The Wolf Next Door Chapter 1

Hey there, my name is Vance. Typical youth about to graduate high school. Just turned eighteen and was enjoying the last days of my summer vacation. Well, I was to an extent. See, I lived in a home with my mom, a woman who was a godsend to children. Seriously, I could get away with murder and if she knew some of the things I did when she wasn’t around. I loved my mother, but she was a full-time nurse and often overtime nurse. See after my dad left when I was eight, my mother had handled everything he abandoned. After completing her degree, a house, two vehicles, and student debt crushed her. Determined to give me the right life, she kept all of it and worked nonstop almost. I’m sure it has been tough on her, but somehow, she still managed to be there for me.

So I’m sure you are going, so what Vance, what’s up? Well, I’ll tell you. That is the purpose of this recounting right? See, I live in suburbia. My house was the second to the last on the block, which left an empty house next to ours, or well it was until about three months ago. We had a new neighbor that I hadn’t met yet. Course, I had seen her.

Our neighbor was a group dead beauty. From a distance, I saw that she had smooth legs, tan skin and a body that she regularly hid under baggy sweaters, which only added to her allure. Who hasn’t been the nosy neighbor? For a week, I watched her and movers fill the house with various sized boxes and furniture. Whoever she was, she had money. I watched statues go in, covered painting canvases and not too mention the giant diesel truck she had.

That truck would roar when started, making so much noise it was impossible to ignore as it sped away down the streets. It would return late at night, an important reason I assure you. One night, the roar awoke me from my sleep. I was about to pass out again, snuggled so nicely in the mink blanket I had when I heard a scream.

You ever hear a random scream in the middle of the night? You try to ignore, convincing yourself it was nothing as your heart races in startled fear. Takes forever to calm down. My eyes were about to close and take me off to dreamland when another scream sounded. A noise that pushed me to get up and to look outside.

Under the glow of a full moon, I saw nothing at first. Drowsy, I was about to turn away when my eyes spotted something. There, next to my neighbor’s pool was a dark spot. It was out of the ordinary and I blinked a few times to see that it was still there. It was, and something else was too. From the shadows, I swear two silver orbs watched me. I blinked and blinked to make sure, but they were gone. Feeling altogether panicked, I went back to bed.

When I awoke in the morning, I ran to the window to see. The morning sun was already up and bright, but there wasn’t a dark spot next to the pool. Instead, my neighbor was lounging next to the pool naked. I wasn’t a virgin and had seen a girl naked before, but my neighbor, well she got a brand new admirer that day. She was always there to give me an unknowing show. I even got to see the dark points of her nipples once, mouth-watering. Then one day, at what seemed random, my mother wanted to meet our new neighbor. That Saturday, which was the only day of my mom had that week; she dragged me out to see out the neighbor, the woman I had been spying.

The walk over, my mom made me swear to be friendly and polite, talking about how much it would be great if they got along with the neighbor. I suppose it was because after my dad had left us, with work, she didn’t have many friends or even time for them. The walk over felt like my mother knew that I had been spying on my neighbor. She was making me face the music. Though she had never said anything, I worried about being caught. Out neighbor answered the door, wearing a shimmering red sweater and khaki pants, that hugged her body and showed off her curves. She had a weird look on her face as if the idea of visitors was

“Hey there, I’m Melinda, and this is my son Vance. We live next door.”

“Oh hey, I meant to come by and introduce myself. Come in. I’m Dana.”

Dana turned around, and I noticed how her black hair went past her ass. An ass that was swinging with each step. My mother followed in, and I took a second to recuperate my senses before head in too. When the door closed, the scent of woods assaulted my nostrils. Neither woman was visible, and so I stayed in the main hallway, studying the pictures hanging on the walls.

There were paintings, not pictures of our neighbor or family. One picture looked like a four-pane window. Each panel held a picture of the same nature scene except in different seasons. The next picture was a weird one. I knew it was supposed to be a tree canopy, but swirls of various shades of green drew the eyes to something. There was a hidden image, a face.

“Interesting isn’t it?”

Dana’s voice, as sweet and melodic as it was, made me jump. She was laughing by the time I came up to look at her.

“What the-“

“Hey now, you’re a guest Vance. Bad language in front of a lady is bad luck.”

“I uh, apologize.”

“Apology accepted.”

Her eyes were a gorgeous hazel, with flecks of gold in them. They watched me, and suddenly I had a feeling of being prey looking at the face of a predator. I’m pretty sure she even licked her lips.

“Your mother is very kind.”

“Yeah, she is just busy a lot.”

“Nurses are like that. I did invite her over to some wine whenever she wants.”

“That’s very sweet of you.”

“I’m a nice woman Vance,” she said, smiling. I saw that she took good care of her teeth, but her canines were exceptionally larger. Nice or not, she was hungry and dangerous.