Summary:
A sexy mom cheers up her heartbroken son.
Note 1: This is a Valentine's Day 2019 Contest story, so please vote.
Note 2: Thanks to Tex Beethoven, Robert and Wayne for editing this story.
Regifted Lingerie Surprise
I was feeling pretty down and already rather tipsy when my son came into the house, way earlier than he was supposed to be home after a romantic Valentine's Day evening.
I asked, as he trudged in still carrying Angela's gift bag in his hand, "Did you forget something, honey?"
His response broke my heart.
No words, he just began sobbing. He turned his head away trying to hide it from me, but his grief was obviously beyond his control.
First time I'd seen him cry since his father had passed almost a year ago.
"Oh honey," I said, rushing over and pulling him in for a hug. "What happened?"
"She... broke... up with me," he managed between sobs.
"Oh honey," I repeated, rubbing the back of his head and his back, while I thought,
What kind of heartless bitch dumps someone on Valentine's Day?
I then thought,
Well, at least she didn't get her present.
After a moment he told of her adding insult to injury, "She left me for Mike."
Mike was his best friend. Apparently, in mere seconds his entire world had come crashing down around him.
Bruce and Angela had been dating since their freshman year.
Bruce and Mike had been best friends since middle school.
It was rare not to see all three of them together.
In no scenario could I have imagined this ever happening.
Again, I repeated my motherly condolences, "Oh sweetheart, I'm so sorry."
"I just can't believe it," he said, looking at me so sad, so completely bewildered.
"I can't either," I admitted, likely not helping the situation, but I didn't know what else to say.
"How could they do that to me?" he asked, shifting from hurt to angry.
"I don't know," I said; I really had no answer for this.
As a parent, there's no worse feeling than coming up empty for your child when he's hurting.
I'd felt equally helpless when his father died in a car accident.
I didn't know what to tell him when he questioned why God would do such a thing. The drunk driver had survived, and he'd spent less than three months in jail. A year later, Carl was still dead.
As before, I had no magic wand to fix what had happened today.
"They fucking told me they've been fucking behind my fucking back since fucking New Year's Eve!" he wrenched out, his burst of words filled with the acidic taste of betrayal.
"Oh my God!" I gasped, this double-team stab in the back making a terrible situation even worse.
"Mike apologized profusely and explained it had just happened, and they fell in love," he continued. "Angela was more nonchalant, as if this was no big deal. I'm not sure which hurt... hurts more."
"Oh honey, can I get you something to eat?" I said; some comfort food usually helped me feel better.
He responded, "Not in the mood. How about something to drink?"
I'd let him drink at home since he was eighteen, deciding it was better to have him at home under the influence than somewhere else, especially after my husband's death. Which meant I knew he was someplace safe while he drank... and I wouldn't have to fret at home alone, worrying about what might happen to him.
When Carl had still been alive, we'd been a bit more eager to have Bruce out of the house for several hours during an evening, since our preferred version of lovemaking had gotten very loud and when Bruce was home it was difficult to restrain ourselves.
"You can join me; I'm already on my third glass of wine," I offered, pointing to the more than half-empty bottle.
My son, a super sweet boy, shifted his problems aside and focused on me. "Oh, Mom I'm so sorry, I should have been more considerate. This is your first Valentine's Day without Dad."
I loved that he cared and that he could even set aside his own pain sufficiently to realize and to care about what I was going through; but I didn't want to make this about me, so I brushed it aside, "Oh sweetie, I'm fine."
"No woman is ever fine when they tell you they're fine," he pointed out accurately, something he'd learned from his father.
"I'm okay," I rephrased, downing the remainder of my third glass of wine.
"Same thing, Mom," he pointed out.
"Fine," I began, and then laughed at automatically falling back on my go-to word. "You're right, honey: I've been better," I admitted.
"Oh Mom," he said, hugging
me
this time.
It felt so good to have someone's arms wrapped around me, someone who cared about me, something I hadn't had since the funeral just after Carl had died. There had been lots of hugging then, but it wasn't the same.
When he released me, I consoled, "Well, at least we have each other."
"That we do," he nodded, and went off (still sadly) to get himself a drink.
I poured myself wineglass number four which emptied the bottle, sat back down on the couch, put my feet up on the coffee table, and took another sip.
He returned with a filled glass in each hand as he joked, "I've got some catching up to do."
"Get to drinking then, Mr. Two-Fisted Drinker," I smiled, wondering whether it made me an understanding mom or a bad parent to be drinking with my son.
I mean, he
is
eighteen. That's legal drinking age in Alberta where we live. So it wasn't really wrong. And he wouldn't need to drive home. Not surprisingly, our family had a real thing about impaired driving.
He downed his first whiskey in seconds, and then sat down beside me.