INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 49: HIDING!

It was already late at night when SolHi finally left HanSol's apartment. She did that, although she would have liked to rest at least that night. The reason? It was necessary to replace Ha Rin, who kept an eye on Jackal after they decided to follow him everywhere and find at least something about him.

Before leaving the apartment, judging by Ha Rin's calm voice, SolHi thought she'd have a quiet night, without some adventure. Yet, she understood very soon that she'd been so wrong. The reason? The moment the door closed behind her, she spotted a shadow hiding in the hall's darkness, sheltering and trying not to be seen by her.

Sheltering, the shadow had been pretty agile. Even so, she couldn't deceive SolHi, and this happened because of the light with sensors that suddenly turned on when SolHi opened the door. Thus, the one who decided to spy on SolHi didn't have time to shelter quickly enough. Then, there was one more detail that let SolHi know she wasn't alone in that hall at that late hour at night: the lamp from her right, which was about 50 meters from the door, was now on then off, hinting to her that someone was there. Yet, even if she understood that, SolHi didn't return to the apartment. She just turned her back to the intruder and, as calmly as possible, trying not to give herself in front of the one who was following her, she moved away from the door.

Once in front of the stairwell door, SolHi stopped and looked to her right, hoping to see the one who was following her. Yet, the hall was empty, something that made her think. Not even after about a minute and a half of staying in front of that door, SolHi did not see anyone following her. „I've probably been wrong and seen ghosts where there are none," she told herself, finally opening the door and heading toward the stairs.

When the door closed with a bang behind her, SolHi stopped again. She even squeezed her hand around the wooden railing of the stairs that led to the first floor of the building. She did that, feeling the fear sneaking into her bones. What she was afraid of? She wasn't so sure.

By doing this, she understood that it would have been safer for her to be cautious and returned to the door, opening it slowly afterward. Trying to see if the intruder was around, SolHi only peeped her head through the half-open door. Yet, there was nobody in the hall, and this made her frown. „I hear no footsteps around," she thought. „The lights are also off. Was it a neighbor who rushed to enter the apartment and I thought that someone was after me? It might be. Yet, it's strange because I heard no door opening or closing there."

This thought, of hearing nobody getting in or out of an apartment after the shadow sheltered, convinced SolHi that she might not have had visions. Even so, she realized that she also couldn't check if it was true and that there weren't ghosts but only real people. Why? Nobody appeared in the hall after she entered the stairwell, even if she waited by the door enough time. Yet, aware that her sixth sense wasn't warning her in vain, SolHi decided to check it and make sure she was free to go to their hideout that night.

Getting out of the stairwell, so suddenly that she'd also been surprised by her courage, SolHi headed toward the elevator that was about 30 meters to her left, right after she exited the door. In front of the elevator, pretending of being damn calm, SolHi pushed the button. Then, she pretended to check her phone, although, on the sly, she kept looking left and right out of the corner of her eye, trying to spot a movement or something. Yet, not even the fly moved through the air after that.

This didn't deceive her though. She felt with all her body that someone was there and was after her. That's why she suddenly jerked from the spot she was when the elevator doors opened. She didn't enter the elevator but headed toward the stairwell again, closing the door with a bang behind her again.

The moment SolHi ran into the stairwell, she heard someone saying in the distance of the hall „Damn it!" She clearly heard those words, although the man who was following her only muttered them. How could she hear them? Because the corridor was empty at that late hour at night, and the echo of the room brought the meaning of those words to her ears, words that made her smile eventually. The reason? She made sure she hadn't been wrong when she suspected that someone was behind her, just as she hadn't been wrong trusting her sixth sense, and this meant only one thing - for the moment, she was safe.