Chapter 4

A quick wash then I headed back into the room and woke Helen and the boys; Helen rolled over onto her stomach and lay trying to wake as I sat watching her firm buttocks for a few seconds.

After a quick visit to the pool, we headed back into the hotel and sat down to dinner. It seemed that the Spanish sunshine had given the boys a healthy appetite.

By 9 pm we headed down to the entertainment area ready for the kiddie's disco, Jack and Ryan stood dancing happily while Helen headed to the bar to get us all a drink.

Half an hour later, the young girl from the hotel approached us about the room babysitting service. After a short chat with Maria, Jack and Ryan headed to the room happily with their new best friend, allowing Helen and me time to sit and enjoy the evening's entertainment.

Being an all-inclusive hotel, the bar usually got busy at night, within half an hour Helen and I had decided that we were going to order a round of drinks each to keep us going without having to wait in the queue every fifteen minutes.

By 11 pm the bar was shutting, yet the number of trips that we had made to the bar seemed to have piled up on our table. By midnight the entertainment was winding down.

Within fifteen minutes everyone had finished up and either headed into the town for the late-night bars or drifted off to their rooms.

Helen and I headed out to the pool area with the drinks that we still had left and started chatting. It didn't take us long to start talking about Lorna and the kids.

Helen explained that after her husband left, she tried to protect Lorna as much as possible. She didn't want to see Lorna make the same mistakes that she had made with men. Yet a chance discussion with Lorna had settled all of Helen's fears.

Lorna seemed to be enjoying life as a working mother, Lorna explained to her mum that Brian was a supportive husband and that even though they were still young Helen seemed happy to let her live her own life.

"You know, looking back I never really gave you and Lorna much of a chance did I?" Helen said with a small note of regret in her voice watching me shake my head.

"Helen, maybe..just maybe, Lorna and I weren't meant to be together" I added with a reassuring smile watching her nod.

"Maybe I shouldn't say this, but over the past six months. Having you around the house has seemed to cheer me up to no end" Helen added with a smile.

"In what way?" I asked unsure where this conversation was going.

"Well when Lorna moved in with Brian the house seemed too big for me, I was thinking about selling it and moving to a smaller place. Then when you started popping in to help with the kids. Well, it took me back to when Lorna was young" Helen said taking a quick sip of her vodka and coke and then looking up at me.

"Do you know what I mean?" Helen asked watching me smile and nod.

"Do you miss your husband?" I asked watching her look over to the pool for a few seconds then answer "No, not really, but I miss the company" Helen added turning and giving me a wry smile.

"Well I'll tell you something, if you promise to wear that yellow bikini, I'll come over and visit you every night," I said with a laugh watching Helen smile and then grin.

"I can just imagine what your mum would say if she found out that I was luring her son to my place with a skimpy little bikini on," Helen said with a grin.

"It's okay Helen I was only joking" I added watching her nod.

"Craig, I know you were, that's another I like about you. The fact that you don't care about what other people think, you just say what comes into your head" Helen added with a smile.

"You know you're responsible for that" I added watching her give me a confused look.

"Well with most people I am quite shy, but when I'm around you it's different. I guess I can be myself." I added watching her smile.

Helen sat her drink down and sat deep in thought for a few seconds then looked up with a smile.

"So did you meet any nice girls earlier on" Helen said referring to my hour by the pool while they slept.

"Well actually there was this one sexy older woman I would have loved to get to know better but the only problem was she didn't seem to know I was there," I said with a dirty laugh watching Helen give me a confused look.

"She had on a yellow bikini" I added watching her laugh.

"You know sometimes I don't know whether you're joking or being serious" Helen added with a smile.

I must have sat there for about ten seconds wondering whether I could say what was on my mind. It seemed like I sat there for a lifetime trying to decide.

"I guess a bit of both" I added watching Helen wondering what I meant by that.

"In what way" Helen asked watching me turn slightly and then look at the pool.

I guess what I'm trying to say is..until this week I always saw you as Lorna's mum. Don't get me wrong, a cool mum. But I think over the past few days I've started to see you as a nice person" I added unsure whether it had come out the way I had wanted it to.

Helen just gave a little smile and nodded.

"I guess what I'm trying to say is that when I say things like your sexy. I mean it, but at the same time I don't want you to think that I am..you know" I stopped watching Helen smile and nod.

"Trying to charm your way into my yellow bikini," Helen said with a laugh watching me laugh and nod.

"well as we are both being honest then all I can say is, if I ever had any ambitions of having a toy boy then trust me I could do a lot worse than choosing you," Helen said with a smile then quickly added, "Not like I have any ambitions of having a toy boy, you know".

"Well tell you what if you ever want a toy boy let me know. I'll be your toy boy, on one condition. You don't tell my mum" I said with a dirty laugh watching Helen almost choke on her drink.

"Yeah right Craig, I can picture it now. Me explaining to your mum that I had a new toy boy and it was you...she would kill me" Helen added with a grin watching me nod then add "Yeah after she had killed me first".

Helen and I sat joking about having to run away together, her with her free bus pass and me with my homework.

Fifteen minutes later we were heading back to the room. The young babysitter sat explaining that the boys were shattered when they got to the room. They just crawled into the bed with their clothes on and fell asleep.

"I've taken off their socks and shoes" she added with a smile watching

Helen stands and stares at the boys lying in my bed cuddling into each other.

Helen paid the young girl, giving her a 20 euro tip in the process, and thanked her for watching them. The girl nodded and then headed downstairs.

"Eh, I think we have a problem," I said pulling back the covers and watching the two of them legs entwined sound asleep.

Helen gave a little grin then nodded "Just leave them there, I think I can handle sharing a bed with you for one night" Helen said casually watching me turn and look at her.

"But" I stopped unsure what I wanted to say.

"Craig trust me, I don't bite," Helen said quietly then laughed "Much"

Helen gave me a little smile then headed into the bathroom with a long nightie then appeared back through watching me sitting on the bed in a pair of football shorts.

"Well are you going to sit there all night" Helen said pulling back the covers and watching me slowly climb up the bed then pull back the covers and climb in beside her.

"Listen Helen are you sure" I added watching her turn and grin.

"How else am I going to get to fondle my toy boy" Helen added with a dirty laugh.

"Craig, I'm joking," Helen said watching the shocked look on my face.

Within a few minutes, Helen was lying with her back to me drifting off to sleep. For the next ten minutes, I lay on the bed trying to keep myself as close to the edge of the bed as possible.

It didn't take long for me to slip into a deep sleep.