The Neighbour's Daughter?
I moved into my house 4 months ago after getting divorced and managing to procure at least something out of the settlement. I had a job as a professional music instructor which helped with the usual monthly expenses, and supplemented that by playing in a band, doing swing music at clubs in the area. We had a modest following, but were booked three week-ends out of four each and every month.
The house was as nice as I could afford. It was on a cul-de-sac, halfway down on the left, with a nice conservatory in the back garden, fantastic kitchen, and 3 small-ish bedrooms upstairs. There was a utility room with water closet on the ground floor and another water closet with separate shower room on the first floor. In the time I was there, I was able to make it feel "homely" with additional art prints and "street art" from local artists in the city. The back garden was completely fenced in, but the garden of the house to whom I was attached was visible from the largest bedroom, which I took was mine.
I moved into the house in March and made friends with the neighbours next door at once, inviting all of them over for a dinner three days after I moved in. The father, Tom, to whom I had made the invitation said that his wife, Amy; a 14 year-old son, Jason; and 20 year-old daughter, Chrystal would love to attend.
"Could we all come over, or is this just for us adults," Tom asked.
"No," I assured him, "the more the merrier."
So the next evening, after I got done with my lessons, there was a knock at my door, and there were the four of them, each dressed smartly, carrying a box filled with strudels, and looking hungry. Fortunately, I had made a lasagne, salad and garlic bread.
"I hope you aren't vegan," I said, sheepishly, "but there is a salad and bread with non-dairy butter for those that may be."
"No, mate," Tom said in reply, "no one here. Not even Chrystal. She dabbled for a while, but soon gave it up. Thankfully."
"Da-a-a-ad," the young woman said, rolling her eyes, "I got really trim during that time, remember.
Now
look at me." And with that she pulled her tight-fitting tee shirt up over her middle, showing him how "fat" she had gotten, exposing her belly-button piercing to everyone.
"Chrystal!" exclaimed her mum, Amy, "we're not at home. Control yourself." Then turning my way, she said, "I'm so sorry, you see at home we are very casual with body expressions. I hope it doesn't put you off."
"No, no, no, it's fine," I told her, "I just want you to feel as comfortable here as you do in your own home. We are attached, yeah? And if it's anything, Chrystal, you certainly aren't overweight at all."
"Tha-a-anks," she replied, slowly, "no one in
my
family ever tells me that so it's nice to hear."
And the three adults laughed heartily as the boy, Jason, looked down at the floor, and Chrystal reluctantly pulled her shirt back down without another word.
The dinner passed with the adults in rapt conversation and the two kids not saying much, but seeming to enjoy the meal I had prepared as they kept digging into everything offered. After dinner, the strudels were passed around with everyone choosing the one they thought was "the best one". Additionally, sherry was distributed to the three adults and offered to Chrystal.
"Ew," was her reply, "that's gross. No thanks."
After more conversation, the clock on the wall said 9:30 and the neighbours indicated that it was time for them to go home.
"Well, that certainly was wonderful," Amy told me, "you are a terrific cook. Let me know if I can hire you sometime!"
"Oh, I'm not a professional," I told her, "I just like to cook. But thank you."
"Yeah," chimed in Chrystal, "it was really great. Thanks so much. Maybe we'll have you over to ours next time?"
"Well," Tom said, "that's the most we've gotten out of her in a month. She must have
really
liked it."
"Da-a-ad," said Chrystal. She rolled her eyes again and headed out the door, followed by Jason, who also said "thanks". Amy shook my hand and said good-bye and thank you "for a lovely evening". And then it was Tom's turn to say that if I ever needed anything: tools, advice, or assistance they were only a phone call away and he gave me their phone number in case I needed it. It was a great introduction to my attached-neighbours.
Tom, Amy, and I got together every so often at one or the other's home for dinner or drinks, or met down at the pub and I got a lay of the landscape for the neighbourhood. Knowing which neighbours were snobs or slobs or just busy-bodies was important to fitting in to my new surroundings.
Now, being single again as I was, I had no interest in forming a new long-term relationship with a woman after being married to one for well-on 20 years. But that didn't mean that I was ready to give up on sex or a fwb at this point.
Unfortunately, the women with whom I went out were either too old, physically or mentally, or way out of shape and trying to get excited about them was truly out of the question. So, after many a date, I would suffice myself with a journey through porn sites or the cam models of an online video site just to get some sexual release.
As I said, my moving in was 4 months ago. Now the weather in June was turning warmer and I would often go to bed with my windows open. Every so often, I would hear a window from next door open, and the sound of shoes scraping along the side shingles and jumping to the ground. Not so that it would disturb me if I were asleep, but enough that in my semi-sleep condition it was clearly distinctive.
One night, I had the window open, but was in bed reading a manual on the latest keyboarding techniques when I heard the familiar sound of shoes-on-shingles. As I only had on a small night-light by which to read, I got out of bed and went to the window to see the sight of a female form with long hair jumping to the ground and running into the road, where she was picked up by a white van, which sped off quietly.
I said nothing the next time I went over to Tom and Amy's for a bar-b-cue, but I watched Chrystal for any sign that she knew what I had seen. At one point, when Tom was going inside for chicken breasts and Amy was preparing potatoes-and-onions, Chrystal came up to me. She was dressed in a printed yellow sun dress and was barefoot.
"Thank you for not saying anything to them," she said, looking around for any return of her parents, "they don't know where I'm going, and I don't think they'd like it if they did know. Despite what they told you about 'body expressions' that first night."
"No, of course not," I assured her, "it'll be our little secret, yeah?"
"Thanks," she said and kissed my cheek, "oh, and wait till it gets a little warmer. I like to go out in the back garden and catch some sun. That'll be our little secret as well, ok?"
"Ok," I told her, "I'll be on the look-out."
"Do," she said and turned and padded inside to join her mother in food-preparation.
The next late afternoon/early evening, I was just off work and went upstairs to the bedroom to change clothes. I found a pair of "lounge-trousers" and went to the chest of drawers for a tee shirt, when I happened to look out the bedroom window. There was Chrystal, lying naked on the chaise lounge, with her pink bikini and matching flip-flops next to her on the ground. She was on her back, so I could see everything. Her body was oiled and her perky breasts rose and fell with each breath, her long brown hair spilled over the sides of the chair, and her pubic area was completely shaven. The only thing she was wearing were sunglasses and her belly button ring, which had some type of jewel in it that reflected the sun in varying degrees as she moved. Every so often she would look up at her own door to the fenced-in garden and then start playing with herself. After about 3 minutes (to me, it seemed an hour, as I watched) she stopped and turned over onto her front so her beautifully round arse was pointing in my direction. It was at that point that I noticed the heart-shaped lips tattoo in the shape of a kiss on her right buttock.
"You know, I think I've seen that arse before," I said to myself. But I shook it off to the fact that most all young women have beautifully-shaped arses and kept watching. After about 20 minutes, the back door opened and Amy came through.
"Good job the fencing is so high, Chrys," her mum told her, "I can just imagine what old Mrs. Thatcher would say if you went running around like that."
"Oh, mum," the younger woman told her, sat up slightly and leaning on her elbows, "you always told us not to be ashamed of our bodies. I'm just taking your own advice."
"No, you're right, dear," her mum said, "I don't want you brought up as I was: in a prudish, intolerant, repressed household. You should be free to express your inner woman."
"And outer woman, as well, there," I said to myself as I finally got a tee from the chest of drawers. By the time I got downstairs and to the fence, Chrystal had gone inside, but the back door was open and I called: "Hey Amy, are you home?"
"Oh, yes, hi, what do you need?" she called over the fence.