All characters portrayed are over the age of eighteen.
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James offers to make his mother an online dating profile and to take some sexy photos for her to post.
James remembered how his father and mother continually fought and argued. The same redundantly looping argument every day, stopping at one place one day to continue the argument in the same place the next day, he hated when they argued. It was obvious to him that his father no longer loved his mother in the way that she loved him and in the way that James loved her. It was obvious to him that his father had a woman on the side that he was seeing and screwing. Only, at the time, he didn't know that his father was fucking 18-year-old girlfriend, Jessica.
Not believing he'd be fucking someone his own age, he figured his father would be having sex with a much younger woman and he was right. His father couldn't find a woman more beautiful and who had a better body unless she was much younger. He was shocked when the younger woman was Jessica. Just as his mother was surprised that he had been having sex with a woman half his age, James was surprised that his father had been having sex with his girlfriend.
"In the way that he constantly and continually mistreated you, lied to you, and cheated on you, I don't understand why you still miss the man. He was a drunk and a pig for taking up with my ex-girlfriend, a woman young enough to be his daughter," he said which was what he hoped to do with his mother. Convoluted in logic, he hoped that his mother would not only take up with a man young enough to be her son but also with a man who was her son. "That's disgusting. He's disgusting," said James. "You've wasted enough time and tears over him."
As if finally understanding that her ex-husband leaving her wasn't her fault and that she needed to get over him and move on with her life, she looked at James to acknowledge what he said about his father with renewed insight. As if finally realizing that her ex-husband leaving her was the best thing that could have ever happened, she was better off without him. Yet, nonetheless her insightfulness, she looked at her son with sadness. She looked as if she was about to cry.
"You're right. I know you're right. For him to treat me like that, after all these years, was wrong, but it still hurts," she said while holding back her tears. "I'm glad he's gone."
He looked at her wondering why she was here with him instead of attending some Christmas party or singles only, romantic dance at a nightclub while hoping to meet someone. Tempted to ask his mother out on the town, he imagined dancing with her and having a good, sexual time with her afterwards. He imagined going parking with his mother after the dance. He imagined making out with his mother while feeling her through her clothes. He imagined having sex with his mother in her car or at some fleabag motel.
Only, how would that look with him treating his mother as if she was his date? What if they saw someone they knew? Besides, until he found a good paying job, he didn't have money enough to go anywhere and to do anything. He had already blown his budget in buying her Christmas Day gifts. Not yet finding a job after graduating college, as an unemployed man, he couldn't afford to date his mother. With what his father left her and with her good job, his mother was taking care of him. With her the older woman and him the younger man, he was his mother's bitch.
"You need to go out more Mother. You need to meet someone. You need to forget about him and move on with your life," he said pausing while looking to see what reaction, if any, his words had on her.
Seeing her in the glow of the Christmas tree lights, she was so beautiful. Seeing her wearing his favorite panty flashing skirt, she was so sexy. Before looking up at him to answer him, she looked down at her champagne glass as if all her answers were there. If only she knew that the only answer she had was sitting across from her.
"I know you're right James but sometimes, especially when I'm feeling sad and lonely, my head and my heart go in opposite directions. Too preoccupied thinking about him, where he is and what he's doing, I'm not ready to have a relationship with another man, not just yet," she said.
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As if she needed that extra bit of head action to prove to him that she wasn't interested in finding a man, she slowly shook her head while looking out the window behind him and he turned to look too.
"It's snowing," he said. "I love watching the snow fall. A good time to think without the noise of everyday life, everything gets so quiet when it's snowing."
As if they had never seen snow before, they watched the snow silently fall.
"At least we'll have a white Christmas Day," she said changing the subject with a smile. "I love freshly fallen snow. Maybe we can play in the snow and make snow angels and a snowman tomorrow."
As much as he'd love to play in the snow with his mother and roll around with her making snow angels, he refused to allow her to change the subject. As if she was his snow bunny and they were at a ski lodge, he'd love to kiss her in the snow. He'd love to have hot sex with her in the cold snow. Yet, he needed to break her out of her sadness. He needed to encourage her to go out and meet someone.