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The Women Next Door — Pt 1
Finding the right place to rent was a challenge, but it was impossible to beat the view!
It started with an ending, as things often do. My longtime roommate and sometimes girlfriend Veronica got a job offer on the West Coast that was too good to pass up, and neither of us were interested in a long-distance relationship. We had gone back and forth between being fuck buddies and being a real couple, so it wasn’t a horribly emotional ending. And the last night sex was fantastic!
But she was leaving me with a problem. We had shared a really nice apartment that was out of my price range without her covering half the rent. I really didn’t want to find another roommate, so I went shopping. I made decent money working as an IT guy at the university, but rents were high everywhere in town due to the ever-growing student population.
I checked out a couple of places that I could afford, but they were dumps. Then a friend told me his girlfriend’s sister had just moved out of a place that sounded perfect. An apartment over the detached garage of some rich guy’s retreat a few miles outside of town. In exchange for a discounted rent, he wanted someone to clean the pool and do some other yard work on the grounds.
I’d been a competitive swimmer in high school and kept up the workouts through college and beyond, even though I was never…
