The woman grabbed onto both of Johnny’s arms spinning him
directly in front of her still keeping her gaze in his eyes. Johnny tried
meekly to pull away but his fascination with the woman made him want to stay in
her grasp. Her face was beautiful
to Johnny though up to now he had never been even slightly attracted to older
women. The feeling he was having
was not one Johnny had ever felt before with anyone and though he didn’t know
what it was he liked the way it felt. He hadn’t found anyone to give him coke
yet or buy him drinks so he knew this feeling was definitely unique.
He grabbed onto her arms pressing firmly into the woolen
jacket pulling her slightly towards him while he leaned down to kiss her. The woman jerked him back quickly in
response and then leaned into his ear whispering firmly “Wait! Wait! You don’t understand!”
With that Johnny dismayed reluctantly stopped and released his hold of her
arms. The woman then stood up
pushing on his body while her golden hair brushed his face exciting Johnny
more. He felt drunk from her touch while he breathed her perfume in deeply.
She still had a hold of one of his arms and pushed by him to
get up from her seat at the bar and to get them both out of this place pulling him
along with her as she walked. Johnny gladly drifted along and didn’t notice being
bumped around all the way to the exit. On every night up to that one Johnny
always returned any bumps through the crowded bars with spiteful words, a push
back or both.
Once they exited the bar she let go of her hold of him and
told him to follow her. She walked slightly ahead of Johnny and as he followed
he admired her svelte walk and style. Finally his dreams were going to come
true she had money, even if it was old money it was still money and he had a
feeling that came from her that he was relishing like a heroin addict on their
first hit of the day. He walked
just behind her as she turned the corner and headed down Sunset Blvd. She
didn’t speak but he continued to follow.
Finally she stopped next to an old van that had seen its
glory day 20 years previous. She opened the side door and stepped in telling
Johnny to come into the van. As he stepped inside she had taken her position on
the passenger bench and was facing towards him her hands in her lap. He sat
down next to her and tried to lean in to kiss her again. “I see you don’t realize who I am,” she
said pulling him away from him. At
that moment Johnny began immediately thinking about taking sex from her. She
brought him here and she was the one who excited him and he deserved it from
her at this point; his mind raced. Suddenly he felt a slap across his face
while the words “ I am your MOTHER!” poured from her lips. Johnny’s first reaction was to grab the
woman’s throat and began to squeeze tightly to make sure he would never hear
the words again.
As he reveled in the feel of his hands tight around her
throat and the fear he thought he saw in her crystal blue eyes his pleasure was
interrupted by a sudden jolt and then everything went black.
As Johnny woke up he immediately felt his head throbbing in
pain and his stomach was wrenched. He hesitated to keep his eyes open, as the
light from the bright sun was severe while a slight wind surrounded him knowing
that night had turned to day. He
heard water crashing grasping these were sounds at the ocean when his mind went
back to his last memory and he started to panic now struggling to regain full
consciousness. As his focus returned he saw the woman sitting in a beach chair
next to where he was laying. She was watching him as he revived. She began
telling him that there were others on the beach that would intervene should he
attempt to attack her again. She pointed to a burly older man several hundred
yards away that was staring in their direction. By his view of the beach around
him he knew he was on Venice Beach and that it was early morning as even the
homeless were still huddled under blankets.
Johnny felt too ill to do anything but listen while she
spoke. She told him that she was his mother and a grifter. She explained that at the time she was
with his father she was working as a prostitute for an elite agency in New York
that had powerful clientele. When they found out she was pregnant they forced
her to give them the baby or they would kill her. She said being pregnant in the end was not very fun and she
didn’t really want a baby.
She continued to explain that she had decided to get pregnant
because she wanted to use the baby to get out of the prostitution life and do
even better. She went on about the
men she was with as being all very wealthy and that once she decided to take
action on her plan she kept track of the names of all the men she was with.
When she found out she was pregnant she used the list from the previous two
months to determine the list of possible fathers; it was like a treasure hunt
she explained. She realized that she
could tell them all they were the fathers and either way would probably make
some great quick large payouts just to keep her quiet. What she didn’t know is
that the agency had a plan for babies from their line up of prostitutes to
prevent them from doing this to the agencies’ clients.
She continued on that she took pleasure in getting away with
scams and schemes and that she was currently running a religious scheme telling
people she was a healer. She told him she had recently made thousands in
Florida where she even got a church group to believe her for a while. But she
said the heat escalated and so she came to Los Angeles and was operating here
now. “No one can save those suckers anyway” she said “so it doesn’t matter if
they give me their money they aren’t going to need it much longer anyway” she
chuckled adding “they don’t have the gumption to fight back because of their
illness even if they figure out I’m a fraud or they don’t do anything about it
because they feel too stupid for falling for it” she chuckled again clearly taking
pleasure in it all while she told Johnny about it.
Johnny enjoyed watching her movements and her exuberance as
she told him how she liked the life of taking money away from suckers and how
everyone were suckers in the end.
She eventually explained how she found out he was her son
and how his father had been paying her a tidy sum for sum time and regularly
for staying away. She thought that Johnny had been looking for her and found
her when she saw him at the bar.
But when she realized he didn’t know her it was then she decided she
could have her cake and eat it too by letting Johnny in on the secret. She
continued on telling him that the two of them could work out even better scams
and schemes and make even more money.
She added that they could both get more money from his father working
together as well and could both be on top forever.
The woman’s beauty returned to Johnny’s eyes and the longer
he listened to her the stronger he felt a deeper connection to her. Here was
someone who understood life as he did. His kindred spirit a goddess! He began feeling better and sat up to
listen to her words as they glistened from her lips. He had that same feeling again like when he first laid his
eyes on her but it was much stronger now and a feeling Johnny never wanted to
stop.
She realized his gaze of adoration and began laughing
hysterically as she motioned for the burly man who had never turned his eyes
away from them to come forward. He quickly approached and once he came closer she
yelled out for him to go make her and her son some stiff drinks and he walked
off towards the boardwalk.
