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.
"You aren't going to tell your father, are you?"
"Fuck you."
"I will not have you talk to me like that young man."
"And how are you going to stop me mom? I'm twenty-one now. I'm not a little boy that you can discipline. As I see it, someone else needs to be disciplined."
"Kevin please."
"Fuck you," I said as I pushed by her, and headed for my room.
Inside my room with the door closed, I stripped out of my clothes and put on a pair of gym shorts and a tee shirt to sleep in.
I plugged my earphones in to my phone. Knowing that I wasn't going to get to sleep I planned to lay in bed and listen to music, but when I plopped onto my bed I saw my mom in the doorway.
The secret struggle through out my life was my mother's sexuality. She was beautiful of course. More attractive than most mothers, but she wasn't a super model, and her beauty itself was not the issue; it was the way that she flaunted it or used it as a weapon to get her way, even if the target of that weapon was her own son.
It was never crude, but omnipresent. She never bought an article of clothing that wasn't revealing in some way. Her jeans were always tight, her blouses left unbuttoned, her skirts short. At the beach she wore a string bikini, and I can tell you, she had the body for it.
It's hard for most boys to deal with the fact that their mother is a sexual person. It's even harder when that mother exudes sexuality.
As she stood leaning up against the doorjamb, it was a case in point. She had dressed for bed, but instead of pajamas or sweats, as most mothers would wear, she was wearing a short, red silk robe. And either out of habit, or more plausibly, intentional, she had her legs crossed, which opened up her robe exposing her front leg up to the thigh.
I pulled the ear buds out and snapped at her, "What?"
"I knocked, but no one answered."
"What do you want?"
"You have me worried. I'm worried about what you plan to do, if you are going to..."
"Tell dad?"
"Yes."
"Don't worry. I'll keep your little secret. Unlike you, I wouldn't do anything to hurt dad. He deserves better."
"He does deserve better. I just..."
"Oh can it ma. Who gives a fuck?"
"Kevin, I'm your mother and I demand that you treat me with respect."
I was furious with her, and my venting did little to alleviate my fury, instead it only heightened it. I could feel my anger well up inside of me, and I wanted to smash her pretty little face through the wall.
I got up in haste, and rushed toward her. She cowered as I came near, but I controlled myself, bumped her aside and headed down the hall to the only place I thought I would find sanctuary; the bathroom.
I went in, turned on the light, and locked the door. I sat on the toilet seat feeling like an idiot, which only irritated me more.
"Kevin," I heard her through the door. "We need to talk."