saw the expression on her face 'not that I wouldn’t have liked to, you know.'
'Stop there John before you dig a bigger hole for yourself, you’d better go and get showered.'
'Yeh OK Liz. Just one thing though?' he paused as he lifted the sheet and looked underneath 'how did I end up, you know, naked?'
Liz raised one eyebrow as she replied 'well a girls got to have some fun John, and it was so much more enjoyable removing the clothes from a warm body compared to what I'm used to' she had a cheeky grin on her face then, just as she was about to leave the room, she turned and said 'by the way, last night you were enquiring about my lab coat, you asked what I wore underneath it, do you remember?'
'Yes vaguely, sorry about that' John replied, even more embarrassed.
'Well here you are then' Liz stood in front of John, close enough for him to reach out and touch if he'd wanted too, and slowly undid the belt on her robe allowing the whole thing to softly slip from her body and drop to the floor.
John took a long look, taking in the vision that stood before him, the shape of her breasts, her trim slender waist, those long shapely legs. Then he bust out laughing.
'Bloody thermal long johns with pink flowers, oh Liz! Liz! Thank you, you've completely ruined my fantasy, but thank you, what a laugh!'
'It gets cold in the lab you know' Liz laughed 'and I like my pink daisies.'
After coffee Liz drove John to the station, parked the car and got out.
'Are you coming in?' John asked.
'Yes, just got some papers to pick up' Liz replied.
As they walked through the corridors Liz linked arms with John, something she only normally did if they were out socially.
'It was quite funny last night' she said, 'after you’d passed out you got a text from Ian he wanted to know where you were and if you'd struck lucky.' She looked at John who had a sheepish look about him, 'don't worry, I just sent a text back saying “I'm at Liz's and I'll be staying for breakfast!” and put a wink smiley at the end.'
John turned horrified to Liz 'You did what!'
But there was no time, they were through the door and a huge cheer went up around the room from John’s team, Ian stood at the front applauding.
'See you later' she whispered and gave him a peck on the cheek for good measure.
The cheers continued as John stood there, what was he supposed to do now? Tell them that he'd passed out and couldn’t do it, that would cause even more embarrassment, or just let them think that he and Liz had done it, at least that would take the pressure off a bit. He decided to go with the latter.
Ian walked towards John and was about to speak.
'Don’t you start' John warned.
'Come on lets go,' Ian said, still smiling broadly 'Horseshoe Common, we've got another one.'
Chapter 7
'Bill please stop, let me explain.'
But Bill was away, disappearing into the crowds that filled the streets at that time of night in town centre. He didn’t want to hear what she had to say.
'Bill Please!'
He could hear her getting further in the distance, he wasn’t going to put up with that sort of shit, not from her, he just wanted to get as far away from her as he could, he crossed the road and decided to go across the Common. As his pace slowed a little he could still hear the sound of distant crowds but there was something else, someone behind him, he tried not to pay too much attention he just wanted to get home and he was still thinking about what she had said. What a fucking bitch she was. The steps behind him seemed to get closer and closer and then, they vanished. He turned to look but there was nobody there.
'If that’s you pissing around just fuck off and leave me alone, I don’t want to hear any more of your pathetic excuses' he shouted. He didn’t even want to glimpse her again let alone sit down for a nice cosy little chat while she blurted out her ridiculous story about why she'd done it.
He turned back and continued walking, as he approached