"Any luck?"
Craig had been working on his new neighbour's lawn mower for over an hour with no success. He had noticed her earlier that day tending to her lawn with a sputtering, coughing, heap of a machine and decided it was a perfect excuse to welcome her to the neighbourhood and offer to fix her mower. In truth, he knew very little about lawn mowers or engines in general - he was really hoping to get a closer look at her ass in those hiking shorts she had on.
He crouched over the small, grimy engine in the middle of her garage. Several parts were lying around it. "I'm really kinda stumped Amy. I'm usually am quite good with these things" he lied. While wiping the dirt off the side off the cooling rings, Craig glanced up and drank in Amy's legs leading up to her form-fitting khaki shorts. His eyes traced along her hips up to her chest. Thank God for hot summer evenings and women who do don't bother with bras...
Amy walked over to where Craig was working and looked down at the broken beast. "So, you think cleaning the cooling rings will help the fuel problem I have?"
Craig snapped back to the situation at hand. "Well, couldn't hurt" he smiled nervously.
"Ah, I see." Amy crossed her arms and poked at a couple of the parts on the cement floor with her sandal-clad toe. "How's your hand?"
"What?" Craig furrowed his brow.
"Your hand - the one you shocked on the spark plug? How's that doing?" Amy didn't look at Craig - she kept toying with the parts on the floor.
Craig looked down sheepishly at this scored thumb. "Uh, hehe, that kinda took me by surprise. I thought I had disengaged that. Say, you're not keeping tabs on me are you" Craig said with sly smile.
"No more on you than you on me." Amy looked at him with an unreadable expression.
"Um, I'm not sure what you meant by that." Craig sensed this was going in the wrong direction...
"Oh, come on Craig. I saw you watching me from across the street. How interesting can someone mowing the lawn be, unless it wasn't the lawn your were watching..."
"Hey, easy now. I'm just over here to help you with your mower and to welcome you to the neighbourhood" Craig offered. He could feel his chest beginning to get tight and a lump started to form in his throat.
"Welcome me? How were you going to do that? By ruining my lawn machinery?" Amy stood over Craig, a little too close and leering a little too much.
"Hey, listen. If you don't appreciate..."
"Craig, you're not a very good liar. You came over her to ogle me. Admit it." To make the point, Amy turned around, tilted her hips, and looked over her shoulder "Christ, the way you stared at me from across the street was almost comical, and you can't keep you're eyes off my ass the whole time you've been here."
Craig's eyes were riveted on the curve of her outer cheek and the way the khaki shorts hugged her ass in all the right places. His eyes traveled down the back of her taught thighs that faded into her shapely calves.
"Craig, face it - you owe me a mower." Amy turned again and sat up on the work bench at the side of the garage. Her feet swung loosely, her sandals dropping to the floor.