(Part 1 of 3)
It was a Monday morning and I like to take care of the shopping early in the week. My husband doesn't like me to go out unescorted when he is out on assignment and it isn't always convenient to find a chaperone. That duty used to fall on my daughter but she got married in the spring and moved to Pennsylvania with her new husband.
Fortunately, her brother graduated shortly thereafter and moved back home. He won a teaching assistantship at a college near Arlington so he planned to live with us for his two years of graduate school. He didn't seem to mind escorting his mother but I tried not to bother him too much about it. If I could get all my shopping done on Monday then I don't have to ask him again for the week.
Once Donnie leaves home for good I guess my husband will have to hire someone. I try not to spend all his money but he can afford it. He has a very important job in the foreign service. His isn't a household name but you would recognize it if you studied political science or even history. I studied political science. That's how we met. He spoke at my college graduation and as the salutatorian I got to meet him. He made quite an impression on me and I must have impressed him too because a year later we were planning our wedding.
It's more fun shopping with a friend than an employee though and I was looking forward to spending the day with Donnie. He is very fun and charming and it was still a novelty to have him around all the time and not just during breaks from school. I also recalled him being very well dressed but when he came out to join me that morning he looked a little worse for wear. His shirt was fine, maybe in need of an ironing. But his slacks were visibly worn and too short for his tall frame.
"Oh, honey," I told him. "Those pants have had it. Is that what you'll be wearing to school?"
"No big deal, Mom." He shrugged nonchalantly. "People don't dress up these days like they used to."
"That's other people. Your father and I do not want you appearing in public dressed like a beatnik. Let's get you some breakfast and then to Conroys for some new slacks and maybe some shoes," I added, eyeing his battered loafers.
Donnie rolled his eyes but he didn't argue. He knows I get my way. And maybe he was secretly looking forward to some new clothes.
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I hadn't been to Conroys in a long while and I found the selection and male pants sizes bewildering. Donnie wasn't much help narrowing down the selection, shrugging when I asked him about his measurements or what fabrics and styles he preferred. I ended up throwing a large selection of pants over his arm and sending him into the changing rooms. After what seemed like forever he emerged looking miserable wearing a pair of pants that was clearly too large.
"Oh, it's going to take forever like this." I said. The changing rooms are unisex so I took his arm and guided him back to his room. He put up a little resistance when I pushed in behind him but I shut the door behind me and had a seat on the little bench.
"Let's get this over with," I told him and unbuttoned the oversized slacks. He turned away from me as the pants came down. I noticed that he was wearing athletic trunk-style underwear, the tight fitting polyester kind. He hadn't let me shop for his underwear for years and he did his own laundry so I had no idea what he wore under his pants. The shiny red fabric really hugged his curves and I couldn't help but notice how muscular his hips and legs had gotten.
I selected another pair of pants and held them open for him to step into. I pulled them up and reached around to button them but he pushed my hands away and did it himself. Then he turned around to face me. In the little room, he was standing too close for me to get a good look at the pants but I was able to look past him at the dressing mirror. These were better, but still too big. I started to unbutton his pants but he turned away again and did it himself. I selected another pair and held them open. It was awkward, me trying not to touch his legs with my face or hair.
As I pulled up the pants my eyes rested momentarily on the front of his underwear, reflected in the dressing mirror. His tight underwear left very little to the imagination and I'm afraid my eyes lingered a little too long on the package that was outlined so clearly.
"Wow," I muttered. I meant to only think it, but it slipped out. My eyes darted to his in the mirror and he was looking right at me. He probably saw where I was looking when I said it. How embarrassing for both of us. I pulled the pants up and he let me button them. It was not easy to fasten them and it was especially difficult to zip up the fly without touching him, well, there. I mean, I could feel it through the fabric of the slacks. Was my poor sweetheart becoming aroused involuntarily? Maybe it wasn't such a good idea for me to come in here with him.
He turned to face me. The pants looked like a good fit. Maybe too good. I could see, inches from my face, the vague shape of his, his manhood in the crotch of the pants. I looked up at him and he was looking down at me, an odd look on his face. I waited for him to turn around but he just stood there. I unbuttoned the pants and began to lower them. The outline of his, his penis looked much larger and more defined up close than in the mirror. Or, I thought with horror, maybe it had grown larger.