Chapter 27

We flew out to Tenerife on the last weekend in July and the villa we had was situated in Los Gigantes. This was the first time either Katy or I had been in Tenerife and we spent most of the time exploring. With Joe and Isa we walked across the lunar type landscape where they made the Star Wars films and ended up at the base of the Volcano El Tilde.

We visited the smugglers village and walked from there down to the beach where the smugglers used to bring their goods ashore. It was an arranged walk and there was a boat waiting for us to ferry us back to Los Gigantes. We were able to have a swim from the boat before we started on our homeward journey. On the way back we were served with sandwiches and coffee, tea and or other drinks.

We also visited the north of the Island with its slightly wetter climate and its more tropical vegetation. There we also found that there were people still living in caves ion to which they had built a dwelling frontage. By accident we walked on the roof of one of those as it had a grass roof at the same level as the hill on which we were walking and it looked as if it was a continuation of the hill itself. On another day we visited Porta De La Cruz and spent a good part of the time in the huge open air swimming pool with its large fountain. Fortunately it was a lovely day for we had been told that it could quite often be wet in that part of the island.

After we returned from our holiday and just before school restarted we had our exam result our exam results in the first week of August, and both of us achieved a Grade A pass in all our subjects. As you would expect, we were over the moon with these results. Joe and Isa were equally pleased. I had started driving lessons in April as I had achieved my seventeenth birthday in January. I had been in no hurry to start driving lessons, as in my previous life I was an advanced driver, and living in the midst of a city the car was not a great advantage.

Now, however, as a reward for my efforts Joe decided I should have a car and my driving instructor had put me forward for my test right after my fourth driving lesson and I was due to sit this just after school of the school term began. Though I had been in no hurry to do this, I decided I would be quite pleased to have my licence. I think Joe and Isa would be even more pleased because it would save them from having to ferry us as frequently to where we wanted to go.

As I had confidently expected I duly passed my test first time and the following weekend Joe took me to the garage where He bought his cars and where he had placed the order for the vans for the new cleaning business. They gave us a good deal on a second hand BMW version of the mini. It was a top of the range spec with alloy wheels, sat nav, and cruise control. Its sound system enabled you to play your i pod and came with heated front seats. With only twenty five thousand miles on the clock I was more than pleased with the purchase.

When school resumed we were in our Higher grade year and this was the vital one for our University applications. These days it was almost essential to have five passes with an A grade to get into one of the best universities. Katy and I were applying to Edinburgh as our first choice as this would mean we could stay at home. Our second choice was Stirling, with me or Katy driving once she passed her test it was feasible that either by motoring or by train we could travel daily and still stay at home.

Alice, Ellie and Katy were becoming really close friends with DI and Jenny still part of the group. Alice was frequently invited either to our home, or to Ellie's place. With DI and Jenny this did not happen as frequently though if we had a pool party or a barbecue, everyone came with their boyfriends. As our families still met frequently at swim meets the contacts were maintained through school occasions and occasional dinner parties. In September we celebrated Sinead's first birthday and all of them, were invited for the occasion.

At the first school swimming competition it was against John's old school and it was strange to swim against them and nit encounter him as my opponent. Without him as completion I won both my swims easily. But as we had lost some of our senior students we also had gaps in our ranks and I was asked to swim the the medley and came in second in that. I think the breast stroke was my weak link and if I was going to be asked to do this regularly I would need some extra practice to strengthen my swimming in that department.

Katy won both her events and Alice, introduced us to her mum Dora Shaw, who along with Ellie and her parents was also in attendance and all of them congratulated us on our performance. This was the first time we had met her mum as she had not attended when John was swimming. Alice said she was having one of her good spells as they seemed to have her medication under control. Joe and Isa, plus the MacLeans went out of their way to make her feel welcome and included her in their party.

We all stopped at a Costa Coffee place afterwards and I had a chance to talk with Alice. She was just about to begin her course at Edinburgh University and was extremely nervous about it. Since she had been going with John for almost two years, she had lost contact with her friends and she wondered if she would be able to make known ones in her new situation.

I told her not to worry about making friends right away. I advised her to look around and get to know some of the girls who might share her interests then when she was ready she could approach them. If you see someone you think you would like to get to know, especially if they are living away from home, invite them to come and share some time with us at our home. This would be a good way of breaking the ice. I smiled, and then said with a laugh; just remember to let us know when you are coming.

She giggled at that and said,

"I would let you know what I was proposing to do before I asked them you silly boy, just in case I chose an inconvenient time."

I could see that she was quite relieved to have this as a strategy if she needed one.

Later when we were getting ready for bed I related this conversation to Katy. When I got to the bit where I had reminded her to let us know what arrangements she had made, Katy said with a giggle,

"You should have made that part a bit more exciting for her by threatening to spank her bottom if she didn't."

"You are a wicked woman, Katy McIntyre," I told her. "Besides which she might have liked the idea and offered to let me do it. Then what you have done?"

"Oh I might have offered to hold her down for you," she said with a giggle, "or better still, just in case you got too excited, I might have got you to hold her down while I did the spanking. She has a beautifully rounded bottom that would be a delight to spank."

"I don't believe I am hearing this," I said with a laugh, "My once so shy girlfriend is developing a dominant streak."

"From what I know about my mum, she was great at organising people and especially my dad. He was a pushover for her, since he was so shy and he was also besotted with her. She was just what he needed. Maybe it is knowing that Alice is a submissive and into that kind of scene which brings out a bit of my mother in me," She said with a giggle. "Then there is the fact that she is just so beautiful. Even as girls, both Ellie and I think she is gorgeous and if she wasn't shy and submissive she could have nearly any man she wants."

"You are right there, especially as she is such a nice person to go with it." I said. "Despite her beauty, she is kind and caring, and does not see herself as anything special."

"Yes she is," Katy agreed, "look at the way she refused to desert her mum because she needed someone to be there for her. A lot of girls wouldn't have done that; they would have gone with their man, especially when John was meeting her needs in a good kind of way."

I found all his talk about a joint spanking of the beautiful Alice's bottom kind of arousing and I could feel myself getting hard.

"If you keep placing these images in my mind of us spanking Alice, young lady," I told her, "There may not be a spanking, but you are liable to find yourself on your back and my hard penis in your pussy"

"Promises! Promises! "She said with a giggle.

"These are promises I will find easy to keep," I threatened. "What's more I will enjoy fulfilling them."

"Then stop talking lover and let me see some action," she told me.

That was a challenge I certainly was certainly going to rise too, if you will pardon the pun.

I moved quickly over to where she stood and pulled her into my arms and kissed her passionately. She responded and I broke off the kiss, picked her up and carried her through to the bedroom. I laid her on the bed and then stripped her clothes, before removing my own and then climbed up beside her. Once again we kissed passionately and then I began exploring her body, sucking on her nipples and caressing her breast before moving on southward. As I neared my goal her legs parted obligingly to give me full access and it wasn't long before she cried out as her orgasm hit her.

I held off, waiting till her body subsided, but before I could mount her she surprised me by pushing me onto my back and straddled me. She grasped my hard cock and guided it into her and then began to rise and fall as she thrust up and down in my rod, As she rode me I could see the perspiration beading her brow, but she was a fit with all our swimming training and tai chi and she rode me to another shattering orgasm. As she flopped down on top of me, it was my turn to roll her onto her back and it wasn't long before I was shooting my seed into her.

As October rolled into November I had meetings with the other board members of our cleaning company. It was now well established and I suggested that we should form a profit sharing scheme for the members. I relayed to them that I wanted it not just that the workers might receive a cash benefit from their hard work, but rather that we might help them prepare for retirement. I wanted to see if we could make part of the share-out in benefits in kind.

Joe and Bill wanted to know what I had in mind so I went on to relate the current situation with regard to pensions. Everybody suggests that it is going to be less rewarding to be a pensioner when this generation comes to the end of their working lives. I want to try and help our people face up to that by saying we will match any extra payments they make with a sum of our own from the profit sharing scheme.

The second thing I want us to explore is medical insurance. This will benefit us as well as our employees. If they can get access to treatment and operations when they need it, this will lead to less absences and greater efficiency in our workforce. Cleaners by and large don't make a lot of money so if we can fund this rather than just hand out cash, which would soon disappear into their day to day living expenses, then I think we would be doing a good thing for them and for us.