We'd been living in our apartment for about 6 years when something happened that I couldn't possibly have ever foreseen.
We got a hot neighbor.
Don't get me wrong. Our neighbors, up to this point, have been just fine and have been blissfully drama-free and quiet. Every man, however, wants a neighbor who suns themselves topless or walks their dog without a bra or somehow showers in front of a floor-to-ceiling window. While I can't say that any of these things happen, I can say that the most incredible redhead DID move in just down the hall from us.
Saoirse, a graduate student who was 24 years old moved in during one particularly cold winter. Standing at 4'11" she was beautifully curved, with great hips, a firm, full ass, and C-cup breasts that looked like they were in no need of support. She had curly red hair that came just past her shoulders, pale, creamy skin, and freckles for days. I was in lust.
I first ran into her a few days after she moved in. She had just come home from grocery shopping and had a pile of bags at the bottom of the stairs that she was shuttling up in several trips. When I saw this, I immediately grabbed as many bags as I could carry and joined her. She was very grateful and thanked me several times. I introduced myself and she did the same. There wasn't much to tell about me. I was a career manager, 5'9" and of average build. I was bald with a goatee and, while I didn't think I was unattractive, no one was slipping me their number when I would go out.
I was also married. We'd been married for over ten years and we really had a great relationship. We got along extremely well and had a good split of responsibilities within our home. We both worked and both supported each other fully in whatever the other did. The one thing that was absent in our marriage was intimacy. Somewhere along the line, my wife had just become disinterested in sex of any kind and it slowly began to fade until it was gone entirely from our relationship. I knew that it was a case of her just not being interested...that she wasn't stepping out on me. She similarly knew that I still had a sexual personality. As such, we developed a basic "don't ask, don't tell" philosophy. I never brought anything home with me, be it drama, baggage or disease and she didn't have anything to question as long as I was keeping up my end of the relationship and associated responsibilities.
So...back to Saoirse.
I could occasionally run into her at the mailboxes or be able to help her with packages / groceries when I saw her struggling.
It was the week of the Super Bowl when I ran into her with a few boxes from IKEA. She was standing at the bottom of the stairs and clearly wondering how she was going to get these things, as big as she was, up to her apartment. I crossed my arms and said "Why didn't you just come knock on our door? How long have you been standing here trying to figure this out?" She laughed and said "About fifteen minutes. And I didn't want to bother you." I laughed at her response and grabbed the first box, hefting it up the stairs. After a few minutes, we'd successfully navigate all of the parts and pieces into her apartment. We were making some small talk in the process and she asked if I had plans for the big game. I said that I didn't and I would probably just watch by myself at home as my wife wasn't interested in it at all.
"Oh, well, I didn't make any plans either and I don't really have friends in the area yet. Why don't you come over and we'll watch together? I can make some appetizers for us and we can just hang out. It's the least I can do for all of the help you've given me!"
I agreed that it would be nice to watch with someone else. She asked if my wife would mind me coming over to watch with her. I said that I was sure she'd be fine with it but that, of course, I would run it by her to be sure. We made tentative plans for a time on Sunday and parted ways.
As I told my wife about the day's events and my invitation to Saoirse's place, she just smirked and shook her head at me. "What?" I asked. "A freckled, Irish redhead. I know what you'll be watching and it won't be football." She laughed and I laughed her off. She clearly didn't mind.
And she was clearly right about what I was interested in seeing at Saoirse's and it definitely wasn't the fucking game.
Sunday came and I wandered over to her apartment at the agreed upon time. When I knocked, I heard "Come in!" from inside and let myself in. I wasn't ready for what I saw. She greeted me with a cheerful "Hey! How are you?" as she cut up some cheese and meats for a charcuterie board. What I wasn't ready for was her outfit. She was wearing an oversized t-shirt. Her hair was in a high pony tail. She had no pants or shorts or even a skirt on. The shirt barely came down enough to cover her perfect ass and I could see just enough to suspect that she was wearing a thong...that is, if she was wearing any underwear at all. The other thing was that she didn't have a bra on. That was quite clear from the fact that her nipples were very hard when I walked in. Despite my trying to be discrete, she noticed my inspection of her clothes and smiled. "Ya gotta be comfortable watching football! I hope you don't mind."
Mind? No. I definitely didn't mind.
We grabbed some food and sat down, her on the loveseat and myself on the couch, to watch some of the pregame action. As we both munched, we started talking about our lives more and getting to know each other better. She was originally from Ireland and her family had moved to the states when she was two years old. They'd moved around quite a bit for her father's job and she moved to this area specifically for school. She was several hundred miles from her family and was feeling the separation quite a bit, having done her undergrad close enough to home that she lived there the entire four years. We commiserated as I was in a similar situation, having moved far from my entire family to relocate for work.
At some point, she got up to grab each of us another drink from the kitchen. She dropped her napkin when she got up, having forgotten that it was on her lap. When she bent over to pick it up, I happily learned two things. The first was that she was, indeed, wearing underwear. The second was that, I'm happy to report, she was wearing a thong. What I saw of her pale, perfect ass was nothing short of glorious and I shifted in my seat in an attempt to prevent showing just how much I appreciated the view.