"No." I replied.
"She's out back with Steve." Ian said. "He's teaching her how to play cricket."
I looked out of the rear window at the nets and saw Steve with Jerry's girlfriend. He had her bent forward slightly with her ass cheeks hard against his groin as he showed her the correct way to hold a cricket bat.
Jerry had left the front of the building and I knocked hurriedly on the windowpane to attract Steve's attention and opened the window. He looked up, saw me waving at him and backed away from the girl.
"Sally." I heard Jerry call out.
"Over here." She replied.
Steve was moving down the pitch away from her holding one of the practise balls. He stopped when he was ten yards away, turned and lobbed it underhand towards her. She swung at it with her bat, connected and sent the ball into the netting at her side.
"I hit it." She said excitedly. "Why didn't you show me how to do it like Steve has?"
If I knew Steve he would be showing her how to do something else before too long.
Shirley.
My bum was sore. It hurt as I took my place behind the steering wheel of Jenny's car, turned the key in the ignition and pulled away.
I hated scenes, and David hadn't taken my telling him it was over very well. Well he would have to get over it. There was no future in it for me. His trip to Gloucester had proved that to me. I was expected to catch a bus from Cheltenham each day, let him have me a couple of times and then head dutifully back home.
My parents had started asking awkward questions as well. Where was I going each day? Who was I meeting? Was it a boyfriend? Why couldn't I bring him home to meet them?
I had found it so tiring.
It wasn't that I didn't like David. I did. He was a wonderful lover. But he was fifty-two and had a wife. I needed to clear my head for the year ahead at University while I took my masters. It was nice of Jenny and Paul to let me stay with them. I was glad they were so happy together. Paul hadn't so much as looked at me. He certainly hadn't tried anything on as a number of men I knew would if they had been in his position. I felt I could treat him like a brother.
I took the road out of Taunton that led to Chipping Marsden. Only another ten minutes.
I could have done with a shower before leaving but in the circumstances I had thought better of it. My bum was still sore despite the Vaseline he had used to penetrate it with. I could still feel the Vaseline, wet between my bum cheeks. I sniffed the air. Could I smell myself? It must be by association. He had me up there therefore I should be able to smell it.
Jenny and Lynda had been pleased to see each other. Jenny had told me all about their trip to Egypt the previous Christmas when she had gone missing. A lot of it sounded like it came from an adventure story but Ian's broken ribs had been proof something had happened. They seemed to get into all sorts of trouble on their holidays. Even their honeymoon had ended in Paul crashing the aeroplane he had been given as a birthday present a few days earlier.
I wondered if they would take me with them if they went away at Christmas this year?
Ah. Here was the cricket ground ahead. Just a pasture really. With the old wooden pavilion in one corner and an area in the middle which was kept clear of grazing animals by some old iron fences where they actually prepared their playing surface.
A strange game cricket. Eleven players a side. This game would be of one innings each with a maximum of forty overs a side. The bowler would bowl six balls to make up an over and then the next bowler would bowl from the other end of the pitch.
Steve would be playing. I wonder if he has brought a girlfriend. It had been awkward seeing him at the wedding of Jenny and Paul. He had this thin nurse with him. I could hardly sit with David and I had already let Steve have me the night before. We had both hung onto an arm. He'd taken her outside the marquee after Jenny and Paul had left. I had intended following but the big American called Howie, Carole's husband, had insisted I join their table. It had been nice talking to Carole but a couple of times I had felt Howie's hand on my thigh under the table and when he had taken me up to dance his hands on my bum. His father wasn't much better either. They had both sounded very keen that I accept the invitation Carol made to me to come out and visit her. Hmm. I'd have to think about that.
I pulled up at the gate at the back of the pavilion which Paul and Jenny always used. Steve was standing in the nets talking to a big man and a pretty blond girl. I honked my horn and Steve came across to open the gates. I noticed the big man take the girl by the arm and almost drag her around the side of the pavilion. I could see Paul's face at the window.
I drove through the gate while Steve held it open for me and parked beside a minibus. I switched off the engine and sat still, wishing my bum hole would stop throbbing.
There was a knock on the passenger side window and Steve bent to look inside the car. I liked Steve. Unfortunately so did a number of other girls. And Steve liked girls.
I leaned over and opened the passenger side door and Steve opened it and climbed in. He placed his arm about my shoulders and kissed me on the cheek.
"Hello." He said, smiling.
I noticed his arm remained about my shoulders.
"Hello." I replied, smiling back at him.
"I haven't seen you since the wedding." He said, looking around the car and then outside.
"No." I agreed.
I wasn't going to make things easy for him. He'd taken me into the woods at the pub we had gone to on the night before the wedding and had me. I didn't mind that, it had been nice. But then to appear with another girl the next day. I knew that he would have invited her weeks before, but still. It was my own fault I suppose. I was always too easy for him.