Missing - I Step Off The Train
This is a stand alone story. (This is a minor edit for some errors and unclear text)
This story is fiction, and you are welcome to imagine the characters as you wish but
all characters are 18 years old or older
. Events, and descriptions are not intended to be accurate or diagnostic so please don't flame me on that account.
Please vote and comment, it helps me improve my stories. Again: This story is fiction and does not relate to anyone, living or dead.
As with my other 1x: stories, there is an intro, 'Who Am I?' and a concluding 'For those who like closure.' There is also a 'If anyone wonders' where I try to address some things that I think might come up in comments, but it might generate more! But you can skip all of those if you are in a hurry, or don't care.
It was inspired by hearing "Missing" by Everything But The Girl and there are minor part quotes that I believe are well within the realms of 'fair use' and could be considered to be a type of Fan Fiction. (see 'If anyone wonders' for more.)
This story moves back and forth in time and at those points the > or < is a year, but to save mental calculations the year is also added, eg <<< <<<'89. When it is just hours, days or weeks then the marker is ---- or -->-- for one year. I hope that helps
For clarity,
this story is set in England, UK
and I have changed some words to clarify that.
Who Am I?
My name is Tracy and when the song 'Missing' by Everything but the Girl was released in 1995 it broke my heart. It was as if they were singing about me...
Because they were...
Well in my own mind they were anyway.
<<< <<<'89
He was even called Ben, well Benjamin, but Ben to everyone including me.
We grew up together, walking to the same bus stop to go to school. He was a 'baby surprise' for his parents. Had an older brother, already in secondary school, and a much older sister at University, and I rarely saw them. Friends out of habit even though he was always in the year above me, doing things before I could catch up and when I did, he had moved on to the next thing. I was his number one fan but to him I was a face in the crowd of admirers. I didn't live next door, one of the new three story five-bedroom town houses, but across the busy main road in the block of old two story three bed flats above rundown shops.
I was one of his clan, always there, always wanting to know what the latest thing was, best movie, song, fast food, designer, book, console, game. Almost all of which I could only dream about. He hinted his older siblings knew these things and shared them with him.
I Stepped Off The Train
>>> >>>'95
I was thinking about those events as I did the ten-to-fifteen-minute walk from the station to the top of the road, or street. To wander down it again, visiting my old hometown hoping for what? Some emotional reconciliation, an impossible chance meeting. It had been five years, five fucking years of miserable dates and worse boyfriends and lousy sex.
<<< <<<'89
In the autumn of 1989, just after my eighteenth birthday, Ben asked me out... on a date... just me...
And I couldn't go.
But he understood, or so he said; but I cried that night as I babysat my younger brother, though why a fifteen-year-old needs babysitting I'll never know, but mother insisted.
A couple of weeks later he asked me again!!! And I could go, which I did, even though I heard he had taken Mandy out on the date I couldn't go on. I was told that they had been seen holding hands... But he had asked me first... right... that's something... isn't it.
Well, we went for a burger and then the second Back to The Future film, he had already bought the tickets, for the back row. That lead to kissing and cuddling, lots of kissing and cuddling, though he started with a kiss to my forehand and then my lips. After the film, we went back to his house and his parents were out. We went to bedroom and the kissing resumed. I was wondering, worrying, if it might lead to him wanting sex as I had never slept with a man.
I was on the pill, as my mother, a single parent, didn't want me having the same problem as she had when she was young. That problem being that my father skedaddled once he knew my mother was expecting me; still, that didn't stop her making the same mistake three years later! So I whispered to him. "Ben, I'm on the pill if you want me."
He whispered back. "Good to know." He kissed my neck. "But I'm not going to rush us into that."
No, Ben was better than that, as in better at seducing a virgin. That night my blouse was unbuttoned, and my bra unhooked so that he could play with my tits and suck and pinch my nipples. When I was rubbing his bulge, he opened up his trousers and let me stroke got his penis through his boxers. In return he lifted my skirt and put his hand on my panties, and we brought each off. I am not sure how good a job I did, but Ben certainly knew what he was doing. I didn't see his spunk come out under the waist band of his underwear and there was a load of stuff where the tip of his cock was touching the hem of his polo shirt, that had run down onto his stomach, so he must have leaked quite a bit.
>>> >>>'95
So six years after that date, and five since he disappeared, what was I doing here? Again? On a Sunday? About once a month, guess which week? For the last three of those lousy years, what thirty odd times? What did I hope to achieve? And then that record, that sodding record, is released and it rips my heart up as if the world is mocking me! I resolved that this time, this actual time, would be the last time as my first time should have been. When I saw the sign that all was lost.
<<<'92
It was my first return visit, two years after moving. I had determined that I would forgive him and go to Ben's house and knock, and ask his parents for his contact details. I was feeling good about making a choice and acting on it and turned into the top of the road and noticed something odd in their front garden. I instinctively knew what it was, but that didn't mean they were not there, a 'For Sale' board doesn't mean they have moved.
I walk faster hoping not to see what I think I can see. But I can. Across the sign is a banner 'SOLD subject to contract'. With a proclamation how good the Estate Agent is at selling houses. I nearly panicked and ran away, but I kept going.
Still, they may still be there... till I nearly get to their front gate, there being a tiny front garden, and driveway to the integral garage. I can see there are no curtains at the windows. I should have come last month, or a couple of months ago, or last year, but I didn't. I turn to go and notice a sign on our old block of flats and boarded up shops. 'Coming Soon - New Luxury Town Houses - Book Yours Now!' So even my old home will be no more, Ben's parents are no more, there is nothing in this town left for me.
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