Summer evenings are just wonderful when the breeze is low and there is still warmth in the air. The dark blue skies mould themselves into dusk and the gentle rustle of the Acer branches and leaves above my head and the smell of the freshly watered fern beds is very relaxing. With only my shorts on, I’m more than comfortable sitting and drinking in the near silence of nature.
A spider grabs my attention in the bushes. It’s making its web. All that exists are outward diagonal lines and two full circles of thread, the spider positions its legs on the diagonal strands and grabs the silk from its spinneret gland with its hind leg and carefully positions the silk onto the next diagonal line. Off it moves to the next outward diagonal and the process is repeated. It’s amazing watching it all unfold and in no time at all, there are four circles at the outer edges of the web. How do they know how to do all of this when they’re so small? It amazes me. Nature amazes me.
Looking upwards, all I can see is the rooftop of the houses and the deep blue sky. I check now and then to see whether the stars are making their appearance, just so that I can try and identify them. An open double-span Velour window from the neighbour’s house breaks the hard line between red tiles and blue sky along the rooftop, and the twin-metal ever-listening ariel’s from our adjoined houses point in different directions.
I’ve seen the velour window many times while I’ve been sitting in the recliner chair at the end of our garden, but it’s never been open that wide before and it’s almost at an angle that’s pointing upwards into the sky. I presume that bedrooms that are built into the roof spaces of houses are notoriously hot in the summer.
Even at nine in the evening, I can still read my book without the assistance of light, though reading is casual, consisting of a few paragraphs, a pause, a sip of beer that’s resting on the table next to me, some personal thoughts that occupy my mind, a glance around the garden, check on the stars once more to see if any have made an appearance, listen out for insects and then back to the words in the book.
Every page I read becomes harder to see, but funnily enough, it’s only noticeable when I turn the page over. Only then does the cream background become darker, making the black ink harder to see. Eventually, the page and words blend into each other and as if nothing had ever been written.
It’s time to put the book down and just breathe in the atmosphere.
The stars are out, I can see a few just above the velour window, the red tiles have more or less blended with the Indian ink blackness of the sky. The only light that reflects is from the street lamps behind the tree that is behind me. The County Council replaced the lovely sodium lights with white LED lights about a year ago. There was always something soothing about Sodium lights and they were much better in foggy conditions too. These white ones are in-your-face intrusive but at least the Acer, this year, has blocked most of that light out from the back garden.
I can still hear the odd bee visiting the flowers, surely, they should all be tucked up in bed by now making honey.
There is hardly a noise. Peacefulness is wonderful. You can just relax, close your eyes and just ‘be’.
Except that peacefulness is disturbed by voices coming from over the fence. From an open door into the neighbour’s house. A discussion between daughter and father by the sounds of it. Raised voices are evident. It’s not a normal conversation so she’s probably just come in and they’re having words.
I guess it’s time for me to move because I’m not putting up with that noise.
Suddenly the noises stop and a door slams. I let out a loud sigh, loud now that the arguments have died down. I look up at the night sky and I can see the Cassiopeia constellation forming that classic W shape.
The light from the velour window suddenly blinds me.
Now it is time to go in. But as my eyes adjust to the loud intensity of light I can see that a young seventeen-year old girl is lying on a bed reflected in the now mirror-like glass, her legs hanging off the edge of the bed, bent at the knees. Even from this distance I can see the short skirt she is wearing and I shake my head, fully understanding the previous argument with her father.
I wonder how long it will take before the light goes out. I want to stay here a little more until it gets too cold to bear. I want to watch the stars float by effortlessly. I see the neighbour’s daughter get off the bed and for a moment she disappears. Maybe it won’t be that long after all.
I take my eyes from the painful spotlight and I can now see that everything is merging into darkness. There is still some light being reflected from that stupid street light but that’s all there is. The stars are taking over, slowly.
I look up at the light streaming from the window and tap my foot on the floor, ‘come on, come on,’ I repeat in my head, ‘switch the bloody light out.’
Then I see a body flop onto the bed. Just the lower half from the waist down. Her legs are strewn across the bed with her ankles just off the edge and facing me. Her pink panties are hard to ignore in the mirrored glass. I rest my head on the back of the chair and take in the sight of her body. Not believing what I am seeing.
My eyes open a little wider and I strain to see what’s developing in that room. I rub the corner of my eyes with my thumb and forefinger to get rid of any sleepiness and I stare at the window. I stare at the body that has now opened its legs, one of them bent at the knee and falling outwards, the other straight, a hand, her hand, is missing the tops of her fingertips because they are buried in the elasticated rim of her panties.
Suddenly, all thought of leaving the chair and going inside has been washed away. My gaze is fixed on the velour window.
More fingers are lost to her pink panties and now I can see that they are moving underneath. Both of her feet move so that they are together and her thighs are splayed wide; knees touching the bed on either side of her. I can see her fingers working her pussy. I presume they are sliding along her crease, up and down, up and down.
I watch keenly as her hand is removed. Thumbs hook themselves into her panties, her legs come together rapidly, her bum lifts off the bed and her hands are outstretched. The motion takes her panties from around her bottom, over her thighs and legs and off the end of her feet. They are discarded at the end of their motion and for a while, her panties linger on the edge of the bed until her feet are back together again and her thighs flat on the bed.
Her pussy is on full display. A bunch of red hair covers the top of it. I’m making that up now, filling in the gaps, I only know it’s red because the hair on her head is red. I see her almost every morning.
For the first time, I feel my cock twitch in my shorts. I look down at it and I can see the shorts move as it lengthens. I look back up at the angled window and I can see her hand sweeping over her pussy. Slipping and sliding along her wet folds.
Suddenly she lifts herself off the bed and now I can see her head with her face, fortunately, facing away from me. Her breasts have come into view and now my cock is screaming, ‘get me out of here.’