The new neighbors were moving into the apartment next door. A moving van pulled up with the furniture and quickly unloaded it. There seemed to be an unlimited number of men with no necks quickly moving furniture up a flight of stairs to the apartment. Oh well I guess there goes the peace and quiet that I've had for the past month while the apartment next store has been empty. I knew it couldn't have lasted very long.
The first few days were fairly quiet. In fact I wasn't quite sure that the neighbors had actually moved in. The only thing that told me they had was that there were two new cars in the parking lot every morning.
The quiet though came to an end on a cool night near the end of spring. I came home from a sports bar, Henson's by name. I had been playing pool with a couple of friends of mine. Well I should say I was having my tail kicked by a couple of friends of mine. Anyway, when I pulled into the apartment parking lot there wasn't a place to be found. In fact there were a number of cars that had created their own spots on the grass and embankments around the lot. I drove down the street and still had trouble finding a spot. Finally I pulled into a side street and found a space.
I walked back to the apartment and all I could hear was a thump, thump of a stereo. There were people standing all over the second floor of the walk up that was open to the air. There was a long line coming out of the apartment that until just recently had been empty. This was a big party.
I slowly worked my way to my apartment door. I went in and closed the door behind me. I swear though that the sound hardly dampened a bit. The glass-framed prints on my walls were rattling quite loudly. This was going to be a long night. I turned on the television but no good. I couldn't hear a word said. As I was turning off the tube someone pounded on the door. Maybe they had been trying to get my attention for sometime.
I went to the door and opened it. Standing there was very sexy lady. She stood about five foot five and had some luscious hips as well as a very attractive face. All right so you noticed that I looked at her face last. Ok I'm a pig, and I admit it.
"Hello" I said when I finally got my act together and was able to talk. "Can I help you?" I hope she says yes.
She smiled a beautiful smile and said "yes, can I come in and use your bathroom? The line in there is at least an hour long and frankly I can't wait any longer."
I told her "sure please come in." I pointed towards the bathroom door and said "please feel free."
She touched my arm and came in walking very quickly to the bathroom. While she was in there I sat down on my couch and put my feet up waiting for her to come out. After a few minutes she came out looking very much relieved.
"Thank You very much. That was nice of you to let me use your bathroom," she said.
"No problem. I imagine the party is a full one. In fact I'm not sure I've seen a party this big in this apartment complex ever before."
"Well it is a big one. By the way my name is Mary and I'm one of your new neighbors" she told me as she stood over me.
I stood up trying to be courteous and said "welcome to the complex Mary. My name is Rick and I'm very pleased to meet you."
"Well I'm not sure you should be. In fact I think you should probably be a little upset with us having this big of a party." She smiled a moment and said "However, the party really isn't mine. It's my roommate's party. I just kind of go along with the whole thing."
"You're saying this isn't your party?" I asked.
"Yes, my roommate is a very popular person. Obviously there are a lot of people here. I would rather have my feet up reading a good book, but here I am."
I hear a chance here so I said to her "would you like to stay here for a while?"
"You wouldn't mind?" She looked at me with a little surprise.