*Note: I originally posted this story two days ago, but was unhappy with that version. After some constructive feedback from a fellow author, I decided to revise and expand it a little. Enjoy.*
The woman lived on the other end of the block from me and she was a fixture of the neighborhood. In the few months since I’d moved there, I saw her almost daily (usually as she worked in the yard or power-walked around the area), but up to that point, I’d yet to talk to her a single time. She was in her mid-forties with shoulder-length hair, tanned skin, large breasts, and had what looked to be a very fit figure. Considering I was a healthy, twenty-five-year-old man, the fact of the woman’s attractiveness was not lost on me, but because I tended to be more interested in women my age and younger, I never thought of her as an option, romantically or otherwise. She was just the nice-looking, older woman from down the street; no more and no less, but that was all about to change.