"Hi, mom!"
Ashish walked past the door, throwing his kit bag onto the sofa and bending down, kissed her cheek.
"Hi! How did the coaching session go?"
"Great! The coach hosted a dinner. Says he wanted to get all the guys together before the final selection. That way, he reckons no one would feel sidelined if they were not selected. Big deal!"
"And you are sure you are going to be selected?"
"C'mon mom, you should know better than to ask that! What's cooking? Where's Katy?"
Anita smiled. She was sitting on her favorite rocking chair, watching TV as usual. "Katrina just had her dinner with me. Maybe she's up in her room."
"That's good. I thought the two of you would wait for me to join you for dinner. Sorry I couldn't call and tell you about my dinner, mom. I clean forgot!"
Anita looked at her tall son and suddenly the images of what she had seen on his PC that morning ran through her mind. She felt a flush across her face as she stared at her handsome son. Was he really into this? Or was it just a passing fascination?
He was still in his practice dress, which consisted of a full-sleeved white cotton shirt tucked into white cotton pants. She watched him closely as he sat back on the sofa and bent down to undo the laces of his cricket boots.
"That's okay, Ash. We sort of reckoned you would be having dinner with the team. This isn't the first time, you know. Would you like to have some dessert?"
"Gosh, no! I'm pretty whacked out. I'm just going to hit the bed!"
"Anita felt a twinge of something strange go through her body when he said 'bed'. Somehow, the image of his darkened bedroom and that PC floated into her mind.
She shrugged off the image. "Alright. I guess I better tuck in too. It's been a long day for me too."
"You keeping busy with the soaps on the idiot box, mom?" Ashish grinned, shoving the boots and his socks beneath the sofa and getting to his feet. "Those serials do make a day seem to be long!"
"You are not criticizing me, are you?" Anita laughed. It was well know that besides the gym, she was addicted to the TV.
Ashish laughed, walking quickly up to her and pecking her cheek. "Just kidding, mom. Okay, I guess I'll call it a day. G'night, mum."
She could smell the odor of his body. That typical man-sweat that came from rigorous exercises. He always smelt like that after his sessions at the net as well as when he had done his routines in the gym.
The smell invoked something else in her. She was suddenly reminded of her morning exercises with Vera and that made her feel as though she was burning. My god, she thought, I must be getting to be a nymphomaniac. Everything seemed to remind her about sex. She tried to force the thoughts away, at least for the moment.
"Goodnight, Ash, sleep well."
She watched her son bound up the steps.
It was strange, she thought, that she had been thinking about sex and associating it with the smell of her son's body. Was she getting to be a pervert? Try as she might, she just couldn't keep away the thoughts returning back to her again.
She thought about that wonderful morning / afternoon with Vera. The two had been at each other well until the evening! It wasn't till she had realized that it was about half an hour for Katy to return and regretfully, she had told Vera to get dressed.
Vera had been so wonderful! She promised a lot, that girl, what with that sparkle in her eyes when she had left for the day with a promise to get in early tomorrow! So sexy, so inventive! She had made Anita come almost half a dozen times, making her go through the tricks that women employed when they had sex with each other.
After the first time, they had stood under the shower, soaping each other, kissing with open mouths, their passion mounting steadily. Anita had insisted that Vera wear one of Katrina's panties and was delighted when her daughter's bra had fitted, albeit a bit loosely, when Vera had pulled it on.
"Tomorrow, ma'am," the girl had told her, "I will show you a new thing -- a new way of getting well and truly fucked: almost as if it was the real thing!"
Anita wondered what else this girl would teach her.
If only she knew!
******
I shouldn't be doing this, she thought, creeping out of her room and making her way down the passage. I can't possibly be spying on my kids!
Anita's thoughts were confused, just as they had been when she was lying on her bed, desperately trying to ignore the fact that she had watched all those clips on her son's PC. Images of Ashish hunched over the glowing monitor and watching similar clips, filtered through her mind and even before she realized it, she had swung her legs off the bed and made her way outside the bedroom.
Her heart pumping, she now crept along the passage and stopped directly in front of her son's bedroom door. It was dark in the passage: they always switched off the passage lights. She could make out the dim light filtering from below the crack of his door and she knew that he was awake.