Just another quiet neighborhood in a sleepy little town circa 1978, but what went on behind some of those closed doors in Utica, New York was anything but mundane.
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"Now I don't have to remind you about watching your manners, do I Billy?" the boy's mother asked the lad sitting in the passenger seat of their rusting 1967 Mercury Comet, one of the many nearly worthless things the man of their house left behind when he took off a few years back.
"Ma!" whined the eighteen year old young man who would always be a boy in Mommy's eyes, as witnessed by the button down shirt and shiny shoes he was told to wear by his mother.
"I know," Patty Morin replied. "I just want you to remember that the way you talk to me when we're having our special times - well, let's just wait until everything sinks in to Aunt Carla - that the things I've told her about us are true before we get started with the naughty talk we like so much. Okay?"
"Okay," Billy agreed as he looked up the driveway at the house of his mother's friend Carla Rossi, a divorced lady who was like family to them both even though she wasn't really his aunt, the title merely ceremonial in a way.
"You don't look excited Billy."
"I am Mom. I'm really excited. I'm just scared."
"You aren't going to chicken out on me are you honey?" his mother complained. "After all, this was your idea. You picked her, right?"
"Yeah but..."
"I asked you - which one of my friends would you most like to fuck, and you said Mrs. Rossi right away," she reminded her boy.
"I know."
"I had to do something honey," Patty said as she reached over and squeezed the lump in Billy's slacks, giggling as she added, "You've been wearing your Mommy out this summer."
"Sorry," Billy grinned as the hand found the target and kneaded it lovingly.
"I'm not. You're just what your mother needed," Mrs. Morin said. "I only wish I knew what an incredible man was living under my roof all this time. Ready to go in?"
"I guess so," Billy said as he reached to open the car door.
"It will be great Billy. Just think about Mrs. Rossi," she suggested regarding her plump and voluptuous friend. "You told me how much you've always wanted to see those breasts of hers."
"Yeah," Billy nodded.
"It will be a real treat for you to see a real woman's breasts after months of seeing my droopy ones."
"Mom, I love your breasts and I love you," Billy protested.
"Thank you honey. Now make me proud," Mrs. Morin said as they exited the car and went up to the modest bungalow that fifty year old Carla Rossi called home.
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"Patty," Carla Rossi said as she greeted her dearest friend with a hug, and although she was smiling like always Patty Morin knew it was forced, an indication that Carla was just as scared as her son was about this meeting.
"And Billy," Carla said as her friend's son entered the house, offering the same nervous smile his mother got. "Looking so handsome like always."
"Hi Mrs. Rossi."
"And look at you!" Patty Morin gushed as she looked over her friend's smart looking summer dress, the bright colors a change for the woman who usually dressed in more quiet garb. "New dress I see. Dressing up for the occasion?"
"Patty..." Carla Rossi scolded. "It's just something I picked up on sale. Didn't realize it would be so..."
"Revealing?" her friend said in finishing her sentence. "It's about time you showed off your assets instead of dressing like you're in a Gulag. Do you like Carla's dress Billy?"
"Yeah," Billy said eagerly, his eyes focused on the scoop neck of the dress and the vast expanse of copper-toned cleavage it revealed. "It's really pretty."
"Come on in the kitchen. I made us some iced tea," Carla said in changing the subject from herself by leading the two guests into the kitchen, and after pouring them beverages sat down herself.
"You weren't sure we were really coming were you Carla?" Patty asked her friend who still had a bit of a deer-in-the-headlights look about her. "After I told you what I told you about me and Billy you probably thought I was lying."
"Lying? That's a strong word Patty," Carla countered. "Kidding would be a better term. After all, you do have a weird sense of humor sometimes, and this all seems so..."
"Kinky?" Patty interjected.
"Well..."
"I can't defend what we do, but I don't apologize either," Patty told her friend. "After that jerk-who-will-remain-nameless took off on me, I spent a lot of lonely nights and went on a few shitty dates with losers. If it wasn't for you I would have gone crazy. Then all of a sudden I discovered that my little boy was all grown up."
"He's a wonderful boy," Carla offered, making Billy blush.
"Remember that night of the Prom?" Patty asked her son, who nodded glumly at the memory. "He looked so cute in that tuxedo and he was so happy that he was able to get a date - even if it was with that silly horse-faced little bitch."
"Mom..."
"Sorry honey, I just get mad when somebody hurts my one and only," Mrs. Morin apologized. "She was lucky you asked her out at all and then she does that?"
"What was it she did?" Carla asked. "You said she upset Billy. Did she dance with other fellas at the dance?"
"No, it was much worse. I guess a friend of Billy's drove them to that make-out place down at the canal. Lock 20 park? Billy's friend had a blanket and took his girlfriend out into the woods and Billy and that little pig were in the back seat making out."
"Sounds nice so far."
"Billy was getting all excited and I guess she was too, right honey?"
"I guess so. Thought so," Billy mumbled.