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I've been out of school almost two years. I work in boat design. I spent the first year putting them together but the boss liked my interest and let me hang out in the design shop. Now I do about half and half. I absolute love boat design. I found where I could take courses and started those and I'm gaining experience faster than I ever thought. I know I'm still fairly ignorant about boat design but the boss says this is how you do it, a little at a time. Sis is married and gone, just to the other side of town, and dad's hobby is reconditioning classic cars when he's not flying at a small commuter airline. He used to fly biggies but it was pressure and he's happier where he is.
He likes me staying at home. I have a suspicion it's because I readily help him in his car projects. I enjoy that too. Not boats but near enough so I can learn the technical processes in general.
One day we were in the back garage with one of his cars and he said, "Ross, I think I dropped the ball. With your mom. Have you noticed? She's quieter, more reserved, doesn't do as much, lackadaisical. I mean fun stuff, for herself not work things. I fly, get out and meet people and have the cars to play with. We're not as close as we used to be. Not as intimate as often."
"Now that you mentioned it that sounds right," I said. "Not about the intimate, I don't know about that but the other things. I think I thought something about that some time back."
"I know it's gone on longer that I thought at first," he said. "If I start making changes she's going to notice and it'll get to be another whole thing. That's how suspicions of an affair start. Once you think somebody's having an affair it never goes away. I'm going to slowly see if I can turn things back around to where they used to be. It shouldn't take that long. I need to distract her some so she doesn't particularly notice. Dinner out then more of that, bring her something back every now and then. Things I used to do. I don't know why I stopped that much. Things just got routine I guess."
"I understand," I said. "It sounds like you know what you want to do. I'll do that too. I used to bring her things from the shore when I was down. She always appreciated it."
"Good," he said. "It helps. I want to give her something to think about to distract her, get her mind going. Do you think you could find a way to start interrupting us? She won't be expecting that. Sitting on the bed maybe then sticking around for a while. It'll be an imposing man in our bed, even as our son, and she'll feel it and that'll distract her. If I run my fingers down her back or something she'll think about me doing that with you there and she'll think about it for days."
"Sure," I said. "I can do that. I did that when I was a kid and we talked all the time, it'll almost seem like normal. You and I can talk about cars. Let me know when it's enough and I'll phase out of it."
Dad got up. Time to get to work on the car. "Great," he said. "I'll start on the welding. All the flammables are contained. Work on whichever part you want."
I started two days later, on Sunday morning. Mom always stayed in bed until 8:00 but I could hear her going to the bathroom or to get something to drink earlier and getting back in bed. Dad was usually asleep or floating. I went over and mom wasn't all that surprised. I smiled and went towards the bed, big king size, and she scooted backwards to give me room. Rather than sit I got on the top of the sheet right at mom and stretched down the bed and propped up on my elbow. She had a gown on with the sheet up about half way on her breasts. I had on my gray loose bed shorts I could wear around the house and looked normal.
"Hi Ross," she said.
"Hi mom," I said. "Want to have lunch Tuesday?"
"Sure," she said. "Where do you want to go?"
"You pick," I said. "Let me know, usual time."
Dad said, "Is that Ross?" He sounded sleepy. He said, "Ross, I finished the welding. I'm not doing anything today."
I said, "Ok."
I whispered to mom, but not loud enough she could hear, "We have to distract him from his cars before it becomes an obsession."
"What," she whispered back.
I looked over her at dad and lifted up and got under the covers and got closer to her. I whispered right in her ear, "We have to distract him from his cars before it becomes an obsession."
She nodded and made a comment and we talked about this and that. I got my feet with hers and my knees with hers and I had an arm around the back of her pillow. It was nice when her breast started brushing my chest. Under her gown but still. We talked quietly for a few minutes then her eyes seemed to try to look around her back but she didn't turn. A minute or two and she slipped her hand down her side and over on her buns. I think she was moving dad's hand from playing with her. I stayed a little longer then left. They were in bed longer than normal. At breakfast mom seemed more cheerful.
Dad was doing something somewhere else so I said, "Mom, do you think dad's concerned about me being in bed with you? Should I stop doing that, and what about you?"
"No, I don't think it bothers him at all," she said, "and what about me?"
"Mom, being in bed with a hottie like you does things to us young virile men," I said. "I don't want to embarrass us. Just ignore it or better yet maybe you could enjoy the moment. I wouldn't mind and you might like it. It sure makes the day go better."