The Matrons of Regal Bay
Chapter 18
Pamela's Tales -- Part 2
Pamela stood beneath the shower spray, the hot water rinsing the soap from her soft body. She was exhausted and exhilarated both at once. As a recent memory flashed through her mind, her naked pussy trembled between her thighs. A warm trickle of recently spilled semen dribbled from her well-fucked vagina and slid down her inner thigh, mingling with the warm water from the shower as it headed for the shower stall drain. She reached down between her thighs and dipped a long finger up inside herself. She swirled her finger within and pulled even more of the seed from her. There was much to remove.
This had been the third time she had secretly met with Freddy Killibrew. Pamela knew she was pushing her luck. It wouldn't be long before she was caught, she knew that. Eventually someone would recognize her, and Freddy. Eventually her husband would figure out she was having an affair. Eventually she would figure out a better way to find her sexual release. Eventually she knew she would have to take the next step, and make her son aware of the fact that she so desperately wanted him.
Pamela left the hotel room soon after, the night darkness offering up some cover. Still, she knew she was being watched. She was a middle-aged woman who had checked into the hotel that afternoon and now, just over six hours later, was checking back out. It wasn't even mid-night yet. The young woman behind the desk gave her a long, knowing look, with a hint of a smile, when she dropped the room key off. "Have a nice night?" she said in the obvious form of a question. Pamela gave the woman a look, and felt recognition there. It frightened her, but also excited her as well.
"Yes, it was nice," Pamela replied sheepishly.
"Good for you, honey," the clerk replied. "He looked like he had had a good time as well." Pamela saw the grin turn into a wide smile. "Maybe next time, I could join you?"
Pamela felt her jaw drop. She was absolutely stunned by the young woman's comment that she couldn't immediately reply, and when she did, she nodded. "He'd probably like that," she said, again very sheepishly. As an after-thought, Pamela added, "Maybe I'd like that, too." Now where the hell did that come from, she asked herself.
"Just give me a call here," the woman replied. She took up one of the hotel's business cards and scribbled on the back. "I work most week nights. This is my cell number," she handed the card across to Pamela. "Just let me know and I'll make sure you get a good discount, okay?" Pamela nodded in response, still in shock. "I'm Ginger by the way," the young woman added.
"Pamela. Pam," she replied.
"Yes, I know. You're Mrs. Walker. I had you for a teacher my sophomore year at Regal Bay High."
Pam was startled, and then she realized why she had recognized the clerk when she had walked up. She left Ginger with an embarrassed smile, and a mind full of questions. Her drive home took what seemed like an eternity, although in real time it was less than ten minutes. She parked her car in the drive and went inside. Johnny, her son, was still awake, sitting in front of the television in nearly the exact place she'd left him. His father, however, had gone to bed.
"Game over?" Pamela asked as she put her coat away.
"Obviously," Johnny replied. "Otherwise Dad would still be up, wouldn't he?"
Pamela had learned to live with her son's sarcastic replies to anything she asked. She took it as part of his growing up. He was 19, a full-time student at Regal Bay University, and still lived at home with his mother and crippled father. At times, he showed quite a bit of resentment, especially when Pamela asked him to watch his father when she went out with friends. Lately, it hadn't been her friends she was spending time with, however.
"Have fun?" Johnny asked as she started towards the kitchen. His tone made her stop in her tracks and look at him.
"Yes, we did. Why do you ask?"
Johnny used the remote to run the volume up a little on the television before looking directly at his mother. "I was just wondering, since you said you were going out with Ursula. Imagine my concern when Ursula called an hour after you left, asking if Freddy was here. Imagine her surprise when I asked her if I could talk to you for a moment, and she had no idea why I thought you were at her house."
Pamela knew it was a risk, using one of her friends as a cover story. Now she had to face up to the jury, she realized. She dropped into one of the sofa chairs and looked at her son.
"I didn't see Ursula tonight," she started.
"Obviously!" Johnny barked. "You were out with some guy, weren't you?"
Pamela was again at a loss for words. She wanted to lie to her son, to tell him it had been an innocent mistake, that she had been out with another friend. Unfortunately, she couldn't think of anything. Her mind didn't work like that, spontaneously. Even as she tried to think through a reply, she felt her head nod.
"Who is he?" Johnny demanded, leaning forward but lowering his voice. "Is it someone you work with? Someone I might know? Someone Dad might know?"
"Johnny, listen, I know I'm wrong here, but it's not what you think. I'm not looking to leave you and your dad. I just need something he can't give me anymore, and it's nothing more than that." Pamela waited for her son to reply. Instead, he shook his head and turned the television off.
"I just wish you had talked with me about this, before you started anything," Johnny told her as he got up from the couch. He picked up the bottle of root beer he'd been drinking and started to walk away. "You might have been surprised. Maybe I would have understood. Maybe I could have given you some advice. Maybe I could have set you up. Who knows?"
Before Pamela could inquire into what her son had meant by "set you up", he was through the kitchen and down the basement stairs. Down there it was his realm, and after graduating from high school Johnny had moved from his upstairs bedroom into the basement. He'd done all the work in making it a livable space, turning much of the area not dedicated to the laundry room or furnace room into his own apartment. Except for the need to use the upstairs bathroom or kitchen, Johnny could pretty much stay in the basement if he chose to.
Pamela waited a few minutes before heading to her own bedroom, turning out the lights as she went. George was asleep and gently snoring in the big bed they had shared for much of their marriage. His wheel chair sat bed-side. Pamela felt a wave of guilt wash through her again, as it always did when she returned home following a night with Freddy. This time, however, it was deeper. Her chest hurt, but she realized that it wasn't because she had hurt her husband. It was because she had hurt her son.
Pamela lay in bed, tossing and turning, well into the morning hours. She couldn't sleep. So much worry ran through her mind. Finally, she had to get up and go into the living room so not to continue to disturb her husband. He had his weekly physical therapy appointment in the morning and needed his sleep, she knew. She curled up on the big sofa and pulled the comforter over her. Exhausted, she quickly fell asleep.
The next day, Thursday, was a half-day for the high school, leading into the 4-day Memorial Day weekend. School was dismissed at 1:20 in the afternoon, after a 45-minute presentation in the gym to the sports teams for the school year. There was only two weeks left until the school year was completed and summer break began. Pamela had signed up, as she nearly always did, to work through the summer, three days a week, with students needing to do added work to keep up with their classes. Although Friday was an off-day for the students, Pamela and those others who would be working through the summer would be in the building going over their itinerary for the summer.
Pamela stopped at the grocery on her way home to pick up some things for dinner that night. She had tried to put out of her mind the confrontations with her son from the night before, and the accusations he had made. She fought to find a way to assure Johnny that she wasn't looking to find a replacement for his father, even though she was in fact having an affair with Freddy Killibrew. On top of all of that, she had begun to wonder if there was any way she could initiate any sort of sexual relationship with Johnny at all, knowing that he had those sorts of thoughts about her, at least if what Freddy had told her was true. Not for the first time, Pamela wondered if Freddy was trying to mess with her head.
Once home, after briefly stopping in the kitchen to put away the groceries, Pamela checked on her husband. She found him asleep, snoring in his big recliner in the back den. He had been watching reruns of "Charmed", one of his favorite shows, and an episode continued to play on the big-screen TV. She thought about turning the set off, but decided that her husband was probably being soothed by the sounds of Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano, and Holly Marie Combs.
Pamela let her husband be and pulled the door closed gently. She started to turn up the hallway, towards her bedroom, but instead decided to head into the kitchen. She wanted a Pepsi and found a cold one in the refrigerator. It was the last of a case she had just purchased the day before. She suspected Johnny of snatching several to stock his own little refrigerator in his basement room. She gulped down a refreshing swallow of soda, and then though about checking on her son. His car was out front, so she knew he was home.
Pamela found her son stretched out in the corner of the second-hand sofa he had bought at the flea market some time back. It was a corner sectional, with a recliner built into one end. The fabric was a sickly lettuce green, and had several stains across its "L" shaped expanse. For Johnny, the big sofa doubled as his bed, and as Pamela made her way across the hard floor, her shoe heels clicked on the bare concrete. A throw rug lay in the corner of the sofa, the only floor covering in the basement. Johnny had said he wanted to carpet the floor, but had yet to earn enough money to do it. Thus, the basement was always a bit cool for her taste.
The second-hand television sat on a work bench that Johnny and a friend had dragged into the basement some time back. Two chest of drawers flanked the bench, with two different video game consoles and several game discs scattered across the tops. A card table with four chairs around it completed the furnishings of Johnny's basement bedroom. Overhead florescent light fixtures provided most of the light usually, though they were off at the moment and only the small stand-alone lamp in the corner behind the sectional was on, casting shadows across the floor.
Johnny was watching a movie, and a girl's scream was cut off as her throat was slit open by a masked stranger. Typical slasher movie, Pamela thought as she came int her son's sanctuary.
"How was your day, Johnny?" Pamela asked as she approached her son. She paused long enough to lean over and pull open the small refrigerator that stood at the end of the sofa. Sure enough, he had seven Pepsis inside, along with half a six-pack of his father's beers, some cheese dip in a jar, and a bag of left-over tacos. He'd probably warm them up for dinner in the small microwave oven that sat atop the refrigerator, Pamela guessed.
"Good enough, I guess," her son responded as he looked at her nibbing into his refrigerator. "I don't know if I want to return in the fall."
Pamela took a seat near him, in the short side of the sofa. "Why not? Aren't you enjoying school?"
He aimed the remote towards the television and turned the channel to Sports Center. "I don't know anymore," he replied after a pull on the cigarette he held. He blew out the smoke and looked at his mother. "I don't know what I want out of life right now, and I don't want to get all tied up going one direction just to find I want to go another."