Zane leaned back in his desk chair, already lazily stroking himself by the time the stream lit up. The glow of his screen bounced off his chest, sweat starting to build across his collarbones. Thousands were watching now — the chat exploded with hearts, comments, and way too many people begging for his attention.

He looked amused. Lazy. Like a man who had already edged himself before he hit.“go live.”

His cock throbbed in his hand, thick and flushed, every movement of his wrist slow and steady. He scrolled through the chat with the other hand like he wasn’t sitting there half-naked and leaking under the soft apartment lights.

“Didn’t even say anything yet and y’all are already desperate,”he muttered, lips twitching into a crooked smile.

The chat flooded with filth. Begging. Moaning. Someone asked to be his altar. Another said they dreamed of him every night. He rolled his eyes and snorted.

“You people are fuckin’ wild,”he said, stroking a little harder, sighing through his nose.“Crazy thing is, I used to get smacked for shit like this.”

He lifted his hand off his cock and flexed his fingers for the camera, holding it up like it meant something. The faint, nearly invisible ruler scars along his palm caught the light.

“Little reminders, you know?”he said.“Every time I touched myself in high school, I got the holy fear beat into me. Now I get paid by the minute for it. Ain’t life a bitch?”

The chat blew up again — laughing emojis, “preach, daddy,” and a thousand sinful replies.

And then came the donation.

*$500.

The comment: “Are you single?”

Zane barked a laugh, his head tipping back against the chair for a second.

“Jesus Christ. Five hundred for that? You could’ve just slipped me your number, sweetheart.”

He looked dead into the camera, hand tightening around his cock as he started to stroke faster.

“Yeah. I’m single. Completely, unfortunately, painfully single.”

He paused. His smirk slipped just a little — not gone, just softer. His voice dropped lower.

“But there’s someone.”

The chat immediately exploded again — “TELL US,” “IS SHE A LUCKY BITCH,” “DOES SHE KNOW???”

Zane chuckled, jaw tightening as his thumb slid over the sensitive tip of his cock.

“My neighbor,”he said.“Lives right next door. Apartment 9B. We share a damn wall. And I swear to God... she’s been driving me fucking insane for months.”

He slowed down again, not to tease them — to remember. He closed his eyes and shook his head like he was trying to knock the image out.

“She walks through the hall in these little sleep shorts. Like cotton, pink, barely there. Her shirt’s always just a little too small — rides up when she lifts her arms. I’ve seen the bottom of her tits more times than I’ve seen my own reflection.”

He groaned through his teeth, cock twitching in his hand again.

“Her laugh echoes through the wall sometimes when she’s on the phone. Late at night. Like 1 AM. And I just lay in bed, hard as fuck, like some pathetic creep with my ear to the drywall.”

The rhythm of his strokes picked up, but his voice stayed low — rough around the edges now.

“She bent over once to pick up a grocery bag she dropped. I was walking past her door. Could see her through the gap. Her hair was falling down one shoulder, and those fucking shorts rode up when she crouched.”

He gritted his teeth.

“I wanted to grab her hips. Slide my hands up the backs of her thighs, kiss right under her ass where it’s softest. Pin her to that door and make her scream my name.”

The chat had completely lost it. Comment after comment begging for more, praising his voice, calling his neighbor the luckiest woman alive.

“But she doesn’t even look at me like that,”he muttered.“Just smiles polite in the hall, holds the elevator for me like she’s not the star of every fantasy I’ve had since April.”

He groaned again, chest rising and falling faster now.

“Sometimes I think about knocking on her door. Shirtless. Sweats hanging low. Just telling her, ‘Hey... you wanna know what I think about every time I hear your voice through that wall?’”

He laughed then — breathless, a little bitter.

“She’d probably slam it in my face. Or maybe...”His eyes narrowed just slightly.“Maybe she’d pull me in and lock it behind me.”

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The Next Morning – Hallway Outside Apartment 9B

Zane didn’t expect to run into anyone.

It was early — like, head-pounding-from-last-night early. He’d barely slept, had just thrown on sweats and a black hoodie, hoping to grab some shitty apartment coffee from the lobby machine before crawling back into bed to deal with the massive pile of thirst comments still blowing up his inbox.

He rubbed the back of his neck as he stepped into the hallway, eyes heavy, head down.

And then he looked up.

She was standing just outside her door, fumbling with her keys and holding some iced drink with way too much whipped cream. Tank top. Sleep shorts. Hair a little messy, like she hadn’t been awake long either.

Zane froze.

Fuck.

He’d spent the night describing her— touching himself to the idea of her, talking about her to the entire goddamn internet — and now here she was in front of him, real as hell, ten feet away, acting like nothing had happened.

He swallowed hard.

On stream, Zane was loud. Confident. Filthy. He told cameras exactly what he wanted and made people beg for more.

But now?

Now he felt like someone had punched him in the chest and shoved cotton in his mouth.

She glanced up. Made eye contact.

He opened his mouth, closed it, then cleared his throat.

“Uhm... name’s Zane.”

His voice cracked. His hand shot up to rub the back of his head, avoiding her gaze like he was some shy kid at orientation.

“We’re... neighbors. I mean, obviously. Apartment 9A.”He laughed, nervous and strained.“Literally share a wall. That’s—cool.”

She looked at him. Not surprised. Not confused.

Just calm. Her expression was unreadable... but the way she looked at him — it was like she already knew exactly who he was. Like maybe last night, she was watching too.

Zane’s stomach flipped.

He scratched the back of his neck, let out a breathy laugh.

“Fuck, I suck at this.”

She didn’t say anything. Just watched him. Still. Quiet. The kind of silence that made his chest tighten.

His eyes darted to your drink.

“What you got there?”he asked, trying to sound casual — like he wasn’t falling apart inside.