The Lucky Newsboy

I peddled furiously to make my last call of the morning. It was the last paper in my bag to be delivered. Just as I parked my bike outside the house, a car shot out of the drive with screeching tyres nearly knocking me over, and sped off down the close to the main road.

My parents had very little money, and so the money from the news round was my main source of pocket money. Today being Saturday I had planned to go to the model shop with Terry my best friend and squander some of my hard earned cash on a model I had admired for a long time and had saved a long time for. On Saturdays, the arrangement was that I would collect the weeks paper money from about twelve of my customers. The rest preferred to pay at the shop or, perhaps at the end of the month. First of all being a Saturday, I had to collect the paper money from this house number 34 and as it was my last call, then I would go home for my hard earned breakfast.

I was seventeen and had just passed my A levels and soon I knew I would be off to University. The days of delivering early morning newspapers, and getting up at 06.30 every morning was fortunately coming to an end.

I knocked on the door and that was the last thing I remembered for several minutes, When I came round, I found that I was in the arms of a blonde, very attractive young lady, who was crying profusely and attempting to apologise at the same time. When I eventually got my bearings back, and wiped the milk and corn flakes off my jacket, with the assistance of the young housewife, she told me that she had started the morning off by having a violent argument with her husband. I then learned that her name was Penny and she had found evidence that morning of him having a long term affair with his Secretary.

He had fled the house in a temper, jumped in his car and sped off, but she had wrongly assumed that he had come back having forgotten his house keys, and so when I knocked on the door, the lady bent on retribution had opened the door intent on doing her errant husband grievous bodily harm with a large plate of soggy cornflakes that she had prepared for his breakfast, but he had not eaten in his hasty departure.

However, her aim had been good, but in me she had selected the wrong target, and so I had been the unfortunate recipient of her marital disharmony. As she wiped me down, she told me how her husband and her had earlier come to blows.

It was then that I noticed the blood on her face and then it was my turn of me to give Penny first aid, as she had a nasty cut under her eye. The cut was quite deep, and not being qualified in First Aid I thought that that as a precaution, she ought to go to hospital for treatment, because I was fairly sure that she may need stitches.

The wound was still seeping, and so I covered it with an emergency dressing from her first aid box, and as she had a car, she managed to drive us both to the nearest hospitals casualty department. She was still quite shaken, and had asked if I could accompany her, so before we set off I rang my parents, and told them roughly what had happened and where I was going.

Fortunately Penny was seen quite quickly, and I waited outside in the casualty waiting area, I thought they were taking a bit longer than I had anticipated, but then two policemen came in and after talking to the receptionist they came across to me.

“I gather you are the wife beater?” the one policemen said.

“My first reaction was confusion and I said. “What me?” “No I am the newspaper boy.!”

“The one policeman said “Oh right Bill we have a clown as well.”

“No officer, I was the one who found her. I really am the newspaper boy.” I told them.

Just then Penny appeared with her eye covered by a dressing. “Yes officer he was the one who helped me and he came with me to keep me company.” She then went on to make a statement, and she spelt
out in more detail the circumstances of how her husbands affair had come to light.

After the interview we went back to her house as I thought to gather my bicycle and go on home for my breakfast. But Penny was very emotional, and for some reason she did not want to be left alone. I told her “I am hungry as I have missed my breakfast.”

At that Penny insisted that she provide me with breakfast. She smiled and she said with a little grin
“I guess you don’t want cornflakes again?”

We both had a little laugh. Then she cooked me a large plate of Bacon, and Eggs and a large pile of toast. While I ate Penny went for a shower, and she returned about twenty minute later obviously having showered, having redressed her hair and put some make-up on. I realised then just how beautiful she really was.

She joined me in two cups of coffee while we chatted. I told her that I was between girl friends, and then she told me that she had only been married for three months. But the marriage was rapidly turning into a disaster zone.

As I stood up to leave, she apologised again for the trouble she had caused me and she said.

“Some lucky girl out there is going to find you and have you as her boy friend Tony.”

Then she gave a sort of sob and threw her arms round my neck and she whispered “I wish to god that I was that lucky girl.” Then she kissed me very passionately on the lips pressing her slim body against mine.

The kiss went on for well over a minute and my body responded like any male being kissed passionately by an attractive young female should. She looked up into my eyes and said. “Tony dear would you let me be your lucky girlfriend for the next hour or so.”

For a moment Penny stood looking at me. I looked at this lust crazed girl. She was a beautiful blonde, tall and slender and now dressed only in her house coat and I knew that I wanted her. Penny took my hand and led me to her bedroom, she helped me undress, and then climbed on the bed..

It was about an hour later that I lay looking up at Penny feeling very exhausted. She looked down at me.” Tony I am sorry to say making love to you was a cheap act of revenge on my part. But at least I have had my own back on my husband in my own way, and it was very enjoyable. This should never happen between us again, much as I would like it to. It can not, because I am not that type of person. I am still married unfortunately.

The following week I saw Penny again and she told me that her husband had been arrested, bailed, and he had left her and moved in with his Secretary. Now she had no excuse and claimed me as her boyfriend. We made love regularly after that, before I went to University, and I helped Penny round the house with several odd jobs that would normally have been done by her husband. We were both very much in love.

On my first vacation from the University I noticed that Penny was pregnant, and there was no doubt that I was soon to be a father. My parents were not amused at becoming Grandparents so soon, but after a while they took a liking to Penny , and were looking forward to becoming Grandparents.

After graduating Penny and I married and now we have four lovely children, but every time she offers me Cornflakes for breakfast we have a little smile and a giggle.

The End