SIREN’S MISTAKE PART 7

 

“Screw this.” He was gone now for the day, and I was home. I needed to find out about that apartment. I know it’s there. I know it! Hell, I helped him move in! There was only one thing to do. I needed to break in, but how? It’s not like I am some kind of bad ass detective or anything. I don’t know how to pick a lock. They make it look so easy on TV. I can do it!

 

I went to my bathroom and found two hair pins. After straightening them out, I put them in my back pocket. “Yeah I am hard core now!” I looked around for what else I might need. What the hell do people need when they are gonna scope out someone’s pad. I had my phone to take pictures. There is a light on that, too. Who knew phones could be so multi-purpose?

 

I looked at my phone, and the charge was at 98%, check. Did I need gloves? My prints were already on his things. Well, on the boxes, his things came in. I really wish I had a sidekick right now.

 

Maybe someday I would have friends, but that would require trusting another person with your secrets and stuff. I got along better with men than I did women. But we all know how that ends. One accidental eye contact and that friendship is over. Another problem for another day. I needed to tackle this problem now.

 

I left my apartment and locked it back up. No one was in the hallway. The maintenance man would be sound asleep by now while the rest of the building would be just like him or at work. I walked as quietly as I could towards the door between 313 and 314. It was there now. Why wasn’t it there before? Whatever. I am going to go inside that damn thing right now.

 

I finally approached the door and knelt down to get a better look at the locks. A strange electrical feeling came over me when I touched the handle. It didn’t hurt, but it didn’t feel good either. Wonder if there was a short in his apartment. It’s not like I could tell the maintenance man about it, though. I rolled my eyes even though there was no one there to see me do it.

 

I slipped both hair pin into the first lock and fiddled them around. I had no idea what I was doing, but there had to be some method to this. I wasn’t going to stop until I got in. The electricity feeling grew, making the tips of my fingers numb. I almost dropped the pins but gripped them tighter instead.

 

 

The pins caught on something. Both of them unable to move anymore. I tried turning them in the same direction at the same time, and the lock clicked open. Now, it was time for the dead bolt. I wasn’t too sure thin, simple hair pins were going to unlock this one.

 

Luckily, I could stand up for this one. My legs were going numb from the field of whatever it was. I placed the pins inside the dead bolts lock and tried to find that spot again like I did on the first one. Twisting and turning, the pins just couldn’t seem to find the right connection. Minutes turned to an hour as I tried. Nothing was working.

 

Then a thought came to me. What if the dead bolt wasn’t locked? I took a step back. “There is no way.”

 

An older lady came walking past me. To cover what I was doing, I went to knock on the door. She quirked her eyebrows up and shook her head. When I took my eyes off her to look at the door, there was just a wall in front of me. “What the hell!” The old lady shuffled faster towards the elevator. When she was gone, the door reappeared again.

 

“OK, I am definitely losing my mind.” If I didn’t make it in there and find so me tangible proof this guy and his apartment existed, I needed to see a shrink.

 

With a huff, I reached one hand out and turned the door knob. To my surprise, it opened. From where I stood, I could see a hallway but nothing else. It was way too dark inside to make out any turns of any kind.

 

“It’s now or nothing. Get a grip, Andy.” One step and I would be inside. I took it, but that isn’t what happened.

 

Blackness swirled around me. My head buzzed, and my heart pounded. The blackness blurred and became fuzzy. That is when I collapsed.