Danny's summertime odd jobs had consumed more of his free time than he cared to admit. Still, he knew to "get his while the gettin' was good," as his grandpa reminded him frequently. The effects of frequent summer rains had encouraged the residents of his town to seek arborists and landscapers to whip their bushes and lawns back into shape. Danny, inexperienced but not incompetent, began side work for friends of friends, but word of mouth referrals quickly doubled, then tripled his jobs.
A river of sweat ran down his naked forehead and poured into his left eye, which slammed shut.
"Fuck me," he said, probably too loudly considering the affluent neighborhood he was working in. The houses were large, but the lots were small and most were fenced in with tall privacy fencing. The client for his job had commissioned him to shape their large, overgrown perimeter hedge into a more reasonable shape while they vacationed in the Maldives. Unfortunately, the thing was putting up a good fight and he was sure he would need to come back several additional days to finish it all.
Suddenly, and despite the Florida sun beating down on his shoulders and back, he felt cool and a little lightheaded. Warning bells rang in his head as he recognized the early symptoms of heatstroke.
"Fuck," he said again as he swayed slightly and then climbed down his ladder. Danny cracked his cooler open and fished out a couple of cold water bottles before retreating to the home's covered back porch.
From the backyard of the house next door, Danny heard a familiar pop song start up followed by a light splashing sound.
At the top of his ladder on the start of the hedge job, Danny had marveled at the stunning pool and artful landscaping in the neighbor's backyard. The pool was a moderate size and the fenced-in yard was small, but meticulous care had been taken to craft a unique and wonderfully complex space. He hadn't seen any people outside yet, but he had spotted a big blue SUV pulling in to the garage just as he was wrapping up the day before.
After fifteen minutes in the shade, Danny felt he had mostly recovered and climbed back to the top of his ladder with his motorized hedge trimmer. With a single pull, the 2-stroke trimmer screamed to life and Danny caught some movement in the corner of his eye. Twenty feet to his right beside the neighbors pool, a very naked girl was sunbathing on a lawn chair.
She was absolutely stunning. A slender brunette with tan skin, long legs and modest b or c-cup breasts. Her nipples were pink and she had a small landing strip cut into her pubic hair. She had both of her arms up and resting on her head which gave her boobs a wonderful round shape. She looked like she was maybe twenty five, his age.
"Holy shit," Danny blurted out. He thought he saw the girl smile a little as she lowered her arms to her sides revealing that she was wearing pair of dark sunglasses. Danny panicked and quickly pretended he hadn't noticed her by swiftly hacking the top of the nearest hedge. Without his permission, his cock had begun to swell and it pushed uncomfortably against the fabric of his basketball shorts. He shifted it a little and stole another glance at the girl. She had found a bottle of sunscreen and was rubbing the white fluid onto her arms and chest. Her nipples had hardened a little and she gave them little tugs as she lathered the sunscreen on her boobs.
Running out of places to pretend to still be cutting, Danny shut the trimmer off and got down to rake up the debris and move the ladder over a few feet.
He steeled himself as he climbed back to the top of the ladder. He quickly glanced over at the pool, but the girl was gone.
"Sue and Tom said they were going to the Maldives for their anniversary," said a soft voice to his left.
Startled and panicking, Danny eyes flicked left where they found the girl, still naked, pruning a rose bush with a pair of shears. He immediately averted his eyes.
"Yeah, that's what they told me, too."
"Are you a landscaper?"
"Not technically, no, but I've done landscaping for people before," Danny said.
