Thank you for reading my short story, I hope that you enjoy it. Love Mica xx, Yorkshire England. All email comments good or bad are welcomed. I will try and reply to each and every one but please note that all email comments from an incomplete or invalid email address will be deleted immediately and sadly will not be read. Rude or abusive comments may result in blocking. Please note that I am a female and I write in British English.
It was a cool and grey day with no forecast for rain and so it seemed a perfect candidate for a walk in the dales. I grabbed my Gortex coat and put on my walking shoes and headed up beyond Keighley and found a suitable place to park up where I wasn't blocking any farm tracks, but where there was a designated public footpath I could venture along.
The first mile or so was along the edge of cereal crop fields, I wasn't skilled enough to know what, it could be wheat for flour, or barley for beer, I had no clue but would probably use either as an end product. There were hawks wheeling in the sky, their whistles probably distinctive to someone in the know, but for me, they were simply a form of raptor and that is as much as I needed to know. I stopped by a copse and sat for a while on a mossy bank, taking a sip or two of my water, before carrying on. I had an apple tracker in my car and my phone in my pocket and so I knew that no matter where I roamed, I would be able to find my way back to my car, and so I just wandered.
The fields changed from crops to wilder and scrubbier grassland, and some contained a few forlorn looking sheep, not the designer sheep you see in the home counties, these were rugged sheep that told you to wait for mutton, no lamb for you. After another hour or so of walking, the path went alongside a farm the other side of a dry-stone wall. There was a farmhouse, a few out buildings, a barn, an old Massey Tractor and a girl sitting on the ground.
"Oh, hello," I called, "everything all right?"
"Hello. Well, no not really," she answered. "I seem to have twisted my ankle, and I can't get up."
"Would you mind if I popped over the wall and helped you? You don't really want to be sat on the ground, you will get a chill."
"Oh, thank you, that would be very kind of you."
I sat on the up of the wall and swung my legs over and was in the farmyard. I went across to her, she looked to be in her early twenties, perhaps late teens, more of a woman than a girl. I put my hands into her armpits and lifted her to her feet. She tentatively put a foot to the ground, and I could feel her wince through my arms, that must have hurt.
"Oh dear," she said in her soft Yorkshire accent, definitely a local I thought.
"Oh dear indeed. Shall I help you into the house, you can sit on a chair or something."
"Oh yes please, my parents are away for the day and will not return for hours."
I stood on the side of her injured ankle and supported her as she hopped to the house. She leant on the wall next to the door as I unlatched and opened the door. I helped her inside and she sat on a kitchen chair by the door.
I am no doctor and would not be able to diagnose what was wrong, be it a break or a sprain or just a twist, so apart from getting her indoors, I wasn't going to be much help.
"Do you think that you might need an ambulance or something? I have a car a couple of miles away that I could fetch and take you to hospital if you want." I knew I could look on the maps App on my phone, find out where I was and then go and get the car and drive it along the lanes to here. I would probably be about an hour.
"Oh goodness no. It will be alright in a few hours. I probably out to put something cold on it though."
She was wearing a simple dress that stopped at her knees, and on her feet were simple gumboots, rather well-worn gumboots and that is possibly why she turned her ankle.
"Let me help you get your boot off, and then I can see if I can find something to make a cold compress with."
"Thank you, you are being so kind."
"Not at all." To be honest I am a sucker for a damsel in distress.
I leant down and gripped the boot on her bad foot and tried to rock it off, it was having none of it. It may have been that her ankle was swollen and filling the boot, or simply that the boot was just a little small for her anyway.
"Let me try the good foot first," I said glancing up at her and stopping dead in my tracks, lost for words.
I could see straight up her skirt to her white knickers that were a bit too tight and were inside her crease a bit. I lie, not a bit, a lot. I could very clearly see the shape of her sex, her outer lips bulging in the knickers, the gusset sucked into her, the clear outline of her inner labia showing. It was a clear anatomy lesson in this young woman. Bloody Nora, how was I supposed to unsee that?
"Okay, that is a good idea," she said shaking me back to reality. Boot, good foot, yes.
I gripped the boot and pulled it off the good foot, it rotated upwards and came off easily. At least I now knew how the boot would come off, just a case of would I be able to get it off her injured ankle. I held the boot on her injured foot and rotated it upwards and it moved slightly but she squealed in pain and so I stopped.
"No, no don't stop, it will come off," she gasped.
I started again, my eyes firmly fixed on her knickers and the wonderful shape within, her sex, oh goodness, how did it taste I wondered. As I was distracted by her crotch I managed to get the boot off and as it released I almost fell backwards.
"Goodness are you alright?" she asked.
"I am fine, thank you, now then a compress. I need something cold."
"There is some ice in the freezer, or a pack of frozen peas."
"Okay, perfect, I will get the peas and grab some tea towels and make a compress around your ankle." I said managing to tear my eyes away from the wonderful stolen visage.
The bag of peas secured, I wrapped a tea towel around her ankle, placed the peas on it, and then wrapped and tied a second tea towel around the top to secure it. I stood back up and sat in a chair next to her hoping that she wouldn't notice the bulge in my trousers. How could I explain that?
"Oh, that is feeling better already," she said.
"Good. I am Tony, by the way, pleased to meet you."
"I am Eloise, only everyone calls me El."
"Well, El, I am pleased to make your acquaintance," I said in reply.
"It is just after eleven now," I said, "When will someone else be home?"
"There are only my parents, and they won't be home until after six."
"Would you like to ring them, or me to ring them and explain what has happened?"
"We don't have phones, only the farm phone that is over there," she said pointing at a wall mounted land line. No, it will be fine."
"Perhaps I ought to stay with you for a while, make sure that you are okay. Shall I make some tea?"
"Thank you, yes, I don't see many people, I just live on the farm."
I got up and checked that the kettle had water in and lifted the cover on one of the hobs on the Aga and put the kettle on the heat up. I turned back to El.
"Are you okay there, or is there a more comfortable chair we can move you to?"
"Yes, the lounge, but I need the loo. Can you help me, the loo is just through there, the lounge is the other side."
I put my arms under her shoulders and lifted her and we moved slowly to the loo. I helped her in and then backed away leaving her to her privacy. I heard the sounds as her wee splashed into the bowl and the roll of the toilet paper as she pulled a sheet to wipe herself. There was the sound of running water as I guesses she washed her hands in the washbasin, and then she was done.
"Okay, thank you, I am finished, can we get me to the sofa?"
I turned around and immediately noticed the knickers on the washbasin, had she taken them off? I didn't notice them there when I helped her in. How odd. She hopped to the doorway and I took her weight and helped her through to the lounge and gently lowered her onto the sofa.
"Do you want to lay sideways so that your leg is up of the floor."
"I am not sure Tony, like this is fine for now, you could sit next to me, or over there on the armchair."
"Where is best for you?" I asked.
"I think next to me for now."
"Okay then El, that is where I shall sit." I sat next to her on the sofa and as I sat her hand rested on my knee.
"Do you have many friends come to visit?" I asked, "you know, from college?"
"Oh no, I didn't go to school or college, mum and dad taught me everything at home, so no, no one visits."
"Wow, so do you never go out, to dances or things?"