[Β©2011 BY CLINTON09; ALL CHARACTERS OVER THE AGE OF 18; NO CHARACTERS OR EVENTS ARE CORRECT AS PRESENTED; THIS STORY IS TOLD WITHOUT RESERVE; READER SHOULD TAKE CARE AND NOTE: CONCLUSION VERY HARD EDGED; BRIEF INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE; HERE BE DRAGONS. JUSTICE DICTATED THAT A MOTHER BE RESTORED AND A STEP-FATHER BROUGHT DOWN. READER MUST BE 25 OR ABOVE.]
[Son returns home to find his beautiful mother battered; how will he deal with it?]
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Let me briefly set the table for you so that we can get to the main course. I was the only child of an average suburban couple. I had just turned 18 while my mom was only 33. Do the math and you'll see that she'd gotten into trouble early and had to marry. Insofar as I looked like her and not her 'old man' and towered above him (6'2" vs. 5'5"), one could wonder about my parentage. I never didβ'water under the bridge' as it were.
Mom's 'old man', who was my father (my step-father in reality?), didn't feel that way. He resented my presence, especially as I began to tower over him physically and achievement-wise. In the classic 'displaced hostility', the 'old man' took it out on us, but mostly mom, with lectures, tirades, and even an occasional struggle when I wasn't around.
I should've known that her periodic black eyes were not due to simple broken capillaries. She stayed in that home only because her mother was a lifelong friend of his mother. Okay, there was also some family money involved. Anyway, mom would stay until I reached 18 and left for school.
I had just been accepted for a full scholarship to a really good college that summer [U.Michigan.] That should've thrilled my 'old man' but no. He'd gotten only a GED and was jealous. He was already intimidated by my burgeoning size and power, so any more accolades would only make him feel inadequate before our friends and family.
For his part, he'd been given three businesses as wedding presents and had promptly driven them into the ground. Our family had to combine the three businesses into one company barely breaking even.
My mother's 'old man' had insisted that my mom have a baby by him. I wondered if this was related to me; was he feeling antagonized by my relative success? Was he uncertain of whether I was sired by him? Perhaps he just wanted to do it to re-assert himself over my gorgeous mother.
In any event, he tried for six months to 'do the deed' to no avail. I once overheard my mom gossiping to her sister that he was all of 3 inchesβhis output only 3 eye drops worth.
Well, he didn't give up and spent a fortune (which we could ill afford) to have a fertility clinic convert a month's worth of his 'output' into something viable. If my mother got pregnant from that it only meant she was incredibly fertile.
Now, my mom was already hot, a true MILF. Blonde hair, blue eyes, a bit of a button nose; she didn't need anything else. However, at only 33, she still had the Playmate-of-the-year figure she'd had when she was forced to marry years before.
That insemination effort only made her more top heavy. As her perfect breasts filled with warm, sweet mother's milk after eight months, she reached total 'ripeness': the very vision of the ideal female.
Tragedy arose on the birthing day. Her old man had nixed any ultrasound during the gestation. The baby that appeared was, well, not describable or viable. My mom was devastated. The nurse (improperly) told her that the clinic thought the contributed sperm was defective--perhaps because it had to be 'augmented'.
They only proceeded at the insistence of mom's old man. My mother resented him for that and all his other shortcomings. He returned the resentment and added the element of constant abuse, both mental and occasionally physical.
As this was the summer and I was in between high school graduation and college, my time consisted of dating, yard work, pool maintenance and weight-lifting.
A typical day had me in the sun, bronzed and buff, either pounding the iron or cleaning the pool. I'd work up a sweat and a bitching tan before coming in for a cold one.
Sometimes my mother would bring me out a cold drink. It was a bit awkward as she would be outside in her little green house robe, in slippers or beautifully barefoot, just waiting for me to finish my drink.
Up until the birthing 'event', she took the empty can back to the kitchen without saying a word. AFTER the sad day at the hospital, she would look at me with the saddest eyes. Putting down the pool cleaner or the heavy barbells, I got the idea that she wanted, and needed, to be kissed. The 1st time was a mere peck on the cheek. By the fourth time, we exchanged a meaningful joining of probing tongues and soft tender lips.
Son or no, during the summer I tried my best to get to 'second base', to no avail. Every advance of mine was rejected. Even when her 'old man' confessed that he had squandered the employment tax reserve fund on a bad gambling day, mom maintained a proper distance from me.
So our intimacy was limited to those precious moments kissing. After the all too brief kiss, mom would scurry back to the house, fearful of what might follow. Once she looked back thru the window, noticing the swelling in my Speedos as if I was packing a pair of baseballs down there. After her kisses, I had to 'adjust things', pushing my ten inch cobra halfway around my waist to keep it from jutting out well above my navel... As the summer came to an end, we had one last weekend:
It all started one night when he hurled his dinner on the floor, accusing mom of being the reason for the birth defects. I ran after a sobbing mother, held her closely to me, and asked her if I should 'pound a little sense into him'. With tear-filled eyes, mom placed one hand on my oversized biceps and kissed me. She thanked me but said she just needed a shoulder to cry on.
Things had started going south two weeks before I was to leave for the mighty U. of M. [Michigan]. That weekend I had come home from a date only to overhear shouting. He was furious that mom had stayed up all night in the living room--waiting to be sure I got home safely. He'd always disliked (feared?) any maternal affection for me.
On the fateful last weekend night, I came home frustrated again. My date was acting 'hard to get' and I wasn't going to play her game or beg. I entered the house quietly as always only to find my mom waiting up for me. Her book was on the floor and she was 'out cold'. I smiled thinking she'd loyally waited up for me again before falling asleep; that is, until I saw her face.
There was redness beneath her nose and the unmistakable blue/black of a contusion around her eye.