As those who know me here are well aware, I have voyeuring down to a science, regularly catching women in the neighborhood undressing by applying tried and true techniques.
But that's not what happened in this case.
My next-door neighbors, who have four young kids and both work, hired a sitter for the summer.
I'd noticed her, of course, and that she was a small, very attractive girl of probably Indian descent looking to be maybe 15. Seeing her shunt the kids around in her VW Passat, though, I knew she had to be at least 16 to get a driver's license.
One day she locked the kids and herself out of the house and knocked on my door for help. She'd already called the parents on her cell, but the kids were thirsty, so I got them all ice water, and—the children's being extremely obnoxious-- we waited on the porch instead of inside and got acquainted until the lawyer dad arrived with keys.
Though she'd been next door all day every weekday that summer, this was the first time I'd actually met her and had a conversation. Extremely polite and well-mannered--almost formal--she said she was going back for her sophomore year in college in a few weeks. She also mentioned that both her parents were physicians originally from Nepal, but she was born and raised in the United States. OK, so she was 18, maybe 19, and the Nepali heritage explained her dark complexion.
This was the first time I'd ever seen her up close, and, let me tell you, she was super-cute. Petite, with an extremely slim physique, she had a beautiful face with dark almond eyes and supremely smooth, very dark skin. She was wearing an oversize button-down-collar shirt with the tail out at the time, so I couldn't get a good read on her underlying physical topography, but it appeared promising. Her rather ordinary English name, Catherine, bore a stark contrast to her exotic looks.
The next morning, I heard the unruly kids making noise and glanced out the window to see that they were in swim suits and piling into the Passat. Unfortunately, Catherine was already in the car behind the wheel, so all I could see was her pretty face. I figured they were going to the pool at the country club next door where the parents are members.
A couple hours later, I went to take some trash out only to find out that my back yard was flooded over an inch deep, even though there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I waded around to the side and could see that water was cascading beneath the tall wooden fence between our two yards.
Squish-squishing between azaleas to their driveway, I looked through the iron gate for the source of the flood. Aha, next to their newly planted tree lay the garden hose on full force gushing water across the ground rather that soaking into it. Since my property is slightly downhill of theirs, the water was pouring into my yard.
My first thought was to just climb the fence and shut the spigot off myself, but their usually quiet black lab snarled and reminded me that was not such a good idea.
Knowing Catherine had taken the kids over to the club to swim, I decided to just slip through the slit in the tennis court fence and go get her. The pool is only about 50 yards from the courts that border the other side of my back yard.
Approaching the Olympic-size pool, I was surprised at how few people were there on such a hot, sunny day. I passed a fat cat with a diamond-encrusted Rolex and pinky ring catching rays staring at me. I smiled; he didn't. I was not a member. On the other side, atop the tall chair, was the big-boobed bleached blonde lifeguard eyeing my every move. I smiled; she didn't. I was not a member. A group of teenagers playing water polo stopped to take a look at me. I smiled; they didn't. I was not a member. At that moment, the term "exclusive" took on a deeper meaning: I was, by definition, being excluded from this private, hoity-toity country club.
I'd figured it would be easy to spot Catherine, but where the hell was she and the kids? Maybe they'd gone inside the clubhouse for lunch or left the premises altogether. Then, at the far end of the enormous pool, in the shade, I heard the unmistakable cacophony of the little next-door-neighbor shits mouthing off, and there she was. In the distance, because she was so diminutive, she'd just blended in with the kids.
But she was no kid, far from it. She was all woman, and the closer I got, the more adult—and better—she looked. Twisting around on the lounge to face me, Catherine was wearing a French-cut micro-bikini showing that her tits, firm C-cuppers with dark little nipples visible through the white fabric, were much bigger than I'd imagined, and positively perfect. Then she stood up to pick up the littlest, crying child, displaying a tiny, terrific booty atop smooth, slender legs simply beyond compare.
Catherine was one fine piece of ass!
I suppose because I was wearing a Panama hat and shades, she didn't recognize me until I walked right up in front of her and told her who I was. Then she blossomed into a wide smile, and I explained what the problem was.
In her rather formal manner, she apologized, "Oh, I'm so terribly sorry, Mr. (Hornyman). I'll take care of it right away," then turned to deal with her four out-of-control charges. I lingered to lick her eye candy as long as I could before ambling on back to my house, glancing back several times as she gathered up the unruly children.
I was busy in my home office upstairs, and though I looked out my window occasionally, somehow I missed her and never did see her come back to shut the water off. But I knew she had because the flood was receding. At least I would not have to water the lawn for a few days.
It was about a week later that I went outside after dark for my usual after-dinner walk around the block for a smoke. Passing the neighbor's driveway, the blinding motion-sensing light flicked on--annoying me as usual--and I noticed that one of their SUVs was gone, but that Catherine's VW sedan was parked out in the street.
What would she be doing there at 9 o'clock, I pondered? The parents must have gone out for the evening, and she was babysitting, I surmised.
I was about to light up and move on when, out of the corner of my eye, I caught some movement from a second-story window.
Well, I'll be a son of a bitch. It was Catherine, naked as a jaybird!!! What a stroke of luck!! After all the intricate maneuverings I've employed over the years to ogle hot-bodied neighborhood babes--carefully learning the timing of their before- and after-work routines, when they exercise and take showers, exactly which windows to watch for, etc.--here I'd completely accidentally stumbled onto this to-die-for teen, nude!
And not only was she bare, she was also smoothing her dainty hands all over her body, pausing to twiddle those dark brown little nipples with no surrounding areolas up to mouth-watering points. Like my turn-of-the-century home built about the same time as theirs, the neighbor's windows have one large pane in each sash, so there were no cross pieces to obstruct my view. With the light on inside and dark outside, only about 30 feet away, and standing barely a yard away from the window, Catherine was crystal clear. That window is the one on the left of a side-by-side pair, and the shade on its right-side twin was all the way down. So, had she been standing only a few feet over, she would've been hidden from view. Again, pure luck!
I said she was nude, but I could not be absolutely sure, for even when I stepped up onto the foot-and-a-half-tall brick wall running along the edge of the sidewalk, I could still just barely see the very tops of her butt, hips, and lower abdomen. Since I was looking up from ground level, and she is so short, her bottom half was just below the lower sash, out of my line of sight. She might be wearing some low-slung panties, and she might not. I simply HAD to find out, but how?
The scene from Animal House in which John Belushi uses an extension ladder to voyeur the blonde sorority gal flashed through my head. That approach drew a silent chuckle, but, although I have such a ladder, using it would be, of course, all too obvious and completely out of the question.
I surveyed the situation further. The neighbor's house is constructed so that the roof over the front porch extends out beneath all the second-story windows on the front side, making a platform that only slants down slightly for drainage. That would be an ideal place to drink in the view of Catherine at extremely close range.
My house is built similarly, and when I don't want to hassle with getting the ladder out of the basement to clean out the gutters, I've climbed up the pillars that support the porch columns, and from there am able to reach a gutter with one hand while using the other to clean it out. A few times I'd spotted a dead limb on the roof and at no small risk had used my arms to hoist myself up high enough to get a leg over the gutter and then roll onto the roof to retrieve the limb. In a case of they-don't-make-em-like-they-used-to, my gutters are obviously strong and anchored to the house like the hinges of hell.
So, I walked up to their porch in hopes that I could gain second-story access in the same way. Checking out the downspout, I could see it was made of the same flimsy aluminum as the gutters above and would never support my 170 pounds, so that was out. Funny how situations like this make you notice things you never did before.