My wife and I had finally got settled in our new home after spending a lot of time searching for just the right house. Getting a new loan and finding something we could afford in a nice middle-class neighborhood was a challenge. Mindy my 32 year old wife had repainted the entire interior of the house and was now busily working in her flower garden. Gardening had become her passion. Now that the summer was here she hoped to spend every spare moment in the backyard planting and caring for her flowers.
We had a bit of bad luck in that I was laid off from the accounting agency I had worked at for the past five years. I was actively searching for a job but with the economy so bad I wasn't having very much luck. Mindy still worked teaching kindergarten and first grade at a private church school. In fact Mindy had always been quite religious growing up as a minister's daughter. We had met in high school and married after she completed just two years of college. I could never understand how lucky I was to marry the cutest girl in our entire class. She was a rare virgin when we married and quite naΓ―ve and inexperienced when it came to sex but she has always been warm and loving and willing to try new things in bed.
I suppose I have always had somewhat of a dark side when it comes to sexual fantasies. Being an unabashed voyeur has always been my passion but I tried never to let my sweet little wife know how much it seemed to consume my thoughts. As I stood in the kitchen looking out the window I could see Mindy bending over wearing her green gardening shorts feeling proud of myself that I knew exactly what her cute little ass looked like naked.
We really liked our new home and neighborhood with the exception of the house directly behind ours across the backyard fence. Several weeks after moving in, Mindy started complaining about the loud music, noisy backyard parties and foul language coming across the back fence. I'll have to admit it seemed like most of their vocabulary was limited to just four letter words. It wasn't that they were just young kids, most of the guys at their backyard barbecues appeared to be middle-aged beer drinking loudmouth drunks.
What's more, Mindy got very upset when they would throw beer cans and flick cigarette butts into her flower bed. In desperation she started throwing them back over the fence which only made the guys more obnoxious. More than once my wife would come fuming in the house upset after one of the guys would make a very inappropriate comment to her. She just didn't feel comfortable being out in her backyard working in her garden and putting up with the crude language. I didn't think it would help the situation to confront them myself not that I was anxious to have an ongoing battle with our neighbors.
Not long after we moved in, Pete, the middle-aged guy who lived there popped his head over our back fence to say hi to me and introduced himself. He seemed friendly and outgoing telling me all about himself and the two other guys that shared the house with him. He was renting the house from an old army buddy that was working construction overseas. Pete didn't have steady work so he rented out two of the spare bedrooms to help make rent payments. I mentioned I was also looking for work and hoped I wouldn't have to do same. I told him my wife Mindy was at work and we didn't have any children yet.
He offered that if I ever needed anything let him know and to be sure and come over and have a beer any time. After our short conversation that day I really hadn't spoken with him much. I had overheard some of the back-and-forth bantering he had with Mindy and could tell he was giving her a bad time on purpose for the fun of it. It was clear she wasn't enjoying it but I could tell he and his friends were having fun with her.
I spent a lot of time sitting at our kitchen table searching for employment possibilities on the computer. On the weekends I could see Mindy out working in her flower garden in our backyard. Several times I had noticed someone looking out Pete's upstairs bedroom window watching my wife dressed in her shorts and probably enjoying the view. I even noticed on more than one occasion, when we would use our hot tub after dark which was located on the deck behind our bedroom's sliding glass door, I could see someone watching with binoculars back lit in their window opening. I obviously never mentioned any of this to my wife. I just figured Pete was probably horny as hell trying to get a better look at my sexy little wife.
As the summer months grew hotter so did the ongoing conflict across our back fence. Mindy would come into our house frustrated almost in tears telling me how much she was embarrassed and humiliated by the mean spirited taunting she was getting. It got so bad that she refused to be outside in the backyard if any of the men were outside in their yard. I tried to console her and tell her to try to just ignore them but she wouldn't have any of that. She would tell me over and over the jokes and comments they made to her were just gross. I didn't tell her that if she wouldn't act so much like a prude they would probably just leave her alone. She would be in no mood to hear that kind of a comment from me.
One Tuesday afternoon I arrived home from a job interview and pulled my car into our driveway. Mindy was still at work and as I got out of my car Pete was walking his dog down the sidewalk in front of our house. He stopped to talk for a while again offering to help if there was anything I needed. I mentioned I had been trying to fix a leak in our bathroom sink and would like to borrow a pipe wrench if he owned one. He told me to come on over and he would be happy to lend me one since he had a home fix-it business and had just about every tool on the face of the earth. Most of the part-time work that he did was handyman work for a rental management company.
We walked around the block to his front door and I waited in the living room while he went to the garage to find the wrench. It would be an understatement to say the house was an absolute mess probably very typical of a bunch of bachelors. There were beer cans, beer bottles and dirty ashtrays scattered about the room. I glanced into the kitchen area and noticed the sink piled high with dirty dishes and empty pizza boxes. His big gray hairy dog was lying on the couch wagging his tail as I reached to pet him.