It had been a long and bad day. Lisa was thoroughly frustrated, and knew there was only one thing that would make her feel better. As luck would have it, she caught almost every green light on her way home. As she turned down the road that led to her house, she was grateful that her house was not on a main road as she started unbuttoning her blouse. By the time she pulled into her driveway, her blouse was totally unbuttoned and her bra would have been clearly visible to anyone who might have seen her, but again, since they lived away from the main road and had no neighbors close enough to see her, she didn't care. She nearly dropped her keys as she activated the car alarm and switched to the house keys.
She stepped inside the house to see her son Kevin sitting on the couch watching TV, he looked up a bit surprised to see her with her shirt open. She let her hair down, pulled her blouse off and tossed it to the floor, and her bra immediately followed.
"I've had a really bad fucking day," she said, kicking off the sneakers that she wore in place of her heels for her drive home, "Get those shorts off."
Kevin quickly shed his shorts as Lisa reached behind her, unzipped her skirt and let it fall to the floor, quickly followed by her panties. She dropped to her knees in front of her son and wrapped her lips around his rapidly hardening cock.
Kevin and his mother Lisa had been on their own for seven years now. Lisa's husband, Aaron had passed away when Kevin was 15 after being diagnosed with cancer. He had an inoperable tumor and passed away a couple of months after the initial diagnosis. Obviously mother and son were distraught at the loss of their husband and father. They went to therapy to learn how to properly process their grief and slowly but surely move on with their lives. They also had help from both Lisa and Aaron's parents.
Not too long after Aaron's passing, Lisa's parents came to visit to see how she was doing and Kevin's grandfather pulled him aside.
"Kevin, I know you're only 15, but you're the man of the house now," his grandfather told him, "Your mother needs you now more than ever. I need you to be strong for her, can you do that?"
"I'll try," Kevin said.
He started helping around the house a lot more, spending more time with his mother and just generally doing whatever he could do to cheer her up. He even offered to get a part time job to help out with the finances, but Lisa told him that between the life insurance payout and her job there was enough money to support the both of them and that he should concentrate on his education. However once he graduated high school he got a part time summer job, and when he started college in the fall, he went to the local community college to stay close to home.
Lisa for her part, once she had moved past the initial stages of grief, noted how much more attentive Kevin was and realized how selfish she'd been with her feelings. She'd been so wrapped up in her own sorrow, she didn't realize that Kevin missed his father as much as she did. It was the first time he had to deal with the death of someone close to him and she'd only been thinking of herself. Once she realized how self centered she'd been, she returned her son's attention. She tried her best to be as strong for Kevin as he was for her.
"Mom, have you ever thought about getting remarried?" Kevin, now 22, asked her one night during dinner.
Lisa gave her son a puzzled look, "What brought this on?"
"I dunno," Kevin said, "I just know how lonely you've been, and I wondered if... you know, you were interested in maybe finding someone new."
"I don't know honey," she said, "I don't think I can. When I met your father there was an immediate spark. The second I met him, I knew he was the one. We only dated for a year before we got married and the 18 years I spent with him were the best years of my life, especially after you came along. I don't know if I'm willing or even able to build up the same relationship with a new man that I had with your father."
"I just hate seeing you unhappy." he said.
"Who said I'm unhappy?" Lisa asked her son, "I've still got you, that makes me happy."
"Yeah, but I'm not gonna be here forever mom," Kevin said, "I eventually want to move out on my own."
"I know," she said, "But even when you do, I still don't know if I'd want to date again. Like I said, I spent 18 wonderful years with your father, and I wouldn't trade a single day for anything. But that's the thing. I spent 18 years getting to know everything about him, sharing my life with him, loving him, trusting him, and having a child with him. I don't know if I'm ready to start building that all over again with someone new. Plus I'm no spring chicken, I'm 48 years old."
"So?" Kevin asked, "You're a good looking 48 year old."
"That's sweet, but I'm past my sell by date." Lisa said, with a humorless laugh.
"Bullshit."
"Kevin!"
"Sorry mom, but that's not true." Kevin said, "You know my friend Jay? His mother got remarried just last year and she's only a couple years younger than you. And you don't look 48. Most women would kill to look as good as you do at your age."
It was true, Lisa looked more like she was in her late 20's - early 30's, and many people thought she was. Even people who knew how old she was couldn't believe how good she looked for her age. She didn't do anything special, she just had good genes. Kevin always knew his mother was good looking, but as he grew older he started thinking of her as gorgeous and sexy instead of just good looking.
"Look honey, I appreciate your concern, but I'll be fine." Lisa said.
Kevin dropped the subject, and the rest of the night passed without incident. Later that night Kevin woke up with a full bladder and rolled out of bed to use the bathroom. As he finished up he heard noises coming from his mother's room which was right next door to his. He quietly moved down the hall and listened outside her door for a minute. After a moment he could tell she was crying, and he knew it must have been the uncomfortable dinner time conversation. He felt bad and knocked on the door.
"Mom?"
He could hear her try to collect herself before she answered.
"What is it honey?" she asked.
"Is everything okay?" he asked.
"Yes, no... I don't know." she said.
"Can I come in?"
"Yeah, baby, come on in." she said, collecting herself as best she could.
He opened the door and stepped inside, Lisa was sitting up in bed, dabbing at her eyes with a tissue. He sat on the edge of the bed, and saw that she had been looking through one of her photo albums. Specifically it was open to pictures of her and Aaron's wedding.
"I'm sorry mom," Kevin said, "I didn't mean to bring up bad memories."
"They're not bad memories," she said, sniffling, "They're good memories. Like I said earlier, I wouldn't trade any of the time I spent with your father for anything. The good times we had outweigh the bad times, it's just that even after all this time it really hurts knowing he's gone. Sometimes I hear something or think of something funny that I know your father would appreciate before remembering he's not here. Some days it hurts more than others. This is one of those days."
"Yeah," Kevin said, "I get that too. I'll hear a joke and think 'Dad would appreciate this', and then a second later it hits me, and I feel the same way. Like it's only been a few days and not seven years."
"I don't know why I torture myself like this," Lisa said, closing the photo album, "Once a year, on our wedding anniversary I pull out the photo albums and look back on the time your father and I had together, and I end up a blubbering mess."
"I thought it was just me," Kevin said. "I like to pull out my baby pictures sometimes and see how happy he was, how happy you both were."
"I remember people always used to say how much you looked like him, and your father's reaction was 'Well I hope so!', before jokingly looking at me with a suspicious look on his face." Lisa said, laughing a bit. "You do look a lot like him when he was your age."
It was true, Kevin was almost the spitting image of his father. Especially when they were in their teens. If you held a picture of a teenage Aaron next to a picture of a teenage Kevin, you would swear they were brothers.
"He always used to say he was never sure which was the happiest day of his life, the day he married me, or the day you were born." Lisa said, opening the album again, this time to pictures of Lisa and Aaron with baby Kevin. "But he also said he wouldn't trade either one of those days for anything because he couldn't imagine his life without either of us. I felt the same way, but somehow you and I have managed for the last seven years. Honestly, if I didn't have you I don't think I would have been able to hold myself together, no matter how much therapy or help from your grandparents I had."
Kevin hugged his mother, "Same here. The therapy helped, but what really helped was knowing I still had you. I'm glad we were here for each other."
Lisa hugged Kevin back, "Me too."