Author's note; my apologies, but after a week of trying to procure an editor for this story, I have given up. I seem to have no success in finding one through Literotica, though I have tried repeatedly with each one of my last three stories.
I know how frustrating it can be to read a story that is filled with bad grammar and punctuation. That being said, I have done the best with my limited abilities. Once again I apologize. Hopefully the story with make up for any lapses.
D.S.
*****
It's a thin line between love and hate.
I had been sitting, waiting, on the couch in the dark for hours. A glass of Scotch stood before me on the coffee table. It was a large glass more a highball than a rocks glass, but I had been nursing it for some time now, and only vaguely felt the alcohol.
I had heard cars come and go on our block for some time, for even though it was early in the morning; our street was a convenient cut-through. So when another car turned the corner, I wasn't alerted until it slowed and then pulled into the driveway. A few minutes later the car turned off, and I heard the beep-beep of the alarm being set.
She walked in the front door, a little worse for wear, and I turned on the light.
She was a tall yet graceful woman in her middle forties who had the look of money. Pictures of her in her youth showed a coltish girl with just a hint of the elegant, formidable woman that she would someday become.
She was dressed for a night out in a simple, dark navy, sheath dress with a deep sweetheart neckline and a cutout in back. The tight dress was further cinched in at the middle by a black leather belt, which accentuated her thin waist and alluring hips. A pair of black strapy heels filled out the ensemble and helped draw your eye to her long, toned legs. Still, for her it was conservative attire.
"Oh Kevin, your home," she said startled by the light.
"Yeah."
"I thought you were going away for the weekend?"
"I know."
"But you're home?"
"I didn't go."
"Oh. I see, but I saw you leave."
"Do you know what time it is mom? Where have you been?"
"Out... with some friends."
"The bars closed an hour ago."
"Yeah, well I had to drive someone home. They were a little drunk," she said with a smirk.
As she braced herself against the wall with the hand she held her clutch, she bent slightly at the waist and brought each leg up to elegantly doff her heels.
"Who?"
"Who what?"
"Who was the person you had to drive home?
"Oh, you don't know her. She's a friend of a friend."
"And you and this "what's-her-name" stayed out to closing time?"
"We lost track of time."
"You must have been having a lot of fun."
"Yeah, I guess. What's this all about? Why all the questions?" Her auburn hair, which had the hint of once being coiffed, was now captivatingly mussed.
"Why do you bother to lie? I know where you've been, I know what's going on."
"Know what? I don't know what you're talking about."
"Cut the shit. Don't act so innocent."
She tilted her head down and turned to look away from me. In this light you could see how beautiful she still was. She was no longer young, for she had traded her once youthful glow for elegance.
"Who told you?" She asked without looking at me.
"No one had to tell me. I'm not an idiot."
"So you know."
"Yes."
"And do I have your promise of discretion?" She was looking at me again and this time with authority.
"That's what your worried about? That I might tell someone?"
"I'm thinking about your father," she said as if she was doing something noble.
"Your concern is touching."
"I don't want him to know. I don't want him hurt," she said with sternness in her voice and in her stare.
"You don't want him hurt. That's a laugh."
"What I've done, I didn't do to hurt him."
"Then why do you do it?"
"I'm your mother. I don't have to answer to you."
"Oh so you're above all that. Parents don't have to explain their behavior to their children? Is that it?"
"Enough. I've heard enough."
"And I haven't heard anything."
"I'm going to bed."
"Pleasant dreams."
She headed for the stairs. I drained the rest of my Scotch, dropped the glass of in the kitchen sink, and headed up behind her. She was at the top of the stairs as I started up, but as I got to the landing she was standing in the hallway.