Gruesome Tuesday

PART THIRTEEN

©2004 Tanya J. Allan

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AUTHOR’S HEALTH WARNING

Dear Reader,

Life can be a crock sometimes, so if it all right with you, I actually prefer happy endings! So, if you want the hero(ine) to have a really miserable time, READ SOMETHING ELSE!

But if you want to see good prevail, and end up with a soppy smile, then I have achieved what I set out to do!

Please enjoy! Tanya

13. Rob’s Story.

I awoke, and had a panic as for a moment I forgot who or where I was.

Then I realised that an arm was wrapped around my middle, and it wasn’t mine!

I looked at the sleeping woman, and smiled. Anna looked beautiful even first thing in the morning, and that was a rare quality in a woman! She opened an eye, and smiled.

I kissed her, and she wrapped her arm behind my head.

“Mmm, morning!” she said, and returned the kiss.

“You are all scratchy!” she complained.

“I also want to pee!” I said, and I extricated myself from her embrace.

“Have one for me while you are there!” she said.

I smiled, and reached the bathroom. It had been a long time since I shared my bed with anyone! Occasionally, just after Karen died, the kids would sleep with me, and that helped me, as I hated being alone! But it had been some time since that had happened!

I relieved myself, and then ran some water into the basin. As I started to shave, I realised that here was one advantage being female had! Anna came in and hugged me, before sitting on the loo herself. There was no embarrassment and no awkwardness between us, it was as if we had been together for years. She finished, and came and cleaned her teeth.

“Are you coming back to bed?” she asked.

“If I’m not, then I am shaving for nothing!” I said and she laughed. I felt her hand snake into my trousers, and I was instantly aroused.

“Now, now, careful, otherwise I’ll cut my nose off, and then you’ll be sorry!” I said.

She took her hand away and chuckled, and went back to bed.

I finished shaving and went back to the bedroom. Her nightdress was on the floor, and all she wore was a cheeky grin and an expectant expression, peeking above the duvet, which she had pulled up to her chin!

I experienced a pang of extreme tenderness, and joined her, naked under the duvet. I had not been intimate with a woman since Karen had died, and, indeed, if the truth be known for about a year before that!

We made love very slowly and tenderly, as if to hurry it would be somehow in breach of what we had discovered. We were two injured souls, just finding solace with each other and beginning to feel whole people once more!

She lay in my arms afterwards, holding me tightly.

“Do you feel guilty?” she asked.

“About what?”

“Anything, everything, this!”

“Not in the least, do you?”

“No, but I keep feeling I should!”

“Why?” I asked.

She laughed.

“I don’t have a clue. I just feel that it has all happened too fast!”

“I don’t call twenty-five years too fast, do you?”

She laughed again.

“You know perfectly well what I mean!” she said, and tickled me.

I laughed, and rolled on top of her again. She looked up at me.

“I do love you, Rob!”

“Yeah!” I said, and kissed her.

“I never thought I’d love again, and then your phone call arrived out of the blue. I was sitting feeling really miserable, and I was thinking back to happier days, which made me even more depressed! Sophie was moaning that all her friends had gone away for Christmas, and why couldn’t we do something different, and then your call came. It was as if you knew!”

I smiled, and kissed her again.

“I had been in a bloody coma for nearly four months, and why do you think one of the first things I should do was to call you?”

“Why?”

“Because, you daft bint, I never stopped loving you!”

She stroked my face with her hand, and I was surprised to see her crying.

“You have no idea how bloody unhappy I was!” she said.

“And now?”

“Oh Rob, I can’t tell you what a difference your call made to me! It was like all the Christmases and birthdays all rolled into one!”

“Happy Christmas!” I said, and she smiled.

I kissed away her salty tears, and moved down and kissed her breasts, she began to respond, and held me close. We just revelled in each other’s touch and the sensation of being loved and loving another. After so long, it was as if it was all so new and fresh!

Eventually we made slow and luxurious love again, and it was as if we were being fused into one entity! Being able to give pleasure to someone else, who was returning the favour, was simply exquisite!

We showered and dressed and went downstairs to find my Sophie was hoovering the living-room carpet, and she had Matt washing the windows and the other Sophie cleaning the silver!

The younger boys had been banished to the attic, and told only to come out for meals!

It was the twenty-eighth, and I could see that Sophie had everything under control. Anna and I had some breakfast, and were careful to clear up afterwards, under the eagle eye of my daughter. The sun was out, and although cool, it was a nice day.

I suggested taking the dog for a walk, and so Anna and I took Buster into the woods for a walk. We held hands like teenagers, and spoke little. I sensed we both felt relieved to have found someone, and so that dreadful loneliness was no longer hanging like a pall over us!

“Rob?”

“Mmm?”

“Are we being too hasty?”

I thought about it for a moment.

“I don’t know! I know my own mind, and as far as I am concerned I don’t think so! But I don’t see why we need rush into anything, if you are feeling pressurised!”

She took my arm and gave it a squeeze.

“Oh Rob! It has just been so awful being alone! When you proposed I was just so surprised!”

“Does that mean you are having second thoughts about accepting?”

She stopped walking, and so I did to. She looked up at me, and her eyes sparkled.

“Are you sure you were serious?” she asked.

“Absolutely!” I said, and smiled.

A single tear rolled down her cheek, and I caught it on my index finger. I put it in my mouth, and tasted the salt!

She looked so wonderful, so I bent and kissed her. She flung her arms around my neck and hugged me for all she was worth.

Buster got bored of this after a minute or so, and barked to let his feelings be known.

Anna laughed, and leaned back in my arms to look at me.

“I just feel that this shouldn’t be happening!” she said.

I laughed.

“Why the hell not?”

“I don’t know! I suppose I think that you meet your first husband, and then that’s your lot! Falling in love is something you get one crack of!”

“Anna, I love you! I have always loved you, albeit I found a different life for a while!”

She kissed me.

“Don’t leave me! I couldn’t bear it to happen again!” she said.

“So, I take it you’ve decided to marry me again, then?”

She laughed and nodded.

“If you’ll have me!”

“Anytime!” I said, with a leer. She laughed and boxed my ears!

“If you are a dirty old man! Then I may not!”

I grabbed her and made grunting noises in her ear, and she dissolved into giggles.

Barney was clearly most fed up by now, and his barks stopped our tomfoolery! We continued our walk, and she wrapped an arm around my back, and I draped my arm over her shoulders.

“I find your daughter most disconcerting!” she said.

“Sophie! Why?”

“She is so like you were for that play, it is just uncanny!”

I smiled. I longed to tell her the truth, but knew that I couldn’t!

“I don’t know who that compliments best, me or her!”

“She is a lovely girl, but rather too all-knowing for my liking!”

“Really?”

“She knew you proposed and I accepted! How the hell did she know that?”

“As I said, Sophie and I have always been close! Since Karen died, it is hard to explain, but we have had to be there for each other! Sophie was only eleven, so I had to be a father and a mother to her, and she took on the mother role for Steven! In so many ways, she is very like me, sometimes we almost appear telepathic, but it is just we see the world in the same warped way, I suppose!”

“She is a lovely girl!”

“So is your Sophie!”

“I am ever so surprised that they get on so well! It was my one real concern!”

“I’m not!”

“Why not?”

“If your Sophie is anything like you, then my Sophie will become her big sister and be there for her!”

Anna laughed.

“Can she walk on water as well?”

I stopped and looked at her.

“Anna, Sophie is special! I can’t explain it, but believe me she is special, and she means so much to me! She saved my life, and we have shared so much!”

She placed her hand on my arm and smiled.

“I know. Anyone seeing you both can sense the special relationship you have!”

I smiled.

“But, that doesn’t mean I can’t have my wicked way with you!” I said and grabbed her.

She giggled and we kissed again, much to Buster’s disgust!

We spent the rest of the walk re-discovering a lot about each other! In fact we both learned that we hardly knew each other at all, but gradually became aware that we had a lot in common! We liked similar foods, similar plays and books, and both longed to travel to similar exotic locations!

We arrived back at the house to find Sophie had made soup and fresh bread in the bread maker for lunch, and there was an atmosphere of calm and order about the place. The boys were still in the attic, and as they had the Xbox, they had no reason to come down. Matt was sitting at the kitchen table watching my Sophie do her nails, as the other Sophie tried to emulate her!

“Hi guys!” I said.

“Hi Daddy, nice walk?” Sophie asked.

“Mmm! Yes, very nice!” I said, and Anna grinned.

The days seemed to flash by. I cannot recall being quite so content! It was almost as if we were doing something wrong, and I kept feeling guilty for feeling so happy! The strangest thing was sharing a bed with someone! Having been alone for so long, I had almost forgotten what it was like, but Anna was so delightful, we just had fun remembering! She was a very tactile and sexual woman! Not in any raunchy way, she just responded to being loved, and it was so poignant that we would often simply hold each other and weep with happiness!

We got round the Sophie name confusion, because my Sophie started to call her Sophie, ‘Peewee’, and the name stuck. We weren’t into nicknames, but the girl actually liked it, and so she became Peewee from then on!

The day of the party arrived, and I found myself virtually redundant! Sophie had organised everything! She had done most of the food, and Sally had been coerced into making several luscious puddings! Matthew had taken on the bar, and even the boys had helped move the furniture.

They had turned one end of the sitting room into a disco, and the conservatory was where the oldies would be corralled! Anna and I watched with detached amusement, as Sophie organised everyone, and I opened a bottle of wine, sat back and toasted my bride to be.

“To us, my love!” I said.

“Us!” she said, and we clinked glasses.

“How many kids shall we have?” I asked, and she nearly did the nose trick with her wine.

I laughed.

“Only joking! These three will be enough for a while!” I said.

She looked at me with a wistful smile.

“It’s not too late!” she said.

I looked at her.

Suddenly, I realised that I would love to cement our union with a child! We were close already, and I felt that this would bring us closer still!

“”One condition!” I said.

“What?”

“If it’s a girl, we don’t call her Sophie!”

She laughed, and took my hand.

“I’d like your child!” she said, deadly serious.

“Would you, really?” I asked.

She smiled and nodded.

“It would complete the circle!”

I nodded.

“Lets see what happens! I must confess, I hadn’t thought about it!” I admitted.

She smiled.

“I had! Why do you think I haven’t spoken about contraception?”

I suddenly got a draining feeling. I hadn’t even thought about it!

She smiled.

“As it happens, I came on today, so I’m not! But, I feel I want your child more than anything else!”

I experienced mixed emotions. Relief, that I was given a brief respite, and disappointment as I found I wanted the baby too!

I moved so I was sitting next to her.

“I’d have to marry you then!”

“Oh, Rob! I’d marry you anyway!” she said, and we kissed.

“AHEM!”

We looked up at my daughter.

“Your first guests are arriving any minute, are you two changing?” she said, sounding so like Karen that it made me shiver.

She was looking like very her mother too! She was wearing a very pretty black dress, with stockings and black shoes. Her hair was freshly washed and positively gleamed! Her pretty face was conservatively made up, and she looked twenty-one, not fifteen!

A tear came to my eye, as pride and love welled up in my chest! I stood up and gave he a hug. Her hair smelled of fresh flowers, and she was wearing an alluring scent, that again reminded me of her mother!

I kissed her head.

“I love you so much, Sophie, I am so proud of you!”

“I love you too, Daddy, but if we stand here all evening, you are going to be wearing jeans when your guests arrive!”

I went up and changed, and Anna came too. There was no self-consciousness between us, and as she stripped down to her underwear, a familiar feeling crept into my nether regions. I went and took hold of her.

She looked at me, and felt my arousal.

“Not now! Later!” she said, laughing.

I pretended to go in a huff, which made her laugh even more!

It was just as well, for as I went downstairs, the first guests arrived. They were all Matt and Sophie’s friends, and I was interested to see Peewee looking very pretty in one of my Sophie’s dresses! They all disappeared to where the music and drink was. I had given Matt strict instructions to watch how much the young drank!

Sophie was in the kitchen, with an apron protecting her dress.

“Anything I can do, love?” I asked.

“Just be a good host, Daddy, and make sure everyone is happy!” she said, and took out a load of cocktail sausages and put them into a dish.

Anna came down, looking gorgeous in a gold dress. I looked at my two girls, and as Peewee came over, I realised I had three lovely ladies in my life.

I told them how lucky I was, and Sophie came out with a very un-lady like snort.

“Of Daddy, PL-ease!” she said, and giggled away in the kitchen.

Mike and his family arrived, and I took them through to the living room. The young sort of detached themselves and gravitated to the others of their own age.

It was great seeing him again! We had been in touch over the years, and had seen each other occasionally, but Australia was a heck of a long way away!

I heard the doorbell, and Sophie shouted that she was there. I was talking to Mike when a very pale Sean was led into the room by his tall attractive wife on one side, and Sophie on the other.

“Sean!” I exclaimed and went over to him.

He smiled weakly at me, and took the whisky that Matt thoughtfully provided.

“Rob! Why didn’t you warn me?” he said.

“Warn you? What about?” I asked, frowning.

He pointed to Sophie, who was engaged in conversation with Angela.

“Her!”

“Who, Sophie?”

He nodded and took a deep swig of his whisky.

“She even sounds the same!”

“As what, mate?”

Sean looked at me, and realised he was sounding odd.

“I’m sorry! You must think me a complete dickhead! It is just I have been carrying around this picture in my heart since the Christmas Ball, and when I danced that last time with Sophie! Over the years, I have never forgotten, and although I adore my wife, she just has always been with me!

“When the door opened, I swear, my heart stopped! Because there she was, looking exactly the same! The same dress, the shoes, the hair and the smile! She said, “Hello Sean, fancy seeing you again!” And it was as if she knew!”

I looked across at my daughter, who glanced at me and gave me that smile. I smiled and shook my head.

“Sean, you are talking bollocks! Sophie is fifteen, and you’ve never met!” I said.

Some colour was coming back into his face, and he smiled uncertainly.

“Yeah, you are right! It was just the shock of seeing her, I suppose! She is the spitting image of , of, you know who!”

Sophie came over and I formally introduced her to my friend.

He shook her hand, and I noticed his colour drained a little as she stared into his eyes.

I went and introduced Angela to some other friends, and left Sophie with Sean. I dreaded to think what mischief she was planning!

To be continued in Chapter 14

since 04/26/04