Eva

7

When Detective Armstrong told me what had happened to Lucy's mother, it got me thinking about what Lucy saw. I looked and looked for a medium in the area but the closest one was three hours away. I thought she wouldn't help but luckily for me she agreed to come, but the only problem was that I had to wait a month.

After work I felt so tired I didn't want to cook, so I got some food on my way back home. As I was walking to my apartment I noticed the apartment 166 door was slightly open and I peeked inside.

It was already dark and difficult to see but as my eyes adjusted, my body froze as my brain realised it was a figure in a dark coat walking around. As I looked closer I realized it was a female, I wanted to ask her why she was in there but held my tongue when I noticed a gun in her hand. I walked away slowly and slowly opened my door and went inside and grabbed the first thing that looked like a good weapon and went back to the hall and took a peek at the door and bolted to the apartment manager's office.

I knocked and knocked and looked at my watch that says 8 pm. I mentally curse myself when I realise my watch battery has died. I look at my phone clock and see it's 10 pm.

I rush back to apartment 166 ready to take the intruder down but stop when I try pushing the door and it won't budge. I take a step back and go over what happened mentally if my mind was playing tricks on me.

A few days have past and as I'm walking out I run into the apartment manager

"Good morning Miss Maria" he smiled and I smiled back

"Good morning, how has our week been?"

"Been good, yours?" My mind flashed to the strange woman in 166

"Mostly good, but I just remembered... a few days ago when I was getting home I saw that someone went into apartment 166 late at night" he nodded

"Must of been the detective" I let out a sigh of relief

"Ok, just got a bit nervous because at first it looked like an intruder" he chuckles

"Detectives are always like that" I giggle

"I guess so" I look at my phones time

"Yikes I better go before I'm late, see you later" I wave bye to him as I run to my car

Sigh

"That took forever" Steve looks at me with a smile

"At least it's lunch times, let's go grab a bite at the new cafe around the corner" I nod

"What are you going to get?" I think and shrug

"I don't know.., do you know what you're going to get?" he nods

"The killer sandwich" I grin

"Killer sandwich?" he stands tall with pride

"It's the best sandwich I ever had" I giggle

"I'll have the same then" we sit down with our food and just before I take a bite

" Hi there Eva!" I look up and see its John but he's not alone this time

"Hello John, how have you been?" Steve looks at him then at me confused

"Wonderful, I see you have been to... This is Hannah my boss, Hannah this is Eva the girl I told you about" John and Hannah sits down

"Nice to meet you Hannah"

"Pleasure to meet you too"

"Steve this is John my would of been neighbor, John this is my coworker/boyfriend" John looked closer at Steve

"Really, I'm guessing you've been to the apartment already? Anything interesting happened?" Steve swallows his food

"Been mostly reading together and watching horror films" I nod in agreement

"Speaking about something interesting, a few days ago as I was about to enter my apartment, I noticed your apartment was open. At first I thought it was someone who broke in but I later found out that it was just Detective Armstrong looking around" John looks at me funny

"Detective Armstrong?"

"Yeah, she told me she told you about the baby and that they think your w--"

"I thinks it time we go" John looks at Hannah

"Ok" he looks at Steve then to me with a smile

"My offer still stands, don't forget ok?" I nod

"I haven't forgotten" I watch as John and Hannah walk off then turn to Steve

"You ok?" he nods

"I don't think Miss Hannah wanted to hear that" Steve looks at me

"Sorry, didn't mean it like that"

"Stay away from him though, I have a gut feeling about him and it's not good"

"I don't, he's the one that looks for me", seeming satisfied with that answer Steve and I eat in a peaceful moment and head back to work.