"WHY WON'T YOU FUCK ME?!?"
"I JUST WANT SOME SLEEP!"
"Not again," I grumbled as I rolled over to lie on my back.
As I stared at the ceiling, hoping to fall back asleep, I listened to the familiar sounds of my neighbors having their marital issues. It really sucked to be awake at 3 AM on a Thursday, especially when you have to wake up in about 3 hours, but that's the price you pay when you live in a duplex, especially one with very thin walls. Still, I guess it's better than living with my folks.
At 25 years old, I had landed a good job doing tech support at an accounting firm. The pay was decent enough for me to get my first place. This duplex was about half an hour from where I worked, and fit well into my budget.
But, right now, I was missing my sleep. I hadn't had a good night's sleep in the last 2 months. When I moved in 6 months ago, the unit next to me was empty. However, that was before the Turners moved in.
I never saw them that much since they moved in; occasionally, I would pass them by on the way to the mailbox, or when I put the trash out, but they pretty much kept to themselves. I kept expecting either one of them to come over and apologize for the noises they made. Lots of times I thought about calling the landlord, only to remember how much of a chickenshit I was.
After hearing the slam of a door, I was blessed with complete silence.
The next day, after getting home from work, I walked out to the mailbox. On the way there, I noticed one of the Turners pulling into their driveway in a black Pontiac Grand Am coupe. Out of the car came Sylvia Turner, the wife.
"Hey, neighbor," I said with a smile and a wave.
"Hey," she replied with thin smile.
As I got the mail, I watched my neighbor grab her backpack out of her car and head towards the house. All the while, I kept wondering why her husband wouldn't want to have sex with her. Sure she wasn't exactly hot, but she had her appeal, especially to a guy like me who hadn't been laid since Obama was first elected.
Behind her rectangular geek glasses, she had tiny, watery eyes. Her face didn't have many other notable features, just pretty pink lips that helped conceal her somewhat prominent upper front teeth, and a pointy, upturned nose that reminded me of the Whos from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Atop her head was a nest of dark brown hair arranged in a pixie cut.
But, her body was an entirely different story.
She had been blessed with curvy, child-bearing hips, accentuated by the jeans that she wore. But, the feature that would always immediately grab my attention was her chest. Underneath her drab t-shirt, she had been gifted with a pair of enormous, wobbling breasts that I liked to call "mom tits". The few times I had seen her, those babies would jostle around her shirt like two giant water balloons under a bedsheet. I definitely had a type; I would take mom tits over those fake silicone porn star tits any damn day.
Later that night, I ran into Sylvia's husband, Andrew, while I took out the trash. Andrew was a thin, yet muscular guy, with a mop of black hair and a shaggy mustache and beard. He pulled into the driveway in his pickup truck at around 11 PM, shooting me a friendly "Hey, buddy" before he ventured into his house. When I got back inside, I thought for sure that I would hear them arguing right away. Unfortunately for me, they started a bit after midnight.
"Dammit, Sylvia will you just come to bed?!?"
"No! Not unless you want me."
"I do want you! I want to sleep with you!"
"YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!"
"SHIT, SYLVIA! I'M NOT A MACHINE! I HAD A ROUGH DAY AT WORK! CAN'T A MAN COME HOME, EAT, WATCH SOME FUCKIN' TV, AND THEN GO TO BED WITHOUT HIS WIFE HOUNDING HIM?!?"
"I WOULDN'T HAVE TO HOUND YOU IF WE DIDN'T HAVE SEX ONLY TWICE EVERY FUCKING WEEK!"
I continued to lie there, hearing the verbal tennis going on between my dysfunctional neighbors. Maybe I should get some water...or watch reruns of The Twilight Zone...or go on my laptop to buy some noise-cancelling headphones. Heaving a sigh, I decided on my first choice and prepared to go get some water.
"WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?" I heard Sylvia roar. "MAYBE YOU'D LIKE IT IF I WENT AND FUCKED SOMEBODY ELSE!"
"BE MY FUCKING GUEST, BITCH!" Andrew retorted.
"FINE! I SWEAR, THE NEXT GUY I CROSS, I'M GONNA FUCK HIM SILLY!"
This argument, like the others before it, ended with the slam of a door. I sat on the edge of the bed, my slightly erect dick poking out of the front of my boxers. I guess part of me was hoping that Sylvia would run next door and ask me to help her make good on her threat. I remained seated for a few more suspense-filled minutes before I got up and headed to the kitchen. I was almost tempted to grab a cold shower in addition to my cold drink.
In the days that followed, my mind kept playing random scenarios where Sylvia and I would meet, and I would ravish her; it made for some very interesting wet dreams, to say the least. All of them progressed like the typical cheesy porn plot: the sexy neighbor coming to ask for some sugar, the sex-starved wife running into me at the supermarket, or the lonely housewife that needed help unclogging a drain while she was only covered with a bath towel. Sadly, those things never came to play.
A few weeks after that, I had forgotten that oh-so-special dialogue, as it had been followed by several other loud arguments. If I had been as brave and forceful as I was in my head, I would have marched over to her side of the duplex, kicked the door in, and ravished her myself. I'm sure that would have given us all a chance for a good night's sleep.
It was until a random Saturday afternoon that I received a knock on my door. I got up from my couch, turned off the television, and swiftly peeked through the eyehole to see Sylvia Turner standing in front of my door, wearing a drab brown T-shirt and some red basketball shorts. I quickly opened the door, to find her standing with her arms folded and a perturbed expression on her face. I began to wonder if she was going to file some kind of neighborly complaint. Had I set the volume on my TV too loud?
"Hey, I um," she began. "You're good with computers, right?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Listen, I hate to bother you, but, I'm in the middle of writing an essay, and I think I picked up a virus or something. I've tried everything to get it off, but nothing's working. I've been working on this thing for weeks and..."I watched as a few tears began to slide down her face.
"I-I'll take a look," I said. "I just need to grab some stuff first."
"Okay," she sniffled.
I ran to my room, whilst in my head thanking whichever god responsible for this opportunity. After grabbing a few flash drives, I met back with Sylvia at the front door and we walked over to her side of the duplex. I was surprised at how nice their house was; the walls were adorned with photos of her and her husband, as well as various relatives. For some strange reason, I had always imagined the inside of their home to be some messy place littered with cigarette butts and food cartons. So far, that was two surprises.
"It's back here," she said.