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 didnβt 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.