I had started to put these up after my usual day job, so I had started late and I knew there was going to be a meeting in the hall above, so knew I could finish late as well, at least till the meeting went on till.
The friend I helped out could not be there with me, and anyhow, I did not need him as I could manage by myself. He had let me in the hall early and there was no one around at that time.
The basement was under the main hall; access to this was via a small hatch in the floor of the hall to the side of a stage. On lifting the hatch, steps led down to the basement.It was not a big basement, quite small actually, long but very narrow and there was no power down there. That together with some lighting was something else he wanted me to put in but at a later date. So I used my cordless equipment to carry out the work required. I am a fairly large guy, so moving around in that space was a bit awkward.
The basement does not get used that regularly, so when not in use, the hatch is closed and a church piano sits on top. My friend helped me move the piano before he left. The hatch I had left open, mainly because I ran a power cord for a light and also so that people knew that there was someone down there. I had put up a small barrier around the hatch.
I heard people as they moved up in the main hall through footsteps on the wooden floor, more and more as the evening went on. There was this one very loud voice I heard throughout the evening she seemed to be the boss or leader and told people what to do.
I needed a chair or a stool; I popped my head out of the hatch and saw that an elderly gentleman stood by some chairs, I shouted out but he never heard me, so I got out and fetched the chair myself. That was when I saw the lady with the loud voice, she seemed very authoritative.
I went back down and carried on with my work. After a while I heard a voice from the hatch, “Hello, would you like a cup of tea Mister?”
I walked up to the opening and there was this pretty young girl, who again said, “Would you like a cup of tea?”
I looked up and said, “Yes please, white, no sugar, thank you.”
Ten minutes later the same young girl brought me the cup of tea, she asked, “What you doing down there?”
I told her and she asked if she could have a look, so I helped her down and was showing her what I had done when the loud stern voice came across from the hatch, “Elizabeth, are you down there?”
The girl went to the hatch and said, “Yes mama I’m here.”
The lady above obviously the girls mum said, “Come back up here at once, we’ve got work to do.”
The girl, Elisabeth turned to me, shrugged her shoulders and said, “I’ll have to go now, might see you later.”
She went back up and I carried on with my work. An hour had passed and must have been around half ten, when I had nearly finished and had got my tools together. I also heard people leaving in the main hall.
I did not hear her but Elisabeth came back down and took me by surprise when she said, “Have you finished your tea Mister?”
I turned around sharply and said, “Oh, yes, thank you.”
She looked around and said, “I’ve never really been down here before. My second trip if you count the one earlier. It’s smaller than I thought it would be.”
I said, “Yes and now that these shelves are up it’s even smaller. But it is just a store.”
We chatted for a bit longer, she came across as a very friendly young girl. Then the other sterner voice from the hatch came back and said, “Elizabeth you down there again?”
Again Elizabeth walked to the hatch and looked up and said, “Yes, I’m coming.”
I walked to the hatch and gave Elizabeth the empty cup and saucer, the lady saw me there and said, “We’re finished up here and they need to lock the hall, how long are you going to be?”
I said, “I’m nearly done, just a couple more minutes to tidy up.”
She looked at her daughter and said, “Come on Elizabeth, hurry up, hurry up.”
Elizabeth went up and I finished off.There were some candles in the basement; I lit one to see after I took out the cable for the light I used.
I went up and there were just a couple of men putting away the chairs, one of them was the one I shouted at for the chair earlier. I unplugged the cable and took it down and brought up some of my tools to put back into my car.
The stern woman came up to me and said, “Have you got everything? They’re about to lock up?”
She looked very uptight, prim and proper and seemed to be the type of person who liked to be in control.
I said, “Nearly, couple more trips should do it.”
She brushed past me in a huff and elbowed me out of the way as she said, “Ah, let me help and you’ll be out quicker.”
She led the way, I thought she was just going to wait at the top, but she actually went down. I shouted out to her, “Be careful, there’s no light down there.”
She disappeared down, I followed. The light was very dim which came from one lit candle; I could barely see her face. I approached her and she asked, “What have you been doing down here?”
I took hold of the candle and said, “Let me show you.”
We passed the old shelves where the candles and other items were kept, I took her to the far end where I had put up the shelves we could hardly walk side by side. She was quite slim but I was almost double her weight and breadth.
She seemed pleased and said, “Yes very good, we’ve wanted these for a while. They will certainly be very useful.”
She pushed and pulled on them and said, “Very good.”
She was in front and as she turned so that we could leave, she bumped into me and said, “Come on come on, let’s go.”
I turned and walked in my slow stagger, I led the way, she asked, “Are you going to put the light in here?”
I said, “Yes, but have not been asked to yet.”
We both picked up the rest of my tools and walked to the hatch. It was closed, I turned to the lady and said, “It’s closed, it must have got knocked or something. I’ll go and see.”
I put what I had down, just barely able to see the floor. I got up and pushed on the hatch door, it moved half an inch and then no more. It was hard to move and it seemed that the piano must have been pushed back on top. I pushed and pushed, the lady shouted up, “Well what’s the matter?”
I looked down and said, “I can’t open it, it’s stuck. Someone’s pushed the piano back on top I think.”
She tugged at the bottom of my trousers and said, “Nonsense, get down, let me see.”
If I could not move it, there was no way she could, but even so I let her have a go. I stepped down and the lady went up. She pushed and again it moved half an inch and no more. She looked down and said, “What about those tools you have, isn’t there anything we can use?
I looked around, I lowered the candle to the floor, moved it from side to side, I looked back up and I said, “No not really, there are no tools here that would be of any use, just scrap ends of the shelving and other bits and pieces. The hatch doesn’t open enough to get anything through it.”
She pushed up again and shouted out, “Hello, Hello, is there anyone there? We’re here in the basement. Hello, hello.”
She knocked on the wooden door with her hand. She then looked through the very small crack of the opening and said, “They’ve gone home, there’s no light on.”
She came back down, she slipped on a run of the step and I put my hand up to steady her. She grabbed hold and then said, “Unhand me young man, I’m a woman of the church I’ll have you know, and a married woman at that.”
She had placed a foot back onto the run and I took my hand away and said, “Sorry lady, I was just helping.”
She stepped down onto the floor and said, “Helping is one thing and groping a married woman is quite another, young man.”
I again, not in anger but a louder voice apologised, “Sorry.”
And then in a lower tone and a whisper under my breath I said, “I wish I were a young man.”
The lady said, “No need to get abrupt with me sir.”
She looked very stern and unyielding even in the dim light, she said, “Do you not have a phone?”
I said, “Yes, but I put it in the car on my first trip.”
She scratched her head and said, “We’ll there’s only one thing we can do, we’ll have to wait till the morning, there’s a meeting at eight or till someone realises one of us is missing.”
I looked down to the floor and said, “I can wait.”
She said, “There are more candles in the back, give me this one and I’ll fetch them.”
I gave her the lit candle and she disappeared down the narrow basement. All I could see was the dim light of the candle in the distance. It had stopped then moments later came back towards me.
She held up the lit candle to her face and gave me the other candles she had fetched, she said, “Here, light these.”
I said, “It might be better to move further down.”
Further down, although it was just as narrow, there were small shelves to the side, where we could place the candles. She agreed and we lit up four more candles and placed them on those shelves.
There was nowhere to sit apart from the floor; the lady was about to sit when I thought and said, “Don’t sit on the dirty floor, hold on.”
I had thought of the chair I had brought down, it was at the far end, I had to brush up against the lady to get past. I said, “There is a chair over there, let me get it, but I will need to pass by you.”
She stood with her back to the wall and said, “Yes, very good.”
It was tight, no matter how close to the wall I was we still brushed each other, our faces very close, she had closed her eyes and turned her face to the side.
I came back with the chair and placed it down, I said, “Here sit on this, I’ll take the floor.”
I sat next to her by the chair, no room opposite. She looked down, even with the candles we had lit, the light was still quite dim and we just about made out each other. She said, “I heard you.”
I wondered what she was talking about, looked up and asked, “What do you mean. Heard what?”
She looked away and stared at the wall and said, “Your comment about not being young.”
I had forgotten that and did not think she heard me; I looked down and said, “Yes… well… I wish I was.”
She looked down and said, “Your English needs improving.”
I thought again and said, “What?”
She said, “You said, you wish you was. The correct term is; you wish you were.”
I shook my head and looked back to the floor and said, “I don’t see the difference, was, were, it’s the same to me.”
She then said, “And one does not say ‘what’ one say’s ‘excuse me’ it’s very rude to say ‘what’.”
She stood up and took a candle off the shelf, she pushed the chair to one side and bent her knees and lowered herself down to me. The candle lit both our faces and she said, “May I ask, how old you are?”
The candle light flickered and casted shadows on our faces I said, “Don’t mean nothing to me, I’m forty six.”
She smiled, very slightly, I think it was a smile, but anyway she smiled for the first time and said, “How old do you think I am?”
Now even I knew that you never ask a woman’s age, and if asked, like in that situation, you should always, always, give a low figure.
I did not know where that all started from or why she wanted to know, I thought I’ll just play along; since I had nowhere to go in particular.
I was still in thought, when she said, “Well, come on, have a guess?”
I looked back up and looked around her face; she was a pretty lady I would not say beautiful. If she had asked me about her looks then I would have said beautiful to her face. But she was a very good looking attractive woman.
She had a small hat on her head, the one I seen a lot of women wear to church and she wore a long dress very broad, it was like an umbrella on the hips, it flared out and a small waistcoat with buttons on the front.
She spoke again, “Come on, I won’t be offended.”
I took a deep breath and although I thought she looked forty, I said, “Thirty six,” and closed my eyes.
I heard her giggle, she sounded very pleasant for someone I’ve only heard use a stern controlled voice.
She said, “Now I know you’re not telling the truth. Come on what do you really think?”
I opened my eyes looked at her face again and said, “Thirty eight,” and again closed my eyes and looked to the floor.
She lifted my head and said, “You are a very nice man, by your hands I can tell you work very hard, your face tells me you’ve probably had a hard outdoor life.”
She touched my cheek, she ran a finger across it and said, “You’re skin is tough, you’ve certainly have a hard life.”
She ran her finger across the other cheek and said, “Don’t take this the wrong way, but for a black man you are quite good looking, if I may say so.”
She ran her finger across my forehead and said, “I’m the same age as you sir and I thank you for your kind thoughtfulness and modesty towards me.”
She got back up and sat on the chair, she held the candle with both hands in her lap.
She did not look down still straight ahead and said, “My name is Tabitha, you may call me Tam.”
I said, “Nice to meet you Tam.”
She then looked down and asked, “And your name sir.”
I stood up, bowed and said, “Matthew, at your service my lady, and my friends call me Matt.”
She too stood and said, “Well Matthew, can I class myself as a new friend.”
I did not want to just grab and take her hand, so I held out mine to see if she would take it, and she did. She put the candle onto the shelf and placed her hand in mine. I gently closed my fingers around her very small delicate white fingers; I kissed the back of her hand and said, “Yes my lady and I too would like to be a friend of yours, if you would have it.”
I thought I would try and sort of speak her way even if it did sound poppas, I was merely play acting.
She giggled, I was happy she saw the funny side of what I did. I pointed to the chair with my open hand and said, “Please be seated lady Tam.”
She sat and I also sat back onto the floor. We chatted and smiled at each other’s stories of life in general and one another’s misfortunes.
The candles got low and were about to go out, I pointed it out and said, “I’ll get some more.”
Tam placed a hand on my shoulder and said, “You stay there I’ll fetch them.”
She got up and took one of the lit candles with her. I stood and cleared away the old ones to make room. She came back and I leant against the wall, she brushed past me, but for some reason it felt like a tighter squeeze, not just that but it felt she brushed past tighter deliberately.
I got a bit aroused, but thought a lady like Tam, a church lady would not even have thought of any such thing.
We replaced the candles and I sat back down as did Tam. Tam asked, “Are you tired Matt?You may sleep if you would like.”
I thought it funny that I may have required permission from Tam to sleep, I said, “No, I’m fine I may doze off in a bit, but if you need to, then…”
She interrupted me and said, “No, I too am not sleepy.”
We carried on with some more small talk for about another half an hour or so. During which we established that I had been divorced ten years and had no children and am a landscaper by day. Tam’s been married for twenty eight years, one child, Elisabeth. Tam was a school teacher for infants, and was quite religious and carried out a lot of work for the church.
Then there was an awkward silence for a couple of minutes.
Tam asked, “May I ask you a personal question?”
I was open-minded so said, “What do you want to know? I’ve told you that I’m divorced and have no kid’s and you know my age.”
She said, “Oh, I know all that. I was thinking of a very personal question. You may wish not to answer it.”
I wondered what else she wanted to know so said, “Ask away!”
She then asked a question I would never have thought I would ever hear from a lady like her, especially because of the conversations we had just had. She looked straight ahead at the wall and asked, “Tell me Matt, are all bla…coloured men well-endowed?”
I was lost for words, I understood the question, or did I, I asked, “Sorry Tam, what did you say?”
She did not look down, just looked straight ahead and she said, “I asked, are all coloured men including you, gifted in the lower region?”
I did not know about other men black or otherwise, I had a cock, my cock. I said, “I’ve never thought about it, WE black men don’t go around comparing one another’s bits.”
She then looked down, but I looked towards the floor and she said, “Oh Matt, I wasn’t asking if you actually compared yours with another, just are you a big man?”
I thought I’d be funny, as I was a big man overall, I said, “Yes, can’t you see I’m a big, bulky oaf.”
Tam placed a hand on my shoulder and said, “You Mister, are diverting the question and making fun of me.”
I looked up;her eyes flickered with the light of the candles around and I said, “Sorry I didn’t mean to make fun of you, but you are asking a very personal question, I feel embarrassed and uncomfortable.”
Tam patted my shoulder and said, “No harm done, I was just curious. I married young and still am with the same person and there’s only been the one.”
I looked back down, Tam placed her hand on my head and asked, “May I ask if you have been with more than one in your life?”
I said nothing I kept quiet, I was not sure why Tam asked me those questions and for all intents and purposes we were complete strangers.
She stroked my head softly and said, “Its fine, I’m sorry. You must think of me to be very strange and peculiar.”
She kept on and stroked my head and said, “It’s been a long few years, for my husband and I, he is much older than I. I was just curious, sorry to put you in a difficult position. Forget I ever asked.”
It was not a question that anyone can just forget was asked.
A long silence followed, then I looked up and said, “I can understand your curiosity and I think a lot of women probably think of asking the same question, just that you have actually asked the question!”
I looked back down and she continued to stroke my head. She seemed to be patent but very inquisitive at the same time she asked, “May I ask again and this time a simple yes or no would suffice? Are you a big man Matthew?”
I did not know what to say, but to offer her a choice, I asked, “Tam, I told you, I don’t know if I am big or bigger than… your husband or the next man that you bump into. Do you want to… see… look… for yourself and judge?”
It all went very, very quiet; we could actually hear the wick of all the candles as they burnt away.
It must have been three or four minutes, but seemed like three or four days, when Tam said, “Okay, get up!”
I did not think she was serious, so stayed down and said nothing.
She patted me on the shoulder and said, “Come on get up before I change my mind.”
I still stared at the floor and said, “Good, you can change your mind.”
She then patted a bit harder and in her sternest tone said, “No, I am not going to change my mind. Get up!”
I stood up very slowly as the blood ran back to my legs and the numbness subsided, I stood to the side of her, she looked sideways to me and said, “This won’t do, this won’t do at all.”
I wondered what she referred to, what did she want to do?
Tam stood and picked up the chair and turned it ninety degrees, so it faced along the narrow basement. She sat back down and her face was then in line with my crotch.
With both hands she flattened out her dress from her lap to her knees, she did that two or three times. She placed both hands to the sides of her hat and straightened it. Not sure why she did that as it was held on by a hat pin I was sure.
She placed her hands onto her lap then said, “Okay, proceed!”
Did she expect me to take my cock out so that she could look at it, my cock where once it was semi hard, had lost it and was deflated, especially since it may be out for judgement?
I placed my hands on my trousers to undo the zip; I felt stupid and froze, I said, “I don’t think this is right, it’s stupid!”
Tam said, “May I? It’s not stupid if I do it.”
I took my hands away and Tam brought hers up and undid the zipper. I had boxers on underneath and before she placed her hand in she looked up and said, “It is okay isn’t it?”
I nodded in silence; it was all so dark and it was difficult to make out certain features, especially on me being so dark skinned. But on Tam the light flickered off the clear white skin of her hands and her fingers were very clear to me.
Just as she was about to reach in, she stopped, I thought she had second thoughts and did not want to go further. Tam looked up to me and said, “Just a minute.”
She reached around to the side and pulled a candle forward which burnt behind me, to in front of me; she did the same on the other side.
She looked up and said, “If I am going to be a judge, then I need to see what I am judging.”
She reached in and felt for the opening in my boxers.I felt her warm fingers as they fumbled around then took hold of my cock. She wrapped her fingers around it and before she pulled it out she looked up and said, “Oh my, I don’t need to see this one to judge it’s big. Feels much bigger than my husbands.”
She held it tight and pulled on it to pass it out the slit of the boxers. I felt it going hard, it was still limp, but I felt the blood rush and it definitely gained some rigidity.
She pulled it free and let it hang loose; it drooped down and leant slightly to the left. Tam looked at my cock and it got higher and higher, did not reach full hardness but half way there.
Tam stared at it as it slowly throbbed and rose. She looked up and said, “If you don’t know that this is a big cock. Where on this earth have you been living.”
She looked back down at it and asked, “May I?”
I thought she wanted to touch it again, but no, she opened her mouth and her tongue came out and licked the tip. The foreskin still covered the nob. Yes, there are a few of us ‘black’ men who have not been cut.
She brought one hand up and took hold of the shaft and pulled the foreskin back, she peeled it back slowly to reveal my purple cock-head. The blood flowed faster, my cock got harder. She licked it on the bottom and back to the head.
She looked up and stroked my cock and said, “I’m sorry but a cock like this deserves more than just a look to be judged properly.”
She took in my cock and sucked vigorously while she stroked with a tight grip. Each time she took my cock out, the candle light flickered on it. It felt so nice to have a woman’s mouth back on and sucking my cock. Tam’s slobbering was loud, all I could see was a hat that moved back and forth, but the sensation below that was absolutely great.
She was very keen, Tam sucked and sucked on my cock for what seemed like ten minutes. She then let it go and with both hands stroked it, she moved the foreskin back and forth, and each time the head was revealed she licked it.
Tam stood up from the chair and faced me, she had a very bright smile and her eyes glowed with a sparkle, the candle light made them look even more intense. She stared and said, “Shall we go further?”
I knew exactly what she meant, but she was a married woman, I think I should remind her, “Tam, are you sure? You have a child, you have a husband.”
She took hold of my hips and turned us around, again a tight squeeze and I was then in front of the chair. She still looked into my eyes as she undid my belt and button. They fell slightly below my hips and Tam said, “Take them off.”
I took off my shoes then stepped out of my trousers and boxers. Tam reached under her long dress and pulled her knickers off. She said, “Sit.”
I sat on the chair, while Tam gathered up her dress and came towards me. My cock stuck up, it glistened with Tam’s spit as the candle light flickered off it. Tam took hold of my cock and moved her hips closer and over my cock, she guided me to her holy place.
She lowered herself so that my cock-head was about to punch through then let my cock go and placed both her hands on my shoulders. Tam then said, “Forgive me father for I am about to fuckin’ sin.”
She lowered herself in one movement, straight down, she did not stop. She was extremely wet, oh my god she felt great. To have my cock in a pussy again, it felt totally fantastic.
Tam gasped and said, “Jesus fuck!”
Tam looked deep into my eyes; her eyes seemed to pop out of their sockets as she said, “Fuck, it feels like you’ve rammed your fisted arm up me.”
Tam stayed down, she brought her hands up and cupped my face. Her gazed remained locked onto my eyes for minutes. She squeezed her pussy around my cock and it felt really nice. She closed her eyes and said, “Holy fuckin’ Jesus Christ what a fuckin’ cock.”
She moved up slowly and back down just as slowly, I placed my hands onto her hips, well her hips were somewhere below all that fabric of her dress.
She did not look down for a long time, she just moved up and down in slow movements. It seemed somehow very erotic to fuck someone with all their clothes on, particularly a woman like Tam a person of the faith, who seemed to be showing the carnal woman in her.
She shuddered down on my cock and shook violently, she’d had an orgasm. She looked back into my eyes, hers were one of an animal in rage and she shouted out, “The good lord is punishing me, let him punish me more.”
She moved back up and down as she picked up the pace she moved much quicker, she kept shouting out, “Jesus, fuck me, fuck me Jesus.”
Her head rolled around for ages as she kept her fucking of me. It seemed like I was just a human dildo, she was the one doing all the fucking.
She kept her chants going, she was loud, good thing we were in a basement and no one was even close to hear her, “I will do the lords work and if he chooses to punish me in this way then let him.”
She shook again, her grip on my face tightened, she sat firmly down and her pussy tensed around my cock, She shouted out, “Ahh, punish me my lord for I am a dirty fucking sinner.”
Her orgasm subsided and she looked back into my eyes, hers reflected the candle light and they seemed to be a bit bloodshot. She looked deep and said, “How does it feel to be fucking a woman of the church?”
I said nothing, I kept quiet. I felt a bit ashamed, but my cock was on the opposite bench, so to speak. My cock wanted more, my cock wanted to pass on its man making milk to this woman of the church on my aching cock.
Tam looked back up she grabbed my head and hugged it to her bosom, she shouted out, “Let the lord shock my body with his bolts form the heavens. I am his vessel, I will carry out his work and I will take his punishment.”
Tam was like a woman possessed, she was so forceful with my cock. She lifted right off it and came down with all her body weight.
I placed my arms around her waist and stood up. I could actually thrust my hips in that position so I was able to fuck her back. Tam shouted, “Punish me harder my lord for I am a dirty fuckin’ cow.”
Tam wrapped her legs around me and we fucked while she chanted. And it wasn’t long when Tam had another orgasm and said, “Ahh, thank you my lord. Forgive this man for he has done no wrong. Use him to punish me, punish me hard my lord for I am willing and able.”
Tam shook and hugged me tighter; she pulled me in harder with her legs. We had stopped for a brief moment to catch our breath.
Tam requested to be fuck in a different position, she said, “Lay me down my lord and drive your stake through me.”
So I dropped to my knees, cock still embedded in Tam, I placed her down and lay on top. Tam grabbed my face and looked back into my eyes. It was darker on the floor, the light from the candles did not travel well, just enough to see Tam’s face faintly, and her eyes were like diamonds as they sparkled in the darkwith the few drops of light available.
Tam still had a stern and unyielding look on her face, again in a loud voice, “Come my lord, fuck me here where I lay before you. Make my cunt bleed with your anger of my sins.”
I pulled out and back in, I moved slowly, but Tam pushed harder and wanted it faster. We began to fuck harder and faster than before. God she felt so nice, it was an amazing fuck, made more amazing by Tam’s chants. She really thought she was being punished, but what she really enjoyed, loved and could not get enough of was the end result of her penance, her orgasms.
We fucked and fucked, tam had wrapped her legs around my back and had dug her heels in and she pulled me in with great force on every stroke.
Another orgasm and another chant, “Thank you my lord, Ahh, I will take all you give to me.”
She shook and had a very tight grip around me with her arms and legs. I felt her pussy squelch as she released more of her pussy juices. She shook for a much longer period that time. She took hold of my face again and said, “I am a fuckin’ sinner and I will burn in fuckin’ hell for my sins. I am your willing cunt of a servant my lord. Do with me as you please.”
Her orgasm subsided and we carried on, holy fuck did we carry on and on and on. We fucked and fucked and fucked. Tam seemed so hungry for a fucking; she went through another couple of intense orgasms and then I was close to blasting my seed into that ‘Holy servant of the lord.’
Tam never once kissed me nor I her, it was never a factor in this raw animalistic fuck that Tam had wanted, it was never going to be love even if it happened again, love was never the driver. It was always Tam’s hunger and her lust for my cock.
We both banged away at each other fast, hard and in a fury. I was there, I felt my loins ready to give Tam her recompense, I pushed in deep and held her tight while I blasted my first load and Tam shouted out again, “Cum my lord, Cum. Direct your anger and your judgment into this sinners cunt.”
I pulled out and back in deep and released again and again. I blasted five or six cum loads into Tam’s eager pussy while she cried away, “Shoot your holy spirit deep into this un-holy cunt.”
We both lay there as we panted, gasped for air. God that was great, the only thought I had in my head as soon as I blasted my last load, was ‘I hoped Tam would let me fuck her again’ but without clothes, I wanted to see her, I wanted to see all of her. I wanted to see that sinners pussy and tits.
After what seemed like hours, we got up and put our clothes back on, well I did, Tam just had her knickers to put on. We had to light more candles and Tam sat back in the chair, I back on the floor. We were silent; we did not speak or even look at each other.
We must have drifted off to sleep, when I was woken up by some footsteps on the floor above. People were coming in. I stood up and gently shook Tam by the shoulder, I said, “I think there’s someone in the hall.”
I went to the hatch and banged on it and shouted out, eventually we heard the piano being pushed across, I lifted the hatch and there was a man and Elisabeth, who stared down and Elisabeth said, “Hi Mr, have you been down there all night fixing the shelves?”
I said, “No we were locked in.”
Elisabeth asked, “Oh who else is down there?”
I got out and Tam followed, Elisabeth said, “Mum there you are! I wondered where you were this morning.”
Tam asked, “Young lady why did you not come looking for me earlier?”
Elisabeth replied, “I went straight to bed when I got home.”
Tam asked, “And where is you farther?”
Elisabeth said, “He left a message on the answer phone, his truck broke down and was going to stay at uncle Ben’s till he got it fixed.”
Tam never looked at me at all, she walked away and out. I went back down the hatch to gather my stuff and was in my car ready to drive off.
There was a tap on my window, it was Tam, I opened the window and Tam said, “You can come and fix the light next Wednesday.”
