Another wedding. Another disaster. I didn't really want to go but when you are the bridesmaid and it's your mothers wedding you sort of have to even if you don't want to.
Five more minutes until my train arrived. Five more minutes followed by two hours of travelling from Elderford to Whigamshire. Two hours! And for what? So my mother can marry her hot new toy-boy "Dean"? My dad hadn't been dead two minutes and already she was hitching up with some new boy. He was twenty -seven, almost as young as me and my mother was on the wrong side of fifty! For god sake! It should be illegal or something! My phone bleeped signifying that I had a text.
HI ROSE. HOPE U HAVE A GOOD TIME AT THE WEDDING. SORRY AGAIN I CUD NOT MAKE IT. HAVE FUN. I WILL TXT U TELLING U HOW MARKS PARTY WENT. CAN'T BELIEVE HES 30 CAN YOU? I GUESS WE R NOT THAT FAR OFF THOUGH R WE? WELL ANYWAY C U WEN U GET BACK. JESS XOXO
'Almost 30?' I muttered to myself 'I'm twenty-six' and I was looking good for it. Although I couldn't help resent that I had to go to another bloody wedding while everyone from the office got to go to a thirtieth birthday party. And it was Mark's so it was bound to be good. However, my thoughts were interrupted by a low hum of something. Something that I had heard before but it was so long ago it felt like a dream. Just along the platform there was a police box, one of those really old blue ones and on the bench next to me there was now a man with a funny bow-tie and a tweed jacket.
'Hello Rose, ' he said 'I expect you don't recognise me.'
'Sorry?' I asked.
'It's me, I'm the Doctor?' he said.
'Oh please don't tell me you're one of those strippers that I met at the club I was…' I began.
'No,' he said 'I'm THE Doctor. I know I said I couldn't travel between universes but…'
'I am really confused…' I said 'oh, are you one of those sci-fi fans?'
'No,' the man said 'you really don't remember me do you?'
'Nope,' I said simply 'anyway that's my train,'
'Wait,' the stalker said but I had already gotten on the train. He was something else.