The next morning was as quiet and muted as a funeral. I woke up first and watched her sleeping for a few minutes until she woke up, and she smiled at me for a moment until she apparently remembered what had happened between us last night and then the look of shame and horror came over her face and she disappeared into the bathroom for a long time.
She told me to get dressed so we could get on the road as quick as possible. I said okay.
Less than an hour later we were climbing into the car and getting on the freeway. I was driving.
She sat in the passenger seat with sunglasses on, looking out the window at the passing fields and buildings. The radio was on to an oldies station.
I FUCKED MY MOTHER LAST NIGHT!!! My brain screamed it and images from that encounter blazed through my head with such intensity that I was literally dizzy sometimes.
I couldn't believe it had happened, FINALLY, that I'd been with the woman of my dreams, and she was only two feet away from me now, so close I could reach out and touch her...and any other woman who had done with me what Mom had done with me would LET me reach out and touch her, but I knew that if I did it, even to hold her hand, she'd probably just jump out of the car even though we were going 70 miles an hour. I wouldn't have put it past her.
But I had done it, and I was so full of pride and excitement, I had had sex with her, my gorgeous fantastic mother, my dream woman. She had become my lover, and she still was this morning, as much as she'd like to forget and deny it.
My mother was my lover. We had made love; we had had sex; we had slept together; we had fucked each other. That could never be taken away. It would be true forever. My mother and I had fucked.
So towns went by and we were silent, new radio stations were found, we stopped briefly for something to eat at a drive-thru, all the while silent and distant from each other, and at long last, in the early afternoon, I couldn't stand it anymore. Whatever happened, I had to address what had happened between us.
"Mom?" I said quietly.
"What, Teddy." Her voice was listless. She didn't look at me, just kept staring out the window.
"I love you."
She sighed. "Oh, Teddy. Please, let's not....let's just not."
"Why can't we? Can we just talk about it? Please?"
"No. NO. Please."
"Look, I don't want to upset you, or make you mad, but....I just have to say I love you so much and I'm so glad that that happened, and----"
"Teddy, STOP IT. I can't talk about it or I'll go crazy!"
"But WHY, Mom? Why? What's so horrible? We're both consenting adults, like they say, nobody took advantage of anybody or anything. You're acting like it was a rape or something. It was mutual, we BOTH wanted it to happen!"
I paused, looking at her. "Didn't we? I mean...you didn't feel like I was forcing you or anything, did you?" She was silent. "Mom?"
She took another deep breath. "No, Teddy, you didn't force me, for god's sake, all right? Of course you didn't, of course it wasn't....good grief.....it wasn't rape. Okay?"
"And YOU didn't force ME, you know that, right?"
Sigh. "Yes, Teddy, I know I didn't force you."
"So you wanted it to happen, then, right? If nobody forced anybody? Isn't that right? What happened last night was something that was.....uh....you know, OKAY with both of us? Voluntary? We both wanted it?"
"YES Teddy, yes. Okay?"
"You mean yes, you wanted for us to----"
"DON'T SAY IT."
"Why not? Why can't we say what happened?"
"We just can't," she whispered.
"But you said it last night."
"Last night was....was last night, Teddy. That's all."
"But didn't you enjoy it, Mom?" She didn't answer. "I mean, I'm not an expert or anything, but you SEEMED to be enjoying it. REALLY enjoying it." I grinned.
She looked at me. "Oh for god's sake, Teddy."
"Well, didn't you enjoy it? Didn't you?"
"YES, all right? Yes I enjoyed it! Okay?"
"Okay. And you know I enjoyed it, right? I mean, you could tell that I was enjoying it too, right? Could you tell that?"
She looked at me again, saw me grinning over at her, and despite herself she smiled for a second and rolled her eyes. "I can't believe this. Yes, Teddy, you were clearly enjoying it."
"Okay, so...." I passed a slow-moving car and got back in my lane, relaxing. Now I had her talking. That was a good sign. "So, I wanted it to happen, and YOU wanted it to happen, and I liked what we did, and YOU liked what we did, so.....what's the problem, exactly, then?"
"Teddy, the PROBLEM is that you are MY SON and I am YOUR MOTHER and people don't DO things like that, that's the problem!"
"Is that the only problem, Mom?"
She looked at me again. "What do you mean?"
"I'm just asking, is that the ONLY problem between us? I mean....I don't smell bad, and I did it right, I mean I'm okay in bed, and I'm a good kisser, you like my dick, and all that? It's not that I'm too young for you, I'm not your type, anything like that. Nothing else was wrong other than that one single thing. Is that right?"
She was silent a minute. "Yes, Teddy. Nothing else is wrong but THAT. But it's a pretty darn BIG---"
"Okay, so hold on a minute. So you're saying that we have only one problem, and otherwise we're compatible and we liked what we did with each other and everything is fine. You like what happened between us, you enjoyed it, and I definitely enjoyed it, there was nothing that happened last night that we both didn't enjoy and want to have happen.
"So that's our problem," I went on, "that you're my mom and I'm your son. And other than that, if not for that, you'd be as happy about what happened last night as I am, and you'd want it to happen again, and again, and again, and things would be hunky-dory between you and me right now. Right?"
"For crying out loud, Teddy!"
"But is that right?"
"YES. All right? Yes. It would be 'hunky-dory'."
"So we have this one single problem, and if not for that problem we'd be totally into each other and starting on this amazing thing that's happening between us. If not for that one problem. And that's it?"
"YES for crying out loud THAT'S IT. But that's a BIG problem, young man!"
"But why? It wasn't a problem last night. It didn't bother me at all, and it didn't seem to bother you at all, either, once we started....you know. Doing it." Silence again. "Did it bother you last night, at the time, while we were doing it? That I'm your---"
"No, Teddy, obviously it didn't bother me last night. I'm sure you could tell."
"Did you even THINK about it, Mom?"
Another long, loud sigh. "....No, actually, now that you mention it. I didn't think about it at all, while it was....happening."
I smiled at her. "You were too busy to think about it, I guess."
Another half-smile, staring down the road, arms crossed over her voluminous bosom, determinedly not looking at me. "Yes."
"Okay, so why does it bother you today? What's the difference between last night in bed and right now in the car, except that the sun is shining?"