It was a nice sunny day and I was getting myself a little sunshine, working on my tan. My backyard had a nice lawn, bordered by garden beds that were currently in full bloom. Those gardens were my husband's pride and joy, after me of course. Personally, while I enjoyed looking at the flowers I loathed the actual gardening. All those insect and spiders and grubbing in the dirt. Ick.
Anyway, I'm getting off the subject. As I said I was relaxing on a towel, sunbathing, clad in a tasteful bikini. I'd like to have tanned nude but what if someone came? I had pushed my shoulder straps off, not wanting tan lines showing from them. Perhaps I should call them non-tan lines.
So I was nice and relaxed when there was a yell from next door.
"Get back here you rotten rodent," a voice bellowed.
This outcry was followed by a man vaulting over the fence and landing in the garden. Blinking and looking at him I could see he was carrying a cage. Now I was quite sure that he didn't just jump over a six foot fence. However the railings were on his side so I guess he used those to assist him. He saw me looking at him with some surprise and waved.
"Hi, Valerie. Sorry for the sudden intrusion. I'm looking after my niece's rotten rat for the day and it got loose and slipped under the fence. I'll catch him and be gone in a minute."
At the word rat I was on my feet, watching the garden nervously. I so did not want a rat running around my yard. What if he got into a drainpipe and climbed up? I could finish up with a rat in the roof.
"You get that thing out of here!" I yelled.
My neighbour, Mike by name, glanced at me, saying, "Don't worry. It's all under control." Then he paused and looked a little harder at me. I guess he liked what he saw, me in a bikini. Typically lecherous man.
At the same time I was thinking that last I was also thinking he was hot, a very nice hunk of man meat. Not that I intended doing anything about it. What I didn't realise was that when I stood up the shoulder straps that I'd pushed off my shoulders had dropped lower on my arms, dragging on my bikini. Not to the extent that I was fully exposed but I was certainly showing more than I'd intended.
Mike suddenly pounced on something in the garden and then I saw him stuffing that something in his cage.
"I'll push off now," he said. "I'm not jumping the fence again so I'll let myself out the front."
I was nodding but something had caught my attention.
"Um, Mike, that's not a rat. It's a rabbit."
"Don't be deceived," he said, shaking his head. "This is a rare magical rat. It's just pretending to be a rabbit so you'll take him out of his cage and pet him. As soon as he does that, bang! He's a rat again. You scream and drop him and he's free and heading for the hills. A more treacherous rodent you'll never find."
"A magical rat, uh? Never heard of that species before."
"Understandable. He's one of a kind and one too many if you ask me."