Sarah all but shoved me off her.
"Mom, it's not-"
"Course it is, stupid. You think she's gonna buy that?" Sarah said, sitting up and reaching for her clothes.
Mom just stood there, staring at us.
And then she must have realized that the moans coming from the TV were her own. Her eyes went wide and her jaw slack.
"Sarah would you please go to your room," my mom said without looking away from the TV.
I busied myself with restoring my clothes.
Mom sat down next to me, still watching herself and her sister work.
Should I have turned it off?
"I take it you like this," she said.
I wasn't going to bite that bait.
She nodded. "You know, I'd been worried about whether you'd ever develop a love life. Isn't healthy for boys your age not to. And this is why."
Why wasn't she erupting? The serious tongue lashing was coming soon. She was toying with me. I couldn't have felt more awkward.
"Well now that you've had your first experience with a girl, I hope you finally have the confidence to approach girls."
And that was it. She went over to the VCR, popped the tape out, and went into her room to change out of her work clothes.
But of course that wasn't it. The fan was just dying for a healthy load of shit.
#
Friday came around and no one mentioned anything about what had happened. It was too eerie. I kept cringing, waiting for the other shoe to drop with an enormous crash. I mean, Sarah mocked me incessantly about how pathetic I was with women, and added a few jokes about not being able to deliver to her repertoire, but that wasn't what I was worried about.
That came later that day, when my best friend was over.
When mom got home, she greeted Kevan a heck of a lot warmer than she usually did. I started thinking "oh no" right away. It was just a warm hello, right? No big deal right? Yeah, right.
She came out of her room changed from her skirt and sports coat wearing skimpy shorts that had her ass all but hanging out and a t shirt that fit way too tight.
Kevan did a triple take. No, scratch that, he looked away once or twice, and that was it.
The usual, cordial small talk which lasted 30 seconds turned into 5 minutes. And seriously flirting. She patted him on the arm constantly, laughed at his awkward, stammered, forgive me b/c I'm staring at your tits and not thinking about what I'm saying, jokes.
I could see where this was going. "I'm gonna go play some X-Box," I said, as suggestively as I could.
"What? Oh, yeah, ok," Kevan said.
But thirty seconds in, he decided he needed to get a drink, and rushed downstairs again. Funny, I didn't think it took ten minutes to get a fucking soda.
I snuck down the stairs to find my mother gobbling my best friend's cock right in the kitchen.
It was hard to say, what with her face glued to my friend's meat, but I'd swear she was staring right at me.
I crept away before Kevan could notice and went back upstairs. Despite being a ball of confused emotions, I kept playing my game. And getting my ass handed to me. I heard footsteps coming up the stairs and I paused the game and peered down the hall.
Only it was my brother, who was visiting us that weekend. "Dad home early?" he said, by way of greeting. "I heard them through the walls--louder than usual."
I didn't say anything.
Mark dropped his duffel on the floor and sat down on the spare bed. "Oh, I know that look. I was wondering when you'd finally figure it out."
"What do you mean?" I said.
Mark laughed. "About mom. Let me guess--is it Kevan in there with her?"
I nodded. "Shit man, I always thought she was...I don't know, it sounds so stupid now."
"She's more discreet than Aunt Liz. I thought she was a one man woman too, until Liz told me all about their little parties. I brought it up with mom...I guess I was sorta hoping...anyway, she did the same to me. Pretended it was no big deal, then started humiliating me, teasing me, showing me she was indeed a slut but that didn't mean I could have her the way I could Aunt Liz by fucking all my friends."
I drew a deep breath. He'd tried to get in mom's pants? Fuck, who was I to act shocked. Like I wouldn't.
How could I have never noticed? It wasn't like she was trying to hide it with Kevan. "So does it stop? She ever decide you learned your lesson?"
"Yeah, sooner or later she'll let up. But more like later than sooner. Just be happy you're out of high school."
I sighed.
"Tough break, bro," Mark said.
And that was the last he said about it.
#
Of course, Kevan was just dying to come over again. But I kept making excuses. I didn't want him to know I knew, so I didn't blow him off--we just never hung out at my house.