The Neighbor
I met her when she was moving from the dorms on Chapel Hill to an apartment just off campus. She was carrying a box of, ahem, “personal” items when she must have stumbled over her own two feet and sent the contents scattering across the hallway. I have been told that I have a knack for arriving at the perfect time, as I was rounding the stairs just as everything went kersplat. I couldn’t help but stifle a giggle and I saw her sit up straight and I imagined the look on her face was one of mortification. Her body language was one of defeated reluctance, as though she knew that her first day in the building would see her branded as a sex fiend. Breaking the tension, I joked with her, “I have that one …