"No, you're not Timothy; it's illegal!" mom said.
I hadn't known women could turn so fast. Nor had I realized mom was so strong, I was lying on my back, mom half on top of me. The look she was giving me was terror, there was hope there too, and begging. I tried to figure out what all these emotions were, I could understand the fear. The begging I could not. The tears in her eyes were a physical pain to see. I nearly dropped it just to kiss her and let her relax. It was just not in me, I had started this with words whispered in her ear. I knew it was true, I knew she had needed to know, and that I had needed to say them.
"It's legal until you get boarded..." I said quoting what every sea captain said about any side fiddle.
"Tim..." she said, her tears were very close, in her voice and in her eyes.
Somehow in turning both of us she had maneuvered her arms under my embrace and now had her forearms just under my collar bones. Disappointingly that lifted her breasts away from my body. I wondered if women learned how to turn a guy on and off or whether it was a hyper instinct like birds migrating.
"Who knows mom? Grandad, he won't be saying anything, he just wants to know the score and will accept it. Grandma? I don't know her but I don't think she wants her daughter and grandson in prison. The insurance company? They don't care. They want their money and can't get it if I go to prison. The charter license belongs to me and I must be in the Azores for three weeks a year to keep it. My father and Maria? They are not going to score anything by talking, I can send them to prison in Morocco. There is an extradition treaty. Everybody else thinks your son died in a plane crash, Grandad could not let the truth be known until now. Me? I fought too hard to get here to lose it all. You? You tell me."
"People will talk."
"What are they going to say? Either I'm weird, we know I am. Or they are going to wonder how much you're paying me to be a toy boy. Mom, you can still get pregnant, I am not going to leave my children to the type of crap I went through."
"Is that why you said it? You're worried that I'm pregnant? Relax about that sonny. It's the wrong time of my cycle to get pregnant!" she said.
She was upset. I cursed how fast women could change emotions. I had seen similar crap with female crew members, passengers, Maria, practically every woman I had ever known went through emotions at random. Then there was the fold where her ass met her hamstrings. I was running my fingers along those lines now. It was so distracting! I just wanted to turn us around and screw her again as I felt her soft skin. I took a deep breath and tried again thinking of how beautiful pregnant women were to me.
"I want you to have a baby again mom. You never got to see me grow up and you need that. You were brilliant mom. I need to have a baby, I went through hell and had no home. That was how I got to be a sea captain at seventeen. I need a home mom. I do not want my kids growing up like I did. I need to come home. I need to know there is a reason to come home... Mom, this was a year of effort; it was not just an easy screw. Shit mom, do you know how awesome I think you are?"
"Timothy... I stayed single because I was scared."
"I can understand that. Pregnant at fifteen, and then my father... Grandad and grandma did you no favors with forcing him to stay with you."
"It was complicated... His family had a lot of business with ours, he was the son of a senator...to send him to prison would have cost both families. They were catholic. By the time you were five everything had changed. His father was not in politics anymore, the business we did, their business evaporated when there was nobody in politics to pull strings and they went bust. His dad is still alive."
I could feel mom relaxing. She had moved her arms off my upper chest and they were beside my head, her fingers in my hair. One hand was brushing hair off my forehead. Her breasts were two soft cushions on my chest. Stroking my hand up her back I could feel her stiffness evaporate. I had one more try.
"Mom? I'm scared too, right now. It's not a small thing this. But I want to know that I gave it everything; that's the way I am mom. I want you to know if it worked or not because you tried. Don't sit in the dark eighteen years from now and wonder, be afraid but take the chance with me mom."
Mom burst into tears and kissed me. I had heard lots of women talk about getting mixed signals from guys. I had no idea what this was. I kissed back though. She broke off to breathe and sniffed in my ear before speaking softly.
"Beautiful Tim, there is so much you need to learn... so much you don't know about me... when you are in your prime I'll be old. And young girls will offer themselves to you and you'll resent me, and take one, and be upset that you have to run home to me." she cried softly.
"Mom? Teach me then, tell me when you need to. And you find the girlfriend and keep her at home if you see me looking for one. We can work it out mom, it starts with one decision. Everything starts with a decision. I have decided to love you, to come home to you, all you need to decide is if you want to be the home I come to and love me."
That started the pumps. She burst into more tears and howled. She nearly broke my neck as she hugged me and pulled herself up my body until she was holding my head between her breasts. She rolled us onto her back and rocked me from side to side. I was nearly suffocating, there was just no way of getting her to let me breathe.
"Yes, yes, oh god help me, yes Timothy. I will love you. I will love you to death."
I hoped that wouldn't happen in the next few minutes. Luckily she let go when she realized I couldn't breathe. I hugged her back and kissed her while she laughed and cried and wiped tears from her eyes. She looked at me; relief and delight in her face mixed with uncertainty of what to do now. Peace was in her eyes too, the first time I saw her just simply happy and at peace. It was amazingly beautiful, she was radiant.
I know everybody thinks that an eighteen year old, with a beautiful woman under him, would be screwing his brains out next. I wasn't any eighteen year old. I had been operating on four to five hours of sleep a night for three weeks and that was presenting a bill for immediate payment. Yes I did at least have an erection. The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
Mom was fantastic at understanding as she noted the shadows under my eyes. She went all nurse and made me go to bed; just for clarity we went her bed. She was right, pillows to rest my head on were a huge improvement and sheets made a large difference to rough knee blankets.
"What voyage did you have the most fun on?" Mom asked while I shaved her legs.
We were bathing together, I needed a shave and my kit was still in the Bronco so I had used her grooming kit to her amusement. I was now shaving her legs to her utter delight and fascination. I was loving this, it was what I imagined love to be; showing care by taking care of each other.
"The last one before I came here. I have tons of blackmail material from that one if I really need. It was a BDSM community having a package fantasy holiday. We picked them up in Fort Lauderdale and sailed to the Azores. Things got fun just out of port, they thought a whipping on the forecastle was a good idea. We hit a high swell head on just as the dominant wanted to take his first swing... the only passenger who was safe was the one restrained to the rail, she saw the wave coming. She still shouted Wave! Everybody waved and looked for the camera; then got knocked on their asses."