All of a sudden, the noise became deafening – the radio came on, the traffic and airplane noise sprung back to life. I looked at my watch – 12:12 and twelve seconds. It seemed that everything had stopped for just over an hour. I spent the rest of the day in a complete daze, almost in awe of what had happened. Had I been dreaming or was the rude sex with my neighbour really real? I checked out my old feller and by the look of it, there had been some action recently.
My mind was in a spin – did I really make the best use of the hour that I was awake and no one else was? I was not financially better off, but I had definitely had a great time! Would it ever happen again? Why did it happen only to me? Was it the whole world or just West London? I listened to the news on the radio, but there were no news flashes of strange happenings, so I presumed it was just me.
After a sleepless night, turning over the day’s occurrences in my mind I phoned work to pull a sickie and took off to the chemist to drop in my photos of my sexy neighbour for processing, hoping that the staff wouldn’t look at them. On my way out the front door, I bumped into my leggy blonde neighbour once more. My face must have told a thousand stories, as she looked at me strangely and asked if everything was OK. “Everything is perfect” was the best response that I could manage.