Peter surprised to see a sold sticker been placed across the sign in front of the old Merrick house next door when he arrived home form university. It has lain empty for nearly ten months now, he had wondered, what type of a neighbours they would be getting. He told his mother when he came in to the house about the sold sign. She said to him, “We will soon see who will be the new owner of the house, it's in need of a lot of tiding and cleaning up to make it liveable again.” Peter had turned 18 seven months earlier in the year.
The women that bought it fall in love with it when first shown it by the real-estate agent. She put the money from the sale of her half of the business she had with her ex-partner into the house. She also knew that with out her it would be just a matter of time for the business to go bust. She knows that Thomas does not have the expertise to run the business effectively by himself.
She had arranged for the removalist deliver and unloaded her furniture into the empty house on a Friday. She had them to take by a circular round about trip so that Thomas would not know what town she had moved. What appealed to her most is it is in a quiet cul-de-sac far away from her ex. Annette introduced herself to Mary on the Saturday morning after she parked her car in her garage. Annette had seen the boy next-door working in his front yard when she pulled in and went to ask him if he wanted to move furniture for her. Walking up their path to the front door, Mary sees her coming and goes out to meet her. Anne greats Mary with a warm smile and say, “Hello, I’m Anne Miller, I’m your new neighbour, and I had the furniture delivered yesterday and was not here to have them put it in place for me. I was just wondering that your son could possible help me to move furniture, I am willing to pay him for doing the work.”
“Hi, I’m Mary Campbell, I am very happy to meet you Anne, would you like to come in for a cuppa as I not long put the jug on to boil. Peter my son is nearly finished out in the garden, when he comes in you might like to ask him youself. I say that he will gladly help you, he is studding at the university and I know that he will do any kind of job to help him with his studies. The work he does around the house has been a great help to me after his father passed away a few yeard back. At eighteen, he not like most boys his age, to me it like he not interested in running after girls, but he has a good head on his shoulders and is always looking to earn more money. He tries to help me around here as much as he can. Please come in, I will set a cup for you, I love to have some company to chat with, you know, women to women.”
“I don’t want to intrude on you.”
“Don’t be silly, you’re not intruding at all, I like a chance to have a chat over a cuppa tea. This will be a good way for the both of us to get to know each other. Peter, when you’re finish can you please have a wash before you come in side, leave your dirty sneakers outside and meet our new neighbour.”
“Okay Mum, be finish in a couple of minutes.”
Taking a gentle but firm hold of Anne arm, Mary leads her inside to the kitchen and says, “Sit here and I get you a cup.” Turning the jug back on again it does not take long to whistle as it comes to the boil.
Peter cleans himself up before coming into the kitchen and sees Anne sitting at the dining table with his mother. They are both sipping their cups of tea, he guesses that her age to be around thirty or thirty one, but he was find out later on that she was eleven years older than what he thought she was. She told him that she is forty-two. He wants him to helps her set up the house the way that she wants it and he cannot keep his eyes off her big breasts. She has selected the bedroom at the rear of the house for herself. Looking out the window Peter sees that he has an unobstructed view into this room from his up stairs bedroom.
Over three nights of her first week in the house, he starts to know her routine at night by having a shower or a bath at eight thirty. She likes to walk around the house in a long flowing black see through lace nigh dress. He has gotten into a habit of being in his room with the light off at eight fifteen. Sitting on the edge of his bed, he waits for his now regular nighttime show that is put on by his sexy new neighbour. He asked his friend from university to return his binoculars, saying that he needed them; he wanted to take up bird watching again.
Over the ensuring six months, she has seen Peter looking at her a lot and has not put too much behind it. She likes his company a lot, as she can talk to him and he is a good listener. He has been helping her to tidy up the yards and has noticed that Anne is getting quiet large in the tummy; he thinks that she just putting on a lot of weight. He had also noticed that she liked to wear loose fitting shorts with wide leg opening. He has able to see the crouch of her knickers on many occasions when they have been working together in her gardens when she crouches down to pull out some weeds.
One morning when he is studding for an exam, he hears loud voices in an intense argument coming from next door. Coming down stairs and opening his door to see a man standing at her front door. He hears Annette say to him, “I don’t want to know about your problems with the store. Remember you got me pregnant; your solution was to buy me out. If you have run it to financial mismanagement, that your problem and it is of no concern of mine anymore, is it.”
“Please Anne, I beg you to help me with this.”
“What, you want me help you now, what about me, I came to you when I first found out I am pregnant and having your baby. What did you say to me, O that right, I do not want any children to spoil my way of life? It your problem now and you go and do something about it. When I said I wanted to keep it, what did you do? Well you went over to the bank, took out a loan to buy me out, So when you bought me out I made a decision that I never want you in my life and I don’t want you any were near this baby.”
