Life Changes (Hope Springs Eternal)

by secwaters

The third of my stories about the Swallows, Amazons, Ds and Eels as adults - this one is set in the 1980s. Once again to make sense of some of the story it helps to have read my previous two! (Rated T as it is really for adult readers who are familiar with all the S & A books.) I've given this a new title as the original has been used here - apologies!

4. Chapter 4

CHAPTER IV

DOT REMEMBERS

A few days on from the afternoon when Timothy had kissed her, Dot was working at her desk on some notes that she hoped would eventually become her next novel. As she did so she was surprised to hear the doorbell ring at such a time of day. It couldn't be Titty as she would usually only call on her unannounced in the morning or evening, otherwise she would telephone in advance, she knew how Dot tried to spend her afternoons writing. On opening the door she had not been expecting to see Timothy.

He was slightly embarrassed looking and holding a small bunch of flowers, he said he was there to apologise to her for his behaviour the previous afternoon he had called on her. Inviting him in she explained once again that no apology was needed, why on earth should there be? She took the flowers from him, thanked him and closed the door and went through to the kitchen to find a vase to arrange them in, he followed her through the flat.

Dot arranged the flowers in the vase on the draining board of the sink with her back to Timothy, during which neither of them had spoken, once finished she then turned and looked at him, as she did so they both seemed to know what was happening between them as she walked across the kitchen towards him. In moments she was being embraced firmly in his encircling arms and they were kissing each other passionately. When at last they parted she took him by the hand and wordlessly led him through to the bedroom, she closed the curtains. Here he undressed her, slowly and carefully, clearly delighting in uncovering her body, and then having removed his own clothes they were naked together beneath the sheets of the bed.

Dot would freely admit she was not that experienced in sex, especially in comparison to Titty, as she knew from when she regaled her with her exploits, but she was not an innocent. She knew full well that when Timothy took her and pleasured her it was with sensitivity and skilfulness, and she would be very fortunate if she ever got to know such passion in another.

When they had explored each others bodies in an almost uncontrollable need for fulfilment of something deep within both of them and they were finally sated, they had got up from the bed, Dot first, washed and dressed and returned to living room to drink tea.

In a most sensible and organized way they discussed what had just happened between them and what they would do next. It was not a difficult conversation, Dot knew full well that Timothy was about to be engaged, even though nothing had been said to either family, and she also knew he had a few 'occasional' girlfriends that meant little or nothing to him. None of this bothered her at all, she did not expect physical ownership of any man she had sex with, what mattered now was in that afternoon of dalliance she had found the man she wanted above any other, a man who had just given her pleasure, the like of which she had never before known.

When Timothy finally left Dot's flat that evening it was with two agreements made between them, the first that he would visit her whenever he could, the other was that neither of them would say anything to anyone of their relationship.