The Locket | Hero Fiennes Tiffin

This Day is Getting Better and Better

Hero

I just need to bring the last few boxes up from my brothers car, and then I am officially moved out of the family home. I walk down the short corridor and down the stairs. Why did the lifts in this place have to be broken today of all days? It's been a pain having to take the boxes up six flights of stairs, but it would have been more of a pain doing it without the help of my mum and brother.

I reach my brothers car and take one of the last three boxes whilst he and my mum take the other two. We make our way back inside my new apartment building and climb the six flights of stairs, then walk down the short corridor to my apartment. I get my keys out and unlock the door. We walk into my new apartment and dump the boxes into the hallway.

"Thank you, for all your help today" I say
"It's no problem, I still can't believe my middle child is all grown up and moving out of my house" my mum replies with her eyes glazing over. I think she is going to start crying again.

Before she can start crying, I give her a hug and say I'll be fine. Then my brother starts complaining that they need to get home, so they leave and It's just me and my dog Diesel left in the flat.

I decide after a few minutes that I should take Diesel on a short walk, since he hasn't been on one today yet because I have been moving in and also at the hospital most of the day. I grab his lead from by the front door along with my keys and we leave to go on a short walk down the road.

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After we get back from the walk we go back to my flat and when we reach the door. I see that my new neighbour is there, I'm awkward around new people so I don't say anything and get my keys out.

"Hi, did you just move in next door?" The new neighbour asks me. She seems nice.
"Yeah, I'm Hero nice to meet you" I turn around and reply
"I'm Ellie nice to meet you. Do you want to come in? We're getting a dominoes tonight" she says back
"Erm, yeah alright I just need to put my dog in and I'll come over" I reply
"You can bring him in if you want to, we don't mind dogs"
"Yeah okay, then" whose we? I'm guessing she has a flat mate

Amelia

I get out of the bath after half an hour and wrap a towel around myself. The bath did the trick and helped me feel relaxed. I dry myself off and then I put on my clean lounge clothes that I brought through, my locket and my black glasses.

Once I'm ready I hang my towels on the rail and pickup my things off of the floor and counter. As I walk out of the bathroom I stub my toe on the threshold and end up dropping my wineglass that is half full of Pepsi onto the hardwood floor. It smashes and splashes onto the white hallway rug "FOR FUCKS SAKE" I yell angered that yet another thing has happened to me today. The thing that makes this even bloody better is I don't have shoes on, so I can't even clean it up right now.

"Are you okay?" I hear Ellie shout from the living room. I can tell she's trying not to laugh.

"No, I'm not. Today has been shit. First my alarm didn't go off so I was going to be late for work, then you took ages in the shower so I had to skip it, then the lifts were broken so I had to run down the bloody stairs, then my Oyster card needed topped up and the person in front of me didn't know how to use the stupid machine, after that I almost had a panic attack and fainted on the tube, when I got to work my friend was so tired and it made me feel bad, then my second patient today was a judgemental bitch, then my third patient was my childhood best friend who I haven't seen since I moved away and didn't bother to contact me ever again, even today, the rest of the day was fine but then coming home someone spilt scalding hot coffee on me which slightly burned my skin and stained my uniform. So just now was only the cherry on top" I rant