Chapter 5: The Night Visitor Revealed

Kaye put a disposable glove on before opening the bottle and pouring her water out into her glass. She had no idea why, she simply followed Lewis’s instructions. She read for a while, drinking some water as she usually did. Then she settled down. She had checked the radio alarm was in place, but it was almost second nature now. With nothing happening for so long she had almost forgotten why it was there.

Sometime during the night something disturbed her. She was aware of a figure that seemed to be kneeling at the side of her bed. It was a little clearer this time because of the glow from the radio alarm clock. But still too dim to recognise who it was.

As before she seemed able to open her eyes and see but was unable to move any part of her body. She was lying on her side facing the intruder. They got up and moved round to the other side of the bed, so she could no longer see them. She felt a pair of hands come under the duvet and take hold of her. One of the hands held her shoulder, and one her hip. She was rolled over onto her back.

The intruder moved to the foot of the bed and reached right up under the duvet. Taking hold of the bottom of the legs of her shorts they pulled firmly so they moved down a couple of inches. Then holding her ankles, they pulled her legs down straight, before moving them apart a good two feet.

Then they returned to the original side of the bed. A hand came under the duvet and slid up inside her T shirt. Kaye had stopped tucking it in by now. The hand felt all over both of her breasts. They were gentle, but she remembered later that she had thought to herself, ‘They’re not as gentle as Lewis was.’

Then after a while the hand moved down and explored over her stomach and then her abdomen. She was scared, but not too much, they seemed to be being content just to feel.

Soon the hand was going down inside the front of her shorts. It explored all over her hairs. It had more room with her shorts having been pulled down a little. The sensation it gave her reminded her of how Lewis’s touch had felt. Although she didn’t realise it, her body was producing oil.

Then a finger started moving about in her hairs, clearly trying to find her opening. She felt it moving deeper into her hairs and touch the skin around the opening. As it traced around the orifice, she heard them make an excited sound. Then as it found her lump it explored all over it as if wondering what it was.

The feeling of the finger sliding easily over it several times brought memories flooding back of Lewis’s lovely introduction to a climax. Then the finger started sliding in deeper and deeper. It explored all around, her impression was that it was exploring somewhere it had never been before.

That would suggest someone like Arnold, but something about the manner and the silhouette confirmed her belief that it wasn’t him. She felt the finger sliding out, then when it was halfway out it started sliding in and out slowly, imitating the movement of a cock.

The excitement of the feeling made her cry out, and although her voice, like the rest of her body, wasn’t working, she did make a noise of sorts. The finger froze, then started to slide out extremely slowly.

Once out, the hand slid slowly out of her shorts as if scared she was coming round. It moved out of the bed and there was no movement for a few seconds. Then the figure stood up and headed for the door.

As it reached the door, Kaye couldn’t see it happen, but it looked back at her. That was presumably to check she was still out of it before opening the door and slipping out.

Moments later Kaye was fast asleep again. The next morning when she woke up, she remembered what had happened. She got up and followed some more of Lewis’s instructions.

She put a pair of disposable gloves on and then put the cork Lewis had given her into the top of the bottle. Next, she put the push on tight cap on the glass which still had some of her water in from last night. Lewis had supplied the glass and the matching cover.

Finally, she put them both in the box he had given her which held them both upright. The original screw on cap from the water bottle was put in a small plastic bag and also went into the box.

The box had a handle on the top and a label saying, ‘KEEP UPRIGHT’ she put that in the back of one of her cupboards, then texted Lewis, ‘It happened last night.’

Lewis was on his way to school that Thursday morning when he got the text, so it was mid-morning break before he was able to sign into the camera. Kaye had texted that she had gone up to bed at ten thirty, so he started off watching at ten p.m.

He had the facility to fast forward to a point something had recorded, so in seconds he was watching a video of a man coming into Kayes bedroom. He opened her water bottle, dropped what looked like a pill in, and left again quickly.

He used the light coming in from the landing to see what he was doing.

The next bit was Kaye coming in to go to bed. He fast forwarded twice until the next stop showed it was taken at two a.m.

He watched the man, who looked to be mid to late forties. That seemed to confirm Lewis’s first suspicion that it was Uncle Clifford. He did all the things Kaye had described in her text. Then after she made the grunting noise, he was soon heading for the door.

Reaching the door, he looked back before opening it. That gave Lewis a perfect full facial picture of him. He snapped a copy. He just had time before the school bell to send Aiden a text with the picture and Uncle Clifford’s full name and address requesting information. ‘I don’t yet know if this is a picture of him.’ he added.

At Lunch time he texted Kaye and asked her to meet him at the shop after school and to bring the box. She replied with a thumbs up.

At midafternoon break he found a text from Aiden saying, ‘Nothing known, but it is Clifford, I checked his driving licence.’ Lewis sent back a thank you.

After school, Lewis headed slowly up to the shop. Meanwhile Kaye had slipped home, collected the box, and had also headed for the shop. Lewis arrived first so he helped Mike.

Kaye arrived at five to five. Mike gave her a smile and Lewis waved her through to the back. As she passed him, he said ‘Three coffees please.’ Soon they were closing the shop and going through to join Kaye.

As he went in Mike put his arms out and Kaye rushed over. He gave her a hug and a kiss on her head. ‘You look a lot happier than last time.’ he said. She smiled at him then rushed over to give Lewis a hug. He got a kiss on the lips. ‘Well, I can see who was responsible for cheering you up.’ Mike said.

‘You both did,’ Kaye said and returned to him. She put her hands up each side of his face and pulled his head down to her. Planting a smacker on his lips she said, ‘Thank you.’ Mike looked very pleased.

They sat at the table and had their coffees. ‘I’m so pleased to see you looking so happy,’ Mike told her. ‘Lewis will be going away to university in the not-too-distant future.’ he told her, ‘But I’ll probably be here for ever. Just remember if you ever need a hug, there’ll be one waiting for you here.’

Kaye got up and went round to him. She gave him a hug and another kiss. ‘Thank you,’ she said, ‘I’ll take you up on that.’ Mike got up to go. He put his coat on and gave Kaye another hug and kissed her head. ‘See you soon.’ he said as he left.

Returning from locking the door, Lewis went straight over to the settee and sat down at the end. ‘Come and join me,’ he said patting his lap. Kaye went over, kicked her shoes off and lay down with her head on his lap.

‘Did your aunt have anything out of the ordinary to say at breakfast this morning?’ Lewis asked. Kaye looked at him surprised. ‘Yes, she did. She said again that she had had a bad night’s sleep last night and felt very tired. It wasn’t her, was it?’ she asked looking horrified.

As he stroked her head and smiled down at her, he asked, ‘You have already decided that you don’t think that your intruder was Arnold. Who did you think it might be?’