Magnus and His Family (Chapter 7)
Kathryn M. Burke
Curt moved into Imogen and Paul's apartment in mid-October, about two weeks after his first encounter with Paul's mom. In the interim he had met with Imogen twice more, and both of them were so taken with each other that Imogen had made the offer of cohabitation eagerly and enthusiastically. Curt agreed with humility and excitement.
There wasn't another bedroom for him, but there was no need of it. By mutual and unspoken consent, it was agreed that each man would occupy Imogen's bedroom on alternate nights, and the arrangement quickly became thoroughly satisfactory for everyone. And it didn't take long for Imogen to learn a lot more about her new friend and bedmate.
After some vigorous copulation (both vaginal and anal) that had resulted in a pair of orgasms for both of them, Imogen lay on her back, and Curt rested his head on her breastsâsomething that Imogen sensed was deeply important to the young man, as he kissed and licked and kneaded those large, firm globes in an act that came close to worship. As she stroked the back of his head, she said casually:
"So your family's down in Virginia?"
She felt a stiffening in Curt's whole body. That reaction dismayed her, but she felt she needed to get to the bottom of what was tormenting this otherwise healthy specimen of young masculinity.
"My dad is," he mumbled as he sucked on a nipple.
Are his parents divorced? That would be a shame.
"Andâand your mom?" she said in a trembling voice.
Curt's right hand, which was gripping her left breast, tightened on it almost painfully. It took him a long time to reply: "She's . . . not around."
"Your parents split up?" Imogen whispered.
Curt turned his face up to his newfound love. "Sheâshe died three years ago." And he buried his face in Imogen's breasts and began to cry softly.
"Omigod, I'm so sorry!" Imogen saidâand shed a tear or two of her own.
She let Curt express his grief for quite a while, doing nothing but making herself available to him as a haven of sympathy and security. He did seem to find some comfort in her bosom, even if it saddened her to feel the wetness of his tears bedewing them.
"Would you like to talk about it?" Imogen said at last.
"There's not much to say," Curt mumbled, his lips still full of breast.
"What was she like?" she pursued.
"She was real pretty," Curt said. "But so much more than thatâkind, sweet, super-smart, just an all-around good person."
"I'm sure she must have been. Whatâwhat happened exactly?"
"Brain tumor," Curt said bluntly. "It was all over so fastâshe was dead just a few months after the diagnosis."
"Oh, how awful!" Imogen said, holding Curt even more tightly. "How did your dad take it?"
Curt sighed wearily. "He's never been the same since. It's likeâlike he's living with her ghost. He has this spooked expression on his face all the time."
"Oh, poor man! So . . . he hasn't made any effort toâ?"
"To what?" Curt said, although he had a suspicion of what Imogen was going to say.
"You know . . . find someone else?"
"No way, man! She was the love of his life."
"Oh, but Curt, I don't think your mom would have wanted him to be alone the rest of his life! He must have a lot of years left."
"I keep trying to tell him that. But he won't listen."
Curt lapsed into a sort of mulish silence, and Imogen got the impression that he didn't want to talk about this subject anymore. And why would he? He gave out a hint that he wanted to do sixty-nineâsomething that Imogen really hadn't liked before with Magnus, but which she became more and more fond of with both Paul and Curt. For Curt, it provided a welcome distraction from his family troubles: the focus on Imogen's delicious sex, while she was orally stimulating his own, put everything else out of his mind.
As the weeks passed, Imogen's feelings toward Curt really began to deepen. Of course, Paul would always be first in her book (putting all thought of her ex-husband aside), but Curt showed himself to be a warm, kind, sensitive young man, very different from the seemingly rugged athlete he was on the field. In fact, there were times when he seemed a little too gentle, and she once brought this up during a pause in their lovemaking.
"Curt," she said, after he'd filled her pussy with his come, "you could be a little more . . . forceful."
He gave her a look that bordered on alarm. "I don't want to hurt you, ma'am."
"I'm pretty sure I can take whatever you dish out, my dear."
That little endearment made him flush. "Well, you know how it is. Not knowing my own strength and all. I'm a pretty big guy."
"Curt, women aren't quite as fragile as you seem to think."
That made Curt admit something he hadn't even told Paulâthat the fact of his own size and strength had been a large part of the reason why he hadn't had any girlfriends before. He was in terror of causing physical harm or injury to a girl, in spite of his own good intentions.
"Oh, Curt, you dear, dear boy, that's so sweet of you!" Imogen exclaimed. "But really, you're worrying about nothing. I'm a pretty tough gal when it comes to that sort of thing."
"Maybe," he said broodingly, almost to himself, "I was also worried about . . . being hurt myself."
Imogen immediately knew what he was talking about. "You meanâemotionally?"
"Yeah," he admitted.
"Oh, Curt, that's just a part of life!" She let him resume his now standard positionâhis head on her bosomâand held him tight. "Sometimes you like someone and they don't like you back; sometimes they like you and you don't like them back. You just gotta go through things like that, until you find your match."
"Maybe I have," he mumbled between her breasts.
Imogen pretended not to hear that. The remark troubled her. She had no sense that she was anything like Curt's mom, but she continued to encourage both of her lovers to find suitable girls of their own age.
*
Alternating between Curt and Paul seemed to work pretty well for Imogen, and for the boys. But there was a time, one Saturday night, when the guys consulted with each other and then marched quietly into Imogen's bedroomânaked.
She had expected only Paul to show up, and she wasn't even sure that any intimacy was going to be involved. After all, they had just participated in a rugged game (the team had won, but just barely), and both of them must have been tired.
As she gazed upon these two splendid specimens of young manhood, their members rapidly swelling, she said, "What's the deal, boys?"
Paul had the good grace to look a little sheepish. "We just wondered, um, if you'd like toâyou know . . ."
"No, I don't know," she snapped. She really did, and she sensed that this moment would come; but she was determined to have the guys lay it out explicitly.
"Oh, Mom, you know what I'm trying to say. We were hoping you'd likeâboth of us."
She looked sharply at her men. "It would have been nice if you'd have consulted me ahead of time."