Tales of Lavender

Rousing from my nap, my eyes squint in unrest while peering up at the ceiling, the room filled with the light of the evening setting sun. I stretch out against my sheets and rubbing my eyes as I begin to sit up in the bed, turning my gaze to the room already half messy from my clothes laid on the floor and extra left over stuff from the days earlier adventure questing for treasure. With a defeated sigh I arise from the bed, slipping into a shirt to at least somewhat cover myself as I begin to clean the room.

Several minutes pass, finally getting things sorted and cleaned to be proud of how nicely the room cleaned up. A loud thud startles me, jumping up surprised turning towards the direction it came from only to hear sounds of boxes and things being placed and faint chatting. 'Oh great a new neighbor,' I think to myself as I turn and head to the kitchen to start some tea. Heading down the stairs I hear all the gripes from the movers next door, giggling a bit knowing they probably are not having a fun time especially for a weekend. I make my way into the kitchen, opening the cupboard pulling out the blend of Pixieberry Tea, my favorite imported tea blend, fiving myself a cup.

Sitting quietly in the evening light at the counter, I sip away at the freshly brewed tea, listening to all the commotion next door to take in the sounds of the movers cursing at all the furniture. My gaze turns to the window sat atop the counter, the only real view is the hedges and the top part of the neighbors house, nothing much to actually see. Standing up, I take my tea and head back upstairs to my room to sit at my window table to watch the entertainment of them struggling next door. The room still dim only lit by the evening light pouring in, I move to the curtains pulling them to the sides and sitting at my table, peering out the window to see three movers struggling with moving a sofa across the yard to the house.

A slight chuckle escapes my lips as I sit back sipping my tea to watch the silly show in the yard, until another man approaches from the house, the new neighbor himself. My eyes fixate on the man, shirtless and sculpted like a roman statue depicting the physique of a god as he helps the movers get the sofa into the house. A shock of surprise and intrigue run through me, the only thought in my mind, 'Wow', as I set the cup of tea onto the table.

"Seems I may actually need to meet this new neighbor after all." I mutter out, continuing to watch as they move in all the furniture.

The evening sun begins to fade behind the mountain peaks in the distance, darkness beginning to fill the room to tell me it is now clearly time for bed. Standing up, I close the curtains back and head over to bed taking my shirt back off to throw onto the chair and climbing back under the soft cotton sheets. Laying there, staring up into the darkness, the only thing that I could think of is tomorrow, how tomorrow is going to be an interesting day.

The sun lights up through the shades, the morning rises as I stir in bed, rolling over to grasp onto my G'raha body pillow unready to get up for the day. A few minutes pass before finally sitting up in the bed rubbing my eyes and stretching to prepare myself for the day with a long yawn. I emerge from the soft sheets stumbling over to the window, opening the shades to see what the weather is like today as I catch a glimpse of the new neighbor. Standing out there shirtless again tending to the garden in the morning light, admitting to myself he is quite cute and I should probably say hello to him today. He looks up from his garden towards me, catching me a bit off guard I wave at him as he suddenly turns his head giving a sheepish wave at me.

"Well isn't that a bit rude of him to just look away..." I mumble as I look down realizing I'm still nude from getting out of bed. My face instantly turns red, closing the shades as I realize I just flashed the new neighbor my bare breasts. "By the gods he probably thinks I'm some kind of freak now!"

Still blushing and not the greatest way to start a day, I head to the shower to clean up and get ready for the day. The thought of my exposure still lingered in my mind, not sure how now best to welcome the new neighbor... other than him randomly seeing me partly nude. Today was going to be a rough day, I could feel it.

Heading downstairs I stop into the kitchen grabbing an apple to munch on a bit as I make my way to the door mentally preparing myself to go out and do a bit of work on my garden, secretly hoping he wasn't out there still to avoid any kind of chat after what had just happened. Stepping through the door I look towards the neighbors house seeing he is no longer outside at the moment and making my way to my garden to water the flowers. I stoop down tending to the soil humming a soft tune, missing the sound of a door closing in the background only to be greeted with a soft 'Hello' from my entrance gate. Jumping up in surprise I turn towards the gate seeing the man dressed in a casual button up shirt and partly ripped blue jeans waving at me. It's him, the neighbor.

"Oh hello!" I say a bit shyly, still remembering the earlier encounter. "Welcome to the neighborhood, it's been a while since I had a new neighbor." Managing to give out a bit of a greeting.

He smiles towards me, "Thanks for the welcoming, this neighborhood is very nice and I hope we get along well as neighbors."

My blush returns, staring at this man hearing his soft but alluring voice as I give him a nod to let him know I think the same. He gives me another smile and a wave saying his goodbyes as he heads back to his house, my heart pounding unsure of what to think. I return to my gardening being glad that at least he didn't say anything about what he had seen earlier this morning.

Finishing up my morning chores I head in and make some tea before returning outside to enjoy the cooler weather while sitting on my deck. Sipping the freshly brewed tea I look over at the neighbors house, debating on what to do next as I never even got his name during our short awkward encounter this morning. Should I make him something to eat as a welcoming? Maybe some tea? The thoughts rushed through my mind before finally deciding I would do both.

"Tomorrow," I say as sip my tea and leaning back in my chair, "Tomorrow I will make him a snack and some tea to properly welcome him."

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