Wednesday, 11 September 2024

The Islands in the Bay – Chapter (149) Beginnings

 



When Emma Jane Ratcliffe was approaching her twenty first birthday Blake Ramsey wasn’t at all surprised-on Monday to get an invitation, they had after all been friends since nursery school.

It had clearly been established that Emma Jane was one of the popular group, Blake was in no uncertain terms, not.

He was not athletic, artistic, or sexy but they did have intelligence in common and his forte was science, in particular Physics.   

So under normal circumstances, friendship and intelligence aside, why would one of the popular girls invite a Science geek to her 21st birthday party?

Anyone not close to her could be forgiven if they were surprised but Blake was not.

They would have been further surprised when it turned out he was only one of six guests at the party, one of those being Emma Jane herself.

Though for Blake it certainly wasn’t a surprise knowing her as he did, she was never a flashy person, so she didn’t want a big flashy party with lots of superficial friends.

 

In the days following the engagement party at the Beaumont, Dale Power couldn’t get Eden Hills out of his head, and by the Tuesday he was totally smitten.

His Dad was a massive Star Trek fan and when he was a child he watched the films with his Dad, and when he first saw Eden, he was taken back to his childhood when he watched the first Star Trek movie.

In the movie there was an alien character, Lieutenant Ilia, onboard the Enterprise, played by Persis Khambatta, and she was completely bald, and in his adolescent sexual awakening the sexy bald alien featured heavily in his fantasies.

Since meeting Eden at the party his youthful yearning had been rekindled and he looked forward to seeing her again, and as she worked with the horses at Woodside Farm, and he worked for the only Blacksmith’s on the island the chances of them meeting again were very high.

 

While Dale was fantasizing about Eden, Michelle Kendal was doing the same about his older brother.

She was approaching twenty-four, was five feet two with brunette hair and an olive complexion and she had it bad for Mark Power.

He was a couple of years older than her, and they had known each other for a few years because she worked with horses and he shooed their horses, but she hadn’t been able to make that count.

Even when they both attended the same engagement party, she couldn’t get close enough to him, for long enough to seal the deal.

However, on Wednesday she found out that he had also been invited to a mutual friend’s birthday drinks in Spaniards Creek that Friday, and that offered her an opportunity that she wasn’t going to waste.

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