When Freya met Aiden

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"That all looks delicious" said Aiden "well tuck in and shout if you need anything else." Well all you could hear for the next 15/20 mins were contented noises and cutlery, they were down to the last onion ring and they both went for it together "you have it Aiden" "no you have it darling" Gladys walked up to fill our coffee cups, picked up a knife and cut it in half "there you can share nicely, is there anything else you want?" "Not at the moment, I'm stuffed. What about you darling" "nothing for me either, I'm sure you put enough for four people on the table Gladys" "well you finished everything so you must have been hungry" "we were Gladys, we were. Can they spare you for a few minutes? And I'll tell you what happened" Freya said. "Of course, I'll just get a cup of coffee" so Freya told her everything that had happened that night, with Regan shouting at Aiden and threatening to punch his lights out, and then going to the golf club and chatting Aiden up, and everyone telling her to go away but not very politely. Then about the cab driver and her getting out after a couple of hundred yards, and not getting in when he was the one they sent to pick her up. Then Freya told her about Morris and the cab driver, but she had to stop because she started to cry again "sorry Gladys, I'm not usually like this, I'm quite a tough cookie normally" so Aiden told her the rest of the story, and how he'd love to thank Stan for looking after Freya.  "Well he'll be in later, but those two from the hotel are nasty pieces of work. Nobody seems to know what they're up to, but you don't cross them, people always seem to have accidents if they cross them" "well they should be put away for a very long time after this last escapade, I don't think they can wriggle out of this, I got it all recorded." "how did you manage to record it?" "When I first came over to America my room got tossed, I had money and jewellery stolen, so I went to see my old boss in the Embassy and he got his tech guys to give me surveillance gear and now to use it, so every time I stay somewhere I install it in my room, so that's been handed over to the police." "Well you won't be needing that here anyway" said Gladys and laughed. 

"Well I hope it puts those bastards behind bars for good, I could have killed them for hurting Freya" "did they hurt you Freya?" "Not physically, well apart from grabbing my boob, but I shot them, so I got my own back a bit" "be careful that you don't have an accident, they do have friends" "I'll be on my guard don't you worry about that, Gladys." Gladys started waving at someone, "it's Stan, do you mind if he comes over" "of course not, I want to say 'thank you' to him for looking after Freya for me." "Hello Gladys, how's the lady I brought in earlier on?" "Hi Stan, I'm here and I'm fine thanks to you, you were my knight in shining armour" and Freya stood up and gave him a big hug and a kiss on the cheek. "Are you going to join us for a meal Stan?" "Well I don't mind if I do" so he joined them. "Stan, let me introduce you to Aiden, my fiancee" "Pleased to meet you Stan and thank you for looking after Freya for me" "Glad I could help her, she looked terrible, I couldn't leave her there alone and in the rain, so I brought her here, I knew Gladys would look after her" "and I'm very grateful to you, what would like? My treat" "well I've come in for a meal , but I wouldn't want to be cheeky" "you wouldn't be cheeky, give Stan anything he wants Gladys, my treat" said Aiden. "I seem to know you face Aiden, but you're not from these parts are you?" Gladys started laughing " you see Aiden a lot on the big screen, because Ethan puts Home Front on and sings along with them and he loves watching your drum solos" "oh you're THAT Aiden, Aiden Ross?" "Yes that's me, guilty as charged. Does he play our videos a lot Gladys?" " All the time, he tries singing without his guitar, but he says he needs it because his voice isn't up to much" "he's the same, he doesn't like singing any solo parts, he says that when you've got the other four singing, why would you want his crap voice spoiling it, I keep telling him he's an idiot, but he won't believe me." 

" Well I'm with Freya, I think you've got a beautiful tenor voice, when you got Freya on stage and sang 'Have I told you lately that I love you?' It gave me goose-bumps, my dad used to sing it to my mom, so when I heard you singing it and with such emotion in it, I cried, it was beautiful" "where did you hear it Gladys?" "It's all over Facebook and YouTube, I'd hate to think how many times I've watched it, I love it and your voice, you'll have to sing it for Ethan, he's been practicing it for ages, so he can sing it to Betsy" "well we'll have to see, I'm not really a soloist, unless I'm beat boxing" "Mr Modesty himself, he can sing Gladys, but because he doesn't think he's perfect he won't do it very often" "well I suppose it's better than thinking you can sing, then inflicting a horrible noise into people's ears" said Stan "oh I don't think I'm that bad, but the rest of the guys have outstanding voices , so why bother with mine" "here's your food Stan, would you two like anything else or are you ok at the moment" "we'll just have coffee for now and have dessert with Stan, if that's ok Gladys?" Said Aiden "of course it's Ok, just give me a shout when you're ready" "Gladys is a lovely woman, she's been really great with me, I was like a drowned rat coming in here, so she made me have a bath and put me to bed. I'm so glad you stopped and made me get in your cab Stan" "well I couldn't leave a lady in distress could I? what happened to have you sitting there like that, you two hadn't had a row had you?" "No we hadn't been rowing, there'd been an incident in the hotel and I shot two men"  "bloody hell, you shot two men?!!! I bet you don't upset your wife Aiden" "she didn't just shoot them, they were going to rape her, so she shot them" "my god I heard about that at the depot, Morris from the hotel and his mate Jasper."