" Oh, but you must. Please, Jon."I shook my head. "Mom, you know I ..." It would mean so much to me," Mom interrupted, her voice softening. The change...in her voice triggered an immediate feeling within me. I lowered my head to avoid her eyes, fearing my sudden carnal thoughts could be easily read, and was surprised to see the fingers of Mom's right hand scratching her skirt, slowly tugging it up from her knees. I went rigid, eyes fixed on Mom's thighs."It would be so wonderful to see you up. I had mixed emotions of jealousy but it was also hotter than hell.The crowd thinned and we were left with two other couples, including the Chris (who Mindy had been flirting with) and Jenn and one other couple. It got awkward for a minute and then Mindy shouted "anyone up for the hot tub?". That was met with enthusiasm so we all undressed and got into the hot tub. Six of us sat in the water for a bit and, again, a sense of awkwardness creeped up as it seemed nobody knew what to do. That is when. David was kind enough to have the rest of my toys and things sent to my place about a month after I moved; the note said he didn't want them anymore because he couldn't look at them and remember us. I guess I understood his logic, although at the time it was like salt in an open wound.Once my boy was almost five, I decided to move to a nicer place in a better part of town so that he could go to a good school that was closer to where we lived. I had gotten promoted at work and was making more. She attached herself to me, trying to bring to her heart stability and control by using me, and playing with my emotions. I was angry at her for doing this, but also sympathetic. I knew what she was going through, and not by experience, but by the ability to think through what her motives are and what her actions mean. I held her against me as I lay on her bed, being invited upstairs into her apartment and into her bedroom by her, telling me she was too drunk to navigate the halls without a.