I saw what for the first time actually looked like remorse. He reached for his sash once again, closing his robe around him.
“I’m going out to the pool,” he stated suddenly. The softness in his eyes once again hardening as he spoke. “Go…shower, make yourself presentable,” he said speaking to his mother, ignoring me completely as he did so. “Put on your bikini, make it a sexy revealing one,” he added yet yet content with the way things had so far transpired. “And then come outside and join me,” he told her, still ignoring me completely. He then turned and quickly headed back into his bedroom to dress.
I wanted to follow him, grab him and shake him, shake some sense into him if I could, and nearly did so. Sophia however grabbed my arm, tears running down her face. “No Jen, don’t!” She said, looking at me pleadingly to let it go…let him go. “I know him, I know he’s not being himself, he just needs more time to work through this,” she stated. She tried smiling then, looking at me. “But thank you…thank you for being there for me,” she added, and then stood preparing to head off and shower herself.
“I’m coming with you,” I told her, not taking no for an answer, and moments later followed her into her room.
**
Minutes later we were both standing in her shower. The nearly scalding hot water bathing each of us as she stood there beneath it, her hands reaching out in front of herself, braced against the wall. I stood behind her, hugging her to me, my head pressed against her shoulder, the water pounding away down upon each of us, making it almost hard to breathe. I didn’t care, nor did she.
I noticed however as we stood there, a subtle movement of her body, just managing to look down as she stood there, legs slightly spread, fingering herself. Under normal circumstances, most would have thought her actions bizarre, and perhaps in a way they were. But I knew my friend, I knew this was no more than a desire and a need for emotional release more than pleasurable.
“Let me,” I said softly, reaching around replacing her hand with my own as I tenderly began stroking her, petting her. Once again Sophia supported herself against the wall, leaning forward, allowing me easier access to her as I molded my body against hers, my fingers now probing her, gently caressing her as I did so.
She came quietly, shivering, shuddering there in front of me, her tears falling, mingling with the shower now cleansing us both.
**
Once again as Jared had asked her, Sophia had slipped into one of her briefest, tiniest and most sexy bikinis. A black one that so complimented her body and skin tone. French cut, her marvelously sculpted twin ass cheeks were completely bare, only the briefest of coverings over her pubic mound. I was glad that she had still chosen to wear the top as opposed to going out topless to the pool even though that was allowed. At least in that, she allowed herself some dignity,
even though her breasts still threatened to pour from the top all by themselves, thus revealing herself. I too had put on a bikini, but a far less revealing one, likewise covering myself as much as was possible, wondering even as we did, as we soon finished making ourselves “presentable” as Jared had asked us, what we’d find when we joined him out by the pool.
He was indeed sitting there waiting for us as we emerged from the room. He had taken a seat at one of the pool patio tables beneath an umbrella. I noticed as we drew closer he had already ordered a couple of tropical, though alcoholic drinks for us. A bit early perhaps, even now…but I was surprisingly grateful that he had.
I noticed he too had a drink in front of him, but the stir stick announced it was a “virgin” non-alcoholic drink. I found that very fitting, and very ironic under the circumstances. But I noticed something else too as we both took our seats on either side of him, quickly sipping our drinks. His eyes once again had changed, the anger in them replaced by what I knew to be pure guilt as I looked at him.
“As soon as I finish this, I’ll be leaving,” he told his mother. “I’m sorry for the way I’ve been acting, for what I’ve forced you to do. And just so you know, as soon as I can, I plan on moving out, getting a place of my own, and going back to school,” he added. I was glad and highly pleased to see him sitting there looking a little shame-faced, more so when he also turned to address me.
“And I’m sorry for what I’ve said and done to you too. You didn’t deserve any of that either. I appreciate what you did for me, the things you taught me, the friendship that you gave me even though I later thought you were just having fun with me at my own expense. I know now, thinking about it, that never really was your intent. I enjoyed everything we did, every bit as much as you did, or at least I hope you did. So…again, I am sorry for the way I’ve treated you too.”
“That’s ok, we all make mistakes Jared,” I said softening in my own anger towards him.
“Mom?” Jared said, finally calling Sophia by the name he’d once used far more affectionately. She looked up expectantly without answering. “Maybe I am adopted. And I think it was the shock of hearing about it the way that I did that threw me, caused me to react, and then act the way that I did.
There’s still no excuse for doing that however. You are my mom, you’re the only mom I’ve ever known, will ever have. And I’m sorry for treating you the way that I did, the way that I have, for forcing you to do the things that you did. And so I truly am sorry for that, which is why I do think it’s best if I move out, find a place of my own as soon as I can.”
“Jared, you’re not the only one to blame here. I allowed certain things to happen, which never should have. That’s my own damn fault, but it had nothing to do with you being my adopted son, as I’ve never looked at you in that way. So to have gotten curiously aroused, is even more devastating to all this, that I should ever have allowed it to go in the first place. And that one’s on me…not on you. For me to think that I was helping you, by coercing my dearest and very best friend into taking your virginity, was not my place.”
“Sophia!” I said, trying to interrupt her, but she waved me off.
“No, please…let me finish here. It’s not my place to do that. You and you alone will know when it’s right, when it’s time…and with whom. I was wrong to suggest and think otherwise, even if I did so with the best of intentions.”
“But see mother…that’s where you’re not getting it either. No disrespect Jennefer,” he said looking at me. “Like I told you before, I really was tempted, and nearly gave in to it a couple of times, but…the thing here, ever since Jill and I broke up, it’s you who I’ve been thinking and fantasizing about, so when I discovered that you were in fact involved in some of the things that happened, even to the degree that you were, I thought then I was finally going to have that opportunity, to finally do it, not with anyone else…but with you.”