It all started innocently enough. Garth and Courtney had the windows open and the warm May breeze brought in the cool of the evening. The smell of flowering trees was heavy in the air. They say on the edge of the king size bed, looking at the unpacked moving boxes, and beyond our across the Boston Bay through the huge paned window of the loft. The waterfront of Charleston was lit orange by the setting sun.
"To our own apartment," Garth said.
Courtney held up her longneck. "To our own apartment," she repeated, smiling. After a long drink she laid the bottle to the side of her neck and then drew a hand across her brow. "I'm hot," she said.
"I've been known to have that effect on women," said Garth, trotting out the old line in a mock-serious tone to reinforce the campy sentiment. Courtney gave him a shove, playfully. He pushed back and they started to tussle.
That was when they heard it. It was a woman's voice, moaning. Nearby. Through the wall. Again. Moans of pleasure.
Courtney looked at Garth, eyes wide, and raised an eyebrow. Then she giggled.
"Ohhhh yes," came the voice. And then there was a thud against the wall. Garth and Courtney each fliched.
The rooms were high-ceilinged lofts in a converted marble warehouse. The walls, dropped in by the slapdash developer to transform it into a yuppie co-op, were not structural, just a lightweight wallboard.
Another thud, and a definitive creaking, as of a boxspring. Another and again and now there was a rhythm to it. Garth and Courtney were both smiling now, quiet, listening, and the woman's voice rose.
"Oh yes. Ooh yes. Oooh yesss." In rhythm, rising in pitch. Garth and Courtney looked at each other, shocked and enraptured by their accidental voyeurism. Almost unconsciously, they had turned and crawled up to the headboard of the bed, and laid their heads against the wall to listen.
"Oh yes, oh fuck me, fuck me with that big love stick⦠deeper⦠YES! Oh God, oh God you're huge tonight you're... oh Yesssā¦"
"This is so hot," whispered Courtney.
"Oh⦠yessā¦. Let me feel that big Italian cock⦠deeperā¦deeper⦠pound away, baby, pooouuunnd meeeā¦." In gasps punctuated by the steady thump of the headboard against the wall now.
"Why don't you talk like that?" Garth asked, devilishly.
"Oh, I could," Courtney whispered demurely, "but I didn't think you liked such forward women." And while whispering, she reached her hand down into his shorts, deftly freeing his great erect member. He shimmied a bit and his shorts rode down below his hips. "I could talk like that, but it's just that so often I can'tā¦" Courtney said, looking him in the eye while sliding backwards towards the foot of the bed, "⦠because my mouth is so full of cock." And she jammed her head down, engulfing his rod, held one for one glorious, white-lipped moment, and then with a small gag, sat up and began long plunging strokes, her hand around the base of his member, rubbing his balls.
Garth was in heaven, listening to the high, Italian screams next doow and mussing his hands through his fiancƩe's hair. He was quickly losing control, and he pulled her up, kissing her deeply, loving the soft, supple feel which cocksucking gave her mouth.
Her clothes were off in an instant and she lay on her back, looking up, and said, "Put him to shame." She always did have a competitive streak.
They did their best to kill each other, on that new bed, creaking and banging, sometimes in rhythm and sometimes out, with the thuds coming through from the other side of the wall. Eventually the thuds on the far side stopped, and Courtney, uncharacteristically, yelled, "Keep fucking me, baby!"
There was a bang on the wall, as of a fist, which made Garth look up, and Courtney hissed, "Keep fucking me, don't you stopā¦"
There were more raps, a real knocking now, and Courtney turned her head in passion and pride and yelled, "Can't you hear I'm busy!"
Then she let out a deep soulful moan and Garth, overwhelmed by the intensity of the moment and his wife's ardour, came forcefully and collapsed down onto her still heaving chest.
Soon, Garth rolled over and Courtney threw on a linen robe and went to the windows. She threw Garth a knowing wink and said, "I think we're gonna like it here." Then she put her head through the open, screenless window frame and took in the dusky night.
At that moment, the window in the next apartment opened. A little, raven-haired thirty-something woman leaned out. She looked at Courtney and then made eye contact.
"I hear you are our new neighbors," said the woman, smiling demurely.
"It's nice, I guess," said Courtney, looking for the right words, "to meet you in person."
"It is Springtime, you know," the woman said.
"Springā¦"
The woman started to withdraw, then leaned out again. "I forgot, we have a housewarming gift for you," she said, turning with a smile.
"That's sweet, but there's no needā¦"
"It's champagne, and if we don't give it to you soon, someone here will drink it!"