This is chapter one of a 3 part series.
"What are you going to do about your mother?" Jeannie asked.
Jeannie was my roommate, my best friend, and my lover. We'd met volunteering at the GLBT Resource Center on campus and had just clicked right away. A month after meeting, we'd moved in with each other.
"I don't know. Since my Dad died, she's just fallen apart. I got an Email from a friend of hers. It sounds like she's drinking herself senseless every day. I'm really worried."
My father had died about three months before. He'd had his first heart attack when I was in 7th grade. This spring, during my junior year of college, he'd had a massive heart attack and died. My parents had been high school sweet-hearts and married right after graduation. At 45 years old, after 28 years of living with my father, my mother was, for the first time in her life, alone.
"Well, maybe she'll perk up with you around this summer." Jeannie said as she coyly tried to tickle me.
I wasn't real happy. Jeannie was spending the summer doing some venture capital thing in Africa, and I was not looking forward to being alone with a parent in melt-down for three months. The more I considered it, the more I was dreading my summer.
When I got home things were worse than I had thought possible. My mother had always been the world's neatest housekeeper. There was at least two weeks worth of dishes in the sink. Empty takeout containers were overflowing the trash. Everywhere I looked, there were empty vodka bottles. Resolutely, I set out to straighten things up.
I spent the next week cleaning the house and putting it in some semblance of order. My mother would get home from work and I would try to be cheerful, and help her see that she had a lot of great things going on. I tried to talk about my nephews and nieces, and how great they were. I tried to point out to her that she was still a young woman with a lot of life left. It seemed like no matter what I tried, within an hour of getting home, she had a bottle of vodka open and was drinking herself into unconsciousness.
After a week of cleaning, I had the house pretty much back in order. The one thing that I didn't have back in order was my mother. Things were really starting to worry me. Not only was her behavior a concern, but her sorrow was affecting my own grief for my father. To make matters even worse, I had found a problem in the entrance applications for medical school. On the entrance application, question 34 of Section C said:
Have you or any member of your immediate family (parents or siblings) ever been involuntarily entered into a treatment facility for substance abuse? (If yes, please explain).
Fuck! Not only was her drinking screwing up her life, now it looked like it was going to screw with mine! Damn it! One thing my father constantly drilled into me is that if no one else will take charge of a situation, and you're not happy about it, then you should be the one to take command. I was going to have to take charge. Shit! The one thing that I knew would make my job easier was that I knew my mother could be dominated.
I was 18. My parents were on a business trip to Milwaukee. They had left me alone in the house and my girlfriend Lisa was there. We had anxiously been looking forward to a whole weekend that we could spend along making love and being with each other. After one particular strenuous (and vocal) session, Lisa asked if my parents had any sex toys we could play with.
I didn't know, so off we trooped, down the hall, naked and giggling. As we rummaged through my parents closet, we found a black leather suitcase I had never seen before. When I went to move it out of the way, I realized it was full. On a hunch, I opened it up and looked inside. I realized we had found what we were looking for. Quickly we took the case and laid it out on my parent's bed. The contents were amazing. Inside the case we discovered a leather paddle, with one smooth side, and one fur covered side. There was a riding crop with a black leather handle, and a leather tip. There were all kinds of restraints, and hand cuffs as well. A side pocket contained a selection of lubricants while another pocket contained a huge assortment of vibrators. When we opened another compartment, there were two items in it. A strap-on harness with a large dildo, and a worn, stained shoe box held shut with rubber bands.
While Lisa was admiring the strap-on, I opened the box. Inside the box were hundreds of photos of my mother and father. In most of them, my mother was bound in some manner, and she was either sucking on my dad's cock, or he was fucking her. In many of them, he was fucking her in the ass. From the redness of her ass in these, and the location of the paddle in the foreground of the pictures, it was clear she had been spanked. I was amazed at the size of my dad's penis. It had to be at least 10 inches long, and 3 inches in diameter. As I was going through the pictures, I sensed Lisa over my shoulder.
"Holy Shit!" she exclaimed "Look at that! Man, she looks like he's fucked her senseless!"