Stepping off the plane into the warm evening air of Majorca I felt that the holiday had really begun, rainy & cold England was a long way away and the only thing I had to worry about over the next couple of weeks was where the next cold beer was coming from. This would probably be the last time I went to the villa with Mum and Dad, we'd rented the same place every year since I was a kid. After graduating from University it was probably time for me to strike out on my own, but if my parents wanted to treat me to one last free holiday in the sun I wasn't going to stop them.
We made our way along the winding coastal road in the hire car, the villa was on the quieter, less touristy side of the island. Mum & Dad had taught me that there was no point going on holiday just to be surrounded by other Brits eating a full English breakfast at a bar full of the kind of people we'd flown away from anyway, they wanted a more traditional experience and always got it in the sleepy seaside village we called home every Summer.
Parking up in the village square a familiar ritual began, Dad headed off to meet the letting agent to get our keys to the villa, Mum went to the little market to grab some beers and breakfast, and I got a couple of takeout pizzas for our dinner. After the flight and drive we were never in the mood to cook or go to a restaurant, and anyway, who doesn't love pizza?
The villa was a couple of minutes drive out of the village, as we pulled up everything looked the same as we had left it last year. My parents couldn't afford to buy a second home in the sun, but this sure felt like it. After Dad opened the door Mum barged past him and ran straight to the toilet, frankly, I was surprised that she'd lasted this long without making us stop on the drive from the airport. I was left to carry in the luggage whilst Dad hunted down the plates and glasses for our dinner.
"Why do they have to move everything around? What was wrong before?" Dad didn't really like change, I suppose that's why we've been coming to the same place every year, but we all loved it here and looked forward to the trip every year, and with there being an unspoken agreement that this would be the last time I'd join my parents it felt even more special than usual.
Mum walked into the kitchen and found the plates immediately, "a woman knows" she said, giving me a quick wink. We sat on the sofa and watched Spanish TV whilst eating our pizza (how a Sicilian ended up opening a pizza parlour in a small village on the 'wrong' side of Majorca I don't know, but I'm glad he did), we could barely understand the show, but it was good to have a bit and noise and we all enjoyed making fun of the adverts, as I'm sure the Spaniards do with our ads in the UK.
After dinner I headed out onto the terrace overlooking the sea, it was pitch black out but I could hear the waves lapping against the shore down the hill, it was only a short walk down to the beach and I knew I'd be spending plenty of time there trying and failing to surf over the next couple of weeks. I also knew I'd be spending a decent amount of time checking out the local talent, it was a quiet beach mostly visited by locals and the occasional tourist doing a day trip around the island, but the local girls were pretty liberal and often went topless.
I'd packed the long lens for my camera knowing that I'd have a decent view of the beach from the wide balcony in front of the bedrooms and could get some great shots of women on the beach without there being a chance of getting spotted. Sure, it was a bit perverted, but I'm a bit of a voyeur like that and it wouldn't harm anyone.
It dawned on me that it was a bit sad that I was so looking forward to spying on these women and jerking off to their picture when I was on holiday, but I'd never been a hit with girls in school and then at University. They took no interest in me, I told myself and others that I was just focused on getting good grades but I think everyone knew that was a cover, I was just clueless when it came to women, great at being a friend, but awkward and tongue tied when it came to anything more than that. So that's how I found myself as a 21-year old virgin who had managed to graduate from university (where everyone gets laid) having just drunkenly kissed a couple of girls. I halfheartedly told myself I might have a holiday fling, but knew it wasn't going to happen.
I flicked off the outdoor light and pool illuminations (I never understood why the villa had a pool when it was barely 100 yards from the sea, but Mum liked to go in there when she didn't feel like getting all sandy and salty) and headed indoors to find Mum and Dad cuddled up on the sofa watching a Spanish gameshow on which all the women were wearing bikinis, Dad looked over and said "see Steve, these guys know how to make a TV show!" I had to agree with him. It was lovely to see them so happy and content together, I know that not many families stay together these days and I had certainly come to appreciate them more when I was away from home studying, I guess it's true that absence does make the heart grow fonder.
All the traveling had caught up with me and I was feeling tired, I said goodnight to my parents and headed up the stairs to my room, dragging my case behind me, flopped down on my bed (one of the benefits of being an only child was not having to share a room with a brother or sister on holiday, I enjoyed the freedom and tended to sleep naked, especially in this heat) and fell into a deep sleep.
I awoke to sunshine streaming in through big window that opened onto the balcony, I must have forgotten to close the blinds last night. I drearily looked at my phone and it said 8am, hardly a long lie in for the start of a holiday but when I'm up I'm up so I decided I might as well be the first up and get breakfast sorted for us all. I got out of bed and stood at the window looking out to sea, it was beautiful, I understood why Dad wanted to come back year after year. I opened the window to step out onto the balcony and suddenly became aware of my nakedness. The villa and it's terrace were secluded and out of view from the beach but if a morning dog walker was looking straight up they'd have seen more than they expected in the form of a stark naked untanned Englishman.
I grabbed a pair of shorts out of my case and went out again. It was at this point I realised I wasn't the first up, Mum was already downstairs sat by the pool reading a book, probably some trash that she'd picked up at the airport. Looking through the window into my parents bedroom on the other side of the balcony I could see that Dad was still dead to the world, and fair enough, I'd have been tired after having to drive in a foreign country on the wrong side of the road at night after a long flight.
I turned my attention back to Mum, I was about to yell good morning when I realised she had no idea I was up on the balcony. My voyeuristic side took over and I decided to just enjoy watching her. My lack of skills with women had led me to have some pretty messed up feelings about my own mother, she was the only woman who loved me no matter what and my perverted mind had twisted that into making her a fantasy woman since I had hit puberty.
I'd often masturbated thinking about her and whilst she dressed quite conservatively at home I still found her attractive and savoured every hint of cleavage or glimpse of leg that I caught, sometimes she'd exercise in Lycra at home and I'd have to leave the room to make sure she didn't catch me staring. I went snooping in my parents bedroom at home years ago and found some skimpy lingerie buried deep in a drawer so I was sure that Mum has a wild side that I'd never seen before.
She was reclined on a sun lounger next to the pool, book in one hand and a glass of orange juice in the other. Her one-piece swimsuit wasn't exactly sexy, but it was more of her than I'd seen for a long time and certainly showed off her curves. By no means did she had the body of a model, at almost 50 she was starting to show signs of her age but I still liked it, you could tell that she was a woman, flared hips, a bit of a tummy and lovely large round breasts with a bit of sag to them (38DD, an excellent bit of information gathered from a snooping mission to Mum's underwear drawer).