Just you and me

They became friends the day they met at the Aquarium. Can both women walk away from their families for the love they are craving?

By: Emma Sloane

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A small portion of this story or its characters also appear in my book “Time away from the office." But this is the full stand-alone story.

Barbara and Anne are two older women, both with husbands and grown-up children, and both feel like life has passed them by. That is until by chance they meet each other, and their lives take an unexpected turn for the better. Barbara is a schoolteacher, and Anne, has just started work at the school as a teaching assistant.

On her first day, Anne helps on a school trip to the Aquarium, and they feel like there is a connection between them. They feel they are going to become good friends, never dreaming it was going to turn into something more.

But now the problems start, just how do they keep their excitement under control, so nobody suspects that, firstly, you are having an affair, and secondly, it is with another woman? Just how long can these women keep their secret? And do they want too?

After a year of secret meetings, the two women decide they want to come clean to their families and share the rest of their lives together.

They had spent their lives looking after their husbands, and their children who were now all grown up and have a life of their own. So, “it is just you and me now,” they both agree.