Steve was working in his garden when Naomi came past. Let me give you a little background here. Steve was twenty five. He was a carpenter, employed by a large building firm. The unit he was in was a stand-alone unit but part of a larger complex. For privacy, previous owners had planted bushes around the perimeter of the front yard. The bushes had eventually grown together so you couldn't see where one finished and the next one started. They were also quite tall. While the final product did give Steve complete privacy in his front yard, those bushes were a pain in the butt to keep trimmed. Steve had half a mind to get rid of them, but that would have involved more work than trimming. For the time being the bushes remained.
Naomi was nineteen, pushing twenty. She worked in one of the shops at the local mall, passing Steve's place on the way home. She found Steve attractive and suspected that the attraction was mutual. She had a current boyfriend, but this didn't stop her from idly flirting with Steve when she ran across him.
On this particular day Naomi had spotted Steve trimming his hedges well before she actually reached him. She thought a little bit of fun wouldn't go astray. A teasing flirtation didn't hurt anyone. It was convenient, she thought, that there was handy bus stop, complete with shelter, right next to where she was walking. She stepped into the shelter for a moment before continuing on her way.
Steve had just finished trimming the outside of the hedges and was in the process of moving his equipment into the front yard to do the inside. He paused when Naomi came up, not unwilling for a little flirtation.
"Naomi," he said, nodding to her and smiling. "How's it going?"
"Steve," Naomi returned, doing her best to blush. "It's been a dreadful day at work. It was capped off in the most embarrassing manner when I was at the bus stop."
"What happened?"
"Oh, it's too embarrassing to explain," Naomi told him, having every intention of doing so. "I don't know how it happened. I was sitting on the seat at the bus stop earlier and when I moved a splinter must have stabbed through my panties." She did manage to blush slightly when she said that. "The next thing I knew I couldn't stand up because my panties were fastened to the seat. I finished up having to wriggle out of them. Thank god no one was there while I was doing that."
Steve laughed. "At least, no harm done. You're fine now."
"Much you know," said Naomi scornfully. "Before I could put them back on some people came up. I had to travel on the bus with my panties stuffed in my purse. So embarrassing."
"You're kidding. You had to go commando?"
"I still am. I haven't had a chance to put them on. See." Naomi opened her purse to show the panties inside.
"Not a problem," Steve said. "Just step into my garden. It's completely private and you can tidy up with no problems."
He was ushering Naomi in before he'd finished speaking. Naomi hesitated. She wasn't sure that she'd thought this all the way through.
"Now far be it from me to suggest you might be telling me a little white lie but I really think I should check on your veracity"