Stand-by Me

A Weekend Away

It's the now the day Sam and Iain are heading away to London. Sam has just finished packing her wash bag and has put a nice evening dress in her small suitcase just in case they have an evening meal. Sam puts her phone charger in her handbag and also a few bottles of water for her train journey.

She had to meet Iain at the train station for 11am as their train is at 11:15am to London Euston. It's now 10:35am and Sam has decided to call for a taxi and head to the train station that way.

The taxi arrives and the driver helps Sam get her suitcase into the car while Sam locks up and heads out to the car and gets in. She sits quietly for the ten-minute journey, when she arrives she pays the driver and once again he kindly helps her get the case out the car. Sam grabs her crutch and starts to walk into the station with her suitcase dragging behind on wheels.

Sam notices Iain by costa coffee and starts to head in his direction, He notices her also and meets halfway. "Hey" Iain smiles as they meet, He hugs her and gives a kiss on her cheek.

She blushes slightly and then kisses him back on the lips for a brief second before pulling again. "nice to see you here... early" She smirks.

"I've been here for an hour, I got you coffee" Iain smiles and hands over the large coffee travel cup to her.

Sam smiles to herself "thank you, I haven't had my coffee buzz today" She chuckles as Iain turns and looks up at the train service timetable.

"Oh, our train is in and is boarding... ready?" He smiles and Sam nods happily.

They head over to the gate and put their tickets through the barrier and enter the train platform. As they head down the platform towards their coach Iain grabs Sam's hand and holds it. She looks down before realizing this could be an actual thing between them.

Iain helps Sam step up onto the train and then lifts both their cases in and places them in the luggage booth behind their seats. "Well that's helpful, the cases are right behind us" he smirks.

"It is" Sam smiles as she sits down looking out the window. Iain sits opposite her and plugs his phone into the charging socket and sits watching Sam looking out at the platform.

"I'm looking forward to this weekend away" Iain beams hoping to make conversation with Sam, but all she does is nod as she's happy enough just to sit quietly in Iain's presence.

Halfway through the journey to London Iain takes his headphones out and looks at Sam who is eating a sandwich, "Where's mine?" He jokes.

Sam smiles and looks in her bag and pulls out two wraps and hands them to him. "Here you go, I knew you wouldn't bring food" She giggles.

Iain looks down at the wraps and smiles "Thank you" Iain replies.

Around an hour later Sam and Iain arrive in London, they are the last off the train as Iain thinks it will be easier to get Sam off the train last. He firstly gets the bags off and places them on the platform before helping Sam down onto the platform. "Thanks but I'm not an invalid" Sam smiles slightly as he hands her a crutch and pulls the two suitcases.

They make their way into the main station area and look for a map of the local tub areas and also a couple of taxi company numbers. "Okay so if we get on the tub on the northern line to London Bridge and then we can either walk or get a taxi to the hotel" Iain explains to Sam as he gets their oyster cards out his pocket.

They soon make their way to the tube station and wait for the next tube to come along which doesn't take long at all.