...or sometimes you just don't see it coming!
This is a fiction, none of the people or events are true. All of the characters are over 18. It's a long story because that is the story I felt I wanted to tell.
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I've always liked Friday mornings, Friday morning is the threshold of the week-end, and unless the shit is hitting the fan, Friday morning in our office is a relaxed place. Oh yes, work gets done but at a more humane pace.
Or rather it does normally.
I'm a planning manager and our company has a big product launch next week -- not unusual but marketing were on their way to an epic fail and they'd just realised it, so everything had just gone ape-shit while we were gearing up to get them out of the brown and slimy.
Eva from marketing blew into my office -- smelling gorgeous, crisp white shirt pulled tight over her nice big round tits, black jeans shaped around her lovely arse. She is a vision of delightfulness in autumn colours -- all coppers, browns and smoky colours. Eva is a definite 'I would' - in her case over a desk from behind, hanging on to those lovely, round wobbly tits. I was toying with this vision - as I often do when she's near me -- but she was talking, and I had to park my fantasy morning shag and listen. Despite her proposals I could see it was all going to go tits up.
What pissed me off was that it had been obvious for weeks and despite everything that the eminently fuckable Eva was telling me it was still going to go wrong. Nobody ever listens to the planning manager, especially a brilliant, twenty-five year old one who has only been doing the job quite successfully for four fucking years and most times gets the job done without any fanfare. (I get so pissed off sometimes.)
The icing on the cake - what made it worst - was that it looked like I was going to have to spend the whole weekend sorting the mess out, my twenty-fifth birthday weekend. I had plans, nothing grandiose, except a trip into London tomorrow and a zoom off up the motorway to see my mum on Sunday and a nice trip out for lunch. (Living the rock and roll life style eh?)
The phone rang.
"Mum! How are you? I was going to come over and see you on Sunday. But_"
"Mike, I need you to come to your grand-dad's house today, tonight will be fine."
I had to tell I couldn't? Mum and I are close and I try and get to see her every couple of weeks, and this weekend ...
"I can't mum, something has come up over work, I'm going to be here all week-end." Eva looked at me and mouthed 'I'll make it up to you' -- oh yeah baby, you will, I thought.
"Okay, Mike." Mum was obviously disappointed. No argument, no protest, just a simple acceptance, made me feel like a right toe-rag.
"You lot owe me big time for this one." Eva nodded. I hadn't meant to say it out loud, but when I did, I had a quick mental flash of her lying naked on my desk, her tits bouncing back and to as I fucked her.
"Right this is what we need by close of play today..." I outlined the things I needed from Marketing, Eva nodded earnestly, she knew I could do this.
As Eva was leaving, Tom, the head of our office, appeared at the door -- "Mike! There's a message from Head Office, you're needed over there as soon as you can -- pass that lot to Jimmy and get going!"
There was no way I was going to catch a break today.
I parked at the main office and went in to find the head of the company - Allitt's Holdings - waiting for me in reception, we went into a meeting room.
"Mike, I received a call from the owners of the company, they've asked for you to go to see them_"
"This week-end?" I was stunned - what the fuck was happening to my life?
"I know you've got a lot of work on but don't worry about it." He stifled my protest with a raised hand. "From what I hear you've done all you can, if it doesn't happen -- it doesn't happen, but that won't be your fault."
"But!"
"There's a helicopter coming for you in the next few minutes you need to be on it."
"A what?!"
"All I know is what is on this email.."
I read it 'Mike Bailey to be collected by helicopter as soon as can be arranged. Most urgent. Highest priority.'
The helicopter picked me up from a nearby field and we flew off to the north.
An hour later we circled over a large house somewhere -- if that was the M1 we'd passed over -- in Northamptonshire and what a house. The main house sprawled across the landscape, there were landscaped gardens, woodland with buildings in it, several water features and a pond, a lake. We dropped down onto a landing pad and the pilot -- who not spoken to me once during the whole flight, helped me unhook.
The door opened as I turned and I saw my mum.
She motioned me to follow her away from the helicopter which left seconds later.
I was completely perplexed now, we were at the company's owner's place and so was my mum. I was beginning tow wonder if it was some kind of anxiety nightmare. "Mum! What the hell is going on?! What are you doing here? Where the hell are we?"
My mum looked back at me and smiled, "Happy birthday Mike!"
I followed her from the landing pad. My mum is a real classy woman -- shoulder length dirty blonde hair, always immaculate, she wore a really sharp business suit, grey pinstripe with a real nice cut that emphasised her figure -- which considering she is in her mid forties is still pretty good, actually she's really attractive, bearing in mind that she is also my mum.
Mum led me into the house which sat solidly in the landscape, through a huge front door and into the entrance hall... where my gran waited.
I was very close to throwing my dummy out of the pram - it was all getting too much.
"What are you two doing here? I can't be here, I've too much to do..." my voice rising with tension.
My gran -- sweet, elegant, gentle, shushed me with a finger on my lips and gave me a small package.
"Happy birthday!"
My mum spoke next "It's more important that you be here today than anywhere else at the moment, everything else will be put into perspective after you've watched what is in that package."
"Do you know what's in it?" I asked.
My mum and gran both nodded. "It will take you a while," my gran told me, "You can watch it in the study, we'll be waiting in the drawing room when you're done."
"Can I get a drink?"
"There's a tray and some sandwiches in the study." Mum pushed me towards a pair of large double doors.
The 'study' was nearly as big as my flat, a huge desk sat on one side, with two club chairs and a large chesterfield opposite it. Books lined the walls, and a large flat-screen faced the desk. I couldn't help thinking - 'class!'. On a side table sandwiches and fruit sat next to a champagne chiller where two bottles of soft drink waited. I opened a bottle and placed the package on the desk.
It had my name on.
So I opened it. There was two pen-drives -- labelled One and Two - and three envelopes, there was also a picture of me and my grandfather from when I was a little boy. A note said 'watch the first film, follow the instructions'.
When I'd switched the lap-top on and inserted the pen drive labelled One, the programme auto started and I saw my grand-dad sat at the desk where I was now watching the film.