A Time to Love

Chapter 4

Bailey was stood still by the roadside and Sarah ran towards him and pulled him away just as the blue car braked hard and came to a halt a few feet away from them.

'You maniac. You nearly killed him...' Sarah yelled as the driver emerged from the car but as they clapped eyes, she realised there was something familiar about him.

'Sorry. He just came out of nowhere. Is he alright?'

There was a soft tone to his voice that she recognised and her heart hammered like a bass drum as she felt her knees become like jelly when it became obvious who he was.

'I...it's...you.' She stammered

His copper hair shone in the sun and his sea blue eyes glistened like a clear sky on a bright summer's day. Is if the whole situation and the quivering voice weren't enough to endure, Bailey was about to make the whole scenario worse.

'This is my sister. She really fancies you.'

Sarah felt the heat on her face as her colour changed to what she could only imagine was crimson. Zander's hand cupped over his top lip as he hid his laugh and he stared at the ground until the moment had passed.

'Kid, I'm not surprised. I'd fancy me too if I was a girl.'

The twins giggled and Sarah caught Zander as he turned his eyes on her. She grabbed her brother's hands to lead them away before she stuck her tongue down his throat right in that moment.

'Come on boys, we've got to go. Mum will be wondering where we've got to.'

'Nice car Mister. Can we have a ride in it?' Bradley wondered just as Zander reached the driver side door.

Zander opened his mouth to answer but the words that came didn't belong to him but to Sarah

'No, we can't. Let's go before the shop closes'

She turned to walk up the road again, pulling the boys behind her but it seemed that the man Sarah had desired for so long, the man she only ever dreamed of meeting was intent on making them stay in his company for longer.

'Hold on. Is it the newsagents you're going to?'

***

She couldn't remember agreeing to it but Sarah had been sitting in the passenger seat of what she quickly learned was a Bentley. Perhaps it was the lure of a 'celebrity lifestyle' that would be coupled with her encounter of Zander, he had promised her a signed photograph and the chance for both to pose in front of the camera together. The one thing that Sarah realised early on was that Zander was a man who didn't make promises lightly as when he returned them home safe and sound, Sarah had an autographed picture of him.

But that wasn't the only surprise that she had been presented with that day. As she flipped the card over onto its back there was a phone number written on it with the words: 

'Call me sometime x'