Connie and I woke to the sounds of chirping birds and a woodpecker drumming on a nearby tree. Sunlight poured in through the open window, illuminating the carnage of a great party the night before. Empty glasses and beer bottles on the shelves and dresser, a spilled glass in a puddle in the corner, and a woman's under garments β Kathy's I'd guess β trampled and dirty near the foot of the bed. Huddled under a down comforter our bodies were warmly intermingled, but the room was chilly.
"How's my Connie this morning?" I said quietly.
"Wonderful," she said, moving her head onto my chest.
"It's cold," I said. "I'm not used to not having a furnace. I forgot to fill the woodstove last night."
"This feels plenty warm," she said as her soft hand gently stroked my 'morning wood.' She rolled onto me and we fucked ever so slowly to quietly beautiful orgasms.
"What a nice way to start the day," I said. Connie just moaned a little as she lay on top of me, still full of my slowly shrinking cock.
BANG BANG BANG β a loud pounding at the front door startled us and Connie rolled off of me.
"What the fuck!" I said quietly, and I sat up and scanned the room for some pants to put on. "Coming!" I yelled as I found a pair of shorts and made my way to the door. By the time I opened it there was no one to be seen. A folded piece of paper was laying on the front steps. It read:
Way too loud last night.
We don't come out here to listen to screaming whores.
Lucky didn't call police.
"Hey Connie? What do you know about the neighbors?" I said as I walked back in and handed it to her.
"Oh my," she said with a chuckle. "Screaming whores. I guess I'm one of them." She laughed harder and I joined in.
"Stop it Connie, this is serious," I said, stifling my laugh.
"Well, let's see. There's nobody across the river β that's state land. It's part of a park, and it's supposed to be closed at sundown anyway. To the left is an elderly man's place, but he's been in a nursing home for a few years and it sits unused as far as I know. And to the right is a young couple... well, young to me, and they've got two young girls β I guess they'd be well into their teens now. I suppose it's from them," she said, handing me back the note.
"So what are they like?" I asked. "Do you know them well?"
"No, we didn't have too much contact with them," she said. "They stopped by the dock a few times in their canoe to say hello, but John and I weren't here that much β just a few hours to fish and we'd go back home. Whenever we talked they seemed very nice."
"So they're not rednecks with guns that are gonna to shoot me when I go over to talk to them about this?" I said.
"Oh no, not if they're the same people. They were nice. He was Swedish I think, and they're all very blonde," she said. "You can cut through the woods right over there," she said, gesturing through the window. "You see? There's a little trail there, near the water."
"Jeez, so there might have been teenage girls in the woods listening to us last night? That's not good..." I said, shaking my head.
"They may be grown and off to college by now. I'm not sure..." Connie said.
"OK, well, I better get myself cleaned up and go over there," I said. "I think I'll drive over, and try and look respectable."
"You know, with all that screaming on the dock last night we were probably heard farther away than next door," Connie said.
"Oh man, this is bad," I said, shaking my head. "So there was noise from the dock too?"
"Oh my yes," Connie said. "Between Kathy loosing her mind in the bedroom β which was mostly at your hands as I recall β and whoever was out in the gazebo..."
"That was Mary and Ron," I said. "I guess I didn't hear them because I was in here with Kath."
"I know! It was hard to hear anything over Kathy. Good God, that girl..." Connie said, laughing and shaking her head. "And Penny's got some lungs on her when she gets going. She was on the porch I think. It was pretty wild here for while. A veritable cacophony of screaming whores."
Connie cracked herself up laughing with her own flowery language, and I laughed too, but I was upset with myself for letting things get to the point where I had angry neighbors to deal with. I've never liked confrontation. I took a shower, dressed myself decent, and drove next door.
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The neighbor place was a typical summer camp, rustic but well kept. Three cars were in the driveway, and I was wishing I had their phone number so I could avoid an awkward confrontation with a house full of people. The door was on a side deck that wrapped around the river side, so I walked up the steps and knocked, holding the note they had left in my sweaty hand.
"Can I help you?" a woman asked as she walked around the corner of the deck. She was in her early forties and wearing a bikini top with a wrap around her waist.
"Oh, hi," I said nervously. "I'm Steve Mills. Your new neighbor." I held up the note to show her.
"Oh Jesus," she said. I couldn't tell if she was shocked or angry. "This wasn't my best work," she said, taking the piece of paper from my hand.
"Look, I owe you a huge apology," I said. "I really screwed up last night. I guess because I can't see you folks from over there... it just never crossed my mind. I'm so sorry. I've spent my whole life trying to be considerate of others, and I... I really dropped the ball last night."
"Look, I'm not a prude," she said. "The main thing is my girls. They..." She stopped and looked at the open window next to us. "Can we talk down there?" She gestured to some chairs by the water, and we walked down.
"Like I said, I'm not a prude, at least I hope I'm not, but I've got two daughters in college, and they're both here for the weekend. They'll be here a lot this summer. Now I'm not stupid, I know they're sexually active, but what you had going on there last night was... I mean if you had daughters..."
"I know just what you're saying. I understand completely. I must say I'm impressed with how you're calmly dealing with this. If I was you I'd probably be beating me over the head with a shovel," I said.
"I was close to that last night believe me," she said. "And first thing this morning I was fuming pretty good. Laying quietly in the sunshine helped." She paused and shook her head. "What the fuck were you doin' over there... I've never seen anything like it."