“Some doors shouldn’t be opened. But this one… it was already waiting for me.”
We never used it—it was a narrow, dusty space with a single overhead bulb that hadn’t worked in years. It only ever held a few boxes from the last tenant.
Or at least, that’s what I thought.
The Sound Inside
I pressed my ear to the door. Silence. Then—scrape… scrape… like something being dragged slowly across the floor.
“Mira?” I whispered. My voice cracked.
No reply.
I hesitated, phone in hand, ready to call the police. But something stopped me. If Mira was in there, she might not have time to wait for help.
I twisted the handle.
What I Saw
The room was empty. Almost.
In the corner, there was a large, black trunk I’d never seen before. Its metal edges were scratched, and its lock was broken.
The scraping sound came again—from inside the trunk.
The Trunk Opens
I crouched down, hands trembling, and slowly lifted the lid.
It wasn’t Mira.
Inside were:
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A bundle of photographs, each showing the hallway outside our apartment.
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A set of gloves identical to Adrian’s.
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And a folded piece of paper with my name written on it in Mira’s handwriting.
I unfolded it.
Five words, scrawled in red ink:
"He knows you’re alone."
The Footsteps
Before I could process what that meant, I heard footsteps—heavy, slow—coming from the apartment door behind me.
And this time… I knew it wasn’t Mira.
[TO BE CONTINUED…]
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