Living with Mom
Kathryn M. Burke
It's kind of a drag living with your mom when you're twenty years old. But that's the predicament I found myself in.
I'm Tony Rivers, and after graduating from high school I didn't think I was really ready for college; so I started taking classes at this community college while also working at cruddy part-time jobs here and there. I was making so little money that I wasn't able to live on my own, so I ended up staying at home. And things weren't helped by the fact that my parents split up right around this time. So my dad flew the coop, and I was left alone with Mom. And since all she did was work as a waitress at a local restaurant, mostly in the evenings, neither of us were in the lap of luxury.
I will say this for my mom: she's a fine-looking woman. I bet she got more tips just from her ample boobs and wiggling hips than most of the other waitresses at that restaurant; and she looked quite a bit younger than her forty-four years. Her name is Elizabeth, but she liked to be called Betty.
Mom was a nice, sweet, caring woman—a bit too caring, in fact. She was kind of smothering and overprotective of me, especially after Dad left and I was all she had. She kept hovering around me when I was doing homework (as if there was any way she could help with that!), and in general treated me as if I were a kid. Don't get me wrong: I loved her, but I could have used a little more space.
Things got complicated when I started getting interested in a girl at my community college named Linda, who was almost exactly the same age as me. She was kind of shy, but I like that in a girl. No guy wants a girl who comes on too strong—you know what I mean? What this meant was that it took a lot of effort for me to get Linda to, well, get cuddly. There were times when she thought that even kissing was too much for her!
Finally, one evening I persuaded her to come over to the tiny little two-bedroom house Mom and I were living in. I was convinced that something would happen: we'd been going out for about two weeks, and I'd barely managed to give her a few hugs at the end of our unsatisfying "dates." But I think she was finally starting to open up (no pun intended!), and she herself hooked arms with me as we walked back to my place. I could feel her boob brushing up against my chest as we walked—and I'm sure that was deliberate on her part!
Mom wouldn't come home until at least 11 p.m., the usual time she got off work. I figured that would give Linda and me plenty of time to do—whatever.
Even so, the moment Linda walked into the house she seemed to get all agitated. The place was so small that, the moment you entered it, you could see my bedroom and Mom's bedroom leading off of the living room. Linda's eyes got big at the mere sight of a bed. She was no dummy: she knew exactly what I had in mind!
I tried to make her feel at home by putting on some soft music on the CD player in the living room. For a while we just sat there on the couch. After about half an hour, she allowed me to put an arm around her; it took even longer for her to rest her head against my chest. I snaked my hand down from her shoulder—I could have taken hold of her left breast, but I'm sure she would have freaked out at that. Man, these timid girls! Don't they feel the urge themselves? Are they really satisfied with just rubbing themselves in the privacy of their own bedrooms?
At long, long last Linda started getting snuggly. She gazed up at me with this look that seemed to combine fear and longing. I just started kissing her lightly: women like that, don't they? Not even an open-mouthed kiss, and certainly no tongue. I think she was starting to get in the mood: she was letting out these quiet little moans and sighs, and she wrapped her arms around my neck and pressed her tits against my chest.
I actually wanted to move to my bed, but I thought that might make Linda nervous; anyway, we were really comfortable right here on the couch. So I slowly—very slowly—reached down and unbuttoned the top button of her blouse.
She watched my fingers as if hypnotized, but didn't try to stop me. Encouraged, I went ahead and undid the second button. Now I could see quite a bit of her cleavage, and the top part of her bra. Oh, man, I was going to ring the bell tonight!
I started kissing her more vigorously—on her cheeks and neck and throat. I even stuck my tongue into her ear: that drives women wild, believe you me! In fact, Linda burst out with a surprised squeal when I did that, but otherwise didn't try to stop me.
By now I'd undone all the buttons on her blouse, and was staring intently at those heavenly breasts (fairly large—not as large as Mom's, though!) even though they were still encased by a white bra.
Then something horrible happened.
I saw and heard Mom's car pull into the driveway.
It was unmistakable: the headlights shone through the big picture window in the living room. Who else would be parking a car in our driveway? And yet, it was only just after 10 o'clock! What the hell was Mom doing coming home so early?
Well, you can imagine Linda's reaction. She knew I lived alone with my mom, and she had no doubt who was in that car. Now almost shrieking with horror, she clutched the two sides of her blouse together, not bothering to try buttoning them up, and ran around like a chicken with its head cut off. Luckily, we hadn't turned on very many lights in the house, so Mom wouldn't have been able to see what was going on inside.
"I gotta get out of here!" she whispered at me.
"Yeah, yeah, I know," I said, angry and frustrated.
Luckily, we have a side door in the kitchen where you can get out if you don't want to use the front door. If that hadn't been there, Linda would probably have had to resort to the age-old practice of hiding in a closet until Mom had gone to bed. She dashed to that door, scrabbled at the knob, and got it open. With her backpack slung over one shoulder, she bolted out of the house without even saying a word or giving me a goodbye kiss.
I was fuming. This might be the end of my whole relationship—if you can call it that—with Linda. So close, and yet so far!
But I didn't stop to reflect on that. I could hear Mom making her brisk way to the front door, in those sexy high heels she made a point of wearing at the restaurant. I fled to my own bedroom, where I stripped to my underwear in a matter of seconds and slipped under the sheets. It was kind of early, but I figured that pretending to be asleep—or at least getting ready to go to sleep—was the best way I could act as if nothing unusual had happened that evening.
Mom came in, dumping her handbag on an easy chair near the front door, as she always did. She was dressed in her waitress's outfit, of course, and immediately noticed the absence of lights in the house and the fact that I was already in bed.
"Are you asleep, dear?" she called out in her high, musical voice.
"No, Mom," I muttered. "What are you doing home so soon?"
"Don't you remember? I worked late last night, so tonight I left an hour early.
Of course! What a dummy I was for forgetting that.
"It's a little early for you to go to bed, isn't it?" she went on.
"I guess."
"You're not sick, are you?" (See what I mean? Always being a bit oversolicitous.)
"No, Mom, I'm fine—just tired."
"Well, I'll look in on you after I change."
She went in to her own bedroom, and I could hear her take her clothes off. She hadn't bothered to close the door! I couldn't help thinking of what Mom looked like naked. Of course I'd never seen her that way, but given how tantalizingly close I'd come to "scoring" with Linda, my imagination was working overtime!
In a matter of minutes, Mom drifted into my bedroom, wearing her favorite nightgown. I have to say it looked spectacular on her: it only went down to about the middle of her thighs, and it also had a low-cut scoop neck that allowed me to see a lot of her cleavage. I know, I know—I'm not supposed to think of my mom that way. But at that moment I couldn't help it!
She sat down at the corner of my bed, only inches from me. She had this concerned look on her face. She peered at me keenly and said, "You sure you're okay?"
"I'm
fine,
Mom!" I said impatiently.