Crazy connection

Chapter 13 The day

We manage to get dressed and head out of the hotel without another s****l encounter. I check my phone for the time, it’s 11:25am and I have three missed calls and a string of messages from Mags. I flick through the messages super quick and see it’s all a whole bunch of,

Why aren’t you answering my calls?

Call me back as soon as you get this

10:30 where are you? 

What are you doing? 

And more of that.... 

I text back and let her know that we slept in because we stayed up late chatting and that I’d call her back once we had found somewhere for lunch. 

No need to elaborate with any more detail then that for now. I’d be on the phone all day otherwise, and we wouldn’t actually get any sightseeing done in the few hours we have left before I have to head back to Mags’ to collect my bags and head home. I have a scheduled train ticket booked for 9:30pm. The original plan was to spend the day in London sightseeing and then head back to Mags’ place for my bags before returning home, hence why I bought the late ticket. 

Fred is leading the way to the nearest tube station, he seems to have got his bearings pretty quick as he remembers the way we went the day before. 

We have some conversation about what sights he has in mind to see first. He tells me he wants to see Big Ben, Buckingham palace and the London eye and I suggest we get the tube into central London and pay to go on one of the hop on hop off sightseeing tour busses. 

He seems happy with that idea and we head into the tube station to buy a travel card. 

We get off the tube at Westminster Bridge. This way we can start at the London Eye. As we come out of the station, I smell a waft of food cooking coming from somewhere nearby, and it hits me senses like a ton of bricks and my stomach let’s off a tremendous growl. 

Fred looks at me with a look of utter shock and disbelief, “ what the hell was that?”

“I think your stomach is telling me off.” 

“Sorry, my tummy does grumble a lot when I’m hungry”, how embarrassing that he heard that. I try change the subject and point towards the London Eye, “there it is, come on.”

As I’m about to walk off he grabs my arm and points to a Mac Donald’s across the road. “I think we had better get some food in us first, before your stomach decides to take a bite out of me.”

Not my first choice, but seeing as it’s the nearest place to eat and seeing as I’m starving, it made sense. 

We pop our masks on and a woman at the door let’s us in and asks us to sit at a designated table. I follow Fred in and we sit at a booth near the back entrance. 

“This time it’s on me”, and Fred puts his coat down on the seat but stays standing, he blocks me in so I can’t get up out of the booth. I guess because he doesn’t want me sneakily beating him to the counter to pay for the food. 

“What would you like?” He asks turning his head to look over his shoulder, assessing how busy it was. 

“Uummm,... a quarter pounder with cheese and a bottled water please.”

With that he heads off to one of the self pay stations and puts in our order. 

While I have a chance to, I decide to give Mags a quick call. The call rings off without an answer, so I try again, still no answer. I drop her a quick text to let her know we are headed to the London Eye and then going to catch the hop on hop off for the rest of the sightseeing tour. 

That should keep her from nagging me for updates for a couple of hours at least. 

I look up and Fred is still waiting for the food. I decide to give the kids a quick call. 

I ring Maddi’s phone first and she picks up first ring, this tells me she is glued to her phone probably texting her mates non stop, “hey hunny, how is it going at your dads?”,

She replies with contempt in her tone, “Urg, hey mum, it’s fine, Andy is just being annoying as usual. He keeps bothering me and Dad refuses to do anything about it. He just says I need to keep Andy busy. Could you ring dad and ask HIM to keep Andy busy please?”

“Sorry babe, I’m out at the minute so can’t really get into it with your dad right now. Put your brother on the phone and I will have a chat with him.”

I can hear her calling Andy to her, and him running around in the background, “why, what do you want?” He says, “you didn’t want to play with me a minute ago, why should I come to you?” I hear him teasing her. 

“It’s mum on the phone, she wants to speak to you!” I hear the exasperation in Maddi’s voice. 

Speaking to me now, Maddi says, “he’s on his way”

I reply, “okay hunny, be good and love you!”

“Love you too”

She passes the phone to her brother, “hey mum, Maddi won’t play with me and Dad said she hasss to play with me or Shheee is going to be in biggg trouble.”

“Hello my boy, it sounds to me like you aren’t being very nice to your sister, are you?” I say in my, I understand you are bored but please be a good boy, voice. “If you ask her nicely I’m sure Maddi will play with you.... so go on, ask her nicely.”

“Maddi, will you pleaaasse play a game with me.” I hear him pleading in his sweetest voice. 

Maddi in the background, “Urg!” “OK!”

“Yesss!” Andy says with his most excited voice. I can just see him now, balling his hand into a fist and pulling it fast into his side as if he had just won the lottery. 

“Gotta go mum, love you”

“Bye hun, love you”

With that the phone hung up. 

As I slip my phone into my pocket, Fred puts the tray with our food on the table. “I should have ordered at the counter, those self service machines are grimy.” He rubs his hands on his thighs as if to try get the muck off of his fingers. 

“ I have hand gel” I reach into my little bag and pull out a small bottle of hand gel. I pop the lid and hold it upside down and he slides a hand under so I can squirt some on his palm, I gel my hands too. 

“Wow this looks great, thanks” 

He gives me an arched eyebrow and side look. “It’s not exactly Michellin star” apologetic now. 

“Are you crazy, I’m ravenous, this looks amazing right now.” I smile and pop a fry into my mouth. 

“I’m pretty ravenous too, we definitely did work up an appetite last night, and this morning.” He  looks up at me with a very smug grin on his face. 

I can feel my cheeks flush as the visions of what had happened last night.... and this morning.... just recalling the spanking from this morning was making me wet down there I feel my n*****s harden as a little excited chill travels up my spine.

His eyes still fixed on me as if trying to read my thoughts or my reaction, I smile and turn my full and undivided attention to my burger. I take a huge bite in the hope I could cover up my bashfulness. In hind sight I probably shouldn’t have taken such a big bite because now I have him staring at me and I can barely chew, which just adds to the embarrassment. 

He lets off a little chuckle and tucks into his own food. 

Sooo subtle Carmel.... I do an imaginary eye roll in my head. 

Once we’re done eating we head out to check out the London Eye. “I’ll go pay for the tickets and we can have a go on it, see London from up there, it must be amazing” Fred says with excitement. 

“Ummm, just get one ticket, I’m not too keen on heights....Terrified actually.” I look at him with my most apologetic face. 

He looks at me as if I’m crazy, “what?” “You don’t want to go up?”

I shake my head and he takes a step towards me to link my arm and lead me to the Big Wheel. “You’re joking right” with a smile on his face and laughter on his voice. “Come on!” He tries to convince me. 

I step back and pull from him before he can get a grip on me. The moment he looked into my eyes he must have seen the absolute terror in my eyes, his expression changed from lighthearted to that of knowing. 

“Just joking man, I don’t want to go on that thing!” He says in his thick South African accent. 

“Look how slow it’s going, it would take all day to go round.”

“Come on, let’s go find that bus!”

I felt bad I’ve ruined it for him, “you can go, I don’t mind waiting here for you, really, you should enjoy it.” 

He turns to me with a soft, sweet smile on his face, he leans in and plants a soft kiss on my lips before seductively whispering in my ear, “I only wanted to go on there so I could spend the next hour holding and kissing you.” Holding my hand in his he gave my hand a gently meaningful rub with his thumb and looked deep into my eyes as if trying to send me an unspoken message. 

I didn’t know what to say to that, I was ... dumbstruck. His words and the way he said them sent a shiver down my neck and my v****a twinged involuntarily. It also, gave me this strange sense that he was catching feels for me. It kind of made me hope that he is catching feels for me, because I definitely was catching feels for him. 

We caught the hop on hop off sightseeing bus, and we held hands all through the rest of the tour. We didn’t get off of the bus until the end because we were enjoying each others company so much. It was nice because we could chat and catch up on what had been going on in our lives these past years. By the time we got off the bus it was time for me to go get my bags from Mags place or I wouldn’t make it back to Paddington station in time to catch my train home. 

***

Time to say our goodbyes. 

I get a pang of dread, I didn’t want to say goodbye yet. It had gone by way too fast. 

Fred leans into me and rests his forehead on mine. Looking into my eyes he pleads, “stay another night”.

“I can’t,” is all I manage to say. 

Fred grabs my hand and with worry in his voice he asks, “when can I see you again?”

Just then my train is about to leave. I kiss him gently on the lips, “call me!” 

And with that I turn and get in the train just before the doors close, ready to go. 

Fred is standing watching as the train starts to roll out of the station, I watch as he stares at the train until we are both out of each other’s sight.