There were a couple of new guys in our building. They'd leased one of the top floor units. I'd seen them around from a distance and they looked like a couple of honeys to me. I had been idly wondering how I could go about meeting them.
Then along came Clare. My good friend, Clare, who knew all the gossip. Quite often before the victims of the gossip knew they'd done something to be gossiped about. Naturally I asked her what she knew about the two new tenants.
"You must mean Peter and Andrew," she said with a giggle. "Well, you know how they say that all the best men are either engaged, married or gay? Well, those two aren't engaged or married."
I blinked at that. Gay?
"You're saying that those two guys are gay?" I asked. "I don't believe it."
"Believe it, my child," said Clare. "They say they're brothers, which explains why they have the same surname, but I have never seen two brothers with such different appearances. I mean, just look at them. Peter is dark and almost twice the size of Andrew, and Andrew is as blond as they come. I know some girls who'd kill to have hair as blonde as his. And you should see that apartment. Someone has a real flair for decorating and housework."
"When did you see their apartment?" I demanded.
"Oh, I happened to have to deliver some groceries they'd ordered," Clare said airily.
"You bribed the delivery boy to let you do the delivery?"
"Something like that. I got most of the bribe back in the tip they gave me. Neither of them even blinked at me, and I was showing some decent cleavage. It was almost humiliating the way they could totally ignore me."
Seeing Clare was a 38D cup, when she showed cleavage she showed CLEAVAGE. Any male that failed to look was almost certainly fruitier than an orchard. What a waste of two fine men. Still, there were plenty of other fish in the see, and I possessed some very nice bait, if I do say so myself. I may not be a 38D, but I'm still pretty respectable in that area.
I put Peter and Andrew out of my mind and just got in with my life. Then they came back into my life rather unexpectedly. I got a phone call from them. From Peter, actually.
"Good afternoon, this is Peter Archer. Is this Sophia? I understand that if someone needs a baby-sitter, you're the person to talk to."
I acknowledged that I was Sophia and that, yes, I did do baby-sitting. I was frantically trying to remember who Peter Archer was when he enlightened me.
"You won't know me. My brother and I have recently moved into apartment 16D. I can give you a couple of references, if required."
That's when it twigged. The gay couple upstairs. What the hell were they doing with a child?
"Ah, I know who you are," I said. "I've seen you around and a couple of friends have mentioned you. I hadn't heard anything about you having a child, though?"
I let the question stand there. Just how come a gay couple had a kid?
"Not mine," Peter said. "She's my niece. We're looking after her for a couple of days while my sister is in hospital having her next one. But Andrew and I have appointments tomorrow that we'd rather not miss so we were hoping we could get a sitter for a few hours. You were recommended."
I didn't actually have any definite plans for the next day so after a discussion on terms and hours I agreed to watch Lucy while the boys went out.
I fronted up the next day about five and was introduced to Lucy. She was a cute little mite, about three years old. Peter stayed for about quarter of an hour to make sure Lucy and I got on alright and then he shot through. Andrew had gone ahead to confirm reservations or something.
So I looked after Lucy, and when dinner time rolled around I fossicked through the cupboards to find something fit for a child to eat. I knew it was a mistake but I finished up making her spaghetti. As anticipated she loved it, ate most of it and wore the rest.
Lucy was starting to wind down by then. I ran her a bath and dumped her in it, letting her play a little more. Why do kids like slipping back and forth along the tub? I know it's fun creating those sloshing waves but they can be a pain if they take you by surprise. I caught one full on the chest while I was bending over, soaking my blouse and bra.
I was just relieved that the men were still out. My blouse and bra turned transparent and I was showing everything. With Peter and Andrew not due back for a while I could have stripped off and hung my things up to dry but it was a warm day. I figured what the hell and decided to just let the blouse and bra dry off while wearing them.
I patted myself down to remove the excess water and then dried Lucy off and tossed her into bed. She snuggled down and listened while I read one of her story books to her and her eyes were closed before I was halfway through. All I had to do now was wait until Peter returned and I could go home.
Peter returned about an hour later. I was quite surprised as I thought he'd be out a lot longer. I was also surprised that Andrew didn't return with him, but what the hell, none of my business.
"How's she been?" Peter asked as soon as he walked in.
"No problems. Good as gold. She's asleep now."
"I see you gave her a bath," Peter said.
I looked puzzled for a moment and he nodded towards my blouse. I'd forgotten that it had got soaked. Glancing down I was appalled to find that it was still damp and still transparent. I started blushing and blushed even harder as my nipples reacted to the knowledge that a man was looking at them. Even if he was gay.
"You can't really go home like that," said Peter. "Why don't we just toss those in the drier for a short while?"
I was so busy kicking myself for not thinking of the drier earlier I didn't really notice that Peter was undoing the buttons on my blouse. He was actually peeling it off me by the time I started reacting and grabbed at it with a squawk. Peter just dismissed my maidenly modesty with a laugh.
"Don't be silly, sweetheart," he said. "I've seen women's breasts before. You really need to get these things dried. I can give you a t-shirt if you insist."
Somehow or other he spun me around and unhooked my bra and then just sauntered out to toss them in the drier, leaving me standing there red-faced and topless. He came back in a few moments with a t-shirt draped over his arm. He looked at me, standing there with my hands on my breasts and laughed at me again.
"Hand-bras just tend to draw attention to what they're trying to cover," he told me. He tossed the t-shirt onto the couch and then took my hands and pushed them down to my sides, tilting his head slightly as he looked at my breasts.
"Very nice," he told me. "Very nice indeed."
He lifted one hand and cupped one of my breasts. He wasn't mauling it or anything, just holding it as though weighing it. I was starting to get irritated.
"What is it with men and breasts?" I demanded, pushing his hand away. "I mean, even though you're gay, you still seem to get pleasure of looking at them and trying to touch them."
Peter looked startled. He had his hands at my waist which I didn't mind so much as at least he wasn't groping me.
"Gay?" he said. "What on earth makes you think I'm gay?"
"It's common knowledge," I said with a shrug. "Everyone has known since you and your boyfriend moved in."
"Ah, Andrew is my brother," Peter said quietly.
"Well, we know that's what you've been saying but it's obvious that he's not," I said with a superior little smirk. "He doesn't look anything like you. Yin and yang you might say."
"That'll be news to our mother," Peter said with his own little smirk. "Not only did she give birth to him but she did it on the same day she gave birth to me. You tend to remember things like that, I believe."
"You're trying to tell me he's your twin," I scoffed. I mean, really.
"Indeed he is. Fraternal, not identical. I look like our father while Peter looks like our mother. Twins for all that."
I said, "oh," in a very little voice. Then another thought struck me.
If Andrew was his brother then he probably wasn't gay. And I was standing there in front of him topless. Before I could say or do anything the situation changed. Instead of standing in front of him topless I was standing there naked. That's right. Stark, staring, naked.
Those hands that I'd thought were resting harmlessly on my waist had actually been undoing the catch on my skirt and sliding the zip down. Peter just slipped his thumbs into the waist band and pulled the skirt straight down, collecting my panties along the way.
Peter's hands latched onto my bottom and pulled me against him. One hand held me against him while the other one was pushing his own trousers down. All of a sudden I could feel his erection pressing against my tummy.
"Hold on," I protested. "What do you think you're doing? You can't just go grabbing me like this."
"I'm just showing you that I'm not gay," explained Peter, his hand cupping my breast again. He wasn't just holding it this time. He was deliberately playing with it and teasing it. And his hand was rubbing my bottom in a most suggestive way.
"Alright, I believe you," I gabbled quickly. "Now let me go."