Jerry was excited to be home for a visit. He hadn't seen his mother since leaving for college in the fall β the longest they'd been apart since Jerry became the "man of the house" when his father left them. That was years ago, though. He was legally an adult now and his freshman year was behind him. It would be a little weird sleeping in his childhood bed again.
Leslie didn't know that her only child was coming home. She'd missed him terribly, but truth be told their little condo was a bit small for two grown people. Turning Jerry's bedroom into a workout studio gave her some much needed room to stretch out, literally. With the floor to ceiling mirror and the wall to wall mat, Leslie had all the room she needed for the yoga that kept her so fit. Dedicated practice and a strict diet left the single mother looking a decade younger than her 40 years.
Living alone, the niceties fall away one by one. Why bother setting the table for one, or closing the bathroom door, for example? Now that Leslie could work out at home, yoga pants just meant more laundry. A t-shirt and panties worked just fine, and sometimes she didn't even bother with those.
"Mom?" Jerry said, and he stepped through the front door. "You home?" He heard the corny new age music his mother loved trickling down the stairs like β well, like the babbling brook on the cover of his mom's new age CD. He swore she was the last person on the planet who owned a CD player, but she refused to get rid of it. "I like what I like," she'd say. "It's nobody else's business."
He set down his bag and sneaked up the stairs. The music blared through the open door of his bedroom. "Mom, what are you doing in myβ." Jerry froze in the doorway. His mother faced away from him, forearms on the floor, weight resting on one knee while the other leg extended behind her. Sweat glistened on her trembling limbs, her round butt quivering against her sweaty red thong. "What the fuck, Mom? Put on some clothes," he shouted over the music.
Leslie screamed and fell out of her pose. "Jerry! You scared the heck out of me!"
"What did you do to my room?"
"Isn't it fantastic?" Leslie said.
"No, where's all my stuff? It smells like ass and vanilla in here," Jerry said.
"That's my candle."
"You bought an ass candle?"
"No, the vanilla," she laughed. "Don't tease your Mommy. Give me a hug."