Lust Front

"APARTMENT RAIDERS"

Juliet is waiting by the dock with her feet dipped in the water. She's calmly looking in the distance, waiting for me.

I approach her and just sit down beside her.

"You made it. What did you wanna tell me?"

"Your sister. She's gone."

"Kay."

"This is serious. I know she's a big indoor person but this is a really crucial matter."

"Why's that?"

"She hasn't come to work in days. She'll move out by the end of the week if she can't pay her rent."

"Oh, shit. That's not good."

"Yeah, so what do we do? Where could she be?"

"Have you tried her apartment?"

"Yeah, but she didn't answer."

"We gotta go there. Come on."

Juliet gets up and puts on her sandals, and starts running way before me.

We need to find Emilia, fast.

When we get there, we try knocking on the door.

"Hello? Emilia?"

"My name isn't Emilia, my name's David!"

"Don't give a shit! Where's the previous tenant?!"

"I'm not telling you!"

Juliet backs up and it looks like she's about to break the door down.

"Wait, this could be a false trail. Juliet, please don't do anything stupid."

"Nonsense. We have to know!"

She runs up and slams her heel into the area above the door handle and the wood splits slightly.

"Fuck, almost down."

She gives it another hard kick and I see the bolt lock completely fall off.

"There. Let's find her."

The guy backs away from both of us with his hands up, like we're robbing him. But we're looking for something more valuable than money.

"She's gotta have left something. The new owner's still unpacking stuff."

Most of the apartment doesn't have anything belonging to Emilia remaining. But when I open the bathroom door, there's a horrible mess of blood at the sink.

"Oh, SHIT!"

A butterfly knife lies on the countertop, and it looks like that's the thing that did the deed.

I turn around and look at David.

"You didn't do this, did you?"

"NO! I just got here 30 minutes ago! I'm still moving my stuff!"

"Hmm. Juliet, this is her doing."

"Did she... cut herself?"

"Probably. We need to go."

I go to grab the knife on the counter, but Juliet stops me.

"HEY! Don't pick that up, are you retarded? We don't wanna get in trouble for that..."

"Right. Okay, we need to keep looking."

I follow Juliet out the door, ignoring David as we pass by.

David yells at us from where he is.

"Fucking apartment raiders... WHAT ABOUT MY DOOR?!"