My name is Alex Williams, I live in an block of retirement flats you'd think life would be pretty uneventful but not so!
We have a good community spirit at Landside and just so I don't get to be a recluse I like to go to the various functions held for, and by the local over sixty committee - and I looked forward to the weekly events like Bingo and a monthly fish and chip night and the like. We also have our own dramatic society, amateur of course and it is always great fun. That is how I became acquainted with Helen.
She like me is round about sixty five and I was not expecting at our age anything more than just a friendly companionship when she invited me around to her flat to look at her family photographs.
She lost her husband about five years back and said he was sorely missed, that I reminded her of him.
After one or two visits - and she visiting me in my flat also, the games we played like chess and the like became statutory, but after a while she smiled at me so warmly one evening and openly asked if I would like to 'partake in anything else?'
Not quite knowing what she had in mind I asked her - and her smile was so very sweet and daunting, the slight brush of her cheek against mine so warm and the feel of her small hand resting on my thigh sort of gave me the impression that she had something quite different in mind and much more intimate.
But who would have thought Helen would want that. But those eyes told me she did; "it has really been so long since David and I ... well you know, and as I said before; you do so very much remind me of him. Alex"
Sitting there and feeling her warmth as she closed to me, the gentle touch of her kisses brushing all over my cheeks and then my lips made me feel quite different towards her.
Only a while ago she was simply a friend, okay female but me thinking she would never in a month come Sundays be interested in anything more than just company.