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Nothing to Lee said L-O-V-E quite like his own mother buying him a bong!
Coming home late one evening, Stevie said nothing of it over dinner. She simply held her tongue, grinning inside as she imagined the look on his face, which she would see soon enough. She had acted on a dare.
'OH. MY. GOD,' his voice boomed from overhead before he descended into childlike laughter, and Stevie then grinned from ear to ear as she crept swiftly up the stairs.
It was only a little one, but Lee didn't have one, and as far as she was aware, he never did. True to fashion, she felt drawn towards this one for its splashy and vibrant Jamaican flag colours. The store owner had been tickled to no end when Stevie explained who it was for.
'Does he know how lucky he is?' the balding old hippy had asked.
'I should hope so,' Stevie had gushed, and was certain that, yes, Lee did know. She had then gone on to tell the owner all about Lee, the way any proud mother would have.
Beside the shiny bong, nestled between two pillows on top of his bed, there lay a short note:
A LITTLE VOICE TOLD ME YOU PREFER BIGGER HITS, UNLESS I HAD SWIMMING POOL WATER IN MY EARS AND HEARD WRONG!
ALL OF THE LOVE;
MUM
XXX
The reference was not lost on him. She crept around the corner on the landing and saw him blushing as he read the note and made the connection. Then a moment later she was running giggling into his arms to receive her thank you kiss.
'I thought you'd like it,' she said excitedly.
'I love it,' Lee gushed. 'I can save money on the tobacco now as well.'
'Just don't become a zombie, okay?' Lee promised that he wouldn't. In fact to prove that it wasn't so easy, he invited her to take a hit with him. Half an hour later they were sat red-eyed in the conservatory, buzzing and floating and talking dreamily about...
Things and... stuff...
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There was a moment of nothing but internal giggling - a moment that never seemed to end, because that's what smoking ganja led to. The thought of sitting there stoned with his own mother, Lee had looked over to her and saw that Stevie was a little more than just half-baked.
Her eyes heavy-lidded and glowing, she wore a constant smirk, the dimples deep in her cheeks as her shoulders lazily shook with her own quiet laughter.
But other than the child-like mischief that possessed them, Lee's inhibitions had lowered and he found himself feeling all sorts of emotions as he doted on her and declared in his mind that she was the world's best mum in every sense; no matter what she might have thought.
'Why don't you date anymore, mum?' he got to asking, when he thought of how they seemed to be flirting more and more. He was pleased, as was she, that this social drug made for a good truth serum, bypassing all of the emotional clutter and cutting straight to the heart of the matter.
'I like it being just the two of us,' she admitted happily. 'Anyway... anyway...'
Stevie had the words. They were definitely there, somewhere. They had literally just crossed her mind.
'Anyway,' she picked up again, lounging against the side of her seat and lolling her head in Lee's direction; 'What about you?'
'What about me?'
'You don't date either...'
'I don't know,' he reacted without thinking. 'Nobody else interests me.'
Was that a Freudian slip? She had no intention of chasing that clue, but it was undeniable - how that sounded just then. Was he actually "interested" in her and nobody else? That's what it sounded like, and he hadn't corrected himself either.
'But you have a lot of steam to blow off at your age, if you know what I mean,' she recalled, thinking about how it was when she was much younger. Again she started to giggle deep down.
'Mum, if anyone has steam to blow off it's you,' Lee countered, and with a tone that implied everything from her recent revelation and onward to the present day.
'What do you mean by that?' she asked regardless, and made it sound so innocent.
'Mum, you're constantly horny, don't even lie.'
Stevie bellowed sudden laughter, snorted and covered her mouth and nose with the back of her hand. 'Thanks for that! So what, though? Does it bother you?'
'No,' he denied easily, which she was almost jealous of.
'I can take care of myself,' Stevie assured him, again feigning innocence.
'By watching me take care of myself?'
Before she made the connection, her brain already had - it just hadn't warned her yet. Involuntarily, his mother growled and knew just what it sounded like. She bit her lip and forced herself into silence then, but it was too late.
There was a dilemma for the ages, upon all the other things they had confessed to recently. Not only had she seen him masturbating, while thinking aloud about having sex with her, her id - the centre of all her innermost desires and urges - had just spoken for her and admitted something else.
'You cheeky bastard,' she said, trying to cover her own tracks. 'Anyway, it's not just me using what I have to hand,' she threw on top, now nibbling nervously at the back of one finger.
'Except you only wish you had what I have to hand,' Lee retorted smugly, and it was a devastating truth to throw out there now. Stevie was burning bright red now, and her cheeks hurt from smiling so hard.
Stevie came up blank. 'That's not fair!'
'I'll show him,' she thought.