Please note, This story is written using American terms and repeated exactly but with British terms, basically it's the same story repeated.
Julia sat with her son Michael, it was a dreary day, intermittent rain, cold, they were heading into fall, they were both bored, just then an iPad pinged, Julia reached across, it was from June, her identical twin sister.
She glanced at the message and a smile spread across her face, she decided it was definitely worth reading out loud, 'you won't believe this, two pieces of good news.'
Michael showed interest, 'read it out then.'
'Firstly, dad's dead, it seems he took a short cut to the beach.'
'How did that kill him?'
'According to June the short cut was to drive over a cliff.'
They both laughed out loud, 'really, only grandad could do that,' laughed Michael, what's the rest of the news?'
'June's, had a preview of the will, we get twenty percent of his wealth, each,' she emphasised, 'we're rich.'
They stood up and hugged each other, jumping up and down in jubilation.
'June is at the summer cabin, she says if we fly out my nephew George will be at the airport to pick us up, I'll pack a suitcase while you book a flight, okay?'
Michael jumped to it.
Julia threw clothes into the suitcase, then went to her lingerie drawer, she added a couple of garter belts and brand-new packs of stockings into the case. She had left enough room for Michael's clothes; it was enough to see them over for a few days, finally she removed her skirt and placed the garter belt around her waist.
Hurriedly she pushed her panties down to mid-thigh and pulled them up over the dangling suspender straps, just in time, Michael opened the door.
He stood there, mouth wide open,' sorry mom, I thought you were packing the suitcase.'
'I'm just putting on a pair of stockings, I'll explain at the airport.'
Ordinarily Michael would never open her bedroom door without knocking, and likewise she'd have shrieked at him, but there was too much good news to get angry, 'it's okay, tell me what flights you've found.'
She sat on the bed and placed a stocking over her foot, carefully keeping the seam straight, she repeated the process, attached the suspenders and stood up, then the perennial question asked by every woman who has ever worn fully fashioned seamed stockings, 'are my seams straight?'
'Er,' Michael gulped, 'yes, they look okay.'
'And the flights?'
'There's one leaving in two hours, we can't fly straight to the airport nearest to the cabin but there's an excellent connecting flight, we'll still get there today though.'
She stood up, he threw some clothes in the case and let's go I'll phone a taxi.'
They had chosen to wear clothes that they intended to wear for the funeral, a black business style suit, there was a reason that she made that choice.
They reached the airport with thirty minutes to spare, 'woo, that was a rush, still better to be thirty minutes early than thirty minutes late,' she smiled with relief.
They sat in a quiet place so they could talk, 'your grandad, who I will refer to as the tyrant.'
Michael nodded his acknowledgement, 'I know that you and Aunt June always used that term.'
'Well, we were born twenty minutes apart, June just before midnight, 30th of June and me ten minutes after midnight July the first. Hence why he chose our names, which isn't so bad it's just that as we grew up and became teenagers, he started to exert more control over us, we weren't allowed to wear pantihose but instead stockings, the thing is we wanted to wear miniskirts, to show off our legs, attract the boys.'
Michael shuffled in his seat; he was becoming embarrassed and turned on at the same time.
'In order to comply with his orders and not wear pantihose we went barelegged, but he forbade that as well and what was worse, he began to punish us.'
Julia looked over her shoulder, no-one was around and so, reassured she carried on. 'You know how he punished us,' Michael just shook his head, 'he spanked us, over his knee or on all fours on the bed, our backsides in the air, it was embarrassing to say the least,' she spoke vehemently.
Michael asked, 'how long did this go on for?'
'Until after college and,' she emphasised the last word, 'because he was paying all our college fees, he demanded we spend our vacations back home and he'd query us about our progress, if he wasn't happy with our answers; another over the knee spanking, we were in our twenties when we were finally able to escape his clutches.' She released a deep sigh, her relief clear.
Michael leant forward, 'that's one hell of a situation you were both in, still as you say it stopped.' He spoke in a low voice.
'Oh, the other thing was if one did wrong, we both received a spanking, his argument for that was we were one person in two forms, he reasoned that out because we were identical twins. He'd spank the other one first and the culprit was made to look on, then she received her spanking.'
'Wow, that's incredible, but when I saw you this morning, sorry again for bursting in,' she waved this away.
'No problem, you were excited and wanted to tell me about the flight, I understand.'
'Only I've never seen a woman in stockings before and after what you've told me.' He paused, 'I have trouble understanding why you're wearing them?'
'I've got nothing against stockings, in fact a lot of the ladies I know, mature ladies wear them in preference to pantihose.'
'They're called MILFs,' he answered.
'Oh, what does that stand for, is the "M" for mature?'
'I don't know,' he didn't want to own up to knowing and saying what the anagram stood for, especially the last word, 'but you're probably right.'
They sat in silence for a while, Michael could sense she had more to say on the matter.
'You know, I could understand why you laughed this morning, I thought it was just a nervous reaction, people take bad news differently.'
'Years ago, the tyrant said we had to wear stockings and a black suit at his funeral,' she pointed to her outfit.
'How's he going to know that?'
'He's arranged for his attorney to oversee it,' she sighed, 'we have to raise our skirts to at least our stocking tops, have our photo taken, including our faces, and that's it.'
'Are you okay with that?'
'Who's going to refuse twenty percent of a lot.'
Michael felt able to relax and sat back, 'so, me, you, aunty June and Cousin George. Who's the other twenty percenter?'
'His brother Stanley, the attorney.'
'Oh, keeping it in the family, in every way.'
'Yes,' she answered holding his hand, 'come on, they're calling our flight.'
They settled in, Julia read a magazine and Michael thought about everything he'd learned that day, he couldn't help dwelling on his mother being spanked up until her twenties, at least the tyrant hadn't beaten them as children, she sat next to him wearing stockings, all the porn videos he'd seen were much better for the ladies wearing stockings, he found himself becoming aroused and told himself to think of something else, difficult, finally he fell asleep.
The flights were uneventful and straightforward; the second plane was smaller, and they thought nothing of it until they landed and found their luggage wasn't with them.
'Oh well, we'll get it tomorrow,' sighed Julia then spotted her nephew George, there were handshakes between the men and kisses for Julia, 'mom's buying groceries seeing as how we're holding the wake at the cabin.'
'Were you up here for a fall break,' Michael asked?
'No, we were doing a kind of end of season cleaning and weren't planning to stay but grandad's death has altered all that, we'll get your suitcase tomorrow morning and then drive from the cabin to our place.'