Parallel Me

Parallel Me Part 4

With Rita's disappearance, my hometown was not a fun place to be anymore. I wondered around the place as if I was lost, searching aimlessly for something to do. I was so bored I thought of joining up, I had been in the army cadets but preferred the navy life. Only being just sixteen and a half, I was too young for the regular navy. There was an opportunity; however, to go in as an apprentice, and I would have to sign up for a minimum of seven years. Therefore, I joined as a mechanical engineer and spent a year in engineering college.

Then six weeks in H M S Raleigh near Plymouth, for basic and three drum steam boiler training. This was where I had my first sexual encounter in the Navy. It was actually rape but I liked it, so I did not press charges. Anyhow, she outranked me as I was just a young sailor in training, but her tits felt nice and she did compliment me on my performance.

At the end of my training, and before I left Raleigh I served as ships company, and did guard duty on the main gate. The camp was spite in two, one-half for sailors the other for Wrens. There was a fence between the two halves, and the gate in it guarded on one side by two Wrens and on our side by a single male rating.

Single Wren's returning to camp, had to be escorted from the main gate; to the gate in the fence by one of the main gate guards. A group of Weans could carry on their way. One afternoon I was detailed off to escort a Wren to the fence, she was six foot three and had big tits. Her nickname was Amazon, and she was lovely to look at.

She was still in her nurse's uniform, her blue cape folded onto her shoulders showing the scarlet lining. There were rows and rows of ships cap tallies sawn into it, but there were many duplicated ones. As we neared the fence I mentioned it, and she turned to smile sweetly at me and said.

"That pretty boy is not a record of the ships I've been in." The remark brought a big grin to the faces, of the three guards at the fence. I didn't get the full meaning of it until sometime later when I realised the number of sailors she must have had. I was ashore several nights later and found myself getting off the Torpoint ferry at the same time as the Amazon.

"Come on we have missed the last bus; because the ferry is late, we'll have to walk the three miles back to Raleigh." She said thrusting her arm into mine and dragged me up the road. We must have looked an odd couple as I only came up to her shoulder. The three-mile walk took longer than it should have, halfway there she dragged me into a field, and persuaded me to have sex with her.

I passed out three months before my eighteenth birthday and had two weeks leave before I had to join my ship. Mum and dad were proud of their boy, and Lesley thought I looked good in my uniform. I met Rita's mum and dad; they were still trying to find her after almost two years. I couldn't bring myself to tell them what I thought, I just hoped Rita was well and liked her new life.

I joined H, M, S, Eagle when the ship was in the dry dock at Devonport, she was having her bottom scraped. As well as a boiler clean, and turbine engine overhaul. With the boilers shut down, donkey boilers on the dockside provided steam to run the galley. We were plugged into the shore-side electric sappily, instead of running the steam generators. With the dockside workers doing most of the work, we stokers were scrubbing paintwork around the ship.

It was the only thing they could think of to keep us busy, while we waited to go on sea trials. It meant we could go ashore every night, and most of the men took advantage of it. I went myself a few times, mostly to the cinema and maybe a half a shady. One night I was returning from a night at the cinema when I came across a sailor mistreating a young lady. I went over to see if I could charm him down, but he turned on me and started swinging punches. I was forced to parry his blows, and dance out of his way.

My ducking and diving took me out into the road as he pursued me, for he was determined to punish me for interfering. We were not far from the dockyard gate, and now in full view of the master at arms guardhouse office. Two ratings in white gaiters and belts had started towards us but stopped when the Chef Petty Officer said something to them.