Apartment 14F by Saunders C.M

Author:Saunders, C.M. [Saunders, C.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Jerry sat alone in the tiny living room for a long time, turning things over in his mind. He just couldn't bring himself to go back into the bedroom. Not now. Not knowing what he knew.

Night would be coming soon. If he thought things were bad now, everything would be intensified by the impending darkness. People often said things seem better in the morning. What was said less often was the the opposite also applied.

He toyed with the idea of spending the night and possibly the foreseeable future at one of the many hotels in the area. But that was a ridiculous idea. It would also be running away. What would granddad say about that? Leaving the problem for someone else to deal with, like Mr. Chris Rowe had presumably done, was a coward's way out. He had to man up.

There had to be another solution, and after a while, it came to him. He made a phone call.

“Yin Tao, I have a small problem.”

“Jelly! What problem?”

“It's nothing major. But could you possibly come over and do some translating work for me tonight, if you have time?” Jerry admired the way Yin Tao was always so enthusiastic about everything, and prepared to tackle difficulties head on. He just didn't relish the idea of explaining that he thought his apartment was haunted over the phone.

“Yes, of course,” came the answer. “I glad to help. I come quick. Help you with small problem.”

Jerry hoped Yin Tao really did come quick. He had an idea. While he had been feverishly scouring the internet for clues and seeking help from blind old fortune-tellers with a penchant for licking people's hands, he'd failed to consider the more accessible options available to him. Only in the last few minutes did he realize that the answers to all his questions probably lay right under his nose the entire time.

Sometimes, you can't see the wood for the trees.

True to his word, less than thirty minutes later Yin Tao arrived at Jerry's apartment having cycled from the home he shared with his parents over in the next district. He'd obviously recovered from that afternoon's mildly traumatic events as the broad smile was back. It was good to see, and Jerry had given up trying to work out what the guy was so perennially happy about. It was an endearing quality, which made it even more regrettable that Yin Tao probably wouldn't be smiling quite so much by the time the night was through.

“What small problem, Teacher?” he asked, still out of breath from the cycle ride. “Translation?”

“To be perfectly honest, there's no translating work.”

“Oh? Jelly lie?”

“Yes. Kind of,” began Jerry, feeling his face redden. “But I do want you to help me with something.” He then proceeded to tell Yin Tao everything. The unexplained disappearance of Chris Rowe, the awful nightmares, the fleeting visions, the strange noises and smells, the mysterious hair he had found in the washbasin, and finally how it all seemed to fit in with what the blind fortune teller had told him that day.

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