Chapter 7 - Paradise
Daniel stood on the stairs, shrinking cock in his hand as his eyes burned into his mother's. She was still laying on the sofa, hand covering her pussy as she occasionally twitched and moaned as aftershocks continued to wash over her. They had just watched each other cum. There was no running away, no hiding from it. Everything Daniel had worked so hard to avoid had happened. Candy now knew what a disgusting pervert her son was, masturbating over his own mother and cumming all over her staircase. Except, she had moaned his name. Was she as fucked up as he was? He didn't have time to think about that as each second that passed felt like an hour, each terrified to move, like animals caught in the headlights of an oncoming car.
Each human has an in-built system of fight or flight. In this moment, Daniel could either own up to what happened, confront Candy and talk to her like an adult or he could do the opposite, which is exactly what he did. He turned and ran, back up the stairs and into the bedroom, throwing himself under the covers and pulling them over his head. Maybe this was all a dream after all? Maybe he'd wake up any second? As more time passed it became clearer than no matter how much he wished that to be true, it wasn't the case. Maybe Candy would just pretend like nothing happened? But how was he supposed to look his mum in the eye now? How were they ever going to be able to bond as mother and son with this huge, dirty secret hanging between them?
He froze as he heard footsteps ascending the stairs. Candy was coming. He couldn't run. "Fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!" Daniel whispered to himself as he waited to hear the bedroom door swing open. Would she kick him out of the house? Disown him forever? Would that be worse than having never met her? His anxiety was through the roof as he forced himself to take deep breaths, trying to calm down. She was at the top of the stairs now. Mere moments away from entering the room, but to Daniels' shock, he heard another door open and close. Based on where the noise came from, Candy had gone into the spare bedroom. Apparently she was a lot like her own child, she couldn't bear to face up to what had happened either.
Daniel spent the next hour tossing and turning, mind racing as he replayed what had happened over and over again in his mind. He was wracked with guilt and shame for what he had done, for not being able to control himself. Maybe he would just leave in the morning and never come back? No, he couldn't do that. He'd waited twenty one years to meet her, he couldn't run away now. One way or another, he was going to have to deal with this. Finally, at around five in the morning, exhaustion overtook him and Daniel fell asleep, but even while deep in slumber, his brain wouldn't let him escape from what he had done. Nightmares about being in the stocks as people pelted him with childhood toys percolated his sleeping mind. His adopted parents refusing to look at him as he was sentenced to life in what the judge described as "pervert jail." A bird pecking him in the face over and over. A never ending spiral staircase to his cell. Loneliness and despair.
Daniel woke up in a cold sweat, his nightmare still feeling oh so real as he blinked his eyes open. For a couple of minutes, the images conjured by his mind had driven out the very real images he had seen just a couple of hours earlier. Finally his memories returned. Candy lying on the sofa, fingers delving into the folds of her pussy and moaning. Him stroking himself from the stairs. Staring into each other's eyes as they both came. Him fleeing to the safety of the bedroom. Now he remembered it all.
Before he could even think he was out of bed, pulling on his clothes and heading for the door. He needed to get out of here. He was relieved to find Candy was nowhere to be seen and after pulling on his shoes, he grabbed Steve's old key from the hook, opened the front door and started walking. He didn't know where he was going, he didn't know what he was thinking, he just knew he needed to move.
After several minutes he found himself outside of a small park, the outskirts of which were lined with numerous trees, providing shade from the early morning sunshine. He decided to walk inside, following a long tarmac path between flowerbeds until he came to an open area, with the path circling around a large grassy area. There were a few people already there, a couple of middle aged women running laps of the looped path and some parents with their children. Daniel took a seat on a park bench, exhaling heavily, as if he had been holding his breath ever since he remembered the event of the previous night. As he looked around, his focus settled on a young mother and her son. The little boy must have only been about five and was kicking a football around the grass and laughing as his mum chased after him, feigning as if she was trying to get the ball and unable to do so. He couldn't help but think that this might be what he and Candy would have been like if she hadn't abandoned him all those years ago.
Tears suddenly welled up in his eyes and before he knew it he was sobbing, tears running down his cheeks as he sat in the warm morning air, staring down at the floor.
"Are you ok?" asked an unfamiliar voice. Daniel looked up and saw it was the lady that had been playing with her son, a look of concern written on her face. It made sense, a young man crying on a park bench is hardly an ordinary occurrence.
"I... I'm not sure." Daniel replied, wiping the tears from his eyes as he did his best to compose himself in front of this stranger. She sat down on the bench next to him, keeping one eye on her son as she spoke.
"What's your name?"
"D... Daniel."
"I don't want to pry Daniel, it's not really any of my business, but whatever's going on with you, you'll be ok." She looked over at him, smiling warmly. "I know I'm a stranger, but I know a lot about bad times. My brother had a lot of them."
"Your brother?"
"Yeah, he's about your age, probably why I came over to talk with you actually, you kinda look like him." She glanced over to her son again, who was dribbling the ball closer to the tarmac path. "Stay on the grass sweetie!" she shouted to him before continuing. "He dealt with depression for a long time. The one thing I always told him is that whatever's going on, you need to find someone you can talk to. Someone you can be honest with. Do you have someone like that Daniel?"
Daniel smiled in response. "Yeah... yeah I do."
"Ok, good." The kind lady replied. "I need to get back to my son, take care of yourself Daniel, ok?"
"I will," Daniel replied, "Thanks for the advice." He watched the lady walk back over to her son, sweeping him up in her arms and spinning him round. Daniel smiled as he pictured Candy in his mind's eye. He got up from the bench and started walking back towards the park exit. He knew what he needed to do now. He needed to get back to his room at the hotel and he needed to talk to Louise.