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All characters portrayed are over the age of 18. There are no underage characters in this story.
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Mother and son's innocent sleeping turns to something more than just cuddling and spooning.
"Mom?" Charlie looked at his mother with concern. Lost in thought on Christmas Eve, seemingly she looked so sad when she should have been so happy. "What's wrong?"
Ready to repeat his question when she didn't answer him, he stared at her while wondering what the matter was.
"Wrong? There's nothing wrong," said Susan forcing her son a sad smile.
Looking so miserably, obviously, she was lying. Obviously, there was something wrong.
"Suddenly you look so sad," said Charlie.
In the glow of the fireplace and basking in the soft glistening of the Christmas tree, looking so much like an airbrushed model in the soft lighting of a Hollywood studio, she was so beautiful. She was so sexy. She was so shapely. He wished she wasn't his mother but his lover.
Reminding him of Gillian Darmody played by Gretchen Mol in Boardwalk Empire, he didn't understand why someone who looked like her was alone. He didn't understand why someone who looked like her didn't have a steady boyfriend. If she wasn't his mother, he'd date her. For sure, if she wasn't his mother, he'd do her. Too bad that she was his mother, he could only imagine what it would be like to have sex with someone who looked like her.
"I do?" She sighed before giving him another sad smile. "Sorry, I was just thinking about past Christmases."
Now knowing what she was thinking about, he needed to acknowledge the elephant in the room to eradicate it.
"You were thinking about Dad again, weren't you?"
He wished she'd think of him in the way that she always thinks of his father.
"Yes," she said obviously trying to look happy instead of sad by giving him a little smile.
Her little smile wasn't fooling him one bit. He could see that she was hurting. At a time when she was the most vulnerable, he hoped that she'd consume enough wine for him to take sexual advantage of her, if only an inadvertent up skirt of her panties or a down blouse of her bra, he needed something to masturbate over later.
"C'mon, it's Christmas Eve. Cheer up. You should be happy and not sad," he said. "I won't allow the memory of my father to spoil our fun and ruin another holiday."
With her wearing one of his favorite short skirts, caught by the chair as if the chair was complicit in her flashing him and with her skirt raised higher than the middle of her thigh when she was seated, she was showing him a lot of shapely leg. He loved his mother's legs. Moreover, she wasn't wearing pantyhose, just panties. He could only imagine what it would feel like to run his hands up her short skirt while feeling her lovely legs. He wondered, if they were both drunk enough, if his mother would allow him to feel her legs from her shapely ankles all the way up to her sexy hips.
In the way that she was so comfortable around him and with him always looking to see what he shouldn't see of her, fortunately for him, she routinely albeit inadvertently flashed him up skirts and down blouses. Not the kind of son who was interested in having incestuous sex with his mother, what inspired him to think inappropriate, sexual thoughts about his mother is when his father, a real pig, left her for good for a woman half her age. Leaving him alone with her, he now had more opportunities to ogle his mother in all manners of undress. Exasperating the problem was when his girlfriend broke up with him. Horny now, with no other woman in his life but his MILF of a mother, his sexual thoughts turned more to her, especially whenever he needed fodder for masturbation.
"Sorry, I guess I am a little sad," she admitted taking a breath while staring in the fire and before returning her focus to him. "Even long ago, before we were married, I used to celebrate Christmas Eve with your father. The time when we exchanged gifts, Christmas Eve was our special evening to ourselves before we celebrated Christmas with the rest of our families," she confided in him as if he was her priest or her psychiatrist instead of her son. "I miss him," she said looking up at her son with sad eyes. She wrapped her hands around her wine glass as if it was a warm coffee mug and she was cold. "Don't you miss your father Charlie?"
If this woman was any woman other than his mother, making his move, this was the time that he'd take her in his arms to hold her, hug her, and comfort her before kissing her.
"Miss him? No, I don't miss my father," said Charlie looking down at the carpet while shaking his head. "I'm glad he's gone."
No doubt happy to have his mother all to himself, he was glad that the big rooster was evicted from the henhouse and the proud peacock was still here with her.
"You didn't know him in the way that I did Charlie. To you, he was just your father. To me, he was my friend, my lover, my husband, my companion, and my life," she said looking as if she was about to cry. "He was a wonderful man back then when I first met him, before he started drinking and cheating on me," she said. "Sometimes I wonder if it was all my fault."
"I don't know how you can blame yourself for Dad's drinking and infidelity being that he was an adult and the one in control of his own life," said Charlie acting like the adult by accepting his role as the head of the household.
"Actually it's comforting to hear you say that when my only sounding board left me for another woman," she said, "a younger woman at that. Not very good for my ego and self-confidence, there was no way that I could compete with a woman fifteen years my junior."
"Well I'm here for you now mother," said Charlie. "I'm not going anywhere, that is, unless there's a choir of Playboy Bunnies singing Christmas carols out our front door and asking me to join them," he said with a laugh.
"Yes you are here for me now and I wouldn't hold you back from joining the choir of Playboy Bunnies," she said beaming. "Alas, even though I still have you with me now," she reached out her hand to squeeze his knee, "I won't have you for long when some woman makes you her man," she said pausing before speaking again as if talking to herself. "Christmas isn't the same without your father in my life and without a man in my bed, but you're my man now," she said smiling widely.
He's her man now? He wondered what she meant by that remark. He couldn't help but imagine being in bed with his mother. He couldn't help but imagine himself being in bed naked with his mother. He couldn't help but imagine his mother naked and in bed with him. He couldn't help but imagine having sex with his mother. Not knowing what else to say to comfort her, unable to shake the incestuous feelings he had, if she was any other woman than his mother, wishing he could, he would have taken this as his cue to kiss her. Instead, he looked at his mother while sipping his wine before getting angry by what she said about missing his father.
He remembered all the fighting and the arguing. A continuation of the same argument every damn day, they argued in the morning before his father went to work and again that evening when he came home from work. Weekends were a blessing as his father was never around. Hunting, fishing, bowling, and golfing, so he said, with Charlie away at college, invitations to go places with his father were never extended. For sure, no doubt the reason why he takes her side, spending more alone time with her, he was much closer to his mother than he ever was with his father.
"Honestly mother, I don't know how you can miss the man. He was a bastard for taking up with that young whore from his office and leaving you for her," said Charlie. "He's nothing more than a pig for taking up with a woman nearly my age."
She looked at him acknowledging what he said about his father with some insight.
"I know and you're right. For him to treat me like that, after all these years, was wrong," she said with sadness.
He looked at her wondering why she was here with him instead of attending some Christmas party at a nightclub. Imagining dancing with her and having a good time, he was tempted to ask her out on a night on the town. Only until he found a good paying job, he didn't have any money to go anywhere and to do anything.
"You need to go out more Mother. You need to meet someone. You need to forget about him and move on with your life," he said pausing while looking to see what reaction his words had on her.
"I know you're right Charlie but sometimes, especially when I'm feeling sad and lonely, my head and my heart go in opposite directions. "Too preoccupied thinking about him, where he is and what he's doing, I'm not ready to have a relationship with another man, not just yet," she said slowly shaking her head while looking out the window to watch the snow silently fall. "At least we're going to have a white Christmas," she said changing the subject with a smile.