I remember the day he moved in, with his wife.
Their room, with their martial bed, lay directly across from my own room, white with two desks.
I remember watching him move boxes, with the removal men. White lorry, brown paper, filled with tat. He wasn't all too beautiful, but his arms looked strong and his hair was dark and Jesus says love thy neighbor.
It started by accident. My curtains were open, I was undressing. Not thinking. I looked out the window and saw him looking back, and he was watching.
In all my godly modesty I chose to duck out of sight and when I arose, with my palm spread like clothes across my chest, he was gone.
You would think this was the end, a gracious unspoken apology penned by the act of it never happening again, but it did.
The next time it happened I did not duck, I fixed him with a stare, removed my hand from my chest and let him look at me. He gazed, mouth open, coveting.
I let the voyeur look and indulge in my flesh. God does say love thy neighbor?
And so it went on for a year or two, inconsequently we would accidently meet this way, sometimes I would make it so, sometimes it would just be coincidence.
I would watch him, watch me.
Sometimes he would do what men do to relieve a little pressure.
Sometimes I would encourage it.
He gazed adoring every time, eyes dark, lips gently parted.
And then one day he was gone.
I watched his strong arms move the same brown paper back into a lorry, same colour, different men.
I watched his wife draw the curtains and end the exchange. Shame.