Fourth chapter. Mikey is stunned because of his nocturnal visitor. But are there more surprises waiting for him?
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GA -- Da Nang, Vietnam -- 29th of October 2017.
Aunt Janet told me not to worry. That she would, "Sort it out."
I felt the anxiety fizzing inside me, like a can of Coca Cola after being shaken. And I
had
been shaken, violently so.
"It wasn't you," I said, on the verge of hysteria. Then I started to babble, moving around the kitchen, a pinball trapped under the glass as I ricocheted from place to place. "Why would she...? I mean...? It's impossible. It
must
have been you."
She tried to soothe me, pulling out a chair while smiling in the cajoling way people use on recalcitrant toddler in a supermarket meltdown. "Mikey, sit down," crooned my aunt. "Relax, honey. Stopand let's think about it."
I gaped at Aunt Janet. "Aren't you bothered? Can you believe what she did?"
My aunt snapped at me, stern and commanding when she used my name. "Mikey! Just stop it. I told you, I'll sort this out. Just leave it to me. Wait 'til your mother gets home."
Everything went liquid in my stomach at the reminder I'd see my mother later that day. My sphincter loosened and my throat went tight and panic ballooned in my chest. Suddenly, I couldn't breathe, couldn't make sense of the topsy-turvy world. My aunt, my mother, the sex.
"I ... I can't face her," I gasped.
My aunt snorted and said, "She's got to face you, too."
I sat down, slumped in the chair with my elbows on the table and my face in my palms. "She knows what we did," I groaned in despair. She has to know. Why else would she...?"
When I looked at my aunt, her eyes slithered away, expression shifty all of a sudden. "I'd say you're right, Mikey," she said. "Margaret knows all right."
It was impossible for me to make sense of it all. I had questions, so many questions they tumbled and spun, the cacophony of voices inside my head hissing like white noise and rising in volume until I thought I'd go mad with it all.
"This is just crazy," I sighed. "And why won't you look at me?"
Aunt Janet winced. "Because it's my fault."
"I don't understand. What do you mean? Your fault? How could it be your fault?"
My aunt threw a quick glance my way, offered a wan smile, and then closed her eyes while shaking her head. She chewed on her lower lip and stared at the top of the table for several long seconds and, after heaving a sigh, managed to bring her focus up to my face. Then she said, "There's a lot you don't know, Mikey."
I saw her shrug, a gesture of resignation, like she'd given up.
"Maybe we better wait until Margaret gets home? I think your mum needs to be here before we ... uhm ... talk about this."
Anger, frustration, and a hefty dollop of confusion saw me up onto my feet. I felt a hot rush of emotion surge through me, the writers' palms of both fists hitting the table when I vented my feelings.
To Janet, I shouted, "I can't wait until then! This is fucking driving me mental! Don't you get it? Don't you understand? My
mother
was in my room last night. She got into my bed and ... and ... Fucking hell, Aunt Janet! I fucked my mother!"
We stared at one another. My aunt looked at me, eyes wide with what I took to be shock or surprise at my vehement outburst while I glared at her face. My heart jack-hammered inside the rack of my ribs, hot tears threatening to spill out of my eyes. I gulped, choking as I tried to suck in air. Then I was back in the chair, coughing and spluttering, close to crying because my tormented mind couldn't take much more.
My aunt had me in a tight embrace before I knew what was going on. She cooed at me, stroking my hair while I returned her embrace and took comfort from the familiar scent of her.
"It will be all right, Mikey," Aunt Janet murmured. "There, there, don't get all upset and worried. We'll sort it all out, sweetheart. I promise."
***
Back then, the mid-70s, my mother owned and ran a small newsagent, a shop which would later morph into what is today's convenience store. In those days a bell above the front door tinkled whenever a customer entered or left. The counter was fanned with the day's newspapers, comic in racks while large clear jars filled with confectionary items lined the shelves behind the counter. Sweets like pear drops and midget gems that my mother weighed out in ounces and handed over to eager hands, the goodies in a white paper bag with a twist at the corners. I loved the smell of the place. Her hours were from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. She had an assistant to cover the early rush and evening trickle, so my aunt and I expected my mother to return home by quarter to seven that evening. For me, the wait lasted forever. I was the proverbial cat, unable to settle on the hot tin roof.
"She's late," I said, stating the obvious.
Aunt Janet nodded, lips a thin, horizontal line. "Yes, she is. But it's only just gone seven, Mikey."
"Then where the fucking hell is she?" I stood up and waved my arms as I spoke, frustrated and anxious. "I can't take this, Aunt Janet," I said. "I'm going to the shop."
My aunt was up on her feet as soon as I said it. She grabbed my forearm to hold me in place. "You can't go into the shop in this state, Mikey," she told me. "What will you say? You can't go in there and blurt it all out. Jenny will be there, too. You have to be patient. You have to wait 'til your mum gets back."
Part of my frustration came from the fact that I felt conflicted. On one hand I wanted to have it out with my mother. I wanted answers to a lot of questions. But, also, in equal measure, I was worried about what my mother might say. After all, I'd been fucking her sister, been involved in an incestuous tryst with my aunt and the whole situation had turned into a nightmare. How could I look my mother in the face knowing she knew about me and Aunt Janet? What could I say after what had happened the night before?
My mother -- my
mother
-- had come to my room in a clandestine visit. She'd used the darkness as cover, fooling me into thinking she was my aunt. My mother had climbed into the bed, naked. She'd sucked my cock and kissed my mouth. Then she'd climbed onto my hard-on and fucked her son. I'd heard my mother gasping and moaning, felt her sex squeezing my dick. In the end my mother had offered her sex from behind, taking me in up to my balls, my hands full of her buttocks and hips until I'd squirted cum into her body.
Why
had she done it? What
had
she been thinking? If she knew about me and my aunt, why hadn't she railed and wailed and kicked her sister out of the house? For that matter, why was I still there? Surely she would be just as angry at me? It just didn't make any sense. I would have expected my mother to throw a fit when she realised what was going on between me and Aunt Janet. Anger and tears were one thing, coming to my room to fuck me didn't add up.