Riding The Reigns

Right next door

It was a boring Friday night. I had no special plans then and I was all alone in my little apartment. Usually I would watch Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead or something to entertain me but . . . seasons.

I decide that it was a go to sleep night. I took a shower, put on a t-shirt and undies and went to bed or at least I tried too. Than I heard it.

"You promised me!"

"You are never around when I need you to be!"

"I told you Fridays are our days!"

"You know what! Forget it! It's over!"

The yelling of my next door neighbor Joseph. I absolutely couldn't take his noise anymore. Between fucking loudly and arguing loudly. He was a noisy neighbor.

No. I have never said anything to him or even seen him but this was it!

I got out of bed (already a problem) and walked over to his door.

I knocked loudly and waited for an answer.

The door flew open and a tall man white long black hair and tan skin answered. He had green eyes with a goatee. He was shirtless with a tribal tattoo sleeve with bulging muscular arms.

"Yes?" He spoke.

"Umm" I said "I'm Rose. I'm your neighbor"

"Hello Rose" he said "I'm Joseph"

"I know" I said. There was a moment of silence. Than I spoke. "I just wanted to tell you to keep it down, please"

"Sorry. My girlfriend and I are not having a goodnight" he said upset.

"Oh" I cried "I'm sorry"

Before we knew it we were having a full on conversations. I had also recently got out of a relationship.

"Would you like to come in?" He asked.

"Sure" I said.

He moved over to let me in. They I remembered. Oh my god! I have no pants on! I was in my undies.

"Oh!" I cried "I don't have pants on"

I went to rush into my apartment.

He smiled a gorgeous smiled.

"It's fine" he said "I don't have a shirt on"

I got hot. No shirt. No pants.

"Here" he said "Do you watch Walking Dead?"

I had lie earlier about finishing Walking Dead. I love the show but I could never watch it alone. I gave my nightmares.

"I do but not I can never watch it alone" I said embarrassingly.

"When we can watch it together" he said placing a DVD into the player "My girlfriend was supposed to watch it tonight but. . ."

"I understand" I said.

"Do you want anything to eat?" He asked.

"I mean we are watching a movie-ish" I said.

"Popcorn?" He asked placing in two bags of popcorn in the microwave.

"I guess that was another plan for you and your girl?" I asked.

"Yeah" he said "I'm going to be honest. Your really taking her place right now. This was supposed to be a date night"

"Maybe we could do this often" I said.

"Keep each other company?" He asked.

I nodded.

"Maybe" he said.

We added an unhealthy dose of butter to the butter lover's popcorn and sat on the couch side by side.

Between intense scenes of zombie and attacks. I got scared enough to actually jump into Joseph's lap.

"Scared?" He asked.

"Kinda" I chuckled.

"If you are you can cuddle up with me?" He said.

"Oh" I cried. We got in cuddle position and continued watching the movie and eating popcorn.

"Thank you" he said.

"Hmmm? He asked.

"Staying with me" he said.

I looked up at him and smiled a bit. He leaned down and kissed me.

"Thank you" I said. We're still together and happy.