Apartment 13A

Chapter 1

1957 - A Beginning

Apartment 13A on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. A single scream echoed out in the night. Awoken neighbors contacted the police, bums gather around, death is in the air and the tenet of apartment 13A is carried out on a gurney covered by a blood soaked white sheet, escorted by police and medical examiners who gave the approximate time of death and such.

Facts turn to stories, stories turn to rumors, rumors turn to tales, and tales turn to legends, and legends turn to myths. Nevertheless, it is a beginning of the tale of Apartment 13A and the future tenets who will inhabit its walls.

2014 - Mitch Hale

Mitch woke up, from yet another sleepless night in his dorm room. His neighbor, Darren Harolding, or Darren the Jerk as Mitch had come to call him, apparently had a girl over the previous night and apparently she was a screamer. Fun for Darren the Jerk but a sleepless night for Mitch Hale

He slowly sat up in bed, and he was alone as usual, wiping the sleep from his eyes as any college student would. After sitting up in bed for ten minutes arguing with himself whether he should go back to sleep or get up and get to class, he finally got up, deciding that he needed to get to class despite the two (or was it three?) hours of sleep he got the previous night. Mitch was no sufferer of insomnia, he slept like a baby every night, well not counting the nights Darren the Jerk had another girl over which he probably picked up from some frat party, but when he didn't sleep much he woke up in a seriously P.O.'d mood. Definitely not in the mood to take bull from anyone, including Darren the Jerk.

After getting up he crossed his neat room to his closet and sleepily pulled out some clothes to wear, which was the same as always: black and blue, blue and black. In that sense Mitch was a very plain, goody-two-shoes kind of guy: he always wore the same two colors, never drank or went to any parties, did his homework, and lived a neat, respectable life. Just an every-day-Joe, who happened to be a goody-two-shoes. Once he put on his clothes, Mitch went out of his room and into the bathroom that he and Darren the Jerk shared. Mitch opened the door while buttoning up his shirt without looking up and walked in towards the vanity where his personal items were (i.e. shaving cream, razor, tooth brush, tooth paste, deodorant, etc.) all without even glancing up.

"Damn buttons." He muttered under his breath. He loved his button up shirts, but on tired mornings like this he had a really hard time just buttoning them up right.But he managed. He looked up at he mirror and instantly jumped in surprise. Behind him was a rather attractive girl in underwear staring at him as if he walked in while she was doing something private. But she wasn't, she was just standing there in the corner of the room, not doing anything. Regardless, Mitch blushed up and began to leave the room.

"Geez! I'm sorry!" He said as he walked out of the bathroom. She stopped him by gently grabbing his arm with her small arm.

"No, don't worry about it. I just needed this." She said as she opened a drawer and produced her hand with a rubber in it. Mitch blushed more and nodded in response and all too soon she was gone. Her hips swaying provocatively. Mitch shook his head, attempting to clear his head and shut the door quietly. After calming himself for nearly ten minutes he shaved and brushed his teeth, eradicating any morning breath with a vengeance. Then he left the bathroom and headed back to his room for his backpack, jacket, and car keys. Apparently Darren the Jerk was getting some action with the cutie from the bathroom cause Mitch heard those kind of noises coming from Darren's room as Mitch headed towards his room.

In the few seconds it took Mitch to get to his room, the noises were far louder, like they had been last night at the ungodly hour of two in the morning. Mitch let out a exasperated grunt and snatched his backpack and keys after roughly putting on his black leather jacket. Slamming the door on his way out, Mitch left his room then the dorm room itself.