Thank you for reading my story, I hope that you enjoy it. Love Mica xx, Yorkshire England. All email comments good or critical welcomed. Please note that all email comments from an invalid email address will be deleted immediately and will not be read. Rude or abusive comments may result in blocking. Please note that I am a British female and I write in British English and vernacular, so for me a fanny is the correct term for female genitalia, a pussy is a pet cat and the ass is a bum or arse.
It had been two years since Dad had passed away, the first year had been hard, but once past the first anniversary, it got better for me. Not for Mum. She almost didn't forgive him for leaving her alone, and she grieved him every day, nothing anyone said seemed to lessen her grief. And to suggest that perhaps she be open to the idea of someone else in her later years, well, it was as if you had swore in her face. Oh, no, never anyone else. Today was the second anniversary.
I had arranged to take Mum to the garden centre cum nursery just off the ring road, to take her mind off the anniversary, and we would have a lunch whilst we where there. I had cleaned the car yesterday, Sunday, so Mum could not find anything to be unhappy about. She wouldn't say anything, not Mum, too polite, but she would have felt it and kept it to herself, tidy car, no need.
I pulled on to Mum's driveway, we had a while before the nursery opened, but I wanted to be plenty early enough so that we could get there in good time, find a decent parking spot and have the beginnings of a good look around before lunch time arrived. When I opened Mum's front door and called hello she was already there waiting for me.
"Hello Phillip," she greeted me, putting her arms out for a hug. I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her cheek, taking in a big breath of her perfume, crumbs it was heady. I could feel her breasts as they pushed against me as we hugged. What? Why was I noticing that for goodness sake?
"Hello Mum, you look lovely, how are you, are you ready for our little trip out?" I asked, stepping back, painfully conscious that my dick was hard and hoping that Mum hadn't noticed.
"I am fine Darling, looking forward to our trip out. Now, I have to say one thing before we go."
"Oh, what is that?"
"I am not senile or going dolally, but I may occasionally call you George today. You do look so much like your father, and sometimes I may walk down memory lane and accidentally use his name whilst I am back in my recollections. It doesn't mean you have to worry."
Well, that took me by surprise, I mean, yes, I do look a bit like Dad did, only natural I suppose. "Okay Mum, no worries and I shall respond appropriately. Let's just have a nice day and relive some happy memories."
I opened the front door of the house and went out, Mum followed and locked her front door, checking it was locked before walking to the car. I opened the passenger door and held her elbow as she sat. I pulled the seat belt for her and passed it across, watching as she plugged it in, chiding myself for noticing how it went between her breasts, making them more pronounced. What the hell was wrong with me?
"Elbows," I said as I shut the passenger door.
I walked round and got in the driver's side and shut the door. Crikey Mum's perfume was strong, really pervasive. I wondered what it was, it wasn't one that I recognise, my current girlfriend, Gemma, used EsteΓ© Lauder, I have no idea which one, but it was flowery. Mum's scent wasn't flowery, in fact it defied description, it just kind of invaded my senses, took over, very odd.
As I was driving, conscious that I had a passenger, I was not only viewing the road through my eyes, but it felt like I was seeing the road through Mum's eyes too, it was very strange. I was comfortably aware of the risks, I was in control of the car, I was looking all around, but it also felt as if I wasn't in control, and risks somehow felt very different, seemed very different. I am sure I drove slower than usual. Most unlike me.
I pulled into the carpark and found a space quite near the entrance, an end space, so there was more room on Mum's side to open the door wider for her. I turned the car off and got out, walking round and opened Mum's door. As I did I saw her undoing the seat belt and watched as it moved away from her breasts, no longer highlighting them. Why was I looking at that? I have never thought of Mum as a woman, a sexual being, always as just 'Mum'. This was odd.
I helped Mum out of the car and then shut the door and locked the car.
"Shal we get a trolley Mum?" I asked.
"Yes, I think so," Mum said, "in case there are plants that I like. I can always find room in my garden for a nice plant."
There was a line of spare trolleys just by the entrance and I pulled one free.
"Do you want to push the trolley Mum, or shall I?"
"Oh, you push it, there's a dear," she replied.
"Okay, no worries, you lead the way and I shall follow."
We went in and of course we had to pass aisle after aisle of stupid trinkets and junk that all garden centres seem to stock these days, virtually all having nothing to do with gardening, and also the 'outlet' stores selling over priced branded goods that no one bought because they were too expensive in the first place. We were early, and although the doors were open for browing, it would be another thirty minutes before they opened the tills.
Eventually we got out to the area of plants, first into a large covered area containing all the more sensitive plants that still needed to be protected from frosts.
"They do a nice selection of Tomato and Cucumber plants here in the spring," Mum said, "I like to get them for my greenhouse. I like to get an early stock so that they can get going on my window sills before I put them out in April."
"Well Mum," I answered, "then we shall just have to come back in March when they get their stocks in."
Mum squeezed my arm and we wandered past the rows of early plug plants, the annuals that you could buy now and force on for early summer planting, and eventually we got to the more hardy plants and shrubs.
"Oh that's a nice Acer," Mum said looking at a vibrant red shrub, "but I don't need any more Acers, I have five already."