I noticed her the day after I moved in...she wasn't what most people would call beautiful, but there was something definitely sexy about her. She was about 5'9" maybe 130 lbs, with short curly brown hair. I told her my name was Mike and she said her name was Denise. It turned out that she was my next door neighbour in the four plex I'd moved into after separating from my wife. We passed each other on a regular basis and had the usual chats about weather, the people upstairs, etc. As we got to know each other, I found that she too was separated, was 40, had a 12 year old son that spent most of the time with his dad, and like me wasn't really interested in another relationship in the near future. We'd often sit out on the shared deck in the evenings or sometimes on a weekend morning and just enjoy the company of someone else. All in all, we became fairly good friends, getting together for a drink or occasionally a BBQ during the summer. While we both enjoyed each others company, I never expected it to go any further than that. All that changed though when she cut herself.
Let me explain, because that sounds a little weird. It was a Friday night & we were planning on getting together for dinner - I was going to BBQ and she was making dessert. As I was getting the stuff for the BBQ together I heard what sounded like a glass hitting the floor and she cried out from her kitchen. When I looked in the window, I could see a broken glass on the floor and blood running from a cut on her foot. I told her through the window to get away from the glass and put pressure on the cut while I grabbed my first aid kit - thankfully I have a more than adequate selection of first aid supplies. When I went back to her apt, she was sitting in the chair holding a cloth over the cut. When I lifted the cloth away I could see a nasty little cut from a chunk of flying glass. It was fairly deep, but not dangerously so. In a few minutes I had some suture tape, gauze and a bit of tape over it and the bleeding was pretty well stopped.
While I was getting the cut taken care of, I kept looking up at her to make sure she was ok and quickly noticed that with the way I was holding her foot out to work on it I had a clear view up her short summer skirt. To make things even better, it didn't take me long to realize that not only could I see right up to her crotch, but what I was seeing was smooth, naked flesh - not panties. The next thought that came to mind was that she had been almost ready to come over for the BBQ, so she'd obviously been planning on coming over sans panties!
I must have either looked once too often, or lingered a bit too long because the next time I made it all the way up to her face she was looking at me with a 'caught you red handed' kind of look - thankfully she didn’t look upset & if anything there was an amused look on her face. Nothing more was said and we had a great little steak BBQ, some (ok a lot of) wine and a nice cool jello dessert that I could tell was laced with vodka. After dinner we had a few more drinks and the talk moved to relationships we'd had. Out of the blue, she asked me if any of the women I'd been with had ever complained that my beard tickled - I told her I'd never had any complaints and left it at that.
After the bugs came out, we moved inside and fired up a movie. We were sitting on the couch with our drinks and were soon talking more than watching the movie. The talk moved back to relationships and what we had and hadn't liked about them. When Denise said that the only thing she really missed about her ex-husband was his neck rubs (we'd already covered the fact that he wasn't great in bed) I told her I gave a fairly good rub myself. Before long she was sitting on the floor in front of me as I worked on her neck and shoulders. I could tell from the way she relaxed and the sighs that she made that I was doing a fairly good job. It must have been the wine - at least that's what I'll blame it on, because I leant forward and caressed the back of her neck with my beard and just barely brushed her with my lips. When I felt her whole body tense I thought I'd crossed the line, but just as quickly she relaxed and asked what that was for. I reminded her that she'd asked if my beard tickled and thought that I figured the only way for her to find out was to feel it. "Well, it didn't tickle there" she said.
Just the way she said 'there' made me think that this could be a better night than I'd originally thought. I told her that she could stretch out on the floor if she wanted her back rubbed too, and somewhat jokingly I suggested that it would feel better on bare skin. Her answer was to peel off her top, showing a skimpy bra and some very nice cleavage, and lay stomach down on the carpet. I massaged my way up and down her back a few times, then leant forward and rubbed my beard against her bare back just above her skirt - "how about there" I asked.