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The Guy Next Door - Part One
Date: 9/17/2015, Categories: Reluctance, Author: SITTING, Rating: 3, Source: LushStories
I moved into apartment 4C because the rent was cheap and it wasn’t far from the office where I worked. Apart from that, the place had limited appeal. The communal areas were scuffed and in serious need of decoration. The elevator was out of order and looked like it was set to stay that way. The post always got lost. There were seven floors and four apartments per floor. I didn’t know many people except for those on four. In 4A was an elderly lady with a lot of cats. In 4B were two students. And in 4D was Cooper Hyde. Cooper worked as an estate agent. He wore a suit and tie every weekday, left early and came home late. We met a number of times, the first occasion being the weekend I moved in. He helped me carry up a couple of boxes, made some small talk and got the ball rolling. We usually passed by each other in the morning; me returning from my daily run, while he headed out to work. The first week passed. I didn’t think about him much. Then Saturday night came around. I was busy unpacking at the end of a long week, trying to fix up the television and wondering how I‘d managed to accumulate so many clothes. I could hear the sounds from other apartments; a vacuum cleaner, people arguing, music playing and then over all that, much closer, and much more conspicuous came sound through the thin wall between mine and Cooper’s apartment. “ Oh my god! Oh fuck !” I froze. “ Stop being so loud! God, you’re a desperate little slut, aren’t you ?” Cooper’s voice. The voice that was ...