All persons participating in sexual acts in this story are over the age of eighteen.
When Patrick, or Pat as his Mom insisted on calling him, arrived at his summer retreat, he knew that there was
something
he was obviously not privy to. If such was not readily apparent in the sly, reminiscing grin gracing his mother's beautiful features, an expression he had never seen on her usually stern visage, then it was abundantly clear in how the same or a very similar countenance was on the faces of the other mothers arriving with their sons.
Pat, a youth newly 18, slight in stature, took great pride in his intellect, especially his prodigious ability to notice that which often alluded others. As such, the unfamiliar expression on his mother's face as they arrived at what he had been told would be his summer lodgings was not the first strange detail he had noticed. On the contrary, it was merely one among many.
The first and still one of the most distinctive instances of strangeness occurred last week: Pat, arriving home from school, overheard his mother talking to someone on the phone. Now, such an occurrence was not strange or weird as he often heard his mother talking to one of her many business associates, invariably female, over loudspeaker. However, everything about this one specific instance was bizarre.
Entering the house quietly as he always did so as to not disturb his mother, he heard her voice from her office. Usually, he would do as he had done a thousand times before and tip-toe past her to his room. However, this time, some instinct, unidentifiable but intense, urged him to stop, press his ear to her office door and listen. So he did, and what he heard, unbeknownst to him then, was the first step on a path that would see his life totally change.
Despite a nearly total lack of business knowledge, something his mother often sought to remind him was an embarrassment to her, a third-generation CEO, it was instantly clear that whatever else the phone call was about, it wasn't business. Such was immediately apparent in his mother's tone; never before had he heard her speak with such intensity, her voice dripping with such passion that if he were not so familiar with her low purr, he would have questioned whether it was indeed her on the other side of the unyielding wood. Adding to his certainty of this not being anything business-related was what she was saying; ear pressed as hard to the door as possible, he could vaguely make her out.
'I can't believe the day is nearly here, Sam. Soon we'll turn them into our sheaths, locking them up and making them accept our love.' As his mother spoke, Pat heard a steady but unidentifiable noise coming from, he guessed, her phone.
Schlick. Schlick. Schlick.
'Imagine it, Sam. We'll have them under us as we, after waiting for so long, claim them as ours forever... marking them... owning them.'
In response to his mother's vivid description, Pat heard a long, low, sinful moan from whoever was on the other end of his mother's phone. Hearing such, Pat attempted to, impossibly, press somehow further against the door in a desperate attempt not to miss anything being said. Lost in his desire to listen to the lurid audio of his mother's voice, Pat unknowingly adjusted his weight such that the wooden floor under him gave out a loud squeak. Heart in his mouth, he quickly realised that all sound from the other side of the door had been consumed by silence. With clarity brought on from the cold rush of adrenaline, Pat, knowing his damning role of eavesdropper would result in swift and harsh punishment if caught, took off down the hall towards his bedroom.
From that moment on, during the remainder of the week until this morning, Pat had noticed innumerable examples of