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    The Autumn Reunion
    The Autumn Reunion
    The Autumn Reunion
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    The Autumn Reunion

    By Terry Aspinall

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    While surfing on line James meets up with an old school flame, from way back. He agrees to escort her to an upcoming school reunion in Stowmarket. In doing so he also meets up with a few other earlier girl friends and although he was not looking for a new partner, he does find a few who are interested. However, a big surprise awaits him with an ending that catches him completely by surprise.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTerry Aspinall
    Release dateMay 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301904549
    The Autumn Reunion
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    Terry Aspinall

    I was born during the Second World War while my father was chasing Rommel out of North Africa and Italy, for this reason I never saw him until late 1946. I grew up in the sleepy little Suffolk country side town of Stowmarket, and underwent an education that to me seemed an absolute waste of time. Although with that wonderful tool known as hindsight, my reading and writing skills would have served me well in the writing of this book. I should have taken the trouble and given the teachers my full undivided attention and not the girls sitting next to me, while behind me was always the wall. Yes I was a back of class type of guy who was always getting into trouble and talking during class. Upon leaving school I became what was known as a Teddy boy and hung around with the Ipswich town local gangs. Once the novelty began to wear off, and I realised that if I carried on along the path I had chosen, it would only lead me into trouble with the law, so I decided on a complete life style change and joined the Royal Marines. My growing up during this period of time can certainly be attributed to my Royal Marine training, something that is still part of my life to this day. I tell of my service years and of being on active service in Borneo. Upon my release I became very interested and involved in the Rock n Roll music of the day, and helped form a local band in the town of Leiston in Suffolk. I also became involved in the then new sport of hang gliding. Which later lead me to strapping an engine on to my glider, and being amongst the first in the UK to pioneer the sport of Microlighting, and to set a record that still stands to this day. Eventually while working for Bernard Matthews I upped my family and immigrated to New Zealand, to help build a new factory in a small county town of Waipukurau on the North Island. Where I experienced a complete new style of living that my family and I all enjoyed, and took to it like ducks to water. It was a taste of what was to come when after three years I once again up rooted my family and move over the ditch as they say to Australia, but that’s another story?

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      The Autumn Reunion - Terry Aspinall

      The Autum Reunion

      Terry Aspinall

      © Copyright 2008 by Terry Aspinall

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      ISBN : 9781476395159

      Published by Terry Aspinall

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      A short story

      This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locals or events is entirely coincidental.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1. The Reunion

      Chapter 2. Adriana

      Chapter 3. Christine

      Chapter 4. James

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      Chapter 1

      The Reunion

      It was autumn and had been raining steadily for several hours, making the roads very slippery and treacherous to all who ventured out. The evening had turned out to be very cold, wet and uncomfortable, made worse by the fact that there was no moon to be seen peering through the mass of rain clouds that still covered the night sky. It was one of those nights that you would not have turned away your worst enemy, to face the elements

      James was one of those who had chose to travel that Friday evening, and found him sitting behind the wheel of his newly purchased Ford saloon car. He was driving from his home in London, and heading towards the small Suffolk country town of Stowmarket.

      About an hour into his trip the rain became even heavier, so heavy that the windscreen wipers were having a problem coping with the large volume of water. That was cutting down his visibility and making it harder for him to see the road ahead. While the steady back and forward motion of the wiper blades was having a hypnotic effect on him. Coursing him to feel drowsy and playing tricks on his eyes. At times he was almost unable to read the road conditions ahead correctly.

      Suddenly ahead he noticed a car parked on the left-hand side of the road, on the hard shoulder. It had no lights on and he thought he saw some sort of a message or writing in the rear window, but he wasn’t quite sure. Because of the weather conditions he had not been driving fast, so he was able to pull up along side of the parked vehicle, to see if he could assist the driver.

      At that very same moment the rain appeared to fall even harder, although he wanted to help he did not want to get wet if he could help it. So James leaned over his passenger seat and wound down the window only exposing a slight gap. He then shouted to the other car at the top of his voice, but there was no response. The person behind the wheel appeared just as an outline to James and completely out of focus. So it was hard for James to make out if they had responded to his call.

      His view through the other car window was also blocked out by the large amount of condensation that had gathered on the inside of the car. Whoever was inside of the vehicle was also having problems looking out through the condensation and large volume of water that was constantly running down the outside of the windows. These conditions were also making it hard for James to see into the car. Coupled to this, the noise of the rain beating down on both cars made it sounded just like a constant roll of thunder.

      James suddenly became worried about the situation he was about to become involved in. He was finding it strange that they did not respond to his calls. Maybe they did not want to be contacted he thought, or far worse maybe they were up to no good. The last thing he needed on a night like this was to get involved with some sort of crank, or even worse maybe they had just murdered somebody. His imagination was starting to run riot with him, even thinking that there might be a body in the boot.

      He tried shouting once again but still there was no response. James was sure that there was some sort of a problem and that whoever was in the car was even more scared of him. If he was going to help then somehow he had to gain their confidence and prove to them that he meant them no harm. He made up his mind that come what may he was going to try and help whoever it was.

      So he reversed his car back up the road a short distance and then positioned it directly behind the parked vehicle. He left his headlights on full beam showing up the vehicle in the night. It was then that he noticed the message in the car's rear window; it simply said, 'HELP'.

      The sign told him that he had made the right decision, whoever it was inside the vehicle needed his help, and if it meant getting wet, well that would be a small price to pay. He got out of his car and ran to the front of the other vehicle, and stood in front of the bonnet so the driver could see his face in the glare of his headlights. It was also a way of showing them that he did not have a problem with showing his face.

      He had only been there for a couple of seconds, but in that time he was completely drenched. The rain flattened his hair washing it down his forehead and into his eyes. He started to worry in case it made him look like a monster and that he might scare the driver even more. His clothes were completely saturated by now as he felt a cold shiver ran down his spine from the water running freely down the middle of his back. Still there was no sign of a reaction from the occupant inside the car, so he was going to have to come up with something else, in an effort to prove that he meant them no harm. Maybe if he were to prove to them who he was, then it would put their mind at rest. If he were to give them his name, surely then there was no way that he would attack them.

      He pulled his collar up and walked to the driver’s door and tapped on the window. The driver used their hand to rub a hole in the condensation on the window and looked up at him. James suddenly realised that it was a woman who was sitting behind the wheel. He could see that she was very scared and that somehow he was going to have to prove to her that he meant her no harm. Slowly he reached into his inside jacket

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