Cade lived alone on the first floor in an upscale apartment complex. He had no serious girlfriends, but he tried to date as much as he could. Unfortunately, he would go through long periods without having a serious relationship, and he would get bored and lonely. He would spend time with the guys, hanging out at a sports bar drinking beer. He liked the apartment complex he lived in and most of his neighbors, and he was especially intrigued by the resident apartment manager, Blondie.
He didnāt know her real name, but called her Blondie to himself because she wore shoulder-length blonde hair. He heard that she was a divorcee, and he had never seen any guys around her place, even though she was attractive enough. She was older than Cade, probably in her mid-30s, Cade had surmised. She was very quiet for an apartment manager, and seemed lonely to Cade. She frequently had an almost severe look to her pretty, feminine features. He had talked to her briefly when he moved in several months ago, but had not had a chance to talk with her since. She had been all business in her prim suit and perfectly styled blonde hair, and seemed to want to emphasize the rules and regulations of the complex. She had given him a disapproving look throughout the brief meeting, even though he had tried to be as friendly as possible. He had assured her that he wasn't planning any loud late-night parties.
Blondie lived alone across the narrow parking lot from Cade and didnāt seem to have much of a social life. Cade couldnāt figure out why, because she was attractive and successful looking, if a bit severe. She drove a relatively new silver BMW, wore expensive suits, and seemed to be very refined. He didn't know whether she had a job in addition to managing the apartments, but thought perhaps she came from money. Or maybe she worked from home. She was certainly always around the apartment complex. She never seemed to smile or laugh, but just quietly watch people. Cade noticed she seemed to watch people a lot. Her big brown eyes would seem to watch everything that took place in the apartment complex. Often, he would see her at her upstairs apartment window, at the parted curtains, looking out at him as he was coming and going.
She kind of creeped him out at times because she was always watching him, with her big brown eyes, almost spying on him. He would frequently look up as he got into his car in the parking lot, and catch her watching him. Nothing that went on at the apartment complex seemed to escape her notice. It didnāt help that her apartment was directly across the parking lot from his, and that she was on the second floor. She could literally look down from her balcony into his apartment, and could watch him as he came and went.
Her constant presence, or the threat of her presence, sometimes had him closing the blinds of his apartment when he was home, even when he wished he could leave them open for the natural light. He had several plants by his window that needed light, so he left the blinds open whenever he could. He wasn't sure if she could see through his windows during the day, but certainly at night he knew she could.
One day, as he casually looked up at her window when returning from taking his trash to the Dumpster, he noticed her standing at the parted curtains of her second story sliding glass doors. He could see that she had a large pair of high-powered binoculars pressed to her eyes, and she was sweeping the apartment complex to the north of where he was walking. He stared for a moment, incredulous. It was like she was a one-woman neighborhood watch, and she had nothing better to do than spy on the neighbors. Cade envisioned her keeping a notebook of peopleās comings and goings, some sort of a strange journal, keeping tack of other peopleās lives in her lonely existence. Knowing how careful she was about watching the complex, Cade figured the binoculars made sense. The more he thought about her, and her voyeurism, the more he wanted to get to know her better.
As time passed, and he saw her at the laundry or the pool, he would smile and nod politely, and she would nod back with a very slight hint of a smile. He felt that she was starting to melt a little toward him, and he was careful not to break any of the complex rules to keep on her good side.
One Friday night, Cade returned home from happy hour after work at a local bar. He was home relatively early for him, and as he pulled into his parking lot, he noticed Blondie at her window. Her lights were off, but he could see her curtains moving at the sliding glass door on her balcony, and caught the sight of the glint of glass and the blackness of binoculars peering out from the window. Unreal! he thought to himself. He kind of felt sorry for her and how lonely she must be.
He went into his apartment, turned on a few lights and kicked off his shoes and socks. It was a bit stuffy in the apartment, and he didnāt want to turn on the A/C, so he peeled off his shirt as well, noticing in a mirror that he still had a pretty good tan from the boating outing he had been on the previous weekend. He thought about putting shorts on but decided to leave on his faded blue jeans. He went to his sliding glass window that led out to the patio, and opened the blinds and slid open the slider. The cool night air flowed pleasantly into the room. The screen was gone from the slider, but the night was cool enough to keep away any bugs, so he left the window wide open.
Cade headed to the kitchen, flipped on the light and rummaged in the refrigerator. He pulled out a Corona and found a half-eaten bag of pretzels. He settled down in an easy chair in front of the TV with his feet up on an ottoman. Drinking the beer and eating pretzels he flipped back and forth between ESPN and a movie that he had seen before but liked. He watched TV for a while, feeling slightly buzzed from the beer. He had wished that Kim, a friend from work, had been around tonight, but she was at some family function. And he hadnāt met anyone at the bar that was interesting to talk to. So here he was, at home, on a Friday night with nothing much to do.
After the movie was over, he clicked through the channels, not finding anything of interest. He got up from his chair and went to the DVD and put in a porn video. It was a video he had watched many times before, and he fast-forwarded to a scene depicting a nubile teenager waking up in bed on a Saturday afternoon. Her parents call out to her that they are leaving for the day, and she proceeds to lay back in her bed in a skimpy t-shirt and panties, and begin to masturbate for the camera. She doesnāt realize it, but a yard worker spies her through the window and starts watching her pleasure herself.
As Cade watched the video, he felt himself starting to get aroused. He reached down and squeezed his crotch through his jeans, feeling himself getting swollen. Not taking his eyes from the screen, Cade unbuttoned his jeans and felt the zipper give way as he pushed his hand down his pants. As he leaned back in the recliner, he could see down his bare, tanned chest to his flat belly and then to where his hand had disappeared into his jeans. He put his hands around his stiffening cock, feeling the warmth of his erection. He leaned back in the chair, arching his back and stretching his legs to give himself full access to his swollen member. On the TV screen, the girl was also leaning back on her bed against pillows, legs splayed, two of her fingers delicately rubbing her clit.
Suddenly, Cade remembered the open window, and Blondie. He always was careful to shut the blinds before putting on a porn video, but he had forgotten. He had no idea if she was still watching, but he felt his heart racing with the thought of her binoculars, and he felt his face flush. Quickly, he withdrew his hand and sat up on the chair, his eyes still watching the girl in the video plunge her delicate fingers in and out of her sex. He didnāt want to make an obvious run for the slider and blinds. Frozen, his face was flushed in embarrassment. If she had seen him, she would know for sure that by closing the blinds he was going to continue to masturbate.
Instinctively, he reached for the remote and lowered the volume so that the teenager's cries of pleasure on the video wouldnāt be so loud through the open window. Casually, he left his right hand find his zipper and he slid it up as far as he could. He didnāt bother buttoning his jeans, figuring it would be too obvious. He sat there for a few moments, watching the video, sensing that he was being watched. His heart was racing and he felt embarrassed, and he just knew she was watching him.
He started wondering what she would be thinking if she had seen him with his hand down the front of his jeans, if she had seen the obvious bulge in his pants. He wondered if she would be disgusted, or if on the other hand, she would be turned on. That as a voyeur, she would find watching him exciting and compelling. The thought made his already hard cock pulsate against his jeans even more, despite his mortification.
Suddenly, he had an idea. He decided to do a little reconnaissance to find out if she had really been watching him or if he was imagining the whole thing. He wanted to catch her in the act, so he knew he would have to act casually. Nonchalantly, he rose from his chair and went back to the kitchen. In his mind, he tried to work out the angle from Blondieās window. He knew she would be able to easily see him ā all of him ā as he sat on his easy chair watching TV. With his window open and the blinds open, it would be an open view for her. Thatās why he was always closing his blinds from her prying eyes. He figured as he got up and went into the kitchen, she would be able to see that he rose and went to the kitchen, and probably only see the bottom of his legs as he scanned the open refrigerator.