Dave and I were standing around at work shooting the breeze when the topic changed to our current living arrangements. We both hated where we lived. He lived with his brother, and I had a small apartment in a bad neighborhood.
"You know," he said. "If we moved in together we could find a nice two bedroom apartment in a good area."
It sounded good to me right away. "I like it! What area are you thinking about?"
"Well, ya know, a friend of my brothers' lives in a great apartment complex near the college. Has a weight room, sauna, hot tub and a swimming pool. It'd be perfect! And, the place is crawling with horny college babes! You interested?"
"Yeah, it sounds like a fun place."
We agreed to take a look at it after work.
I wasn't excited at the prospect of having a roommate, but most of the time we worked different schedules; we wouldn't see that much of each other anyway. And I really wanted to get out of where I was at now.
So after work I followed him in my car. When we arrived, I saw it was a nice place, but I worried I couldn't afford it. It looked too nice.
We found someone who showed us around. There was one vacancy on the 2nd floor of Building 1.
When the landlord let us in the apartment, Dave whistled and said: "Wow! This is great!"
I was quiet. It was very nice, but probably out of my price range.
He told us the rent. Dave said: "That's not bad! What do you think, John?"
I felt a little depressed. It was more than I figured I could spend. I mentioned it to Dave.
"Nah, c'mon, that's pretty good for this area. I doubt if we could find anything better around here."
The landlord agreed with Dave. "This is a great bargain this close to the college," he said. "Here, I'll show you around."
We walked around the grounds and viewed all the amenities. We came to the swimming pool last.
Nice pool, I thought. So secluded. Far enough from the building to be private and there was a thick grove of trees behind it, and to each side.
Not that it mattered much to me anyway. I couldn't swim. It just looked like a nice place to hang out.
We heard some noise from the pool area. There were two pretty girls and a guy splashing and having fun in the pool. As we turned to leave, the guy climbed out of the pool. I did a double-take. Now I'm not gay or anything, but even I had to admit the guy looked good. Muscular and handsome. with a hard, tanned body. I surprised myself when I checked him out.
Dave tried hard to sell me on the place. Nothing worked until he mentioned that it was probably 10 minutes closer to work.
"Actually, it's 15 minutes closer," I said.
"There you go! 15 minutes times 5 -- you'll save two-and-a-half hours of driving every week!"
I didn't mind the driving, but it would save me a lot of gas. My old clunker guzzled gas, and as much as gas costs these days it might be worth it.
"Sold!" I said with a smile on my face.
We followed the landlord and signed a lease.
I gave two-week's notice to the guy at my place. I was getting excited: we were going to move into a nice apartment, and maybe there were a lot of horny college girls living there.
When the time came the move went off perfectly. We took some of my old furniture, and we bought a couple of small things. And, with every load we carried into the apartment, we saw more and more pretty girls. Life was definitely getting better!
We made a grocery list and I went shopping. When I got home, I thought I could carry all four bags in one trip. I struggled up the stairs and fumbled for my keys at the door. One of the bags got away from me, but out of nowhere, some guy came up behind me and saved it from falling.
"Jeez, thanks," I said without looking at him. I opened the door and put the groceries inside.
"Oh, so you're my new neighbor," he said.
I finally looked at him. My heart skipped a beat -- it was the guy we saw at the pool that day.
"My name is Tony, I live right here," he said, and pointed to the door directly across from ours.
We shook hands: "Ah...ah, I'm John," I stammered as my face turned red.
What the hell is wrong with me? I wondered.
"Welcome to the building, John, I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of each other," he said, then turned and opened his door and disappeared inside.
"Yeah, ah, nice to meet you, Tony," I called out to him.
Dave fixed us dinner and it was very good. He said he was a good cook and he was right. Hell, I had trouble boiling water.
A short time after dinner he announced he was going for a swim. He asked if I wanted to go along. My first instinct was to say 'no', I don't swim, but I thought about it and decided I'd go sit by the pool and look at the 'scenery'. The landlord had said that canned beer was allowed so we each brought one with us.
Dave wore his swimming trunks; I didn't have any, so I wore my navy blue gym shorts and a t-shirt.
There were seven other people there, but no Tony. I felt strangely relieved. We found a couple of chairs. I sat down while Dave put his things on a chair then jumped into the pool.
There were three scantily clad young ladies and four other guys. The women were hot! I tried hard to get a good look without being noticed.
Then I saw the door to the building open, and out walked Tony. I felt my blood pressure rise. I had to admit he did look fantastic! I imagined he had no difficulties getting laid around here.
He sat across the pool from me. He saw me and waved; I waved back. He greeted the others, they obviously knew one another. He dove into the pool and swam for about 10 minutes. After he climbed out and dried himself off he walked over to where Dave and I were sitting. I introduced him to Dave. We exchanged pleasantries then he was kind enough to introduce us to the other people.
We listened to their small talk and volunteered our own. Tony sat next to me and wondered why I was dry.
"I...ah, don't really swim," I mumbled.