Fitz and Michaela.
He took a deep breath and stepped forward,
"H...Hi... I'm Fitz," said the young man to the pretty girl in the pink hoodie he'd hadn't been able to take his eyes off for the last forty-five minutes. She was dark-haired, high cheek bones crowned by the brightest blue eyes and just so amazingly 'pretty' - he was captivated by her, "can I... err... top that up..." He nodded towards her almost empty glass.
"Babe?!" shouted a hot blonde from across the bar, "Come on Hun, you'll need to finish your beer!"
The pretty girl looked at the boy, who despite his stuttered approach and rather nerdy look she actually thought was rather attractive and had noticed him noticing her, his bright blue eyes framed by his black Clark Kent glasses had a spark all their own and he looked actually rather sweet and she started to wish that she'd made more of an effort.
She looked at the glass, pondered and spoke,
"I'm with a group of friends but please..." She handed her glass forward to him.
"Babe!" shouted the hot blonde again, "We're moving on Michaela!" the almost empty glass was snatched from her and handed to him as the girl's arms were grabbed by two of her mates and she was pulled towards the door. She smiled back at him almost apologetically then she was lost to sight behind the huge forms of the two bouncers covering the door.
He was still halfway through his raised-hand 'hold on a second'/goodbye gesture when he was joined by one of his mates.
"Wassup Fitz?" said Dan, one of the four lads stood at the bar waiting for him to get the beers, "You trying to chat up the girly in pink there?"
"Yeah," he said watching the tuft of her ponytail just appearing in the pub window as her group continued their crawl towards at least another four possible hostelries.
"Too slow mate," said Daniel, "you should have gone straight over there and bought her a drink not waited half an hour!"
"Shall we follow..." said Fitz.
"No! Andy's just ordered a few plates of cheesy chips mate."
It was almost as if Fate herself was calling him to follow the girl but a quick look out of the window and she was gone.
"Chips Fitz!" said Andy and a plate was thrust into his chest.
And that was that.
*
Julia and Fitz.
Julia's husband left her for the bitch, a 29 year old (yeah right!) surgically-enhanced 40-30-36 bottle blonde that would shag him stupid. Their love-life had been pretty good and had taken a step-up once their second child had moved out but not enough for him it seemed.
She had a feeling that once the bitch had used up his energy and more importantly his bank balance she'd dump him as fast as she'd picked him up. When he was packing his clothes and digging out his golf clubs she told him that she knew for a fact that the bitch was only taking him because she'd told a friend of a good friend that she could, bragged about her bank-loan surgery and how she was going to make up the money for her huge bosom and stupid pouty lips from the first couple of blokes she snagged.
His staggering gullibility and his 'it's really not like that Julia' had her fuming and all but kicking him out the door.
He wanted a divorce, initially so he could settle with the bitch but it seemed rather more about hastening the sale of their large town house and she took her half of the money and bought a nice semi out in the sticks with no mortgage. She waited to hear about the ex's new marriage but somehow that never came along.
He new place was small but lovely and had a converted loft room that the estate agent said was used by the last owner as a student rent for extra income and she figured it was just the thing to make life that little bit easier.
It was her neighbour Carol that first introduced her to Fitz, the young post-graduate student studying hard over his doctoral thesis and now homeless thanks to a significant flood that had rendered the big house he'd rented a room in not fit for occupation for the last two months of the term.
His best mate and a previous resident in the house Dan said that his parent's new neighbour had a student loft room and was bound to accept him, and she had. Their discussion and Dan's description of him and his quiet and sensible habits was enough of a recommendation for the last few months of his course. He was bloody gorgeous and turned her head the second her friend brought her prospective lodger into her kitchen.
Tall, dark haired, with a slightly darker skin tone courtesy of second generation North African Mum, while his Dad had given him high cheek bones, strong jaw and eyes that looked electric blue behind his thick framed glasses.
"Julia this is our Daniel's friend Fitz that that I was telling you about; Fitz, this is my neighbour Julia Moore."
"Mrs Moore!" he said with a deep rumble towering over her by about a foot, "such a pleasure," he took her hand and shook it, "thank you so much for offering me a roof over my head. I'm David Fitzroy, but I generally answer to Fitz!"
The 'Mrs' Moore stuck in her mind as she had spent lots of time, money and heartache on that divorce,
"I haven't been 'Mrs' for a while now," she said with a grin, "Call me Julia."
She blanched, she couldn't believe she had said that! This boy, gorgeous as he was must have been half her age and how must she have sounded to him, some horny old bitch he was just about to move in with.
He bowed slightly, his grin was soooo nice.
"Julia then." He smiled again, "I'll get my bags out of my car."
Stood by the kitchen door, she watched as he opened the boot of his car and leant in for his bags and boxes, and Julia's neighbour Carol spoke what she was thinking.
"Just look at the arse on him Julia," she whispered, as he leaned in to grab an errant book escaped from open box and his khaki cargo trousers pulled tight, "he was on the same degree course as Daniel and they went travelling together after." Carol stepped even closer, "according to drunken hints on Dan's Facebook page he's hung like a HORSE!" Her neighbour giggled, "Danny and his other mate Andy were always quite surprised he never took advantage of that particular talent..." Carol sighed, "virgin," she hissed, "such a shame!"
Julia looked at her neighbour in some shock, and the best she could manage was a rather gasped 'ooh?'
"He's such a shy boy Jules," said Carol, "He probably needs someone to hold his hand for the first few trips up that particular mountain."
"Wh... what?" said Julia, still speechless.
"He's going to be staying in your house until April Darling, why not make use of him," Carol was a good fifteen years younger than her, second wife to hubby and step-mum to Daniel and had often been quite chatty and occasionally a bit cheeky-rude telling her neighbour over coffee what chats she had with her younger friends, what fun they had on girls' nights and hen weekends, something Julia hadn't known since she was young and single and hanging out with her girlfriends. "You could help him relax as he completes his thesis, take his mind off of the timelines, and let's face it - it'll help you sleep all the sweeter as well?" She folded her arms and looked up, "I'm guessing you haven't had... any, since your divorce?"
Even though she was struggling so much with the discussion she still shook her head to confirm the negative.
"Well then, do you both good -- besides," she bent down to Julia's cat and rubbed under its chin, "you'll be training him up for the next girl -- a gift to woman kind! come with me," Carol had often used that definition when she recounted one of her single friends occasional 'one-night relationships' so it was a concept she was aware of. Carol walked down to the car taking Julia's hand. "Anything we can help with Fitz?"
He was already pretty well loaded up,
"Only these few things, the rest is all pretty much sorted."
"Well I'll leave you in Julia's very capable hands then Darling," she turned to her neighbour and winked, moving in to put a hand flat on her friends chest and reaching up to kiss her cheek, "See you soon!" She stepped across to her step-son's friend, "See ya Fitz, behave now!"
He grinned and waved,
"See you Carol!"
Carol walked away with her usual feminine swagger and even though late thirties, church-going, staunch supporter of the Neighbourhood Watch was an extremely happily married woman she wondered if SHE might be thinking about taking advantage of the PhD student.
Julia shook those thoughts out of her head and helped him with his suitcase, bags, boxes of books and bits and pieces, and he was most grateful.
Fitz looked at the attractive older woman as she stepped forward and pushed the front door open, stepping into the hall and up the stairs. Christ, her arse was bloody amazing and loaded with boxes he hoped she wouldn't notice his eyes peaking over the top of them, glued to her perfect bottom with the light brown material of her slacks almost clinging to it as she swayed up each step.
She peaked back over her shoulder at the boy whose eyes went from her arse up to her face and she smiled back at him.
For Fitz he was still too bloody terrified to even consider whether it was a come on. He thought about what his good friend, recently graduated teacher and founder of this particular feast, Daniel would have suggested.