Part 13
Tim was struggling to edge himself forward, farther into the bathroom window, when he heard a dog bark from the yard somewhere behind him, alongside his apartment.
He froze, painfully aware of his precarious situation.
His upper chest and head were inside the bathroom, with both arms extended out in front of him, but the entire rest of his body -- naked except for his shoes and socks -- was outside the building, exposed to the warm evening air.
Almost as soon as he'd heard the dog bark, he heard a gasp, and then a female voice. "What the-- What are you doing?!"
"Shit!" he whispered to himself. He stayed still, unable to think of what to say or do.
"I'm calling the cops!" the voice said, and ended his paralysis.
"No, don't," Tim called. He cocked his head to his left, trying to look back out into the yard behind him. He could see a narrow slice of the darkened yard, but nothing else.
"I will," the voice insisted. "You're breaking in, and I'm calling the cops!"
"No, no," Tim said, trying to speak loudly enough for the mystery female to hear him, but not so loud that any of the neighbors would hear. "I live here."
After a moment of quiet, the voice said, "You do not."
"I do," Tim said. "This is my apartment!"
Another silent moment. "Tim?"
Tim dropped his head for a second. "Shit!" Then, louder, he said, "Yes. Who are you?"
As he looked back over his shoulder, he saw a face come into his field of view. Oh no!
"It's Mary," the woman said.
His neighbor Mary! She was very pretty, and a few years older than him. She was one of the first neighbors he had met when he first moved in. She had gotten a divorce and moved into the house next door about six months before he moved into his apartment.
"Mary. Um... hi."
"Tim, what on earth? Why are you breaking into your own apartment?" He saw her looking at him, wide-eyed in surprise. Then she ran her eyes up and down his body, and began to smile. "And why are you naked?"
Tim groaned. "It's a long story."
Maria grinned at him. "I've got time."
Tim dropped his head. Could this get any worse? Mary was definitely the neighbor he would have least wanted to discover him like this. He had started getting to know her pretty well, and they had struck up a bit of a flirtatious friendship. She was an attractive brunette with an easy smile, and he'd been planning to make the first move and ask her out before things had gotten so hectic at work.
"I've got to hear this story," Mary said, breaking his train of thought. "But let me take Doug back in the house, and come right back." (She'd named her dog "Doug," which he had kidded her about many times.)
"You don't have to--" Tim started, but he looked back and thought he saw Mary looking at his bare ass. Then her eyes dropped a little, and--
Damn! His window's height left him dangling just a little above shoulder-height to anyone standing on his lawn, which meant that his dick was right there for her to see. Somehow this humiliating situation, along with Mary's smiling appraisal of him, had brought back Tim's erection.
What was wrong with him?
Mary raised her eyes to his and her smile got wider. She didn't look the least bit embarrassed that he'd caught her ogling him, and why should she? She wasn't the one trapped naked, half-hanging out of her house!
She said, "Don't go anywhere," and then snickered. She turned away and was gone.
"Shit!" Tim said to himself.
Across the street, Ellen, Maria and Stephanie had watched Mary's discovery of poor naked Tim with surprise, and then amusement. Ellen and Marie began to giggle, but Stephanie shushed them, straining to hear what Tim and the mystery woman were saying.
Because Mary was outside and closer to them, they heard everything she said, but only half of Tim's nervous replies. Still, the gist of the conversation was easily understood: the woman was delighted to find her hunky, naked neighbor stuck in his window, and Tim was mortified to have yet another female witness to his unintentional exposure.
They continued watching until the woman told the helpless Tim not to go anywhere -- the girls liked her already! -- and then scampered back to her yard and then into her house, pulling her dog along with her.
"That poor guy," Ellen said, when Mary had gone back into her house. "He streaks all the way home without being caught, only to be found by his cute neighbor!"
"I know," Maria snickered, "he can't catch a break, or keep his pants on!"
Ellen laughed softly. "Should we go over there and meet her, and torment unlucky, vulnerable Tim together?"
Stephanie said, "No, let's wait and see what happens before we join the fun. I'm sure that she's not going to stay--"
Just then Mary's front door opened and she came back out. Her dog was not with her this time, and after a quick look up and down the street, Mary trotted back toward Tim's building. The girls could see her wide smile even in this low light.
Tim heard footsteps in the grass behind him, then looked back and saw Mary re-appear at his side. She was breathing heavily after her quick jog and looked a little flushed in the face.
"Okay, where were we?" Mary smiled at him, her eyes once again moving up and down his naked body. "I think you were about to explain to me why you have been running around our nice, quiet neighborhood in your birthday suit!"
"Can you just help me get inside first?" Tim pleaded.
"I'd be happy to help you, but I need to hear your story first. For all I know you might be some kind of sex predator, and the moment I helped you get unstuck, you might attack me." The light tone of her voice made it clear that her words weren't serious.
"Oh come on," Tim said, exasperated. He looked back down over his shoulder at her. "I'm hardly in a position to do any harm to you!"
Mary's eyes danced from his lower back, down over his exposed butt and legs, and then back up again. "Well you're certainly not carrying any weapons," she snickered. Then she leaned her head forward to take a peek at Tim's erection, which was almost touching the side of the house. "Oooh, I might have spoken too soon," Mary teased.
Tim groaned. "You're hilarious."
Mary smiled. "Flattery will get you nowhere. Now let's hear it."
Mary and Tim were both unaware of the three giggling females hiding across the street. "She's really giving it to him," Stephanie said. "But I can barely hear what he's saying."
"Let's get closer," Maria whispered.
