During a short business trip I was able to schedule a short visit with my mother shortly before the Christmas Holidays. Since my younger sister had finished college and moved out of the house I guess my mom had been a bit lonely. She'd been divorced for a number of years but with the nest suddenly empty I guess she was "feeling" the quiet around her. I guess that was why she was so happy to see me.
The first couple of days there I was still working some overtime so I really didn't see her much, just a few minutes at breakfast and then for a short time before heading to bed. We had plans to go see a movie, or perhaps just slip a DVD into the player but with my work schedule that was impossible. Finally, on the second to last morning before I headed back home I was able to break away from work for the day.
I awoke early that morning and while my mother was still sleeping I slipped through her room and into the bathroom where I started up the shower, pulled off my shorts and underwear and stepped into the warm water. Though I planned only to take a quick shower, the water soon heated up and I could feel myself relaxing beneath the steaming stream of water.
Letting the water patter on my shoulders and run down my back I closed my eyes and slowly melted. It must have been a good fifteen minutes later that I finally turned off the water, reached for a towel and began drying off. I was almost dry when I stepped out of the shower and found myself looking over at my mother. She was standing by the toilet, neatly wrapped in her own towel.
"I was just about to join you when you turned the water off," she said, smiling.
I chuckled a bit, wrapping my towel about my waist, figuring she was joking. When her towel suddenly fell to the floor I wasn't sure what to think. It had been some time since I had accidentally seen my mother naked but now, I couldn't help but stare. I remembered how my friends would always tell me my mom was the hottest of all the parents. I'd scoff at them but deep inside I couldn't help but agree, and now, even at her age of what, maybe fifty or so, she still looked good.
"I don't think we..."
"We what?" she asked.
"I don't think we should do this," I replied.