pastor's wife at all times. She never wore anything except shin-length dresses or nightgowns and always wore her long, dark brown hair in a giant beehive bun. She very much looked the part of a die-hard Christian woman at all times.
But now, she was obviously letting herself go quickly, and it was easy to see that she needed some help. I knew I had to get her up and out of the house and introduce her to a whole other world that was waiting just outside the door. It was summer now, and I thought maybe, just maybe, I could get her up and out and interested in some kind of summertime activities.
I knew she just adored the ocean, and although it was just down the road a short piece, she had rarely ever been to it in her whole life.
She immediately perked up a significant amount when I mentioned taking her to the beach the following day, and she anxiously said, "I must see if my bathing suit will still fit me."
I was utterly shocked as I did not even know that she owned a swimsuit.
But I just was not entirely sure that what she emerged in moments later could even be considered as a swimsuit.
It was thick and dark green, and it was much, much more than just a one-piece suit. It was designed like a mid-thigh skirt thingy with large, thick, pantie-like drawers beneath it. The top went high up on her chest and back and had two big wide straps that went over her shoulders and yet another that attached in the front and looped around the back of her neck. The damn thing had to have been made back in the 70's. It was just flat-out atrocious!
She was not the young woman she had been when she last wore the suit, which now fit her very tightly.
"I know it's a little out of date, dear, but it's all I have," she said as she held the skirt part out away from her legs and twirled around a few times quickly. The skirting material rose higher as she spun around, and as the thick, tight bottoms came into view, I couldn't help but notice the dark, curly hair growing inside her upper thighs.
It was just a quick glimpse, but all the same, I felt a powerful stirring.
I had never had sexual feelings about my own mother before, and up until now, this had all been about helping her and nothing more. But for some ungodly reason, the sight of my mom's bare legs and her overgrown thigh hair suddenly sent my heart racing like never before.
I quickly tried to put my thoughts away and said, "Well then, maybe you can get a new one soon, Mom."
She clapped her hands together joyfully and squealed with delight. It was nice to see her happy again.
The first thing I noticed the following morning as we got into the car was that she hadn't shaven the overgrown hair from her upper thighs, and I suddenly realized that I hadn't really expected her to. She was very old-fashioned, and I understood that she likely never shaved anywhere other than her armpits and maybe her lower legs. I was still shocked that she was even leaving the house dressed in anything that actually showed some of her skin.
I suddenly realized I couldn't remember ever even seeing my mother's upper legs before. As soon as she was seated comfortably, she reached and pulled the skirt-like garment back down over her legs as far as it would go and obstructed my view entirely, and then off we went to the beach.
(Meriam)
Meriam was very aware of the dark, overgrown hair running down the insides of her upper thighs, and she did her very best to keep it covered up. She had considered shaving it, but she had never done so before, and she wasn't about to become like some little teeny-bopper that removed every little hair on their body. She felt the human body was made the way it was intended to be and was not to be altered with things such as shaving the genitals and breast implants, tattoos, and body piercings. In her eyes, a person was beautiful just as they were, in their natural state, a God-given state.
But she was also aware of its effect on her son Nate. She had seen how he had blushed bright red and held his breath tightly the day before when she had held the skirt out and spun around in front of him. And again, just now, as she got into the car with him, she could feel his eyes lingering between her open legs until she adjusted the skirt to cover herself from his view.
She was aware of all of it, but she still refused to accept any of it. Therefore, she pushed it away and tried not to even think about it at all. She knew what nasty little creatures' men could be at times, and she had long ago learned to overlook them and just move on from it as quickly as possible. Over the years, she had discovered that she could overlook many things when she had to.
Still, the one thing that she couldn't seem to overlook right at that moment as they were bouncing down a bumpy dirt road was the burning desire that was coming from deep within her loins and the apparent dampness, that she was currently experiencing from within the crotch of the tight-fitting old-fashioned bathing suit.
She closed her eyes and silently asked for forgiveness: a mother wasn't supposed to get all worked up just because her son had seen a little bit of her overgrown leg hair. It was just downright disgraceful of her!
She suddenly got goosebumps as she casually glanced over and saw that Nate was hard and immediately noticed that the length of him ran down his leg almost the entire distance of his swim trunks.
"Oh my God, Nate is a full-grown man!" she suddenly realized. Her surprising discovery about him certainly did not help her current situation at all.