The Matrons of Regal Bay
Chapter 17
Lisa's Tales -- Part 2
Lisa was taking a much-needed afternoon off. She had just finished up two weeks straight at the salon, with only Sundays off, and was feeling the drain. Her feet ached from standing for up to ten hours a day on the hard tile floor. Her fingers ached from working with shampoos and conditioners and coloring chemicals. Her entire body ached from head to toe. Lisa needed to take some time off, and she'd finally been able to clear up her schedule to take back-to-back days off. They were Tuesday and Wednesday, the middle of the week, but they were still days for herself.
Lisa had hoped to spend much of the time relaxing, either down at the beach and on the boardwalk, or maybe take a drive up into the mountains. Instead, she had awakened that Tuesday morning to rain. And not just a standard shower that would blow in from time to time in Regal Bay, but an all-day drenching that served to drain a lot of energy out of her. So it was that Lisa ended up lying in bed much of that first day off. She had a couple of the popular paperback romance novels in her nightstand, and she enjoyed the peace and quiet while drifting off to far-away France, and the arms of Fabio.
When she had finished the first of the tawdry novels, Lisa headed for the kitchen and made herself a salad. She sat at the counter and ate, and then turned her attention to the laundry, which had been starting to pile up. Her son, Randy, was little help these days, she knew. He was in school, had a part-time evening job, and had begun to spend more nights at one or another of his friends from college who had apartments of their own. They had talked about Randy getting his own place, and even though it really wasn't necessary, Lisa had emphasized over and over, not with them living just a ten-minute walk from campus. Still, Randy was growing up, and at 20 he was ready to get out on his own.
Lisa had not paid much attention to the time all afternoon, so it was a surprise to her when Randy showed up. In fact, it was after four, and he had finished his classes for the day. Moreover, Randy was accompanied by his friend, Johnny Walker. Both boys were handsome young men and Lisa found herself attracted from time to time to her son's friends. In the weeks following the fateful afternoon in the bathroom, when Lisa gave herself to her son, and subsequently discovered that Randy and Alyssa, his younger sister, were also secretly enjoying an incestuous relationship, Lisa had found herself wanting even more. She and Randy had become occasional lovers since then, though only when Alyssa was not home. Nor did she bring up the question with Randy about his affair with his own sister. For the time being, Lisa was content to enjoy what her son was providing her, even if it was a short-lived affair.
At the time Randy and Johnny arrived, Lisa had been ironing one of her many sun dresses. She was in the small room that attached to her own bedroom, where much of her and her children's clothes were stored. Their house, a bungalow-style home, had little closet space and this cubby served the entire family in that purpose.
"Shitty weather," Randy observed as he and Johnny stepped into the room. "I'd planned on hanging out down at the boardwalk," he added, directing his comment at both his friend as well as his mother.
"It's the way it is, here in the Pacific Northwest, honey," Lisa smiled in reply. "I hadn't planned on spending my day off in the house either."
"Where's Alyssa?" Randy asked her.
"I think she had to work after school," Lisa replied. Her daughter, a senior in high school, worked part-time at the Glorious Gowns and Nobel Tuxedo Shop downtown, a few blocks down from the beauty salon where Lisa worked. Alyssa was now eighteen and was becoming more independent, and she rarely let her mother know what she was doing or where she was going to be anymore. At times, it made Lisa feel quite lonely.
"That's too bad," Randy said. "Johnny and I were thinking about hitting a movie and hoped she and a friend wanted to hang out or something."
"Maybe you two can just go alone," she suggested.
"Yea, like that would be gay!" Randy laughed. "I don't date guys, Mom. You should know that by now."
"I wasn't suggesting anything of the kind," she replied.
Randy laughed again, giving Johnny a playful punch as he did. "I was just fucking with you, Mom," he laughed. And then he gave her a look, as if an idea had just popped into his head. Along with it, Randy was grinning, and in his deep blue eyes Lisa could only imagine what he was thinking. It was probably the same thought that had suddenly popped into her mind.
"Not that you aren't always fucking...um...with me, right Randy?" Lisa said after a moment's pause. She gave her son a side-line grin.
Randy caught his mother's chain of thought, and asked, "So, when was the last time I fucked...ah...with you anyway, Mom? I can't remember."
Lisa set the hot iron aside and gave her son a pouty-lipped look. "You can't tell me you've already forgotten about Saturday night, Randy. What you did at dinner really embarrassed me." Lisa looked to Johnny, who seemed unaware of where the conversation was headed. She informed her son's friend, "We went to dinner at Pizza Hut, and Randy, being a child, fired a spit-ball at me."
Randy took up the story. "She was playing with her phone, ignoring me as usual, so I wanted to get her attention."