The mother and the son lived alone in the three bedroom split-level house that used to be home to all four members of the Morrow family. Now, there were only two of them left.
The twenty-five year old daughter was married and living happily halfway across the country. The husband had moved out a couple of years ago, having gone through a mid-life crisis of sorts while finding love and affection in the arms of a woman his daughter's age.
The wife, 48 year old Tabitha Morrow, had forgiven her husband when he admitted his transgressions, but Ken Morrow hadn't told his wife in order to seek forgiveness. It was his way of telling her that he was through, and was going to move in with his bimbo.
"You and the boy will be fine," Ken assured his soon to be ex-wife as he moved out, and while he continued to send some money to keep the roof over their heads, he was out of Tabitha and "the boy's" lives.
The boy in question was no longer a boy, although he looked it in many ways. Elliot Morrow was now nearly 19, and was finishing his junior year in college, having skipped first and fourth grades and whizzing through an accelerated program in high school.
While being a boy genius was great in many ways, it had left him with a rather stunted social life. He was 15 when he graduated from high school, and girls his age were just starting there.
So he became a recluse of sorts, immersing himself in his studies, and when he wasn't doing school work he was lost in the world of Harry Potter. In his mind, he saw himself as the lead character, even though there was no handsome actor behind the glasses he wore.
So the worn-out middle-aged woman, who worked long hours at the local Applebee's restaurant in addition to holding down an office job during the week, and the nerdy college student had formed a bond as time went on.
That bond evolved to where it was on March 19, 2011, where our story takes place.
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Waiting for his mother to come home, Elliot must have fallen asleep for few moments, which was unusual for him on a Saturday night - a Saturday night that was about to become Sunday morning. He had been asleep when his Mom made her first late night visit to his room, but even since then, he had been awake, hoping that she would return.
Maybe his dropping off was a sign that he was beginning to expect his mother to come into his room every Saturday night, but that didn't mean that he was any less excited about it. In fact, he felt like he was dependant on that door opening, which is why he forced himself to stay awake as best he could in his darkened room.
When the door finally did open, Elliot's eyes were wide open, and as the dim light from the hallway filled his bedroom, she saw his mother standing in the doorway, looking like an angel with a aura around her.
Elliot wished that his eyesight was better, because he couldn't see that well in the murky light, but he could see well enough to know that she was naked.
"Elliot?" he heard his mother ask as she closed the door behind herself and immersed them in the comforting near-darkness.
"I'm awake, Mom," Elliot replied.
"How's my baby?" his mother asked as she climbed onto the sheet that covered her son and cuddled up behind him, treating him like the Mama's boy he was and probably would always be.
"Okay Mom," Elliot said as he felt his mother curl up behind him. "Tough night?"
"All college kids," his mother lamented, and Elliot knew that their presence usually meant a lot of checking proof, loud and obnoxious behavior and lousy tips. "How about you?"
"The usual," Elliot said of his weekend job stocking shelves at the local Price Chopper, and after they exchanged some more small talk, there was a period of silence.
In many ways, this was the best time for Elliot. The tension built with every passing moment, until it became almost unbearable, and this night was no exception. After feeling nothing but his mother's warm breathing on his neck for about 20 minutes, Elliot felt her soft hand on his bare shoulder.
From there, Elliot fought to keep his heart rate steady as Mom's hand moved downward, from his skinny arm to his side, where his mother's hand went under the sheet and rested on his rib cage. All the while Mom kept breathing on his neck and shoulders, her breath scented with a combination of Jack Daniels and the mints she used to unsuccessfully mask the aroma.
Elliot had a surprise for his mother tonight, because tonight he wasn't wearing pajama bottoms like he usually did. They only got in the way, and made it awkward for Mom to fumble in the dark.
***
Elliot remembered well that first night several months ago, when his mother struggled to try to get his PJ's off of him. That was in part because she had woken her son up and he was confused and scared, and when his mother had finally gotten Elliot's pajamas off that night and grabbed his dick, it had retreated like a turtle going into the shell, and Elliot had been so ashamed that his mother saw how little his penis was that he couldn't get hard for the longest time.