Karissa was from a small town and have never lived anywhere else, but upon graduation from college she took a job in the city with a big company and a good salary. She was able to locate a condominium in a nice area of town that was on the second floor with a nice balcony.
It was summer, and unusually hot this year, but she learned after she had already moved in that the air-conditioning in her bedroom was not working very well. Fortunately the nights were cooler so sitting outside, or leaving the windows open, seemed to be an adequate way to enjoy the summer night.
Karissa was a junior executive with a new job so she was required to put in a lot of time at work . Because of her long hours, and the fact that she was not good at getting up early, it was almost always dark by the time she got back to her place.
She got into a routine of coming home, opening up all the windows to let the air in, changing out of her work clothes into shorts and a light T-shirt, then having a little dinner on her back patio under the stars. She knew that the light was out for the patio but kept forgetting to stop at the store to buy a bulb so that she could replace it. Soon she actually enjoyed eating outside without the light because as the sun went down she could see the stars much more clearly in the dark.
Several weeks after she moved in she noticed that there was some activity in the vacant condominium that was in the next building to the left of her unit. She had looked at this condominium when she bought hers but didn't like the fact that it needed some upgrades that she wasn't going to be able to do. One of the things she noticed when she went through that unit was that the window coverings were old, and several of them appear to be broken or missing.
Friday night, after a long week of work she was not in the mood to go out with her friends to go dancing. She got home a little after seven, took off her clothes and put on her sleeveless T-shirt and silk pajama bottoms. She warmed up some leftover chicken from the night before, then took that and her salad out to the deck to eat. It was an unusually dark night with no moon so by 8:30 the sky was clear and she could see the stars.
When she is finished eating she moved to the reclining chair she had on her patio and was listening to music in her headphones when she noticed some movement in the condominium across from her. From where she was sitting she could clearly see into the first floor unit because the window coverings that should have been on the top half of the window were missing. The condominium was occupied by a man who appeared to be middle-aged, and it was obvious that he was still in the process of moving things into his place.
The heat must have been a problem in his unit also because he had the windows open to let the air in. The blinds on the windows were closed for the most part but since the top half was missing, from above she could see into the living room and bedroom quite clearly from where she was sitting.
While she was eating her dinner the lights had gone out in his unit, but by the time she had finished eating he had returned. She watched as he came in from the front door, placed his keys on the counter and then went to the bedroom. She saw him go into the closet in his work out clothes, then come out a few minutes later completely naked. In college she had a few boyfriends but had kept to herself a lot, focusing on her studies. She had fooled around some, but the guy she had spent the most time with was inexperienced and shy so the sex they had was lights out and not very fulfilling for her. She had never seen an older man completely naked.