August
Olivia Carter,
the new locum Vicar at St Clara’s had, at the behest of Vicar Arielle Archer,
accommodated Danny Nightingale and Molly Barrington by fitting them in at short
notice.
It was a
glorious August day with not a cloud in the sky when Danny and the wedding
party arrived at St Clara’s, he had spent the previous night with his best man
George Wood, and the Harrison’s at Beacon Farm.
Molly and her
Matron of Honour Arielle Archer and bridesmaids Nicola Harrison and Hayley
Stock got ready at Cliff Haven cottage and rode to St Clara’s in a horse drawn
carriage.
It was a
beautiful ceremony, very moving and was well attended and when they left, they
were seen off by all the well-wishers as Molly and Danny left the village in
the carriage which took them to the reception at the Beaumont Manor Hotel and
Molly felt like a princess.
At the same
time Danny and Molly were tying the knot, a group of friends from Spaniards
Creek were on the golden sands of Norman Beach where they were enjoying the hot
weather, and among them were brothers Paul and Ryan Parkin and Ryan’s
girlfriend Ellie Watson.
But despite the
blue skies there was a black cloud hanging over the day because Paul knew that
his brother was going to dump Ellie and he was not happy with what Ryan was
going to do, because he was doing it so he could make a play for someone else.
About an hour
after seeing Ryan and Ellie in a heated exchange by the cliffs, Paul was
walking along the beach towards the steps when he saw Ryan kissing someone
else.
He climbed the
steps up to the cliff path and found Ellie behind one of the trees and he could
tell by the movement of her shoulders that she was crying, so he closed the
distance between them.
“Are you ok
Ellie?” he asked when he reached her and as she turned to face him, he could
discern that her eyes bore the evidence of crying, and then before he knew what
was happening, she had buried her tearstained face in his chest and began to
cry anew.
“I’m sorry” he
said
They stood in
the shade of an oak tree in that embrace for ten minutes as she cried, until
the pattern of her breathing changed and he could feel feather light kisses
from her soft lips on his naked chest, before her lips journeyed upwards until
they reached his and she kissed him, a deeply passionate and electric kiss, but
he curtailed it.
“We shouldn’t
be doing this” he said
“But it’s what
I want” she retorted and tried again to connect her lips to his.
“But you were
crying for Ryan ten minutes ago” he pointed out
“No, no, you
mustn’t think that” she said with alarm
“I wasn’t
crying because we broke up, I was glad, I was distraught because I didn’t think
I would see you again”
And then the
kissed again.
On the August
Bank Holiday, on a hot sultry Sunday afternoon in the Hamlet of Saxvirdan and
Samantha Lucas was as hot and sultry as the weather, and the children running
in and out of the house every five minutes either bickering or telling tales or
saying, “Can I have?” was not cooling her down in the slightest.
So, she just
carried on watching TV with her husband Eddie and tried to think happy
thoughts, which was proving very difficult.
“Thank God” She
exclaimed when she heard the tell-tale chimes of the ice cream van playing “I
wish I was in Dixie” in a neighbouring road.
“Nothing says
come and get an ice-cream more than a jolly racist tune” Eddie said as the
children came running in from the garden
“Ice cream, Ice cream” they called
“Just a minute kids, Dad will give you some money” Samantha shouted to them and
he dug around in his shorts pocket and brought out a couple of two pound coins
which he handed over to the children and they were out the front door in ten
seconds flat, and the moment the door closed Eddie took hold of her hand and
pulled her onto his lap.
“Behave Eddie” she protested “it’s too hot”
“Just give me a
kiss” he said
“That’s not
going to cool me down, that will just make me hotter” she said but kissed him
anyway.
“Well, if it’s
cooling down you need then I can help with that too” he said
Ten minutes
later when the children returned with their ice cream, they found their mum and
dad in the back garden where Eddie was spraying their mum with the hose pipe.
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