For some reason I'd wandered into my bedroom at about ten o'clock one night. I'd flicked on the light as I went it and it flashed and promptly went out again. Blown globe. Not bothering to get a fresh globe straight away I strolled over to turn on the bedside lamp. Before I reached the lamp I had to pass in front of the window and some movement outside caught my eye, so I naturally turned my head to look.
The house next to mine was painted white, so the young lad who appeared to be dressed in black showed up quite distinctly. If that house was similar to mine, and it was, then the lad was peeping through a bedroom window. This supposition was emphasized by the fact that the lights were on and there was a strip of light about a foot high showing at the bottom of the window. Someone had been a little careless in pulling down the shades. From a distance it wouldn't matter. With your nose pressed up against the window that was another matter entirely.
I quietly strolled over to the house next door, considering what I knew of the inhabitants as I did so. They were Denise and Rob, a young married couple, who were newcomers to the area. They were both in their early twenties, Denise being a couple of years younger than Rob by my guess. Him I hadn't particularly noticed. Her, I had. She was blonde and I'm quite sure her hair would reach down to her waist if she let it loose. A lovely figure and a face to match. Not someone that I would kick out of my bed if I found her there for any reason. Not that that was likely to happen.
"Whatcha lookin' at, kid?" I asked, my hand closing around the back of his neck as I did so. He wasn't going anywhere until I released him. He let out a rather girlish squeak that surprised me and froze. Me, I bent my head to see what he found so fascinating and for the life of me I couldn't fault his taste. Denise was standing there, starkers, facing a full length mirror, while she brushed her hair. Hair which did reach down to her waist, as I had estimated. The way she was standing I had both a full frontal and a rear view, everything on display at the same time. To improve the view her lovely breasts would do an enticing bounce each time she wielded that brush. Absolutely lovely, but I forced myself to tear my eyes away.
"So, kid, want me to rap on the window and fetch Denise over?" I asked.
"Oh, god, no, you wouldn't. Please don't," she pleaded.
It seemed I'd caught a female peeper, not a male one.
"Ah, then maybe you'd rather I knocked on the door and spoke to Rob?"
That suggestion seemed to be just as bad.
"This is just a guess, but would I be right in saying you don't want me to take you home and speak to your mother?"
There was enough light to let me see the look of absolute horror that crossed her face.
"That's what I thought. In that case you can come home with me, young lady, and explain exactly what you thought you were playing at."
"What, now?"
"Yes, Megan, now. Trust me, I'm probably your best choice to explaining yourself. Now move it."
I turned and headed back home, Megan dutifully trotting alongside. I won't say she was happy about it but I guess she knew the alternatives could be worse.
I was, quite frankly, a little puzzled. It was behaviour that didn't seem anything like her. She'd always struck me as a rather quiet type so what had pushed her to peeping?
As soon as we were inside she turned to me.
"It wasn't my idea," She said. "Denise suggested it."
The first I could well believe. The second was a bit harder.
"Denise suggested that you play peeping Tom at her window?" I asked, my disbelief evident.
"Yes," she insisted, practically bouncing on the spot and flapping her hands about. "She did. Honestly."
She took a deep breath that did some interesting things to her bust line. It suddenly registered with me that young Megan wasn't all that young anymore and had developed quite nicely.
"I suppose I'd better explain from the beginning," she muttered. "You know I turned eighteen a few weeks ago?"
"I didn't, but happy birthday, and what does that have to do with things?"
"Sex, of course," she said in a tone that suggested that this should be obvious. "My boyfriend is pushing for me to have sex with him but I don't really know much about the practicalities of it. The sex education you get at school is clinical and useless. You know my mother. If I try to discuss this sort of thing with her she'd have a heart attack and lock me in my room until she found me a husband."
I was prepared to admit that she had a point about her mother.
"Even so," I said, "peeping?"
"I'm getting to that," she insisted. "I know Denise. I've known her for a while, even before they moved here. I thought that as she's married she could give me some advice. The trouble is she's a little scatter-brained at times and what she was saying was just confusing me. She saw that and she suddenly said, 'Why not watch and see how it's done?'"
"I'm like, oh yeah, I'm going to watch porn at my place. My computer and TV would both be confiscated and I'd be grounded for years."
"Well, Denise just laughed and said not porn. Porn is too artificial. You need to watch a real couple having sex. That's probably the best way to learn. I'm like, are you crazy? She says don't worry it'll be easy to arrange. Rob jumps me every night. We'll go to bed about ten o'clock tonight. I'll leave the bedroom lights on and I won't quite close the shades. You can stand outside and you'll be able to see everything."
Did she say Denise was a bit scatter-brained? Idiot, grade one, was my classification for her.
"She's an idiot and you're an idiot for listening to her," I snapped.
"I didn't at first but she kept on about it. She said it would be fun. That she'd get a kick out of knowing I was watching. Eventually I said OK, because it would help me learn what I needed to know, after all."
I took a big breath.
"Did you stop to think of the possible consequences?" I asked. "Apparently not or I wouldn't have caught you."
"How did you catch me, anyway? How did you know I was there?"
"Dressed in black standing against a white background in bright moonlight," I said sardonically. "A bit hard to miss seeing you. A casual glance through my window and there you were, large as life and twice as stupid."
She bridled a bit at the stupid comment but I didn't give her a chance to complain. I started in on her.
"What would you have done if Denise had tipped of Rob that you were watching? Instead of putting on a performance he might have run outside and dragged you in and given you a personal demonstration of his sexual abilities."
"She wouldn't," protested Megan.
"So you're saying she's not a bit scatter-brained at times? She might have found it amusing. Even if she didn't tell him how do you know he wouldn't have seen your cute little nose pressed up against the window and gone out to investigate, with the same outcome?"