"Danny, can you check on 1301? She's complaining about the curtain rod for the shower, and I've got a hundred other calls today."
"Sure, dad."
"Thanks, I owe you."
I laughed and said, "That's like a couple dozen now."
"I know. I appreciate it. I'll order your favorite pizza tonight."
"Sounds good," I told him.
I made my way to the elevator and hit the button to call the lift. Once it arrived, I smashed the #13 button, wondering, not for the first time, why the people who built this place didn't skip from 12 to 14 like every other building I knew about.
I stepped off of the elevator and headed to the end of the hall. Apartment #1 would have a lovely view of the building across the alley... Shit choice, if you asked me, but our building was just one more in a forest of structures this size, so nobody had a view that looked like any of the postcards of the city.
I knocked on the door and waited. I stood a little straighter as I heard footsteps coming. "Fuck," I thought, not for the first time, "these walls are paper thin!"
The door opened to reveal a tall, fit, brunette - with wet hair - wearing only a towel - which barely contained her good parts.
"Ms. Petrova?"
"Hi, uh, is it Danny?"
"Yes."
"What are you doing...?"
"My dad's the super. He's busy. He said you had a problem with a rod... a... uh... shower rod?"
Her smile - at my verbal fumbling - reminded me of why I had memorized her name the first time I'd seen her at school. She was a fucking goddess, and her smile made your heart hum.
She taught AP English, and I wasn't planning to go to college, so I hadn't taken her class. I had considered it - just to sit and stare at her during lectures - but there were other subjects that were more useful to my chosen career path - so those were the ones I'd taken.
My locker was close to her room and that gave me a couple chances a day to visually devour her exquisite form. More than a few of the soiled tissues that had ended up in the wastebasket in my room had been caused by thoughts of what I would love to do to her amazing body.
I don't know how long I stood there - mouth hanging open like a goldfish - but she waited until my eyes got back to her face again before replying.
"I appreciate you taking a look at it. The left side keeps losing its grip on the wall and falling - usually when I'm in the middle of a shower."
My brain immediately pictured her the way I had - just the night before - in my fantasy - completely and gloriously naked. I wondered how close my mental picture was to the real deal. I think she caught my glance as I passed her, headed towards the bathroom.
All of the single apartments were the same layout - so I knew right where I was going. I did not, however, expect to find a set of sexy black lingerie laying on the bathroom counter - waiting to be put on - under her regular clothes.
She ran into me as I stood, flummoxed, in the doorway, staring at her lacy bra and panty set.
"Oh!" she gasped, rebounding off of me. Then her eyes fell upon the problem. "Oops! Sorry about that!"
I stammered out something unintelligible and tried really hard to get my brain focused on the shower-rod before the lump in my trousers became a point of conversation.
I picked up the fallen curtain and set the rod into place, showering myself in droplets of water from the wet plastic sheet. The rod wouldn't stay put. I twisted the two halves - to see if I could get more tension from it - and tried it again. It stayed in place that time.
"Look only at her eyes," I told myself before turning to face her.
"I've extended it as much as it'll go. I'm hoping that will be enough. If it still causes problems, just call and dad will order you a new one. I think it's probably getting old and the tension's not what it used to be. Sorry it's causing you problems."
"I appreciate the quick response," she said.
"Yeah. I can't do lots of things, but I can handle the basics - so - when dad's busy - he sometimes asks me to handle the easier stuff - or at least determine what the situation is."
"You planning to work for him when you graduate? Aren't you a senior?"
I briefly wondered how she knew what grade I was in but said, "He always seems to complain that he needs more workers. I kind of like doing this stuff so, yeah, that was my plan when I graduate."
"Is that why you didn't take my class?" she asked. "Not planning to go to college?"
I'm not sure why I looked embarrassed, but I shrugged and blushed as I said, "I really wanted to take your class, but it didn't make much sense since I wasn't going to college."
"Why did you want to take my class then?" she asked, seeming genuinely curious.
"Fuck!" I thought. "My mouth's getting me into trouble again. Dad always says, 'Own it.' What could it hurt?"
"Honestly, Ms. Petrova? You're hot as fuck and I just wanted to sit in your class and stare at you."
Her jaw dropped.
I shuffled from foot to foot, waiting to be yelled at or told to leave.
Her eyes went from my own, traveling down my body, slowing at my waist, before descending to my feet.
"How old are you, Danny?"
"18," I replied.
"Could you do me a favor?"
"Yes."
"Could you wait here, while I finish my shower, to be sure that this rod stays in place? Just so that - you know - you don't have to make another trip back here if there's still a problem?"
"Sure," I said, relieved that she hadn't screamed at me.
"Hold this," she said, smiling, handing me her towel, before facing me - exposing her luscious body fully to my hungry eyes. She stepped into the tub, slid the curtain into place, and turned on the water.
God. Fucking. Damn! I was still trying to reevaluate what I had seen but I was pretty sure that she was even more gorgeous than I'd imagined. The curtain rod might be having problems staying in place but the rod in my pants was stiff enough to hold up two or three shower curtains.
I caught her peeking around the corner of the drape. She spotted my stiffy and giggled before going back to her shower.
I imagined her rubbing her hands over her naked body - the foamy soap obscuring her tantalizing bits - her fingers working the soap into a lather as they glided over her silky skin - the steamy water rinsing away the soap to reveal her glorious form.
I failed to hear the water turning off - or the curtain opening. I also failed to notice her standing there, staring at me, sporting a huge woody, as I daydreamed about what was happening on the other side of that curtain.
I looked up to see her smiling.
I started to hand her the towel and she raised her arms into the air and struck a pose before saying, "Did I get all of the soap off?"
My eyes slid down her body, devouring the visual buffet.
Somehow, there was a dollop of soap-foam just under the nipple of her right breast.
"There's uh..." I pointed.
She looked down and said, "Hmm. I guess I can't see it. Could you, uh, get it for me?"
My eyes shot up to hers. She was playing me - but I was enjoying the game - and she'd just slid all her chips into the middle of the table.
"Are you sure I should do that?"
She smiled. The heavens opened and a beam of golden light lit her visage. "Please."
I reached - so slowly - waiting for her to stop me - but praying she wouldn't.