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Chapter One
My life never was the same after Rose came into my life. Even twenty years later Iām a different man than I would have been without her. Rose was the girl that forced me to make that tiny step between really living life and just passing through.
Rose lived in the house behind ours. She moved into our neighborhood sometime during my sophomore year of college. I was down attending school in Southern California, although my parents lived in New Hampshire. Maybe that is part of the reason that my experience Rose is so real. There was no warning for me. I had no idea the house behind ours had new owners until I came home in May, and by then they were all moved in. And it was the shock of that knowledge that truly begins this story.
I had just gotten back from school and was still settling back into the familiar surroundings of house and home. My bedroom is on the second floor toward the back of the house. I had never really thought about it before (there used to be some old couple that lived there), but the windows of the back room of our house were directly across from those of the house behind us. The houses were part of some of the new tract housing that was starting to show up in New Hampshire and, typical to tract housing, there was only a span of a dozen feet between the two houses.
I set my bag down under the window. As I was beginning to turn away, something moved in the room across from mine.
Usually, this wouldnāt have caught my attention, as it used to be nothing more than old Mrs. Bertha puttering around in the spare bedroom. But this movement didnāt look right. It didnāt move with the jerking brittleness of an old woman. I cupped my hands against the window pane and peered across. What I saw surprised me so badly that I leapt away from the pane and out of sight of the window. It had not been old Mrs. Bertha puttering around. It was a girl and she was half naked! Suddenly, my peering through the window changed from being innocently curious to completely perverted.
I tried to slow my breathing and prayed to God that she hadnāt seen me. What would my parents say when she complained about the peeping Tom (or in my case Colin) across the fence?
But I had to look into her room again. I needed to know if sheād seen me. I figured if she was still walking around half naked then I could assume she hadnāt noticed.
Slowly, I edged around the room and flicked the light off. It was still afternoon, but the sun was behind my house so it shone dimly into the window across from me while leaving my own window in shadow. The perfect viewing conditions, I realized as soon as my room fell into darkness.
I was hoping she was still walking around half naked for more reasons than just the hope my innocence would be intact. At first I didnāt see her and I sucked in a breath in the fear that she was downstairs right now telling her parents.
But then there she was. She had only been out of sight of the window. When I had first glimpsed her while innocently peering through the window pane, she had been wearing only her panties. I tried hard to remember what her breasts looked like. I knew she had not been wearing anything to hide them, but I had been so surprised to see her there I hadnāt really paid much attention. And to my disappointment I would not be reminded now. When she appeared within view of the window again, she was wearing a long t-shirt which said āCougars!ā across the front. I didnāt recognize the mascot so the t-shirt must have been a souvenir from whatever high school she had attended. It must have been a menās shirt that had hung down past her knees when she was younger. Now, I estimated she was at least 18, maybe closer to twenty-one or twenty-two; the shirt barely reached the top of her knees. In fact, as she moved it pulled up enough that I could see most of her pale thigh.