Thank you so much for reading my story, I hope that you enjoy it, Mica xxx Yorkshire England.
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This story follows on from Agent part 1 and 2 although they should be read first, this story will stand alone if you don't.
In the morning I showered and douched and showered again and douched again. He had really used me last night. I wonder what he got out of it? It didn't do much for me but I wasn't offended, it was what I had expected and the whole thing had just been clinical. I wondered if I could carry on being emotionally detached and simply being clinical. Laying there and thinking of England, My King and Country? Today was the first of my prearranged meetings with the agency.
I had no way of knowing if I was being bugged or followed, so I took the usual precautions. A lot of mirror checking as I drove, nothing, but they could just be better than me, I had decided that I could do nothing that would look suspicious, no sudden turns and then back tracking, that was saved for the films. I drove to the Farmers Boy in Bingley and ordered a prawn salad and an orange juice to consume outside.
I sat at a table and looked over the car park, watching people coming and going. It was relatively early and so footfall was light. There was the banging and clattering of tuns as they took a beer delivery, and in the background the rush of water across the weir, the river was high after the recent rains, but the weir hadn't been overtopped yet.
I went into the loo and as I was going a woman brushed past me, and I had a small mobile phone pressed into my hand. I sat in a cubicle in the loo and looked at the phone, there was a text notification.
'Liz. Ali confirmed. Leave phone on cistern.'
Good, so Ali was my target, that means I haven't been wasting my time with him. I flushed the loo and left phone as directed. As I left the Ladies the woman who bumped into me passed me and went into the cubicle I had just left. There was, as far as I could tell, no one else in the loo, and if anyone had been watching me, then they would have seen that there was no one else in the loo at the same time as me. Good. Security maintained.
I still had to meet the people next door on the other side and as I pulled on my drive there was, luckily, someone on their drive. I got out and called across.
"Hello, am I your neighbour?"
"I guess," came the reply, "you have just moved in?"
"I have, I am Liz."
"Hi Liz I am Alan, if you are free, come round for a coffee."
"Yes, That would be nice, I am actually free now."
"Good, round you come then."
His home had a lot more furniture than mine, but mine was not really a home, it was just a house I was staying in whilst I did my job. I followed him through to the kitchen.
"Look who I have found," he said to a woman doing washing up, "this is Liz from next door."
"Oh hi Liz, nice to meet you, I am Alice. Tea, Coffee?"
"Tea please, and nice to meet you too."
I hovered whilst the kettle was filled and turned on and cups and saucers retrieved from a glass fronted cupboard on their wall.
"So Liz," Alice said, "what do you do?"
"Me? Oh nothing at the moment. I used to help my ex husband do the books for some people, but he is probably going to jail and I am not and I moved up here for a new start."
"Oh my God," she exclaimed, "really, oh wow, that sounds so Channel 4 drama."
"Oh no, just a cheating husband with his hands where they shouldn't be. No drama to be made of it. What do you guys do?"
"I am a forensics technician," Alan said, "and Alice looks after me, I am a bit of a handful it seems."
Alice laughed. "Yes, he is so scatter brained, he really couldn't look after himself. Any way, how do you want your tea?"
"Oh, splash of milk please, no sugar."
Tea pot, cups, saucers, jug of milk and some tea spoons were all added to a tray.
"Right then Liz, let's go out to the conservatory, Alan will you be a dear and bring the tray?"
I followed Alice through their dining room, through the French doors and into their conservatory. Alice pointed at the single cane chair and I took my seat. A small table at my side. She sat on the cane sofa opposite me, Alan put the tray on a table at her side and then sat down next to Alice. She fussed and poured teas, handing one across to me, and then she sat back on the sofa, her knees apart and her pale blue knickers quite visible to me.
"Perhaps you can pop round to mine whilst Alan is at work," I said, my eyes firmly between her knees, before my gaze moved upwards and fixed on her eyes.
"Oh that could be fun," she said as her gaze went downwards, my knees parting slightly to accommodate.
"I have now met you nice people, and Ali next door. I have yet to meet any of my other neighbours."
"Oh, we don't talk to him, the other neighbours are nice I think. There is a Lithuanian girl and her boyfriend the other side of Ali, then there is Nasser who drives an Uber. There is a Scottish retired couple, Hamish and Beth. We don't really get to talk to many others, it is such a quiet street."
"Oh good, I like it quiet, who knows what goes on behind the vertical blinds."
"Exactly, and who wants to know? We all tend to keep ourselves to ourselves."
The tea was a robust blend, I didn't know what it was, it was loose leaf from a caddy, if she came round I may ask her.
"Don't think me a philistine," I said, "but when you come round, I only have bags and mugs. I had to start again from scratch and only got some bare essentials from Dunelm. Yorkshire Tea and some Chai, that is it for now."
"Oh don't be silly," Alice said, her eyes definitely on my prize, "a cup of tea is a cup of tea, I am just showing off with the porcelain, I get so little opportunity to use it."