(Intro)
I'll keep this brief... My absolute favourite writer is Steven King for not only his style and use of language, but also because he writes under 2 rules. One being that he has no idea where his story is going or where it will end up and the other is that he is highly detailed... Of course I know that I am NOT and probably never will be a "Steven King" and I highly doubt that he would be writing an erotic tale either... However, in this story I have tried to employ these two rules of his... all I had was an idea and I went from there...
Lastly, yes this is a 'sex story' but also, I would like to believe that it is first and foremost β a story...
(Parts of this are dedicated to a friend- Shiloh...)
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I was surprised to see Susan sitting there on her front step that morning, and she was smoking a cigarette of all things... She didn't smoke so I knew something wasn't right...
We were never really all that close her and me, just neighbourly with each other, saying hello, sharing the odd meaningless chit-chat as we then went about our different days in our separate lives... But now though, I knew things were changing for my 46yr old next door neighbour Susan Reid.
The first indicator, or 'sign' that I noticed something might not be right was coming home one day to see a 'For Sale' sign that had appeared on her front lawn. I didn't think too much of it at the time, I mean people do move - but seeing her there on this morning, and in obvious distress; I thought I'd go over and find out what was going onβand what had her smoking a cigarette.
"Uhh... Hi Susan... Are...Are you okay..?" I asked as she sat there for a moment, staring off into space, like I wasn't there... "I see there's a 'Sold' sticker on your For Sale sign... That was pretty quick huh..?" I asked her then as I did notice the sticker running across the sign saying that her house had been sold.
Looking to me in a slow turn, I could see tears brimming the lower edges of her soft blue eyes, sniffling she took a long pull on her cigarette, paused then before speaking at last..."Yes, it sold this morning but - but now where am I going to go..?" She answered as she blew out the smoke and let the tears burst from her eyes sending her into a crying fit that had me rushing to her aid.
I couldn't leave her in such distress -and although I was on my way out, I knew that this was more important, my appointment at the nail salon could wait... "Okay hun' let's get you up..." I began, reaching down and hooking my hand under her arm.
"I still have half a pot of coffee sitting inside so come with me Susan, I can't leave you here like this... We'll sit you down, have a coffee and you can tell what's going on okay..?" I said to her as I had her by the arm and standing, then crossing the lawn back over towards my kitchen door at the side of my house.
"Really Heather, I'm sorry... I β I don't want to impose..." She said back to me, but I wasn't having it.
"Nonsense, come on, I'm not going to leave a girl in distress, and besides β I'm sorry if I'm being nosy but I am dying to know what's going on and why you and Mitch are selling your house..." I answered as I held on to her.
"And you can get rid of the awful cigarette, I know you don't smoke and I'm sure that you know it's not good for you..." I added then as we walked, intending to embarrass her a little, and it worked because she did just that, she dropped the cigarette and even apologised as I unlocked my back door, letting us both in.
"You're right... I'm β I'm sorry... I only smoke if I'm upset like this..."
"Well, not anymore, not if I can help it... I hate smoking it killed my Nana when I was young... But never mind that, here we are, come in and sit down -and here Susan... Here's a tissue for you..." I went on, offering her a seat and a tissue to dry up her tears and to blow her runny sounding nose.
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Susan Reid... When I said that to her... That I couldn't leave a girl in distress? I meant that in the sense of our shared sisterhood as females and as women, because at 46yrs of age, Susan Reid my middle-aged next door neighbour was certainly no girl... No, indeed Susan was a grown woman, and I think in the beginning that's what had me most intrigued about her...
She is a pretty woman by any rights, quite thin with waspy-waistline, tapering out to her wide, childbearing hips and willowy long legs... Standing at around 5-foot 10-inches tall, she's not a short woman by any means and with her pretty, younger looking face, her blue eyes and cute little freckled button of a nose -and as well, her long, past her shoulder length light brown to blond hair... When added all together... I'll say that much about her -Susan sure didn't look her age...
However, as pretty and thin as she is, with long, girlish hair and her well defined hour-glass figure, Susan's most prominent and stand-out feature is without a doubt her big, full and luscious looking tits... Ever at her maturing age of 46yrs -and a Mother with a 22yr old daughter - Sarah, who is all grown up now and off to college... Even through bearing a child and the ravages of time and along with the rest of her -Susan's tits... They still looked fantastic...
That's from what I could ever see of her on most days...
Yes, Susan has great tits but for the most part, she didn't fit with the lethal 38"-26"-36" body she has hidden away under her clothing at any given day or time...
I always thought she looked a bit doughty or old-fashioned in her style sense, yet through watching her and being observant, I did glimpse at what charms she was hiding under her long button-up cardigans that she always seemed to be wearing just about every time I spied her through my kitchen window...
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Handing her a cup of the still warm coffee, not hot but it would do β Susan smiled and thanked me as I sat down in the seat next to her at my round kitchen table over near the window.
"Tell me Susan, what's going on with you..?" I asked sounding consoling while sitting down beside her and placing my hand to hers as she clutched at her warm mug.
Taking a breath and then looking to me but for a moment, her eyes seemed to haze over some as her gazed fixated away, looking out into nothing.
She put her mug down...
"It βIt started about a year ago now... That's when I found the flirty text on his phone... He thought I was snooping but I wasn't -even though he was sure I was spying on him, looking at his phone and checking his messages, but I wasn't β that's not what I was trying to do... I thought it was mine, we have the same phone ..."
Saying all of this to me in one long breath that I could hardly understand... Susan then took in fresh lung full of air as she went on; telling me more before I could ask her what she was talking about.
"He accused me of being sneaky... Can you believe that? And he even punished me for it, and then I showed him, because he was the one who was lying - the cheating bastard β he's such an asshole..."
Susan was letting herself go, but still she had me at a bit confused...
"What are you saying Susan..? Is Mitch having an affair? He's cheating on you..?" I asked her even though I was able to figure out this much on my own β so far anyway...
"Yes... With his boss's sister Camilla... I knew there was something between them, I saw it last year at the company picnic and the way he mentions her when talking about work..." She answered, but I had other questions.
"So...So is that why you're selling the house? Are the two of you splitting up? Like getting a divorce..?" I asked then as I once more moved my hand on top of hers in a gentle, caring gesture of a touch - because I did feel for her, but to be honest, I was also testing her in a way, curious to see how she responded to a woman touching her.
"Yeah he's selling the house... Right out from under me unless I do what he tells me to... That's what he said... and β and I don't have any money - how...how can I f-fight him..?" Susan went on then, answering my question but I must have hit a nerve because she was off again β crying...
"Oh you poor thing... Here come to me..." I said to her as I slid my chair over, putting my arm around her and pulling her to me in a further effort to console the crying woman.
But at the same time, the wheels were spinning in my head... Something didn't add up and even I could see that...
"So, wait a minute Susan... Are you saying that HE cheated on YOU and now he's the one pulling all the strings and making threats..?" I asked her with my chair close to hers, our knees still touching under the table after I'd let her go.
"Y-yeah... He said he'll leave me with nothing if I don't sign the papers when they come... He said his lawyer is drawing they up right now, as we speak... He told me that just this morning..." Susan added telling me all I needed to know...
Grabbing my purse, I fished out my phone... "Gimme a sec hun' let me make a quick phone call to my sister, she's a lawyer and works for a big firm down town β hang on, let me ask what she thinks -because honestly Susan? I smell a rat here... And his name is Mitchell Reid..."
I was pissed off now as I sat back, my phone to my ear, waiting for my sister Bev to answer and thinking of how we were gonna screw this asshole Mitch, and not just for cheating, but also for trying to manipulate and possibly even abusing Susan the way he was...