CHAPTER 30

I walked into the kitchen and hugged Mom for the first time since leaving this morning, we shared a kiss and she tossed me a look of concern, ''You all right?'' she asked. I nodded and smiled, ''Yeah, now I am.'' I told her and pulled out a chair.

Bobbie came out from the lounge a moment later and took a seat next to me, her hair was still a little wet and she was wearing her bath robe.

''Bobbie, what happened to getting dried off and into your pyjamas?'' I asked.

''Don't worry about that, I'm sorting her out.'' Mom quickly told me, Bobbie shot me a sly smile and stuck her tongue out at me.

''Fair enough,'' I replied.

Nobody cooked it better, ever. And I don;t care what people will say about this restaurant or that restaurant. It was one of my favourite meals and it was just another thing she did better than anybody else.

I stared at her across the table as I cleared my plate, her foot brushed against my leg and a sly grin appeared on her face. For a moment I thought about 'dropping my fork', but Bobbie was here and I didn't want her falling any deeper down the rabbit hole. Which was hypocritical of me I know, considering I had been the one responsible for her sexual awareness.

We both helped Mom clean up after, and as Bobbie left the room for the lounge and I couldn't resist slipping my hands around the waist of my mother and kissing her on the back of her neck. He hand swept over mine and she leaned her head back, turning it to kiss me.

''Bobbie was right you know, I do have a surprise in store. It's something I've thought about a lot of the last day or so.'' she told me.

''What is it?'' I asked. She smiled and shied away for a moment before I pulled her back against me, I kissed her again and the smile returned to her face, ''What is it?'' I asked again.

''You'll find out when you come to bed tonight, I was thinking about having an early night.'' she replied.

''An early night sounds good, what time?'' I asked glancing at the clock, it was a little after seven and I knew that Bobbie would be trying to find a movie for us all to watch right about now.

''Seven-thirty?'' she suggested.

''Bobbie will still be around.'' I told her, she smiled again and nodded her head, ''I know,'' she answered.

''Fair enough then.'' I said.

While Mom left the kitchen I went out the back door, taking a moment for fresh air to clear my head.

It had been a long weekend and I had the feeling it was going to be a long week too, I sat down and ran my fingers through my hair as my focus was on the far end of the yard. There was a sudden rustle in the bush and it startled me, the damn cats around here drove everybody crazy. Nobody ever seemed to know who they belonged to.

It was then that the over grown bush that had wrapped around the back gate burst open, I almost leapt out of my skin as the figure tumbled forward and dropped to the ground. I ran over and rolled the guy onto his back, it was Dad.

I pulled back in shock as he looked up at me and began trying to speak, he was still in the same clothes he wore the day he walked out of the house. Where had he been? All I could make out from his verbal attempts was low level slurred mutterings and gargles. I looked down at him like the piece of crap he was for perhaps the first time in my life. His eyes were rolling all over the place, he reached up for me but I swatted his hand away in disgust.

I thought about the abuse Mom had suffered at his hands, verbal, mental and physical. The neglect and the cheating that had probably been going on behind her back for years, both before and after the babysitter.

''You have no idea how happy everyone has been with you gone. Why did you come back?'' I asked, I didn't even want him to answer me, I had grown so much as a person in just a few days I couldn't hold back any more.

I looked down at him once more, ''Before you pass out, which is what we all know you're about to do, I want you to crawl back underneath the rock you came out from and stay there. If you ever loved Mom, me or Bobbie you'd stay away.'' I told him.

I then turned around and walked back into the house, closing and locking the door behind me I didn't look back once.

I passed the lounge on my way to the stairs, the television was off and the lights out. I flicked off the rest of the lights and made my way upstairs, I passed Mom's room and smiled, I couldn't wait to get in there. Even with Dad out the back I didn't care, that was my bed now. The bed I shared with her.

I walked into my room and crossed to my bed, scooping up my phone and plugging the charger into it. There were still no text messages and while somewhere in the back of my mind there was a small amount of worry beginning to build, I forced it out of my mind.

I left my room and made my way up to Mom's door, I held back the smile as I turned the handle and pushed the door open.

I couldn't believe it, for a brief moment my mind refused to believe the vision before my eyes. Mom was sitting with her back against the headboard, her long gorgeous legs were crossed and in black stockings. Her skimpy little black thong matched with the suspenders, her bra was of a transparent nylon, her perfect brown nipples poking through the fabric.

Sitting next to her, was Bobbie. She wore the same stockings and suspenders but in red, a red pair of panties and red matching bra, she looked every bit of the blonde younger vision of our Mother. She smiled softly as I stood in the door way, trying to find the breath to make any kind of verbal noise.

''You coming to bed?'' Mom asked.

I moved forward slowly as Bobbie shifted from her side and on to her back, I knew now what the surprise was all about. It had been for Bobbie and I.

I began climbing onto the bed as Mom began stroking my sisters' hair, she leaned forward and kissed her on the forehead, Bobbie glanced up at her as Mom's lips moved down a little lower, they shared a kiss as made my way up the bed.

''You kissed Mommy on the mouth,'' I said, repeating her words back to her. She looked down at me and smiled, ''Yeah so? That's what a good child does, love her Mommy.'' she said.