Author's notation: I apologize if the first chapter was a bit anti-climactic with the way it ended. This one should be a little more engaging. Also, meant to put this out sooner, but again, funny what life throws at you.
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I sat back in my chair, breathing in a sigh. I was staring at the monitor of my computer, a blank, or rather empty, desktop being shown. My new hard drive came in and it was a chore trying to get it work. Sure, installing it into the computer was easy. Getting it up and running was the issue. Between finding out it was a blank drive with no operating system on it to installing the wrong system to having to wipe it again to finally get the right system on it, it mentally wore me out. But it was done. Finally.
Unfortunately, at this point, I was too drain to actually want to do anything else with it. Otherwise I would've started installing all my programs on it. But I wanted to do nothing else with it right now. In which case, I shut it off and laid down in my bed. In my state, I knew I wouldn't immediately sleep, but I needed a moment to just rest. My phone apparently disagreed with that as it went off, alerting me to a text coming in. I reached back over to the desk to retrieve it and see what was up. The message came from Sharon, my downstairs neighbor, asking me to come by for a chat. Guess I could use a distraction from the computer.
Downstairs, I knocked on Sharon's door. It was promptly answered, this time by Sharon herself instead of her pseudo-boyfriend Craig. At first I had thought she finally rid of him until I heard him tinkering in the closet next to the door. He said hi, but otherwise seemed indifferent about me being there. Despite this, Sharon led me to their living room. As she did so, I found myself oddly studying her. She was wearing a full length robe, probably to keep warm given her small size. A tank top with a pair of silk pajamas pants were underneath. She was barefoot, and her red hair looked a bit unkempt, almost like she just woke up. All of the clothes she had on looked maybe a size or two bigger than her.
We had a seat on the bed since there was nowhere else to sit. She proceeded to thank me for the loan I gave her a week ago, stating that it helped tremendously. She was able to give some to the landlady to keep her at bay until she could get her check from the government to pay the rest. Also, it kept her case from stalling so they wouldn't put a hold on her monthly checks. I smiled hearing this, glad that I was able to help her. She promised again that she would pay me as well once she got her check.
We then started shooting the breeze again, speaking on just odd stuff. From a freak snowstorm we had yesterday to an altercation that took place between Sharon and another neighbor in the house. Apparently this was a sore subject since she started to break down again upon talking about it. I eventually found that it wasn't so much the altercation itself more so than it being one more problem to add to list of problems she was having. It was depressing her and she hated it. Hated the fact that nothing was really going right for her at the time and that it seemed everyone was against her.
I put an arm around her, rubbing her shoulder softly as I held her. She ended up leaning over and burying her head in my chest as she started to cry. I shushed her, stroking the back of her head. I couldn't help but feel bad for her situation. Aside from the lack of help from her uncaring boyfriend, just the idea that she was struggling needlessly like this bothered me. I could easily relate to her situation since I had been in a similar one years ago. Hours being cut at work and my pay started to decrease, leading to being unable to do much after paying rent and such. I, however, didn't suffer from an internal injury or required any particular disability assistance. I did need supplemental aid to pay for food and was behind on my rent at the time. I did manage to catch up over time as things improved at work. I didn't have much help throughout that time for varying reasons, most of all being no one to rely on.
Call me a soft heart, but I didn't have it in me to deny this poor woman assistance since it seemed no one, including her own boyfriend, would. She hadn't ask for much over the past week. Maybe an excess of about $200 total, which I did have to spare for a little while. I'm sure it would've done her more good than it was currently doing me sitting in an account. At least she said it did her some good, which I was happy for. I sighed a little, holding Sharon against me as she cried softly. My guess was that she didn't want to alert Craig, who was still tinkering in the closet. His workshop, as I recall her mentioning. For what purpose, she never got that far to telling me and I didn't care. But for now, that's where he was, out of view from both of us and apparently out of earshot too.
Sharon pulled her head out from my chest for a moment to look over my shoulder towards their kitchen and where their door was. The closet was there as well. I couldn't tell what she was looking for as I too glanced behind myself as well. I saw nothing of interest. Craig was still hiding in the closet, there was nothing cooking on the stove, no water running in the sink, or anything in the microwave going. Nothing worth noting, but as I studied the area, I felt Sharon shifting under my arm. I then felt a hand starting to pull on my free wrist. I glanced back to see that Sharon now had a hold on my wrist and was pulling it closer to her. I asked what she was doing. She didn't answer as she kept her hold on my wrist while fidgeting with something on her. Eventually, she pulled my wrist over and placed my hand down the front of her pajama pants.
My eyes widened as I realized that my hand was now centimeters away from her base pussy under her pants and she was guiding my hand from above her pants to touch her. I started to pull back, reminding her that her boyfriend was only a few feet away in the closet. She pointed out that not only was Craig no longer her boyfriend, that didn't stop me on the train last time. I still protested, claiming that I did that for fun and for a thrill. She responded by stating how it would be a bigger thrill of being caught here since we didn't know when or if Craig would step out of the closet anytime soon. I wanted to argue, but the fact was my hand was still in her pants practically covering her moist pussy lips at this moment and I didn't feel myself pulling my hand out any further.