Thank you for reading my story, I hope that you enjoy it. Love Mica xx, Yorkshire England.
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My Uncle Kurtis was coming to England. He had been living in Australia for the past twenty odd years, but now, due to his declining health, the Australian Government had cancelled his visa and he had to sell up and come back to England. His health concerns were completely manageable, type 2 diabetes, but that was enough for the Australian Government to send him back.
I had been divorced now for three years, my husband Barry had decided that the grass was greener after the children had left home, and had rather stupidly shagged the neighbour Astrid. Her husband Geoff caught them red handed, or is that wet cocked, and all hell broke loose. The neighbours husband threw her out, and I followed by chucking Barry out.
Barry and Astrid had rented a house together for a while, but it hadn't lasted, one of them cheated on the other, I hadn't been interested enough to find out which, and they split up. Barry had contacted me telling me it was a mistake and he would like us to try again. I waved the Decree Absolute in his face and told him to sod off.
Anyway, that meant that I had a spare room in my house, and I had offered it to Uncle Kurtis as a first port of call whilst he found his bearings. He had shipped most of his belongings to my house and they were filling my garage. I was expecting him to arrive at Manchester airport at three fifteen. I was going to drive to Manchester and park up nearby, and then when he had his luggage, he would text me, and I would pick him up in the pick-up zone.
I was parked in a Tesco car park, not far from the airport, only about fifteen minutes, just watching people as they drove around the car park, wheeled their shopping through the car park, and in some cases just whizzed around on those little scooters that so many love. There was a couple who had obviously had an argument, Lord knows what about, but they looked as if they would cheerfully kill each other.
There was another couple who could hardly keep their hands of each other, I wondered if they would have a little something in the car, but no, they didn't get into the back seat, and the front seats of modern cars have the big console in between them, so no chance of any 'contact'. Mostly it was people transferring shopping from trolley to the boot.
I was classifying people as single or married by the contents of their shopping, and I was pretty sure I got most of them correct. I know when I went shopping I never bought large packs of anything, and pretty much always bought on a day by day basis, and I judged others as single by my own habits and actions.
I hadn't found anyone else after I threw Barry out. At first the betrayal hurt too much, and then, well frankly, I couldn't be bothered with the hassle. I hadn't even bought myself a vibrator, I just shut that part of my life down, I simply existed, went to work, came home, did laundry, cooked food, loaded the dishwasher, sat in the conservatory, that sort of life. Existence, day by day existence.
Kurtis coming to stay would change things a bit, he was on his own and I kind of assumed that he would have evolved as I had, existing day to day. Probably the decision of the Australians to throw him out would have hurt a bit, but he may have just shrugged it off. As I recalled he was a bit of a laid-back guy, although I hadn't seen him for over twenty years. I wondered if life down under had changed him at all.
I was wearing a loose top and a mid length skirt. I had told Kurtis what car I was driving, and only hoped that they sold the same car in Oz, otherwise he wouldn't recognise it. I was pretty sure I would recognise Kurtis, even after all this time, he had looked much the same when we face timed a couple of days ago just to confirm up the final details.
The text came through and I headed off, and as was always the case all the traffic lights changed to red as I approached them. Oh well, it wasn't raining, Kurtis would just have to wait if I was late. If I had got there too early and over stayed my 10 minutes allowed pick up time, the cost would have been ridiculous.
I pulled into the pick up zone and there he was. Unmistakable. I pulled up next to him and got out of the car.
"Kurtis" I said as I embraced him, "let's just chuck your cases on the back seat, there should be room."
"That be right," he said, hefting his two suitcases in and then shutting the door. He got in the passenger seat and after I had queued at the pay kiosk and waved my debit car, the barrier rose and we were off. There was small talk on the way home mostly about the flight, his lay over in Dubai, and the awful plane food, and then we were off the motorway and heading through the traffic of Bradford to Bingley where I lived.
"Jill," he said, "I'm fair starving, any chance, if you haven't arranged something, that we could get some fish and chips?"
As it happened, I had thought I would heat up a couple of frozen pizzas, but they could stay in the freezer, no issues there. "Of course Kurtis, I know just the place not far from home, I'll stop off there."
There was a space just outside the chippie, and I pulled up. "My treat," he said, "I changed the last of my dollars at the airport. What do you want?"
"Oh, okay, yes, fish chips and curry sauce for me," I said and watched as he hopped out and went into the chippie. I knew that there would be a bit of a wait as they always cooked the food fresh, and it was, fifteen minutes before he reappeared with a carrier bag full of our tea.
Back home I showed him his room, he had taken one suitcase up, the other stayed at the bottom of the stairs, he would take it up after tea he said. In the kitchen I opened the carrier bag and took out the food. Fish chips and curry sauce for me, and for him there was fish, chips, mushy peas, battered sausage and a fish cake. Either he was sampling a lot or he was really hungry.
"Lap or table?" I asked.