Inspired by A Shamed Son
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What a way for a forty year old man to spend a Saturday afternoon, I thought. There I was, sitting at one end of the couch, my Mother at the opposite end, and a pile of playing cards in between us.
'Gin', she announced in a triumphant manner. Then Mother picked up the cards and began the shuffle that indicated the game was to continue.
Saturday afternoons had been this way for about as long as I could remember. Saturday evenings weren't much better either. I'd cook dinner, which we'd eat in silence accompanied by a bottle of wine. Then it would be some TV or reading, and to bed by eleven thirty at the latest. While the world's other men of my age and younger were out having a good time, I felt locked away in here like a prisoner. I can't even remember the last time I was intimate with a woman. Well, to be honest, the even sadder thing is that I can remember it to the very day; May 5 1997. It wasn't that she was that memorable, in fact she was an ugly old whore. It's just that my experiences are so few and far between that I tend to note them down for posterity.
You see, I am, and always have been, awkward around women. I blame Mother for that. I was twelve before I found out that my twenty seven year old sister was, in fact, my Mother. She took me in when the person who I had thought was my mother, my Grandmother, died of a heart attack. It took me a long time to get used to calling her Mother, but she insisted that I did and would beat me on those occasions when I forgot, and referred to her by name. Mother had a deep distrust of people in general, and the opposite sex in particular, which she instilled in me during those early years. Even now, whenever I talk to a woman, I find my face heating up to a bright red. So it's hardly surprising that my conquests are rare.
And so, apart from my excursions to work, Mother and I are tucked away here in our little house, ten miles from town and three from our nearest neighbour. Reclusive from the outside world and miserable in each others company. Mind you, Mother is worse than me, she won't even go past the garden gate without me to accompany her, and will not even talk to the mailman if I'm not here. But I am trapped here as much as she is. Without my salary to provide her with a place to live and food to eat, I don't know what she'd do. In fact, it was this notion of my own indispensability, and a remark I overheard by two guys at work, that first gave me the germ of the idea.
I had been sitting at my desk in work, two weeks earlier, when I eavesdropped a conversation between two of my younger colleagues who were discussing sex. One of them said he could get his hands on some of the pills at the weekend. The other asked if they really worked as well as he had heard. The first guy said you just dropped it in the girl's drink, apparently alcohol was better but not essential, and she went out like a light. Her eyes would be open, but her mind wouldn't be able to distinguish reality from dream. You could do what the hell you liked to her, and the next day she wouldn't know whether it really happened or whether it had all been her imagination. And if she was convinced that her experiences were real, you could tell her that she had been a drunken, yet willing, participant. It was a cinch. The second guy was still not entirely sure and asked if it would work on anyone. Just don't give it to your mother was the reply, not unless you want to be called Oedipus.
It was that off the cuff remark that kept on nagging me the rest of the day. When I got home, I looked at Mother the way a man would eye up a woman in a bar. Mother was still very attractive. She was about five four and skinny as a rake, which only served to make her boobs look full and round. Her black hair was without a trace of grey and was shoulder length. Her skin was as white and translucent as fine porcelain and did not sag anywhere that I could see. In short, she looked a lot younger than she was and eminently desirable.
I had tried to make a pass at Mother once before, but my nerve failed me. Now, with the news of this knock out pill, and the fact that I was more desperate than the last time, I was determined to go through with it. I mean, what could she do even if she did realise what had happened? If she went to the authorities and I was put away, then the house would be repossessed, and Mother would be homeless. Neither one of us had a relative anywhere in the world, or even a friend to whom she could turn. It looked to me like it was a failsafe idea.
The next week, I approached the guy in work and told him that I'd like to buy one of his pills. He told me that they didn't come cheap, but, if he'd known how strong my lust was, he would have realised that I'd have paid a lot more than he asked. He told me that they take about twenty seconds to dissolve completely in liquid, or they could be crushed up and sprinkled over food. Either way there was no taste, and the effects lasted for about six to eight hours. He advised that if the victim woke up and accused me of any impropriety, then I just had to stick to my story of he or she being a willing participant. I didn't care about that too much, because as I've said, Mother would have no alternative but to let her complaint drop.
So, now I sat looking at her at the opposite end of the couch, as she scrutinised her cards. Every time Mother turned to pick one up from the deck in between us, her knees would part slightly and cause the hem of her knee length skirt to ride up a little. She would normally adjust herself whenever it rode more than an inch higher than it should, but now, with the excitement of her last win, Mother's skirt was mid thigh and rising. I stared intently at her nylon covered legs, and longed to just run my hands all over them. It was not a tight skirt, and there was a tantalising gap at the side made by some loose folds that I could easily have hooked a finger into to touch her leg, had I been sitting nearer. I realised that she had been calling me to take my turn for a few seconds and came back to my senses. Mother, realising where her son's eyes were focused, looked down at the expanse of flesh below her skirt and quickly re-arranged it to its proper length. No matter, I thought, I'd be seeing a lot more of Mother tonight.
At around four thirty, I made my opening move. I wanted Mother to be dressed up for my seduction, so I suggested that we have dinner at the best restaurant in town. I knew that I'd have to beat Mother's fear of crowds, so I countered her negative remarks with the fact that the restaurant would be quiet if we got there before eight, and besides, we deserved a good night out on the town. Mother's reluctance was on the wane but she had one more card up her sleeve, and said that she couldn't possibly go as she had nothing to wear. She said all of her cocktail dresses were at least twenty years old.
This was my chance to dress Mother how I wanted, so I took hold of her hand and pulled her up the stairs, announcing that I was sure I'd be able to find something suitable. She stood next to me as I opened the door to her wardrobe. As I racked through the clothes, I made a mental note of the things I'd like to see her in if my plans for the future came off. At last, I came to a dress that almost made me cream just looking at it. It was a black halter neck with a cheeky, low fastening back, falling tight over the hips and ending about an inch above the knee. I pulled it out on its hanger to show to Mother. She balked at the idea of wearing it, especially as she knew that it would be impossible to wear a bra with that bare back, but I told her that I would not take no for an answer and that I would go and make reservations straight away.
I shouted up to Mother that we had a table booked for eight and that if we got there for seven fifteen, we could have a couple of cocktails first. Well, I'd only be having one, not only because I was driving, but also because I didn't want to have an alcohol induced limp dick tonight of all nights.
I showered and shaved at around six thirty and by seven I was back in the living room, dressed in a tuxedo, awaiting Mother's entrance. I called up for her to get a move on and Mother shouted that she'd be right down. I checked my inside pocket to confirm that the little white pill was still there; it was. Almost immediately, I heard the distinctive click, click of stiletto heels coming down the wooden staircase. My anticipation had given me a bit of a hard on, and I positioned myself behind a chair so that Mother would not notice. As her footfalls got nearer and nearer, my mouth got drier and drier. Man, I was so excited about what I was about to do that I cursed myself for not doing it sooner. At last I heard Mother crossing the hall towards the living room. This was it, I couldn't wait to set eyes upon my prey.
Her naked left arm was the first thing I saw as she pushed the living room door further open. I tried to look at her bit by bit, the way you might eat a steak from the outside, working your way into the juicy middle, but all at once Mother was right there in front of me, parading herself to the son who was about to seduce her. I was glad that I was hiding my lower half behind a chair, because at that first sight, my dick almost burst my pants. The dress may have been twenty years old, but it still fitted Mother in all the right places. She twirled around without being asked, to reveal a completely bare back right down to her slim waist.