REPRESENTED (36 page)

             
The empty boxes she had delivered she began making into solid boxes using a tape gun she found somewhere in her house.  She made about six of them and they started on her DVD’s and VHS tapes. 

             
“Are you going to keep all of these or give some to your boys?” Cassie asked.

             
“I’m going to keep most of them.  Caleb took what he wanted or owned.  I want some of these, especially the Disney ones for my grandchildren.”

             
Cassie thought there was something else Karin hadn’t told her “you have grandchildren?” she choked out.

             
Karin laughed “someday” as she kept packing the tapes in her box.

             
They got all the videos packed up that afternoon and carefully wrapped the knick knacks.  There were a lot of glass figurines of indeterminate age.  Cassie wasn’t sure if they were priceless objects or junk.  She let Karin handle them as she didn’t want to accidentally break any of them.  She packed the pictures of Karin’s Mom and the boys at various stages of growth.  There were large pictures of beaches that Karin collected and breathtaking views, Cassie was surprised to find portraits of horses.  She carefully put layers of bubble wrap around these and between them.  They finished packing that afternoon with all the books in Karin’s bedroom.  They had stacked and labeled the boxes in the living room with its now bare shelves.  The heavy book boxes they made smaller stacks of but there were still a lot of boxes already. 

             
“What are you going to do with all these plants?  Are your boys going to take them?” Cassie asked.

             
Karin snickered “no, neither of the boys realized their green thumb.  I thought of donating them but this plant” she indicated a long sword style plant, in fact that’s what it was called a ‘Sword Plant’ “has been in my family for over 40 years.  I don’t want to give that away” she said nostalgically.

             
Cassie was looking at her oddly.  She didn’t think the Karin Myers she
knew
was
this
sentimental but then she had never seen this side of her.  She wondered what her boys were like.  It was like her thought had conjured them as the front door opened just then.  “Mom?” a call up the stairs was heard.

             
Karin walked out of her bedroom where they had been packing up and said “hey!”

             
Cassie followed quickly behind her, she didn’t think them being in Karin’s bedroom would make a good first impression and she was suddenly nervous to meet Karin’s ‘boys’.  She got another surprise though, these weren’t boys.  Karin had told her they were in their twenties.  She hadn’t mentally prepared herself to meet two grown young men.  Karin had always referred to her son’s as ‘boys’ and that was what was in Cassie’s brain all this time.  She had seen pictures of them but hadn’t been prepared for this.

             
Both boys saw her immediately as Karin came down the stairs with Cassie walking slowly behind.  Karin gave each of them a hug and a kiss on their cheeks; they had to bend down as they were so much taller than their mother.  Cassie stopped on the last step watching them greet their mother.

             
“Boy’s, I’d like you to meet my friend and slave laborer Cassie, Cassie these are my son’s, Alex” who came forward to shake Cassie’s hand “and Caleb” who also shook her hand politely.  Caleb looked at her funnily and asked “aren’t you Cassie Summers the singer?” and Cassie nodded politely in response with a grin.

             
Caleb turned to his mother and asked laughing “you got
Cassie Summers
to help you pack up this place?”

             
Karin shrugged grinning and Cassie could see where Caleb got his looks from, his smile was a duplicate of his mother’s.  “I get help where ever I can, especially if they volunteer!”

             
“We didn’t volunteer” Alex reminded her in his deep voice.  He was tall and blonde with a short haircut and Cassie wondered if he looked like his father as he was different from Karin and Caleb.

             
“No, this is a command performance but then a lot of it is your junk too!” she teased.

             
“I see you two have been busy?” Alex noted the boxes stacked in the living room and the bare shelves of the units lining the wall.

             
“I see you two didn’t arrive until after that work was done” she grinned to show she was still teasing.

             
“It took forever to get down here with that U-Haul” he noted.

             
Karin glanced at Caleb “well, he was picking me up” he defended himself.  He only lived across town.

             
“Well it’s too late to move much, what say you we all go out to dinner instead?” Karin asked and they all agreed.

             
Karin and Cassie took turns washing up in the bathroom upstairs as the boys brought a couple of pieces of furniture down the stairs from Alex’s bedroom to be taken out later to the U-Haul trailer parked in the driveway.  Karin had parked on the street knowing she would be in the way otherwise.  They took Karin’s rental to a nice family restaurant.  The boys were at ease with their mother and Cassie saw another side that delighted and pleased her.  Karin as a mother?  This was an unexpected delight.  The teasing and shared memories were fun to observe.  They included Cassie as though she was one of them and Karin was pleased.  It didn’t seem to bother either of the boys that she was their mother’s girlfriend and she relaxed even further as the night went on.

             
They popped a movie in the VCR that night as Karin made popcorn and they drank wine to watch.  It was relaxing and they enjoyed themselves as they made comments over the movie they had obviously watched a million times before.  Soon Karin and Cassie both were yawning over their long day between traveling and packing and headed up to bed.  As Karin tried to make love to Cassie, for the first time Cassie refused her.

             
“No, stop” she protested as Karin began kissing and caressing her.

             
Karin pulled back in surprise “why not?”

             
“Your boys are downstairs” she said matter of factly.

             
Karin grinned barely holding back her laughter “what does that have to do with anything?”

             
Cassie shrugged feeling foolish “they might hear us.”

             
Karin chuckled “they are down in a basement two floors away” the boys had sprawled out on the bed and futon left in Caleb’s room so they could all get an early start at filling the U-Haul and packing.

             
“I know but it just feels wrong somehow” Cassie did now indeed feel foolish, very foolish, but she couldn’t help how she felt.  She understood now why Karin had felt as she did making love in her father’s home in Kansas.

             
Karin just laughed letting it go and snuggled close as they both went to sleep after their tiring day.

             
Cassie woke to the most delicious dream.  She had had this one before and had told Karin about it many times.  They were apart too often for the amount of sex either of them wanted to participate in and occasionally told each other their fantasies on the phone when they spoke at night.  It had led to more than one bought of phone sex that they shared.  This dream though felt amazingly real.  Cassie was exposed from the waist down and Karin was going down on her, her tongue wrapping itself around her clit and doing its worst, her two fingers of her right hand adroitly playing inside seeking and finding Cassie’s G spot.  Cassie gasped in pleasure as they stroked it ever so gently.  It felt so delicious, and so real!  Karin’s other hand caressed its way up Cassie’s body and grasped her right breast with her warm hand fondling the entire mass in the palm and then gently teasing the nipple that rose up in response as she tweaked and played with it.  Cassie moaned slightly, it all felt so very delicious as she arched into the palm and rubbed her pussy into Karin’s face.  She came violently awake when she realized it
was
real.  Karin held her in place effortlessly as she squirmed to get away.

             
Karin had awoken before Cassie.  Her internal alarm clock telling her it was six a.m. and the digital clock on the dresser confirming it.  They really didn’t have to be up yet she thought and she looked at Cassie sleeping in her bed with delight.  She was totally relaxed and looked very vulnerable.  Her arm was thrown over her head in abandonment, her blonde hair spread out over the pillow her mouth slightly ajar as she slept deeply.  She wore a sleep shirt with the picture of a horse galloping across it.  Karin could see she had thrown the covers off to bare her legs and cool herself off in the warm upstairs room.  It had exposed the fact that she was wearing a thong.  Karin grinned in delight, it was too delicious to let it pass and Cassie had refused her the previous night, it didn’t mean that Karin didn’t still want her.  They weren’t together enough to suit either of them and she couldn’t let this opportunity pass.  She slowly and stealthily slid down on the bed and maneuvered herself carefully.  It wasn’t difficult to slide the thong aside, she didn’t need to remove it for what she had in mind as she bent her head to start licking between Cassie’s spread legs.  She was soon rewarded with a return wetness and her fingers started playing with it.  Unconsciously Cassie’s body was responding to her ministrations and Karin was delighted with the game she was playing.  Her left hand began to caress its way up Cassie’s body under her shirt towards the erect nipples she could see pointing through the material.  She knew the minute that Cassie started waking up.

             
Cassie’s hands came to Karin’s shoulder’s to push her away saying sleepily “stop” but Karin only increased her efforts and Cassie pushed ineffectually against her as her body betrayed her.  She had been so relaxed and so into her ‘dream’ that she was too far along, she needed the release that only Karin could give her.  Karin put Cassie’s legs over her shoulders and then raised her body up to bring Cassie’s lower half up and grabbing a pillow she bolstered Cassie’s buttocks up to have better access between her legs.  Cassie’s hands fell aside except to return to encourage Karin in her efforts her fingers clawing and grasping at Karin’s shoulders as she enjoyed herself.  Her head fell back and she gasped for air it felt so very good.  She grabbed a pillow to scream into in time as she came over and over and her body convulsed.  Karin waited until she felt she was finished before removing the bolster and climbing up Cassie’s body rubbing her own against her as she kissed her way north.  When she looked down into Cassie’s contented face she said with a delighted smile “good morning” grinning at the mischief she had created.  Cassie wrapped her legs around Karin’s body and turned them both in the bed nearly rolling them off the edge before righting them both as she attacked Karin to return the favor for her ‘turn’.

             
They both came downstairs after washing up in the bathroom and Karin looked into the fridge.  There was nothing but condiments inside since she was so rarely there.  The freezer was empty and she turned it off.  There was no point in wasting the electricity anymore as they wouldn’t be staying here.  Karin went out with Cassie and showed her the neighborhood in the early morning light as they got coffee, juice, donuts, croissants, and bagels for them all.  The boys were up and dismantling Caleb’s futon couch which wouldn’t fit through the narrow doorways any other way.  It was apart and the nuts, bolts, and screws in a bag taped to the frame before they stopped to eat breakfast at the dining table together.  The easy camaraderie returned as they chatted over breakfast.

             
“So are you moving all your stuff to New York?” Alex asked his mother as he helped himself to a bagel and smothered it in cream cheese.

             
Karin watched him “how can you eat that stuff” she meant the crème cheese.

             
“Grandma taught me” he smiled as he took a big bite.

             
“I don’t know yet, I’m thinking I should put it all in storage” she answered his question.

             
Cassie wanted to volunteer her moving in with her again but thought perhaps this wasn’t the right time in case it turned into an argument.  She didn’t want any discord in front of Karin’s sons.  She wasn’t exactly sure what Karin had told them about their relationship and an argument right now would not be a good thing.

             
The boys moved all of the heavy oak furniture from Alex’s room into the U-Haul first.  Karin and Cassie boxed and packed up the dishes and cookware in the kitchen.  Karin was only keeping a few pots and pans for sentimental reasons, they had been her grandmother’s but the boys were dividing up the rest to use otherwise she would have given them to Goodwill.  Moving the furniture seemed to take all day.  Karin carefully dismantled her oak dining room table and took off the top and put the nuts and bolts in a bag she taped to the bottom.  It allowed them to move it all when she was ready.  The boys brought her trunks and dressers down from her bedroom as well as the bookshelves and put them in the now cluttered living room that was filled with stacked boxes and furniture.  Karin had given Alex the entertainment center and the cat-tree.  That afternoon Karin ordered pizza to be delivered and they all stopped to rest.  The boys divided up the tools in the garage and made sure to pack the rest of the furniture including the mattress set from Karin’s room they were taking in the U-Haul.  Karin had insisted after doing a last load of laundry while they finished packing that the boys take the laundry set from the laundry room and this got them to help bring her antiques up from the basement and into the living room as well.