Sarah was in her final week of school, she'd finished taking her exams and had felt that she'd actually done better in her finals than she'd done in her mock exams and after her mocks she'd been predicted to gain three A's and two B's, good enough to have been offered a place at Oxford University but being her father's daughter, a consummate economist, she had decided to study at our local university so she could continue living at home and save money. None of that surprised me at all, what did surprise me was that she wanted to marry her long time friend...her, 'He's a friend that just happens to be a boy, not her boy friend!'
I advised her not to marry Robin, well, not until after she'd finished her studies at university but Sarah wasn't the kind of girl to take advice lightly and as she wanted to go on holiday with Robin after her final day at school she organised her wedding to coincide with the last day of school. She'd chosen to marry on the Friday because the church was free, the priest usually only conducted weddings on Saturdays so it was a novelty for him to perform a wedding on a Friday.
Because our house was so large it was a real no brainer that Sarah and Robin were going to live with us, Ron, my father-in-law, even converted our spare bedroom into a kitchen/dining room, closing off Sarah's bedroom door to the hallway and opening a new one into the new living room. Sarah already had an en-suite bathroom so with a few simple changes her and Robin had a self contained apartment inside our house.
Sarah and Robin took their honeymoon on the small Greek island that her grandmother called home, even though she hadn't actually lived there, her parents fled the island just ahead of the German invasion in May nineteen forty-one. June was actually born in America but moved to the UK after the war. It took June twenty years to get her family's farm back and she converted the old farm house into a holiday villa and that was where Sarah and Robin spent a month on honeymoon.
Robin was a nice lad, not as smart as Sarah though, to my mind, it was a very bad match. Robin had left school at sixteen to start an apprenticeship as a car mechanic in a local garage. After two years that garage went out of business and so Robin was in danger of crashing out of his training and it was looking like he wouldn't be able to finish his apprenticeship but Ron stepped in to help as he usually did for people living in our village. Ron gave Robin a bench in his farm machinery garage, not the kind of work that Robin was training for but Ron had quite a few cars around his various businesses so Robin ended up getting enough work and more importantly, experience, to finish his apprenticeship.
I have to say that it was awkward after Sarah got home from her honeymoon, I hadn't really considered the implications of having a newly married couple living in my house, their bedroom right opposite my own bedroom. Sarah's father didn't hear anything from his wing of the house but I did, I heard them fucking every night. I had no experience of that kind of marriage. Johnny and I didn't have that kind of marriage, Johnny only visited my bedroom when he wanted to make me pregnant and our sex wasn't a big thing, it was over and done within five or six minutes.
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Sarah and Robin's first night at home was an eye-opener for me. We'd eaten together and Sarah had washed the pots, we'd gone through the wedding photographs and the holiday photographs and then Sarah had said that she wanted to watch a program on the TV that she knew that I didn't like so she and Robin went up to their room to watch TV. Well, they didn't actually watch TV, even in the living room I could hear them start to fuck at eight o'clock in the evening. I went to bed at eleven o'clock and they were still at it.
I'd never seen sex as anything more than a biological process, something to get out of the way as quickly as possible, so finding out that sex could last for three hours...four hours, even five hours before I finally managed to get to sleep with the sound of sex still pounding away in the room across the hall from me shocked me a little.
I woke to the smell of bacon cooking; I never got any cooking smells in my bedroom from our kitchen so it must have been Sarah or Robin cooking in their apartment. It was seven o'clock in the morning so I dragged myself out of bed and started cooking my own breakfast. Johnny came down, it was very early for him. he hadn't heard anything of our daughter's sexual Olympics but the smell of bacon cooking upstairs had woke him up.
"I don't like the smell of cooking upstairs in the morning."
"No, I'm going to talk to your father, he needs to put in an extractor fan and some soundproofing."
"Why do we need more soundproofing?"
If I'd told Johnny that I'd listened to Sarah and Robin fucking for close to five hours he would have been very unimpressed, "Their TV, I could hear it in my bedroom." I lied.
Robin almost ran through the kitchen, he was holding a bacon and sausage sandwich in one hand and his car keys in the other, we got a "Good morning..." and an, "...I'm going to be late for work on my first day back!"
Johnny returned Robin's greeting and said, "You're family now Robin, my father told you that you didn't need to rush back to work."
Sarah did pop her head into the kitchen a few minutes after Robin left for work, she was only wearing her nighty, nothing under it, fortunately Johnny had gone back to his bedroom to get showered and dressed, "Your father wouldn't have been pleased to see you dressed like that Sarah...you know what he's like!"
"Sorry mum, I just forgot, we only got dressed to go into town for the past month."
"You mean that you walked around your grandmother's villa dressed like that all the time?"
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"No, we didn't bother getting dressed at all, not even to go down to the beach."
"What about the housekeeper?"
"She didn't seem to mind, I think Robin put her off her work a lot though, she couldn't take her eyes off of him...but then he is very buff at the moment and he turns brown very quickly."
"Well, keep a dressing gown handy, you don't want any friction with your father. What are you doing today, catching up with your friends?"
"No, they'll all be at work today...I'm going to catch up on my sleep, I didn't get any at all last night...I tried to keep Robin quiet but as soon as I told him that you'd be able to hear us he just went wild and didn't stop all night long."
I blushed and Sarah laughed at my obvious discomfort.
The next month was just one long sex marathon, it was summer so there was no football or training to occupy Robin and Sarah had decided not to take a job at all before starting at university so all she had to do was fuck and sleep and then fuck again.
Things settled down a lot after Sarah started university and the football season started. Robin didn't have sex on training days or the day before a match. I got used to the rhythm of Sarah and Robin's life together, sexual Olympics on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Robin trained on Wednesday's so they didn't have sex. He played football on Saturdays so no sex on Friday. On Saturday afternoon I didn't need to ask if Robin's team had won or lost, if he lost a match, sex would be quiet and over in minutes, it was a pity fuck from Sarah's point of view, Robin would be miserable after a loss and he wasn't really interested in sex but Sarah insisted on trying to lift his spirits. But if Robin's team won, even if his legs were hanging off, no matter how battered and bruised Robin was, the sex would last from three o'clock in the afternoon until the early hours of Sunday morning.
I had three years to get used to the rhythm of my daughter and son-in-law's life together and on my forty-second birthday I got a shock, I'd listened to Sarah and Robin's early morning fuck, had my breakfast and cooked Johnny's food, I'd placed it on the table at exactly nine o'clock and then I took the washing from the machine and hung it on the line in the back garden. I was surprised to see Johnny's breakfast was still on the table, it was the first time in twenty years that Johnny had been late for breakfast so I went up to his bedroom.
The house had been built as four cottages, the stair way from the first cottage had been used for the new house so the building had been split one quarter and three quarters but then an extension had been built to provide a larger living room on the ground floor and above that, Johnny had a bedroom with triple aspect windows and the two bedrooms from cottage number one had been turned into Johnny's bathroom and study. I was hesitant as I stood at the branch where the stairs split, to the left to my bedroom, Sarah's three room apartment, the family bathroom and the two guest bedrooms. I didn't usually turn to the right if Johnny was in his rooms, I always waited until he was out of the house before I cleaned his part of the house.
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I took a deep breath and pressed on to the right fork. The doors to Johnny's study and bathroom were both open so I could see that he wasn't in either of those rooms, I knocked on his bedroom door and called his name. It sounded like he was sleeping, a kind of snoring. I'd been married to Johnny for twenty two years but in all that time I'd never actually heard him sleeping so I wasn't sure if he snored or not. I didn't get an answer from my knocking so I opened the door.
The room was in darkness and what I'd thought was a snore was a kind of bubbling as Johnny breathed in and out. I called his name again but there was no reaction so I turned the light on and went to his bedside. I shook him but again I got no reaction from him. there were beads of sweat on hi forehead and upper lip, his lips and the sides of his nose were blue and when I put my hand on his forehead he was cold to the touch.