“Yes,” I stammered, the question of whether I was really going to do this apparently settled. We adjourned to the bathroom where she stripped off ...er shorts and underwear before kneeling in the tub while he filled it with a few inches of water. She was surprisingly nonchalant as he proceeded to lather her up and ply the razor, smiling at me the whole time like we were still sitting around the table having a chat. Once she was nice and smooth, we all moved into the living room. She never. M. I got a text, it said: "Please come over for dinner, Natasha." I didn’t recall giving her my number, she must have got it off my phone at some point. I got to her house about 8ish. “I ordered in Indian, hope you like it?” "That’s fine,” I said. We ate the food and sat talking for a while. I filled her in on my background. “Right, enough old bollocks,” she said, “My cunts twitching thinking about your tongue, get upstairs and get naked." I stood up and grabbed her by the arm and shoved her. Being fired, I could handle. Unhappy in my job for the past six months and constantly on the lookout for something better, it could well have do me a favour in the long run. The theft of the black XR3i was harder to take, more for sentimental than monetary reasons. The last link to a rapidly eroding youth, the car had been my most faithful companion for over a decade. The loss of the money I could have done without, given my newfound unemployment, though hopefully the insurance payout would. .. for what it’s worth I’m proud of you, it didn’t really hit me until I saw you in your uniform, but if you were never going to be a farmer then I can’t think of anything better for you to be.”“Thanks Dad, that means a lot to me.”“Raz is quite the ... er ... handful. Is my daughter in law really going to be an alien?”“It’s looking that way, yeah. She’s pretty special, Dad, I hope you’ll take the time to get to know her before we have to leave.”“Well you never had a way with women Stanley, I.