No one really noticed when Henry and his family moved in. Oh, they were all nice enough, to be sure, with the usual 'Welcome Wagon' visit and several offers of baked goods for the new family, but none of the established neighbors really paid the new family much heed. It wasn't meanness on their part either, or even aloofness. The arrival of a new family simply didn't warrant any change to their preexisting lives. For a while, all it meant were new faces to wave 'hello' to in the morning, and a couple of new kids playing in their yard. As for the usual questions asked of a new neighbor, the most obvious one was answered by the highway patrol car that often sat in their driveway. So aside from greetings in passing, no one went out of their way to talk to the new people. To be fair, Henry and his family kept to themselves initially as well. Henry was stuck working a night shift, and his wife spent most of her time running the kids back and forth to places like the beach. After all the summer was waning and soon all the kids would be back in school. Then everyone's schedule would change, and perhaps the adults would have the opportunity to get to know each other better.
On the first day of school, things started to change. As they had before, three of the mothers who lived in the cul-de-sac met at the bus stop with their kids. It wasn't the first year they had done so, indeed they'd all known each other for years since moving into the subdivision. Therefore, they were pretty casual with one another. This morning, only Rosemarie came outside wearing a peach colored sun dress, Sheri and Nicki were in their bathrobes. The former hadn't even bothered with her makeup, but there was no separating Nicki from the bright red lipstick that contrasted her fair skin and dark hair so beautifully. They had all been out there for several minutes, chatting to each other and trying to control the kids when Henry made an unexpected appearance. All of the women gasped when the big man strode up to them with a friendly 'good morning'. Perfect white teeth shone in a hearty smile, contrasting sharply with his dark skin. Three pairs of eyes were on him as the tall, muscular black man strode purposely towards them. At least for the sake of appearances, Henry was dressed no better than they, wearing a well used tank top and running shorts. It wasn't what they were wearing that was of most concern to the women, however. None of them had ever really gotten a good look at the bulging muscles of the new neighbor's body, and here he was, in the flesh. With such an imposing masculine specimen before them, it was no wonder that all three women were self conscious about their own appearance in front of him.
Despite their initial shock and uneasiness, all three women recovered rather quickly, and they enjoyed the company of their new bus stop companion. Belatedly, they learned that more often than not Henry would be the one dropping off the kids in the morning. His presence wasn't unwelcome, of course, all three were suppressing outright attraction to the big man. Rather it was a change in their well established morning routine, and it was one that was going to take them time to get used to. The most obvious one became clear the next morning. While Henry made his way out to the corner unashamedly in his workout clothes, all three women were more or less suitably dressed to be seen by a member of the opposite sex. More importantly, all three had taken time to do their hair and make up. Henry found this quite amusing, and after they watched the bus leave he chuckled to himself as he started a morning jog. This was unexpected, but it gave all three a good look at his physique as he pounded pavement away from them. That afternoon, as they shared their usual lunch and gossip session, it was no surprise what the number one topic was.
They all agreed that he was quite an impressive figure, there was no doubt about that. They also couldn't believe that they had been blind sided by his appearance, and for that they jokingly blamed Nicki. She was a busybody, after all, and her yard backed right up to Henry's. In her own defense, she offered that she had been just as unkempt as the rest of them had been that morning at the bus stop. When Sheri tried to counter with the argument that Nicki had at least gotten her make up on, Nicki pointed out that she was always made up, no matter what she was doing. Sheri and Rosemarie didn't have a response for that, and the conversation returned to their discussion of Henry. On this, Sheri and Nicki dominated the conversation, which wasn't all that unusual, although Rosemarie did pipe in from time to time. They kept their talk tame, even though it wasn't hard to imagine what their new neighbor's physique must be like. Nicki was bold enough to wonder out loud how hard he could fuck, and that comment drew nervous titters from her friends. Neither Sheri nor Rosemarie professed any knowledge of what a well built stud like Henry could do, at least not as openly as Nicki. That left her somewhat embarrassed, but not overly so. Out of the three of them she was recognized as the wildest one when it came to past experiences so it wasn't really a surprise that she would make her feelings known. Henry was truly a male specimen to behold, and that was that as they continued to talk about him in a somewhat more subdued manner. What they really felt about him they all kept to themselves, even the closest of friends have their secrets.
As the days went on, and Henry was still the hot topic, it was fitting that Nicki showed the most outward interest in him. This was true not only at the bus stop, but whenever the three women got together as well. Nicki always found a way to bring Henry up in casual conversations, and sought to include him as the group talked while waiting for the bus as well. Like the others, she kept it friendly enough, but as Henry opened up more to them, Nicki started to tease a little more. Soon, her morning talks with Henry grew overtly flirtatious, and her dress more provocative. Naturally, after the first morning, not a day went by when the girls would go out in at least shorts and a top. While it wasn't necessarily something they'd go out shopping in, it was a lot less casual than the bathrobes that greeted Henry that first morning. Additionally, more make up could be seen that early in the day as well, but it was only a permanent fixture on Nicki. The least change was seen in Rosemarie, she tended to fix herself up a bit more each morning, but the sun dresses she was famous throughout the neighborhood for still remained. Nicki's closeness with Henry affected her clothing choices as well as their friendship grew. What had started with casual T-shirts and shorts progressed to skimpy tops and short shorts. Fortunately, the warm weather held, and she was able to get away dressing like that with little undue attention. Nicki knew that she had caught Henry's eye on more than one occasion, and that suited her just fine. After a few days of her brazenly waving her perky breasts and hot little rear at Henry, Sheri stepped in. She too was starting to wear more revealing outfits, although her petite frame couldn't hope to match Nicki's sexy curves. Instead, as an instigator, she challenged Nicki to go jogging with Henry one time, or at least suggest it if she was going to continue her flirty ways. It was a challenge Nicki could hardly walk away from.
Henry jogged or worked out each and every morning, that much was certain. It wasn't hard to figure out his every other day pattern either, the only trouble was that no one knew where he went for either activity. At first, they didn't want to ask and seem obvious about it, but there proved to be no other way. A few days after Sheri's challenge to Nicki, the subject of jogging was brought up, and Henry nonchalantly mentioned that he usually ran over to a local park and used a fairly popular jogging trail. Nicki noted that she often tried that, but it was usually too busy for her liking. Henry responded by saying that it was nearly deserted during the week, at least in the mornings when he went, and invited her along. This left the other two women speechless as they watched Nicki maneuver Henry right where she wanted him. Together, they agreed to go try the trail the next day when he went jogging. In all fairness to Nicki, Henry had extended the offer to all of them, but she was the only one who seemed interested. Nevertheless, the girls all knew what they'd be talking about until then. The speculation began that very afternoon, at lunch.
