I was less than thrilled when the university announced they were closing the dorms and that we would be finishing the semester online. I got it. COVID-19 is dangerous, and no one wants to be at unnecessary risk. Still, I was having a great time living on campus and didn't want to trade my cramped dorm room for my room at my father's house. He has a great house—it even has a pool—but I wanted to be with my friends and my girlfriend, not my dad, his new wife, and their new baby. I get along with Kayleigh okay—probably because she's closer to my age than my dad's—but that's not the point. The state was under a stay-at-home order and I'd be trapped there with them. Dad's house isn't that big.
Not gonna lie. Missing my girlfriend was a huge part of my disappointment. I saw Amber every day, and spent most nights with her, too. God, I was going to miss those nights. And not just the nights. There were the afternoon quickies between classes, the blowjobs in the stacks at the library, sliding my hand up her skirt in the bar just off campus. Okay, I'm a pretty kinky guy, and Amber has a body that just won't quit. She's tall, with a thick, athletic build and long brown hair. I swear, I think about her all the time, and so I'm horny all the time. Amber promised me that Facetime sex would be fun, but my hand was no replacement for that body of hers.
The second blow came when my dad told me Amber tested positive for COVID-19 and I wouldn't be able to come stay with them. He wasn't showing symptoms, but it meant I would have to go stay at my mother's. Her townhouse is substantially smaller than Dad's place. My room there is almost as cramped as my dorm room. I hadn't lived with my mother since I graduated high school. My summers between semesters were spent at my father's. I felt bad about abandoning my mother sometimes, but Dad's place was just nicer. Besides, Dad lets me pretty much do what I want, while Mom is kind of uptight. Mom took the slight well, but she constantly asked me to visit. I felt weird calling Mom and asking if I could stay with her. We both knew it wasn't my first choice, but because Dad's was off limits, but she was thrilled. I only had 3 days to be out of the dorm and she jumped right in the car to make the 4-hour drive to my campus.
Mom arrived on campus full of surprises. The first was that the old, reliable minivan was gone, replaced by a sleek convertible Mustang. I had a lot of good times in that minivan, from packing in there with my little league team to Friday nights hooking up with dates in the back once I got my license. I was wistful that it was gone. The other surprise was that Mom had a new look. She was always very pretty, and I know a couple of my friends had crushes. That never bothered me. To each his own. But Mom was always very mom-like. Lots of khakis and sweater sets that camouflaged the extra few pounds she'd picked up over the years. A sensible, I-want-to-see-your-manager hairdo. The Mom who jumped out of the Mustang was fit and showed it off with a tight t-shirt and jeans that hugged her butt. Mom still had curves, but they were tighter than I remembered—not that I looked at my mother that way. I mostly noticed because the guys milling around the dorm—also moving out—were looking at my mother like a piece of meat. They weren't guys with harmless schoolboy crushes like my friends back home, they were looking at Mom like she was a MILF. It was strange, and I don't know what to make of it. Mom had no shortage of offers to help her carry my boxes, and it annoyed me. Finally, the suburban mom haircut was replaced by longer, loose blonde curls. Mom used to hate her curls and always blew her hair straight.
"Thanks, Wyatt," Mom said, taking the last box from the arms of a big, buff member of the basketball team who'd never said 2 words to me before.
"No problem, Mrs. McClusky," he said, grinning like an idiot. He couldn't quite keep his eyes off Mom's tits while he stood in front of her. She didn't seem to notice, but I did. It was like I wasn't even standing there.
"I told you, call me Carol. My mother is Mrs. McClusky."
"Okay, Carol. It was great meeting you. Hope to see you around campus again when everything gets back to normal."
"Yeah, Mom doesn't get up here too often, but thanks, dude," I said, moving between my mother and the athlete.
"See you later, Wyatt," she said. If I didn't know better, I'd have sworn she was checking out his butt as he left. "I think this everything. I hope it is, anyway."
The Mustang was packed to the gills and I have no idea how Mom crammed that last box into the backseat. She was a logistical genius. While Mom was pushing the box into the car, a passing freshman slowed down to admire her round ass and I shot him a dirty look that said, Move it along.
"I think we're ready to hit the road, honey," Mom said.
"Yeah, let's get out of here," I said, suddenly relieved to be off campus. Amber had left the day before. I had nothing keeping me there.
I jumped into the passenger seat, pillows and bedding piled on my lap, while Mom slid into the other side. The sleek blue sports car rumbled to life and Mom eased it away from the curbside. She may have bought a sportscar, but she still drove it like the same old Mom I knew.
"You haven't said anything about the car, Zack," Mom said, as we left the campus behind.
"It's nice. I'm shocked, I guess. It's hard to picture you in anything but our minivan."
"You would have known the minivan was gone if you came home more. It wasn't our minivan anymore. It was mine with you grown and away at college and your father gone. I didn't have any need for that big old thing anymore. No more baseball teams to haul around anymore, right?"
"I guess. I just didn't picture you as a sportscar type."
"I wanted something fun. Is there something wrong with that? I'm not just your mother, you know, honey."
"I know," I replied, although that was pretty much exactly how I thought of her. "Is this your midlife crisis car?"
"Haha. Very funny, young man. You still have the smart mouth, I see. I am not having a midlife crisis. Besides, I'm far too young for that."
My mother was 46, exactly the right age for a midlife crisis, although I honestly didn't know if that was a woman thing or not. Not that she looked it. I bet she could pass for 10 years younger with her new look. Dad certainly had a midlife crisis. He left his family for a much younger physical therapist from work. My stepmom Kayleigh is like 30 or something, a couple decades younger than my mother. I know that stung when it all went down. If Mom was having a midlife crisis, it was understandable.
"It's a shame I missed Amber," Mom said.
"Her parents got her yesterday. Her mom is pretty freaked out about this coronavirus thing."
"Rightly so. I was happy to get you out of there. You should see all the new protocols we're putting in place at work."