Many thanks for the comments - to all of the grammar and typing experts sorry about the mistakes, hope I didn't spoil your 'enjoyment'.
Yes, it's a 'several part' work, not sure how many yet, but have notched it up now, enjoy...
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Mum had suffered a bit of fall and was admitted to hospital. Tim rang me and told me not to panic, she'd fallen while he'd been at home and she had complained of extreme pain. Sensibly he rang for an ambulance, and using gas and air, she was lifted to the back of an ambulance and taken to the local accident and emergency.
Given a new hip joint mum was in hospital for at least three weeks, so I said that I would visit most weekends. Auntie Ronnie went to visit for a weekend so I insisted that Tim came south to visit me and, at last, Uncle Dan who still had a small green bank book for him.
I took the Friday and Monday off and had a long weekend with my brother. I picked him up from their house, went to visit Mum and told her I was taking him for a rest.
"Which home?" she said with just a hint of a tone.
"Mine," I said and added, "he's had a tough time and needs some time off, I can do that better at my place than at yours. He's just going to have a couple of days holiday with me spoiling him!" I beamed at her like a mad thing and she seemed to respond to this.
Packing him and a small bag of clothes into my car we headed south. With his long days and disturbed nights it didn't take long for him to nod off. I didn't mind, and turned my stereo down low enough to hear but not to wake him.
Three hours later he woke as I negotiated the four sets of 'pain in the arse' traffic lights in my sleepy little Surrey town.
He woke, stretched and looked around him at the fresh greens of summer Surrey, and seemed impressed.
"You drive very well," he said as the engine stilled on my drive.
"Thanks," I said, "it's practice. You should learn," I added, "you can take Mum for days out."
"Oh I do," he said, "we get tokens from the council and we go out for days, but travelling around in Manchester in a car is such a pain; it's much easier on a bus or a taxi at a push."
"Yeah," I said, "but you'll find out there's life outside Manchester." I looked across the car at him, "when was the last time you travelled outside Lancashire?" He lifted his bag of clothes out of the boot of the car.
"I don't know," he said looking quizzical, "Probably our last holiday, we went to Mablethorpe, on a coach that time though."
"Well in a car you could go when and where you, like and not have to worry about being back in time for the driver."
"We're OK," he said with a smile, "we get by, besides we had everything we needed on the coach holiday."
Into the kitchen I filled the electric kettle and sat on a chair at the table. Tim, stared in surprise at my light, bright, modern kitchen. The kitchen was everything you would have expected in a '70's northern soap or sitcom. The built in cooker and automatic washing machine was new to him, Mum insisting on using her old twin tub.
"So enough about you and Mum, what about you Tim?"
"Me?" he said surprised, "What about me?"
"How goes life with you -- friends, girlfriends, hobbies that kind of thing."
"What with caring for Mum I don't get a lot of time for hobbies and stuff." He said quietly, "I still paint of course, the model railway is always there of course."
"What about when you were at the Poly," I said, "you must have had girls after you like crazy." Although I would never have admitted it to him he was rather attractive and, well, one look at that huge penis of his would have turned any girls head.
"Nah," he said, "I was busy studying," he looked out of the window then back at me, "How about you," he said.
"Nah," I replied with a sigh, "I went out with a few blokes, had a few long term relationships but, what with one thing and another," I left my totally fucked up psyche out of it for the time being, "none of them ever worked out."
I could see he was bursting to say something, and eventually he did.
"You were never..." he paused.
"I was never what?" I asked.
"Well, Veronica would ring Mum and say that you'd stayed over," he looked down at his lap, "it wasn't because of..."
"No, you perv!" I chuckled back with my usual teenage insult of him, which I had since realised actually was his real life letching at me.
Again, I didn't actually want him to know that I'd had damp knickers for little Scots Debs for over five years by that stage and we shared beds and each other two or three times at year by that stage.
"I wasn't perving," he chuckled, starting to come out a little, "It's just Mum once said that she thought you might have been,"
"Why?"
"I don't know Lainey," he said, "She said all sorts of things about you after I..." he stopped, "after you fell out that time."