I arrived at the house at around 3:00 in the afternoon, and couldn't believe my eyes as I followed the long, curving drive into the courtyard. The place was absolutely immense, and I couldn't imagine how it was that we were staying there for the weekend.
Mom had called me two weeks before to tell me that she had to come east for a weeklong conference about three hours from my home. She continued to tell me that an acquaintance of hers had offered her the use of his house for the weekend.
"All of the domestic help will be on vacation, but he said I have free run of the place."
"Domestic help?" I thought. "Who IS this guy, and how does he know my mom?"
"Anyway," she continued. "I thought it might be fun if you could join me there for a couple of days."
I didn't have to think long. My own family would be out of town that weekend, the beginning of a weeklong trip to the beach with another family. Work was keeping me home, but my weekend was free.
"Sure." I said. "Where is this place?"
She went on to give me direction and I realized that it was about halfway between her hotel and my house, so we could just meet there on Saturday.
That Saturday morning, as I packed a small suitcase, a thought flitted across my conscious mind. How this scenario seemed like the set-up for one of my many fantasies about her over the years. I grinned to myself and chuckled a little bit, slightly embarrassed as always in the light of day at some of the debauchery my mind has created.
Like most boys, I first started having sexual thoughts about my mom during adolescence, when my hormones were raging especially hard, and everything was about my newfound sexuality.
Unlike many boys, I actually got up the nerve to act upon it. One night when I was about 15, my stepfather had his regular group of friends over, and I pulled Mom aside in the hallway. I told her about the recurring dream I'd been having where she led me from the house during one of these get-togethers and took me to a hotel where we.....
"Well... you know." I grinned.
She had been looking at me calmly and closely while I explained. After the above statement, she smiled slightly, but brightly and nodded her head.
"So... can we?" I asked.
And here is one of the things that makes my mom so great: she didn't freak out. She didn't slap me or call me a vile, nasty creature. She simply looked at me with her kind blue eyes and that small grin and shook her head slowly from side to side.
"No, honey." She said softly. "I'm very flattered that you think of me that way, and I know that it's not uncommon for boys your age to have thoughts like this. But that is just something that you and I cannot do."
Having realized ahead of time that it was a long shot, I was merely disappointed, rather than totally dejected. I climbed the stairs back up to my room, and went back to reading my book. It was a couple of days before I really thought about how lucky I was that the whole thing hadn't blown up in my face. Not that MY mom would've reacted badly ... I've always been able to talk to her about anything, but realizing how lucky I was to have the mom that I did, rather than one of my friends' moms. They would have no doubt ended up being punished horribly, and probably subjected to years of psychiatric counseling for merely expressing a taboo sexual impulse.
Back then, my mom wore her dark hair to her shoulders, in a loose perm. At the time I didn't exactly leer at her, or become overly engrossed in her body, other than her full breasts and hips. There was just something about her, aside from being my mom that just hooked me and never quite let go. As I got older, I recognized her body more and more, but that'll come later.
Something that used to happen from time to time was a type of massage my mother would give me. I was always doing crazy stuff and getting myself injured, so I was usually suffering from some sort of muscle pain. Rather than a traditional massage, this was more like an eastern "laying on of hands" type of thing. No oils or nudity were involved, and it rarely had sexual overtones, even for me.
One day, after an hour or two of slowly stroking myself to a stack of porn magazines (this was in the pre-internet era), Mom called from downstairs and asked me if I wanted a "treatment" as we called them. She could always tell when I was particularly sore. She still can, actually. She says there's something in my face, in the way I hold my jaw or something, which tells her I'm hurting more than normal. After years of chronic pain, you learn to hide it from the world, because people get sick of hearing you whine about it all the time. But a Mom can always tell.