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 Day 6 (Saturday 29th May)

   I was wakened not with a breath on my face this morning but with Ellen
holding onto my `Morning Glory' and climbing onto me and so we coupled,
kissed and cuddled this time with no rush, Ellen also didn't want to rush
to shower in her own room today, it didn't matter that Libby knew about us
being in the same bed anymore, I was her Daddy and we were a family, that's
what mattered.  She got finished with her shower and then had to go down to
her own room with the hotel dressing gown on again she told me later what
happened.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ellen managed to get to her door without
mishap or meeting anyone but had forgotten that she had given Libby the key
last night to get into the room and no amount of knocking wakened her up,
so Ellen calmly walked back to mine, but I must have been having my shower
and never heard her, so she had to make her way down to reception and asked
for someone to let her into her room as she had locked herself out, with a
lot of smirking from other staff behind the counter a girl gave Ellen a
spare key and she calmly went back up in the lift to her room but by the
time she arrived she was shaking with embarrassment and had to sit down in
her room for a few minutes.  She thought to herself `Thank goodness we are
leaving here soon'.  She dropped the dressing gown onto the floor and then
dressed casually for the day, she wished she had her own clothes from her
wardrobe at the flat, maybe the police would let us in she wondered, I'll
ask Ken his advise.  She heard movement from Libbies room and knocked,
heard a `come in' and walked in and saw Libby drying herself from her
morning shower, Libby had no problems with her Mum seeing her in the nude
after all she had been told by her Mum a while ago that her Mum had changed
her nappies at one time, so no big deal.  Ellen saw that Libby had
blossoming breasts and her hips were showing signs of womanhood, no `puppy
fat' showing on her body anymore, she had gone through a phase when she was
about 10 or 11 when she seemed a little chubby but that had soon passed now
she could pass as an adult but she had to remember Libby was still a
schoolgirl.  Long gone are the times when schoolgirls looked like
schoolgirls.  Ellen spoke up "When you are ready we will go to Daddy's room
for breakfast, this will be our last night here tonight, we will have to
get bedding for the house today and prepare for moving in, are you as
excited as I am Libby?" "I cannot believe what a wonderful week this has
been, do you realise we've known Ken for 5 days, what a whirlwind Knight in
Shining Armour he has been for both of us Mum and do you realise what you
just called Ken?  You said `Daddy', I love him so much, I know you do too,
he is such a good man, I'm not thinking about the money, I do mean the man,
we are so lucky.  Right!  I'm ready, lets go" It was just coming up to 8:45
when they walked in the door.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They walked in and I
looked up from reading a paper and said "Breakfast arrived just before you
two so we'll start straight away, I got a paper this morning and those
bastards made the newspapers over the raid on that brothel, there's a
report about 3 men being arrested on the premises at the time that weren't
`customers' and there were another 4 men cautioned just for being there and
½ a dozen women, must have been some size of house, it's in a place called
Newton Mearns, there's also mention here of stolen goods recovered at the
scene but not what it was, they have them now and when Partick police
charge them with your abduction, Libby, then stealing and arson at the
shop, that will add to their problems.  I don't know anything about
Scottish law but I'm sure that kidnapping carry's a pretty hefty sentence
and coupled with the fact of your age, they will all be on the Sex
Offenders Register for a long time, so I don't think they will see the
light of day for a while.  Well that has cheered me up no end, after we've
had breakfast we'll go, we have some special keys to pick up and then some
shopping to do" Then I groaned as I looked at their faces when I said
`shopping' and they burst out laughing.  We picked up the keys, I gave them
to Libby for safe-keeping, she was so proud and Ellen looked on as I did it
with tears in her eyes, I said "Why the tears, darling?" "Look at her, she
looks as if you've given her a million pounds, I'm silly, just ignore me,
lets go and see if they fit the lock" She said more with laughter in her
voice now.  So off we went, another cab journey, I asked that we be dropped
off about half way down Byers Road and I looked out for a particular shop,
spied one and we entered, I asked Libby for the keys and got the man to
copy a set for Ellen and one for Libby, then they picked out a novelty key
ring each and put them on them, her own set, Libby was beaming all the time
and then we arrived, I said that because this wasn't our marital home I
wouldn't carry Ellen over the threshold so we let Libby have the honour,
this she did with a flourish, walked in and held the door open for us, then
she closed the door smiling all over her face.  Ellen said we had better
make a list of what we need room by room, I thought, `Wow, she has taken
over housekeeping duties and we've only just got in the door' Well because
it was furnished there really wasn't that much, she said we would need
bedding as you couldn't expect the landlord to supply something so
personal, I had never thought of that, then there was bathroom towels and
drying towels for the kitchen and of course, food, the kitchen was
something else, it had been kitted out for entertaining and it had one of
those American fridge/freezers (you could stick a body in this one, it
would take some filling and some of the floor cupboards were on rollers
like the wine rack and pulled out from the units, I had the same kind in my
house down south.  I found some envelopes with adverts in them that made
good notepads and wrote down everything that they pointed out as we went
round the house, I said "We will never get everything we need today, I
suggest we get some things today, I'll switch on the fridge/freezer now and
they will be ready for food for tomorrow, we can go to the supermarket you
used to go to, Ellen" "You will go with me and Libby to the supermarket?"
"Sure, how else will you know what I like?" She said with wide eyes "Archie
always said that men who go shopping with women were wimps" "Do you think I
am a wimp, Ellen?" "No, Ken, you are more of a man than any man I have ever
known, I love being with you what ever we are doing, you could do knitting
if you wanted to and I would still feel the same" she said with a giggle, I
love those giggles of hers and Libbies.  So we went to Byers Road shopping,
the girls were in their element, I even had a chance to get to an ATM to
get some cash, (always handy even for millionaires) we asked the
shopkeepers if they would lay aside our purchases and we would come back,
we used up the Saturday morning and got back to the house in another cab
with everything on our list and then some, there's always something you've
forgotten, I thought we had everything but Ellen said "Toilet paper!!!"
Libby said "Can I go out to get them?  I saw a small shop just round the
corner that will have them, I'll be careful, please?" Well she was gone
perhaps 7 or 8 minutes, they were the longest minutes I have ever lived
through and I gave her a big hug when she came back with the toilet rolls
"What's that for, Daddy?" "I've missed you" "I was only gone 5 minutes" "I
know but remember what we have been through, sweetheart and as a Father
it's now my duty to worry, okay?" "Okay" Was all I got back from her as she
walked away shaking her head with Ellen looking on.  "It's alright, Ken
I'll have a word with her, but you can't keep her in cottonwool for ever,
she is going to want to go out on her own or with friends and you must let
her go, I love what you did though and why and what you said to her" As we
didn't have any food in we went to one of the many eating places on Byers
Road and found it quite cheap, I was told that though this was a well to do
area of Glasgow, the university was just round the corner and the area had
to cater for the students as well, I really liked this place, I was a
country boy at heart but if I had to live in a city, I could get used to
this.  I was told to stay out of the way while my women-folk sorted out the
things that needed to be done so I said to both of them when we got back to
the house, "I am going to the hotel and give them notice that we will be
moving out tomorrow and I will arrange to pay the bill, I have a feeling
that they think I am a celebrity or something, I want them to know that I
can afford them and won't skip out as they will be wondering where you two
are, okay?  I also want to go to Jim's drop-in centre to let him know I'm
still around and I want to put a proposal to him I have thought of, I'll be
gone about 2½ maybe 3 hours, okay?" Ellen said "That should give us plenty
of time to get things sorted here, we might even pop out and get some
essentials like coffee, tea, milk and some biscuits also some Irn Bru for
Libby" So I left and went back to the hotel, I spoke to the receptionist
and paid the bill up to the following morning and she must have pressed a
bell somewhere under the counter as the hotel manager came out from his
office to greet me and to make sure that I/we had enjoyed our stay and
wished us well.  I picked up a cab from outside the hotel and gave the
young lady Jim's address and she gave me a surprised look and asked if I
had got the right address, I replied "That's alright, I know that its a
drop-in centre and soup kitchen, I don't like it to be well known that I
have more than I need but I'm one of it's sponsors" "I think that's really
wonderful, this world could do with more people like you, sir" The taxi
came to a halt I paid her and gave her a tip and she waved and shouted
"Cheerio" as she drove away.  Then I entered Jim's place and walked into
the office.  He was just sitting talking to a couple of his helpers and
looked up as I entered, "Ah, the `Knight in Shining Armour' has arrived he
said with an enormous grin" The other guys recognised me from the week I
had volunteered with them and turned to shake hands, they had probably
heard some of what had happened when I finished up, Jim spoke to them and
said "Guys thanks for this morning, I'll see you later" They said their
goodbyes and left.  I sat in a chair on the other side of his desk and
asked a simple question "How much would it take to buy a van and kit it out
to go round Glasgow like a mobile soup kitchen at night?" Jim just sat
there with his mouth open, then seemed to come to, "Why do you want to do
that, Ken?" "Well I had reason to walk a few of the main streets in the
city and as I walked I noticed people in back alleys sitting in makeshift
tents, some of them just cardboard, I know I can only do so much but I
would like to help more than I have here, I thought that it could be based
here in Partick and maybe some of the local shopkeepers could help out with
supplies for free advertising on the side of the van, what do you think?"
"I think it's a great idea, I don't know how much something like this would
cost, or even how I could get it off the ground" "Well I'm willing to help
in any way, I'll be staying in Glasgow for a while longer Jim, I've rented
a house in Hillhead for 6 months" "Wow, why are you doing that?  Don't you
have a life to go back to down south?  I thought that that was the plan
when you left here" "I have taken on some responsibilities since I left
here, no doubt you will know about Archie Murray committing suicide and his
shop getting raided and set on fire?" Jim agreed that he had heard about
it, so I told him about how the police had raided a house in Newton Mearns
and it was the bastards that had kidnapped Libby who were arrested, it was
also them that had raided and set fire to Archie's shop, well I have taken
Libby and her Mum under my wing (I didn't want to tell him the whole truth,
he might not understand, not knowing all the circumstances) until this
sorry mess is sorted out" "Ken, you are all heart, mate" "Jim, I am pretty
busy the rest of this weekend and Monday so can I come and see you on
Tuesday and discuss this at length?" "Sure, you know what times I'm free,
whatever time around that that suits you, Ken" By this time it was getting
on for 4pm so I asked Jim for directions to Byers Road and he said "What,
no taxi Ken?  Well it'll take you about 20 minutes to get to half way up
Byers Road from here if that's anywhere near where you want?" Then he gave
me directions, pretty straight forward, turn left onto Dumbarton Road and
keep walking till I come to Byers Road, (the route took me past Archie's
shop but nothing to see, it was all boarded up), then turn left again.  So
it wasn't long till I was turning the key into the house.  I heard laughter
as I entered and followed the sound into the lounge and found them sitting
side by side laughing about something in a magazine they were reading,
"Anything interesting?" I asked "Nothing really, just the antics of the
well to do thinking they can get away with anything" "Well that's us now,
we are part of the `well to do' crowd now, I just don't want it to change
us too much, we are bound to change in some ways, after all we can afford
pretty much anything you'll ever want now" Ellen said "I don't see us being
the way these people are, they have had money all their lives and don't
know how to act decently, I can't ever see us moving in their circles,
apart from the fact that we are intent on giving away some or most of
yours" "Ours" "Well okay Ken, ours if you insist, I refuse to be `Lardey
Dah'" "If I ever see you changing, I'll put you over my knee and spank you"
Libby piped up, "Now that's something I'd like to see you try" They both
laughed at that and I joined in.  After we had calmed down I suggested we
look through the Yellow Pages that was in the house and see if there was a
restaurant they fancied trying, I said to them both that since I was used
to eating any kind of food, I thought it was about time they tried
something that they would like to choose, well they chose a Scottish
restaurant that had venison on it's menu, so I phoned and asked if we could
get a table booked for about 7:30 or 8pm and they said 8pm would be better
then the theatre people will have left, so I booked it.  I said to Ellen
and Libby "That gives us plenty of time to get back to the hotel to shower,
get your war paint on and get changed into our `glad rags' Okay?" "WAR
PAINT!!!" They shouted together and Ellen said "I think it'll be you, Ken
that'll get spanked, but maybe not, you might like it" Then they both
giggled.  Then Ellen got a bit serious, "Ken, I think after we have been to
the supermarket tomorrow we will have to get some more clothes, maybe some
casual stuff like jeans and shirts and some slip-on shoes, until we can get
into the flat we only have what you keep buying us and I will be pleased to
get into some of my own stuff eventually" "Ellen, that does it, on Monday
we are going to my bank to arrange for you to have some buying power.  It's
not fair that you have to keep coming to me, I presume you have forms of ID
so we can get a cash/credit card for you?" She hurriedly said "If you
insist on this I want a limit on the card, I don't want the kind of card
you have, that frightens me" "We will do this anyway you want, Ellen I love
you, I don't want you to be frightened by anything or anyone ever, that
goes for both of you" Libby said with a giggle "Oh, goody I'm getting a
credit card" I said quickly "No, I don't think that's a good idea yet, I
think you will have to earn that young lady" I laughed so did Ellen and
Libby pouted then smiled.  We made it back to the hotel and in plenty of
time we were ready, in a taxi and off to the restaurant.  We had a great
time ordering, we all chose the venison steaks and had them cooked medium
so the juices ran, not the blood, the vegetables weren't quite cooked
enough for Ellen and Libbies taste but were very tasty, Libby struggled to
finish her steak, but did find room for the creamy desert, I don't know
where she puts it all, then back to the hotel, both Ellen and I decided it
would be best if we slept in our own rooms tonight as we would be up early
to pack and get ready for moving out, so it was with heavy hearts that we
kissed and parted in the corridor of our floor.  So we all slept alone that
night.