Carole managed to avoid her next-door neighbour for the next few days. She kept an eye out for him and only went outside when he wasn't around. She wasn't working today and was home alone.
The heatwave was mostly over, and though it was still warm, it wasn't uncomfortable like it had been. Fresh from the shower Carole stood in her bedroom wearing just a pair of light gray sweatpants. She bent over, throwing her dark red wavy hair forward and blowing it dry with the hairdryer. Somewhere off in the distance, she heard a sound. But it didn't register. She carried on drying and the sound got louder. At last, something clicked.
"Shit," she swore to herself, switching off the hairdryer and throwing it on the bed, "I haven't put the bins out.
Carole rushed downstairs. Pulling an old white T-shirt on over her head as she went. Through the kitchen, and out the back door. Grabbing the wheelie bin as she went. Carole dragged it down the narrow alley between her house and the neighbours, and out onto the street.
"Haha, come on love, hurry up," the bin men jeered and laughed at her as she rushed to catch them. The late morning sun shone down the length of the street and onto her back and left-hand side.
"That's alright love, I got it." one of them said, approaching her with a grin, she thought she noticed him glance at her chest as he took the bin from her.
"Thank you," she replied, feeling it would be rude to just walk away. She waited as he took her bin to the lorry, attached it to the mechanism, and emptied it.
She watched as her bin rose into the air. Her messy half-dried mass of red hair blew over her face in the breeze. She raised her arms, sinking her fingers into the soft waves and pulling them back out of the way. Then she looked at the bin men. They were both watching her and looked away when she noticed them.
Carole recognised that look and was reminded of what had happened at the weekend. She felt a powerful urge suddenly rush through her body at the thought of the young delivery man. There was a long, slow throb between her thighs, and her nipples began to harden.
She looked down at her own chest. The sun shone through the side of her T-shirt making a clear silhouette of her large, bra-free, breasts. Her suddenly tingling nipples poked through the thin cotton of the tired old T-shirt.
Her first instinct was to wrap her arms around her chest to hide them. But as her arms moved, she felt the tingle of nervous excitement in her tummy at the thought of the men watching her. So instead, she dropped her arms to her sides and slipped her hands into the pockets of her baggy sweatpants, pulling them dangerously low on her hips and exposing a little bit of her lower belly.
As the refuse collector walked toward her with her bin in tow. Carole closed her eyes as if enjoying the morning sun. Giving the stranger ample opportunity to ogle her as he approached.
The stranger watched intently as her soft breasts moved. Silhouetted and unhindered as they were beneath the thin cotton T-shirt. She took a deep breath and the short hem lifted. Exposing her little round potbelly. Her deep dark belly button. And the very low waistband of her jog pants.
"Thank you so much," Carole said as the man returned her bin.
"You're welcome love," he grinned "Anytime."
Carole turned to head back to her house. Feeling naughty and excited. But stopped suddenly. Stood by her gate, waiting for her, was Phil, the old man from next door.
He was a tall slender old man. With thin white hair and long, suntanned, sinewy limbs. Carole didn't know exactly how old he was but, thought he must be going on seventy.
He wore shorts, sandals, socks, and a polo shirt, all of which were, of course, immaculate. As was his house and garden, there wasn't a blade of grass out of place. He kept himself fit and active by never stopping doing stuff.
He watched Carole as she turned. The grin on his face told her he knew exactly what she had just been doing. It was the same grin he had the last time she saw him. Watching her in the alleyway between their houses.
"Hello Carole," he greeted her as her face flushed bright red with embarrassment. Not just because of what he had just caught her teasing the binmen. But also because of what he saw her doing the last time. In fact, that was how he knew what was going on with the binmen.
"Hi," she answered in a timid whisper.
"Here, let me help you with that," he insisted as she approached her front gate. He took the bin handle from her with one hand. While holding the gate open for her with the other.
She led the way down the narrow alley beside her house. Her embarrassment grew as they walked by his window. She remembered the grin he had worn as he watched her from there.
Carole glanced back at him and immediately wished she hadn't. He was watching her round bottom wriggle. The loose jog pants hung dangerously low on her wide hips. He looked up at her when she looked back. With not a hint that he had been doing anything he shouldn't.
"Any chance of a brew?" he asked as he followed her into the back garden.
"Um, yeah, sure," Carole answered, longing to say no fuck off, but she just didn't have it in her. Besides, that naughty, excited tingle in her belly and between her thighs hadn't gone away.
"Really?" Carole asked herself as they walked," The old guy next door?" She couldn't believe his obvious leching was turning her on. She wondered if he had been doing it all along, and that was why he was so friendly. You see, Carole was really a bit of a pushover.
They went into the small dining kitchen. Phil sat at the table and watched as Carole made him a cup of tea, and a coffee for herself.
"How have you been?" he asked, "I haven't seen you for a few days." He suspected she had been avoiding him.
"I'm okay," she answered, finding it hard to concentrate. Her mind was racing, trying to figure out what was going on. Phil had popped around for a brew plenty of times before of course, especially since her divorce. But this time it felt different, more tense somehow. Like something major was about to happen. There was a long, awkward silence.
"How have you been?" Carole asked, stirring milk into her coffee.
"Oh, fine, fine," he answered "Are the boys out?" he asked.
"Yes," she replied, "both at work today." She pressed the teabag against the side of the cup.
"And you, a day off? When are you at work next?" He continued.
"Tomorrow," she answered, "I am in for a few days then." Carole stirred milk into the old man's tea. There was another long silence as the spoon made little tink-tink noises. Carole waited. She was sure the old man had something on his mind, and she was worried that she may be right about what it was.
"I won't beat around the bush, Carole," the old man suddenly burst out.
"I am a very direct man, always have been. I, I haven't been able to get you out of my mind since Saturday."
Carole froze, the spoon falling silent. She stood at the counter with her back to the elderly neighbour. There it was, exactly what she had feared, direct is right, straight to the fucking point. She didn't move but stood waiting to see where he was going with this.
"I have thought long and hard about how a woman like you would get into such a," he cleared his throat, " situation. And, well, it seemed to me, that man must have started it, I just can't imagine you doing so."
Carole placed the spoon, and then both hands on the counter to steady herself. She was trembling with nerves, longing for the ground to open and swallow her, anything to avoid this awkward conversation.
"But this morning," the old man continued, "I watched you with those bin-men, and you were... showing off."
Carole jumped as the chair behind her made a loud scraping sound on the tile floor. The old man got to his feet, but she didn't, no, couldn't move.
"I see now, that you want the attention, you crave the attention," he approached her quietly. She leaned on the worktop, petrified her heart racing.
"You long to be noticed, wanted, to be desired, touched."
Carole was panting softly, her body quivering as she tried and tried to move. Just to get away. Listening in horror as the elderly neighbour described her symptoms perfectly. Almost as if she had told him her deepest secrets herself.
She flinched suddenly as his hand came to rest on the deep curve of her waist. Right in the gap between her T-shirt and baggy pants. His fingers were cold against the soft warmth of her pale skin.
"It's okay," he whispered into her ear. The long slender fingers of his other hand eased her wavy auburn hair back off her shoulder.
"I think I understand. My wife had the same needs. I can feel you trembling. Is that with fear or excitement? I think it's the latter."
He moved close, pressing himself into her soft voluptuous body, and he placed his lips tenderly against her smooth warm neck.
A long, slow, delicious shiver ran through Carole's body. The old man kissed her gently, as his fingers slid from her hair and down her back to hold her waist together with his other hand.
"P-please Phil," Carole stammered as the old man's lips moved up and down her neck and collarbone, kissing and nuzzling her, "Please don't, we, we shouldn't." Carole stammered, though, at that moment, she couldn't think of any reason why they shouldn't.
"I don't think you mean that. Do you really want me to stop?" He continued. Carole tried to speak. Her head screamed that this was all wrong. But he was right. She longed for the attention. He wanted her and she couldn't say no.
"I can hear you panting. I feel your body trembling. It is something I haven't felt for years. It was a passion of mine back then, and my wife's. We had an understanding." Cool hands held her waist gently, caressing her softly under her T-shirt.
"She craved the attention as well, and I was happy to oblige, as long as I was in control. I thought that had all ended for me, but now." Suddenly the old man's hands began to move up inside Carole's T-shirt, quickly taking hold of her large, soft, warm breasts, lifting and caressing them.