I had just gotten home from a party, and I was just getting into bed when the phone rang, I picked it up and the voice on the other end identified himself as a police officer. Naturally I was very concerned, he said there had been an "incident" involving my mother but she was ok, and asked if I could come down to the hospital and bring some clothes for her. I tried to get some details from him but clearly he didn't want to give out much information. I assumed she had been in some sort of traffic accident or had gotten ill somehow, I grabbed a long sleeved tee-shirt and a pair of sweat pants for her and left for the hospital.
When I got to the hospital I was taken to her room where there was a nurse along with two police officers, one of them was talking to her, the other one came over to me and I recognized his voice from the phone, he informed me that my mother had been raped. I was shocked to say the least, that was something that I never though about, I looked over at her, except for a bruise under her left eye she seemed ok. As I was trying to absorb all of this I heard her tell the nurse that she just wanted to go home. Then the nurse and the police officers, detectives I guess they didn't have uniforms on, left and told me to take care of her and that they would be in touch.
I went over to her and asked, "are you alright" yea I know a dumb question of course she wasn't.
She said "I'll be fine, did you bring me something to wear?" I nodded yes and handed her the paper bag that I had her things in. She looked inside and took the shirt and sweat pants out and said, "thanks".
Then she got out of bed she was in one of those silly hospital robes, and she stood up facing away from me, he naked rear end was sticking out, then it dawned on me that I should have also brought her some underwear. And then I felt a bit guilty for looking at her ass, when she pulled up her sweat pants I got a very good look at it and I was ashamed, not for looking at it, but looking at it under these circumstances. She then slipped off the robe and pulled the shirt over her head, I didn't see her breast, but once again I felt bad because I was trying too.
I signed her out of the hospital, and on the drive home neither of us spoke a word, I didn't know what to say and I'm sure she felt the same way. When we got home around 4:30 she grabbed some other things and went into the bathroom and took a very long shower. I went to bed but couldn't sleep, just kept thinking about what had happened to her and what a jerk I was for looking at her like that. I got out of bed around 8:00 she was still in her room with the door closed, I hoped she was sleeping, I laid down on the sofa and tried to nap a bit while I waited for her to get up. A bit before noon she finally came out of her room, I asked her if there was anything I could get her, she just shook her head "no" I asked if she was hungry she looked at me for a moment sort of puzzled and said "yea, I guess I am" so I cooked some pancakes, about the only thing I'm good at, and we ate quietly. She was still in the sweat pants I brought her but she had changed shirts and had put on a bra. We ate in near silence, and after I picked up the dishes I went over to sit next to her on the sofa, not knowing what else to say I asked, âare you all right?â