Living With The Pain

The Start Of A Friendship and Investigation

Sal knocked on the door. "Yeah?" "Hey uh, Larry? Your mom said we should stop by and say Hi. We just moved here," Sal did the talking for me since he knows how I get around new people. It's not that I don't want to make new friends and talk. It's just because I'm shy. "Oh, yeah. Sure. Come in, door's open." Sal and I walked into Larry's room and spotted Larry. I know looks don't matter but the first thing I do when I meet someone is take in their appearance. Larry has tan skin, really dark eyes that look black and long brown hair.

"Woah! Cool masks!" Cool? Is he being serious? Sal was the first one to speak, "Thanks...it's a prosthetic though. It's crazy how you think it's cool since most people have said much worse." "How'd you get them?" "I'd rather not talk about it. Sensitive subject," Sal decided to change the subject because he knew since I didn't take my meds this morning, I could actually feel things like sadness,"Anyway, I'm Sal, my friends call me Sally Face and this is my twin sister Scarlett. We call her Scar-Face though." I waved to Larry and he waved back.

"So Larry, I like your shirt." Larry smiled,"Thanks! It stands for...Sally Face!" I smiled under my prosthetic at his joke. So far, he seemed to be a good person and friend. "I'm joking,"Larry continued,"it actually stands for Sanity's Fall. Do you like Metal?" Sal shrugged,"I dunno." Larry shook his head,"We've gotta fix that. Here listen to this." A Sanity's Fall song started playing and soon Larry, Sal and I were all head banging along to the music. When the song was over Sal began to ask more questions.

"Do you know about anything that happened in 403?" "SH! Not so loud, man!" Larry said and Sal quickly apologized. "I was there. I was helping Mrs. Sanderson when he came in yelling like a lunatic. He cut open her neck and cleaned up quick then left. I was so scared all I could do was watch from the cracked door of the bathroom. "So you know who did it?" Sal asked. "Yeah. It was Charley from 204," Larry said, "Why didn't you tell the cops,"Sal asked. "I tried, dude. Said they wouldn't investigate or interfere unless they had some sort of evidence," Larry explained.

Sal looked at something on Larry's dresser,"What the hell is this thing?" I looked at what Sal was looking at,"No way! It's a police scanner. How'd you get it?!" "That's a long story for another time...but you just gave me an idea. If I make a call for like a robbery or something, then maybe the cops will scatter out and you two could go investigate 403! You'd have to be upstairs when I do it though, we can't waste time," Larry explained.

"I mean, I'm down to investigate," I said. "Good! Because I wasn't going to investigate a crime scene. I don't want to go to jail," Sal smiled at me. "Hey! No fair!" I stuck my tongue out at him and he stuck his tongue out at me back. "Don't worry, Scarlett. I'll tell you when the cops leave and warn you when they come back," Larry handed me a walkie talkie and I nodded and turned it over in my hands. "Oh, and I forgot to mention to you guys that if you tell Mr. Addison, 'Addison Tea, please and thank you.' He'll give you some tea that I absolutely hate," Larry explained as I kept turning the walkie talkie in my hands. Don't worry, sis. You've got this," Sal said. I just shrugged and headed upstairs to my room.

  On my way up I spotted Lisa. "Hey Lisa!" "Oh Hi, Scar. How are you doing?" Lisa asked. "I'm doing great. Sal and I met Larry. We all got along," I told her. "Good! I knew you'd hit it off," Lisa smiled." "So...Lisa are these Apartments haunted?" "Haunted? Scar. I've worked here for a long time now and I haven't heard or seen any ghosts, ghouls or goblins," Lisa explained. "Oh ok...I'll see ya later Lisa." "Goodbye, Scar!" Lisa waved and I waved back before going to get some tea from Mr. Addison.

  After getting tea from Addison, I got a little brave and went to Charley's room to talk. "Is that Addison Tea? Hand it here!" Charley said and I raised an eyebrow at him before handing him the tea. The second he drank the tea he passed out, which gave me an idea. I walked over to Charley's Glitter Pony collection and immediately looked at all the ponies. "Hey!" I jumped slightly at Charley's voice and looked at him. "You weren't thinking about touching my collection were you? I was started to like you." I shook my head,"Not at all Charley. I was just...admiring your collection before I headed home for the day. Bye Charley!" I left without another word because