Chapter Twenty five
"I'm not sure that it is no, but with the door locked and in this big old house the only thing anyone will hear is the water running down the soil stack and even then only if they are in the gymnasium."
"Now there's an idea, we could work out and then… shower."
"Who needs a work out after that? I don't think I can feel my legs yet."
David reached up and snatched the hand held shower spray down and carefully soaped Lynnie's neck and breasts. He reached for her shampoo and asked, "May I? Only I think I put some of me in your hair."
Lynnie nodded and turned around; they were still seated on the shower floor and David knelt up to shampoo and rinse her hair. When he had finished she leant back against him and he leant against the cubicle walls until the water began to run cool.
"We should get out and I need to turn the water heating on." She stood up and wrapped herself in her robe before leaving her bedroom and running down the hall to the family bathroom where she flicked the switch for the immersion heater.
When she returned to her bedroom she tossed one of the guest robes at David, "Here, this can be yours and remind me to turn that heater off. The Aga usually copes but I think we showered for a bit too long." She climbed on to her bed and lay down patting the bed beside her. David joined her and lay down with her.
"I can't believe you can stay with me here."
"Neither can I. After the last week… how did I get so lucky?"
"Must have a guardian angel."
"Named Maralyn."
She smiled at that and snuggled closer. "My sisters will be home soon, well Kate and Lucy will be anyway. We'll need to be… discrete." Lyn was rambling and she knew it, she wanted to tell David something but she wasn't sure how he would take it.
"David?"
"Mmmm?"
"Jeremy called me yesterday?"
"Did he?" David answered as non-committaly as he could. He realised he was genuinely not jealous anymore of the little twat. He had Lynnie all but naked in his arms and he knew that she didn't want to be with anyone but him. Talk about ten feet tall and bulletproof!
"Seems he's stuck with the course again." Lynnie continued.
"Maybe he isn't up to teaching then."
"You're not angry?"
"Nope. He's nobody."
"Want to know what I told him?"
"Only if you want to tell me. I've decided not to be jealous; I trust you… completely." He felt Lynnie relax a little more and was sorry he had ever given her reason to doubt that trust.
"Thank you David. Anyway I told him I wasn't prepared to pass his course for him and he needed to do some work or think about where his future lay."
"I think he thought it lay with you."
Lynnie rolled on to her stomach and laid her chin on David's robed chest, "Well he's very much mistaken. I don't plan to ever lay with anyone but you and I told him not to call me again too."
"What did he say?"
"I don't know… I hung up and he hasn't called back."
David yawned.
"Are you tired or am I boring you?"
"Lynnie! You could never bore me; I'm just a little tired."
"We could nap before dinner, Mum won't disturb us."
"That sounds good."
"We will have to go and eat en famille."
David groaned.
"Don't be like that! Mum likes everyone together for dinner."
"Mine does too. I'm just a bit nervous of seeing your Dad."
"Daddy? Oh he's a pussy cat, promise. I know just how to get around him and I'll be right next to you just like you were right beside me when I stayed at yours."
David's eyes were heavy and she pulled the duvet up over them both and listened as he dropped away in to a deep sleep. She wasn't as tired as he was but she found herself drifting as she listened to his deep and even breathing. She heard her younger sister's laughter as they arrived home and their heavy bedroom doors close then all was quiet again. One of the beauties of this house, she thought to herself as she recalled her cries of delight in the shower, was that it had very thick walls.
She must have slept a few hours because when she woke again her room was in darkness. It may soon be the Easter holidays but until the clocks moved on it still got dark early which was something her Australian born Mother had never quite got used to. Lynnie smiled as she rose to draw her curtains across and saw that the garden lighting was already on.
Her Mother and Father had spent a small fortune for the automatic system they had had installed but it made the night seem more transient and she knew her Mother loved it.
She turned and looked at David properly. He was still fast asleep and she brushed a lock of hair off his forehead and grazed his lips with her own before dressing simply in jeans and a t shirt. She switched off the immersion heater and descended downstairs to see when dinner might be and if she could help prepare it.
As she entered the kitchen Susan handed her a glass of water and an antibiotic.
"Thanks Mum."
"You've been shut away up there for hours."
Lynnie blushed, "We fell asleep, David's still asleep now."
"That is what Kay wants me to keep an eye on. He needs to get back on to a proper sleeping pattern before she starts believing he's a vampire."
"He doesn't bite hard." murmured Lyn before she realised she had said it aloud and blushed furiously."
"I shall pretend I didn't hear that!" said Susan "And I will also pretend that you didn't use all the hot water."
"Sorry Mum, I turned the immersion heater on."
"And off again?"
"Yes and off again. Is there anything I can do to help with dinner Mum?"
"Nicely deflected." muttered Susan and then added, "You can help your sisters lay the table in the small dining room and then help me dish up. You'll need to wake David first so he has time to dr…"
"Mum! Don't say that! So he has time to wake up properly please."
Susan smiled kindly at her daughter and spoke again, "So he has time to wake up properly."
"Thank you."
"And dress." added Susan.
When Lynnie blushed to her roots Susan added, "Oh run along, go and help him get ready. You can both help me clear away after dinner instead and I promise I won't tease you when your Father and sisters are within earshot."
Lynnie skipped out of the room and Susan watched her smiling broadly. At least her daughter was happy and that was all that mattered for now.