Every once in awhile we meet someone that seems to click with no real explanation for it.
My neighbor Sofia was like that. I had disturbed her sunbathing with my ratty little riding mower, and it made her cranky.
Then that silly wounded bird. We met over healing it, well, mostly it was me healing it. Women have soft spots for little creatures, it seems.
Guess I do too, what the heck. But that got us together and nature took it's course. I was a long ways from having been with a woman, no girlfriend at all or even on the horizon.
Sofia was completely different from any woman I had ever met. Dark skinned, like soft brown silk, hair everywhere on her body. Lots of hair.
Our union was just something that happened. She said it perfectly, "It just felt right." Then she mentioned the boyfriend.
I would have hesitated, probably not even touched her had I known about a boyfriend. I had never seen anyone, it just didn't cross my mind. She never offered information, I didn't ask.
So our lovemaking was an accident. Just something that happened, nothing important.
But it was important to me! I was....well, shall we say, smitten?
Sofia often was out sunbathing when I did my mowing chores, I had long since fixed the gearbox on the mower but I still ran it in low gear. Somehow it gave me more time with her, even though I wasn't with her.
She still sunbathed topless, too, and she still covered herself with the little towel every time I got close. I respected her privacy as I went by, didn't look or stare.
I wanted to.
One day I was going by Sofia's fenceline, there was an Italian looking guy out in the yard with her. As I got close, Sofia signaled me, and they approached the fenceline, she had wrapped the towel around her upper body.
"Dan, I want you to meet Tony."
We did the obligatory handshake, his was firm like mine. I looked him over as he made some small talk about what a nice job I was doing fixing the old place up. You know the type, husky, dark hair cut short, black frame glasses.
Hell, he could have been a football player, or he could sit behind a desk somewhere, hard to tell. It turned out he was an outside salesman for a clothing firm, but I didn't know that then.
I went back to mowing, there was a change. As I came by Sofia's fenceline she didn't bother to cover up, she just lay there glistening with oil. I tried hard to not pay attention, failing a bit. Then I caught a motion at a window in the house, realized Tony must be inside watching.
I thought that was odd, I just continued mowing.
Spring slipped into Summer and things got dry, not much grass was growing so I busied myself. First I made friends with the Cow down in the lower pasture. Once she figured out that I really was the source of the grain that appeared in the pan, her attitude changed. Not much, mind you, but at least she didn't try to stomp me into the ground every time I came close anymore.
Then I began building a porch on one end of the house and a deck on the other. I started out building an ordinary deck, but it got bigger and bigger, until finally I had a huge upper platform that looked out over the entire valley, over 26 feet off the ground.
Don't know why, I just needed to keep busy. Well, I did know why, and hard work seemed to help. I got a chainsaw and cut an entire section out of the south wall of the A-frame, added a large sun room out there. Even poured a little cement waterfall with a small pool, put in a recirculating system.
Next I put in rows of hydroponics, the soilless kind, in no time I had a garden growing in there.
The idea was veggies in the Fall and Winter, it was fun to do and kept my mind off Sofia.
I was out there one day fiddling around using a brush to hand polinate some Squash plants when I looked up and saw Sofia coming around the corner.
"Hi! I knocked, you must not have heard me."
"Sorry, come on in."
I looked her up and down, she had a snug yellow tube top across her bust that wasn't really containing her, and a pair of shorts cut so low that the top of her pubic hair was almost visible. Of course she had so much hair on her body it was hard to tell where the pubic hair stopped and the abdominal hair began.
She looked good, I felt a familiar tingle in my much neglected loins.
She looked around at what I had built, seemingly amazed. I was actually a little proud of it all, I showed her how the water system worked, and she noticed my little waterfall with two Catfish in the pond. I had caught them down in the creek, brought them up and they were happy campers, getting a worm now and then. They were fun to watch, both of them had figured out that if an insect got too close to the edge, they could jump right out of the water and grab it, and slide right back into the pond.
That was hilarious to watch, I had spent hours sitting there doing just that. Kept my mind off Sofia, like I said. I was smitten. But not a thing I could do about it.
I must have mentally wandered off, because Sofia was standing right by me saying something.
"I was thinking..."
"Yea..?"
"I am in the mood..."
"Oh.."
Then she was in my arms. We kissed almost frantically, finally easing off to nuzzling. My hands roamed her body, then it hit me.
"I can't..."
"Why not?"
"Tony. You are his woman."
"Tony sent me over here."
That stopped me.