"Shit!" Chrissy swore to herself as the heavy box slipped out of her hands and fell onto the floor in the middle of the hallway.
She wiped the sweat from her forehead and sighed heavily. Thankfully this was the last box. They had been lugging her stuff up to the fourth floor apartment all morning and she was just about wiped out.
'They' were she and her boyfriend Robert. After months of hounding on his part, she had finally agreed to move into his little one-bedroom apartment. The two had been together for nearly a year now, and he was eager for them to take the next step in their relationship.
At 22, Chrissy was a good looking young woman, and she knew it. Not that she believed herself to be a beauty queen by any stretch, but she was confident in her appearance and sexuality. She knew men found her attractive. Her body was curvy in all the right places, and she would most definitely be described as "busty" by most observers. She had a natural beauty about her face with her piercing green eyes and pouting full lips framed nicely by her shoulder length brown hair.
She sighed heavily and was just about to pick-up the box and head into the apartment when a voice from behind startled her.
"Need a hand with that?"
"No, I got it, thanks." She replied, glancing over her shoulder to see who the owner of the male voice was. To her surprise, she was greeted with quite the sight.
She was guessing that he was in his mid-twenties, and it was pretty obvious that he kept himself in very good shape. He was tall and muscular, as the well formed arms tightly wrapped in the short sleeves of his dirty white t-shirt demonstrated. He smiled at her as she gave him the once over, a sly little grin, the kind someone used when they knew a something you did not. She could not help but be instantly drawn to him as her eyes studied him, from his lips to his unshaven cheeks to his messy mop of short brown hair. This guy oozed confidence and sex. He could be trouble. She secretly had a thing for well-built guys -- a quality which her current boyfriend unfortunately lacked.
"Hi," she said with a polite smile, turning towards him to make her introduction. "I'm Chrissy. Just moving into 4D."
"You don't say?" He replied. "I'm in 4E, right next door to you."
"Well I guess that makes us neighbours then!" She giggled playfully and wondered where Robert had been hiding this incredibly hot specimen. In all the times she had visited his apartment, he had never mentioned this guy once.
The mystery man flashed a broad grin and glanced at the box lying on the floor between them.
"You sure you aren't in need of a strong man like me?" His dark eyes returned to her pretty face, and then lowered momentarily to her shapely breasts. "I'd be more than happy to help out."
Chrissy felt a hot blush rise up her cheeks in response to his not so subtle innuendo. Her initial instinct had been right, this guy definitely was trouble.
"Um, I'm okay I think," she replied, slightly embarrassed, before adding, "For the time being at least." She purposely began to nibble on her lower lip, drawing attention to her full, glossy mouth. Apart from her D-cup breasts, her lips were her sexiest asset. She wondered what kind of kisser he would be.
"Hey honey, what's taking so long?"
Her enthrallment with this handsome stranger was quickly snapped by the voice of her boyfriend as he emerged from the apartment. Feeling a bit guilty for being caught gawking at another guy, she quickly peeled her gaze away from him and turned to her boyfriend.
"Just struggling with this last box." She said with as sweet and innocent a smile she could muster.
It did not take Robert very long to catch onto the fact that he had stumbled upon his girlfriend ogling another man.
"Oh, I see you've met Jason." He said, giving a name to the hunk she had been admiring.
"Actually," Jason interjected, "not officially." He extended his hand to her and flashed a wink that only she could see. "Jason -- 4E."
"Chrissy," she replied, taking his hand and smiling flirtatiously at him. She felt a tiny shiver run through her as his huge hand engulfed her own.
"Well we should be getting back to unpacking," Robert suddenly spoke up, causing the two to break their handshake.
"Yeah," she concurred, still grinning suggestively at her new neighbour. "Nice to meet you, Jason."
"The pleasure was all mine." He replied, returning her smile.
Robert felt sick to his stomach as he and Chrissy returned to their apartment. He always felt like he was out of his league, so to speak, when it came to his girlfriend. He had been lucky enough to catch her on the rebound after a messy break-up, and so far she hadn't managed to bounce free. Deep down however, he truly believed that a woman like her was too hot to be with him.
It was this lack of confidence that always made him feel, and often act, very meek and subservient with his girlfriend, for fear of losing her to someone more "appropriate". Not that he was completely without appeal - though he did come off a bit "geeky" with his thick framed art-house glasses, slouchy posture and nervous way of talking, there was a something charming and sweet about the skinny young man in his bashfulness and genuine devotion to his girlfriend. But seeing the way she looked at Jason and the way he looked at her, made all his doubts and insecurities well up inside of him. To make matters worse, he really did not care for his neighbour at all. The guy treated women like sex objects and seemed to go through them like underwear -- Robert was regularly kept up at night by all the moaning in Jason's apartment, not to mention the bed posts banging against the thin walls. He hoped that Chrissy would not notice.
As the couple unpacked the rest of her boxes, Robert silently stewed about the interaction he witnessed earlier between his girlfriend and his neighbour. It was a combination of worry and anger that grew inside of him, but he knew full well that he would not dare act on either emotion for fear of upsetting Chrissy and risk losing her. It was pretty much the story of their relationship.
That night as the two of them got into bed together for the first time as official 'roommates', she could tell that something was bothering him.