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Copyright Oggbashan August 2019
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons.
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That Friday evening it was raining hard when I arrived at the London station just too late for one train. I was actually relieved. With my crutches I would have had difficulty standing for the first thirty miles and no one was likely to give up a seat to me.
The next train, due to leave in twenty minutes, was already in the platform. I managed to choose a seat next to the passageway through the carriage and I stood my crutches beside me. Within a few minutes every seat was taken. Just before the train was due to leave a heavily pregnant woman got in. Normally I would have given up my seat to her. With my left ankle in plaster I couldn't. No one else did. She stood beside me. I looked up at her.
"I'm sorry," I said. "I can't stand for you. All I can offer is my lap. Would that help?"
"Thank you," she replied.
She sat sideways with her legs dangling over the arm of the seat. As the train jerked into motion I put my arm around her back. Her arm clutched around my head and I was pressed against her wet coat.
"That won't do," she said. She unfastened her coat and eased it behind me. My arm was now inside her coat around her waist. I blushed as her T-shirt covered breast pressed against my face.
"Make yourself comfortable," she continued. "that part of me is soft enough."
It was. I snuggled against her. Her body and coat shielded me from the other passengers. All I could see was her face looking down at me and smiling.
I winced as the train jolted over the points as we crossed the junctions leading out of London. Every movement strained my ankle and each jolt seemed to press me closer to her breast. Was I imagining it or was her arm pulling me into a deeper embrace? Soon I dropped off to sleep cradled against her warm faintly scented clothing.
When I started to wake up I felt very calm and rested. It was unusually dark. My lips were around something hard backed by silky softness. It took me several minutes before I knew that I was sucking at a breast with an erect nipple. My head was inside her T-shirt and her bra had been opened at the front. Her coat was wrapped around my head. I pulled away gently.
The T-shirt was lifted from my head. Her face looked down at me. She was still smiling, and now she looked as if we had a shared secret.
"I hope you enjoyed that," she said. "Emma and I did."
I pushed her nipple out with my tongue.
"Emma?" I asked. Who could Emma be?
"This one is called Emma. The other one is called Jane. Please kiss Emma goodbye before I put her away."
She pushed her breast back against my mouth. I was in no position to refuse. How long had I been suckled by Emma? I didn't know. I kissed Emma gently. Emma was pulled away, the bra fastened and the voluminous T-shirt covered Emma up. I looked up again.
"I've met and been introduced to Emma," I whispered, "but who are you? I'm Peter."
"You don't need to whisper, Peter. We are the only ones left."
She pulled her coat back. The compartment was empty.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"About two stations from my stop and three from yours."
"How did you know where my stop is?"
"I looked at the address label on your briefcase. Simple, wasn't it?"
"You still haven't answered my question. Who are you? I'd like to know who has been nursing me for over an hour."
"My name is Helen. Whether you should know anything more, I'm not sure. I've made a note of your address and phone number so I can call you. I'm not convinced I should let you know my address until I know more about you than you are gentle with a strange woman's breast. You didn't chew once. You just sucked gently."
I couldn't stop blushing again. I was still very close to Emma and still cradled in Helen's arm.
"You blush nicely too."
I blushed redder. Helen kissed me on the forehead.
"I suppose I ought to get off you," she said. "I don't really want to. You haven't met Jane. We haven't enough time for you to meet her properly."
"Then we'll have to meet again..." I stopped. Helen was vastly pregnant. She must have a husband or boyfriend. "Unless someone else..."
"There's no one. He, the father that is, doesn't even know I'm pregnant. It was my mistake and not one I should burden him with. He thought I was protected. So did I but... It doesn't matter now except that if you want to see me again there isn't any competitor."
"Please?"
"I'll ring you, Peter."
"Tonight?"
"OK. Tonight."
She squeezed my head back against Emma.
"I promise that it will be tonight. Jane might get jealous if she doesn't get some attention."
"If you ring, and we meet, I'll be delighted to be introduced to Jane. I'll make sure she isn't neglected."
"Good. I'll ring about eight. That OK?"
"I'll be waiting."
Helen kept her promise. She rang exactly at eight o'clock. We arranged to meet tomorrow morning, in her town, on a bench near the town hall. I would be driving my father's automatic car. He was having the time of his life driving my little red sports car and borrowing my mother's runabout if he wanted to carry anything more than his golf clubs.
I parked as near as I could to the town hall. How long should I pay to park? An hour wouldn't be long enough. Two hours? I paid for five hours. Even if we had lunch together that should be enough time.
I winced as I sat down on the bench in the summer sun. My ankle had been badly smashed and yesterday had been too much for it. It had become unpleasantly hot just limping to that bench.
I saw Helen in the distance. She was so large that she had an ungainly waddle as she walked. Whatever we did together we wouldn't be able to walk far. I started to stand up as she approached. She was also suffering from the heat. I felt sorry for her carrying so much extra weight in the summer.
"Don't!" she shouted. "Stay sitting."
That was an order I was happy to obey. Even through the painkillers my ankle was throbbing insistently. Helen sat close beside me so that our legs were touching. I noticed that she sat next to my good ankle.
"Hello, Peter."
"Hello, Helen."
"Aren't you going to say hello to Emma and Jane?"