sandmartin
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The Flat - Closed
OOC: The thread is now closed to chris2c4u and sandmartin. Read on and enjoy - thanks for your interest.
IC:
At twenty years of age I lost my parents to a car crash. Their joint funeral took place a week later, organised entirely by myself as there were no other family members to assist me through the traumatic time.
A month after I still could not bring myself to stay in the house that had once been our family home. I slept mostly in hotels and bed and breakfasts as I tried to pull my life together and put it back on track. I decided to sell the property and move out, away from all the memories and heartache.
Three months later I felt like a millionaire following the sale of the house. I purchased myself a brand spanking new car and decided to move north, for no particular reason other than pure escapism. I had no job lined up, though I had more than sufficient funds to look after myself provided I spent wisely.
I travelled from one place to another with no definite plan in mind other than finding somewhere I liked with a place to rent that would enable me to find a job and put my life back together. I eventually found a big old Victorian house that had been converted into six spacious and roomy apartments. One was available and I fell in love with the place immediately, signed the six month minimum lease, paid my deposit and first months rent and moved straight in.
My first week was spent seriously shopping for furnishings for my new home. It had two bedrooms, a lounge, a kitchen/dinning room and a bathroom with a shower and a bath. I was kept busy receiving deliveries up to my second floor apartment, when I wasn’t taking delivery I was shopping.
Of the six apartments, I seemed to be the youngest occupant. What little I learned came from the coming and goings that I witnessed. Apart from the elderly lady who lived across the landing from me and introduced herself by way of inviting me in for a cup of tea on the day I arrived, everyone appeared to keep themselves pretty much to themselves. There were at least two bachelors living at the house, one directly beneath me. An old couple on the ground floor and I didn’t know who else was left.
A couple of weeks after moving in I was poring over the paper searching the classifieds for a job, music played quietly on my new hi-fi and I had the bath running. The paper had several jobs circled, some had been scribbled out again. The trouble was I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and nothing leapt out of the page with my name written all over it.
I gave up and made myself a cup of tea, hit the remote and switched the tv on, not that there was much on – is there ever? So I channel hopped for a while. Pounding on my door startled me with its ferocity. I jumped to my feet, with my heart in my mouth, dropping my now empty cup on the floor. The banging persisted, urging me to hurry in case any of my new neighbours were disturbed.
I opened my door and ducked just in time to avoid his fist as it resumed his assault on my door. He glared at me angrily for a brief second. “There’s water pouring through my ceiling!” He raged.
Oh my god! The bath – I’d felt it running. I fled to the bathroom leaving him standing at my door.
“Shit! Shit! Shit!” I cried, paddling across my sodden bathroom to turn the tap off. I plunged my hand into the bottom of the overflowing bath and pulled the plug, then turned around to survey the mess to find him standing at my bathroom door.
“You stupid little cow.” He shouted.
“Don’t you yell at me!” I cried back at him.
“Don’t I…” He span on his heel, his voice dropping slightly. “Follow me.”
I walked out after him as he quickly crossed my apartment and trotted down the stairs into his apartment. I had little chance to admire his décor as we passed through, other than to note it was expensively furnished. I stood at his kitchen door and stared in horror at the mess. A huge chunk of the plaster on his ceiling had given way and water was everywhere. He pointed at the mess.
“You do realise you’ll have to pay for this?”
“I can’t afford it.” I lied.
“Claim on your insurance then.”
I shook my head, I hadn’t organised any insurance cover yet, though it was on my list.
“Jesus!” He swore. “I’ll have to tell the agents in the morning – they won’t like it.”
He was right, they wouldn’t. I hadn’t been in the place a month they and all ready I had caused damage running to a couple of thousand, maybe more.
“Sorry.” I replied pathetically.
“Here, grab some towels, you’d best help me clean it up.”
He threw a couple of towels towards me and I lay them out to soak some of the water up. In an instant they were drenched and I was wringing them out in his sink. It took us nearly an hour and a half to clear the worst of it up. Even then I was on my knees still scrubbing the floor dry, my jeans and tee shirt were soaked through and I still had my bathroom to do.
He watched me. I caught his eyes following the curve of my bottom as I was down on the floor on my hands and knees.
“What are you going to do?” I asked him, drawing his attention away from my tightly clad and soaked backside.
OOC: The thread is now closed to chris2c4u and sandmartin. Read on and enjoy - thanks for your interest.
IC:
At twenty years of age I lost my parents to a car crash. Their joint funeral took place a week later, organised entirely by myself as there were no other family members to assist me through the traumatic time.
A month after I still could not bring myself to stay in the house that had once been our family home. I slept mostly in hotels and bed and breakfasts as I tried to pull my life together and put it back on track. I decided to sell the property and move out, away from all the memories and heartache.
Three months later I felt like a millionaire following the sale of the house. I purchased myself a brand spanking new car and decided to move north, for no particular reason other than pure escapism. I had no job lined up, though I had more than sufficient funds to look after myself provided I spent wisely.
I travelled from one place to another with no definite plan in mind other than finding somewhere I liked with a place to rent that would enable me to find a job and put my life back together. I eventually found a big old Victorian house that had been converted into six spacious and roomy apartments. One was available and I fell in love with the place immediately, signed the six month minimum lease, paid my deposit and first months rent and moved straight in.
My first week was spent seriously shopping for furnishings for my new home. It had two bedrooms, a lounge, a kitchen/dinning room and a bathroom with a shower and a bath. I was kept busy receiving deliveries up to my second floor apartment, when I wasn’t taking delivery I was shopping.
Of the six apartments, I seemed to be the youngest occupant. What little I learned came from the coming and goings that I witnessed. Apart from the elderly lady who lived across the landing from me and introduced herself by way of inviting me in for a cup of tea on the day I arrived, everyone appeared to keep themselves pretty much to themselves. There were at least two bachelors living at the house, one directly beneath me. An old couple on the ground floor and I didn’t know who else was left.
A couple of weeks after moving in I was poring over the paper searching the classifieds for a job, music played quietly on my new hi-fi and I had the bath running. The paper had several jobs circled, some had been scribbled out again. The trouble was I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and nothing leapt out of the page with my name written all over it.
I gave up and made myself a cup of tea, hit the remote and switched the tv on, not that there was much on – is there ever? So I channel hopped for a while. Pounding on my door startled me with its ferocity. I jumped to my feet, with my heart in my mouth, dropping my now empty cup on the floor. The banging persisted, urging me to hurry in case any of my new neighbours were disturbed.
I opened my door and ducked just in time to avoid his fist as it resumed his assault on my door. He glared at me angrily for a brief second. “There’s water pouring through my ceiling!” He raged.
Oh my god! The bath – I’d felt it running. I fled to the bathroom leaving him standing at my door.
“Shit! Shit! Shit!” I cried, paddling across my sodden bathroom to turn the tap off. I plunged my hand into the bottom of the overflowing bath and pulled the plug, then turned around to survey the mess to find him standing at my bathroom door.
“You stupid little cow.” He shouted.
“Don’t you yell at me!” I cried back at him.
“Don’t I…” He span on his heel, his voice dropping slightly. “Follow me.”
I walked out after him as he quickly crossed my apartment and trotted down the stairs into his apartment. I had little chance to admire his décor as we passed through, other than to note it was expensively furnished. I stood at his kitchen door and stared in horror at the mess. A huge chunk of the plaster on his ceiling had given way and water was everywhere. He pointed at the mess.
“You do realise you’ll have to pay for this?”
“I can’t afford it.” I lied.
“Claim on your insurance then.”
I shook my head, I hadn’t organised any insurance cover yet, though it was on my list.
“Jesus!” He swore. “I’ll have to tell the agents in the morning – they won’t like it.”
He was right, they wouldn’t. I hadn’t been in the place a month they and all ready I had caused damage running to a couple of thousand, maybe more.
“Sorry.” I replied pathetically.
“Here, grab some towels, you’d best help me clean it up.”
He threw a couple of towels towards me and I lay them out to soak some of the water up. In an instant they were drenched and I was wringing them out in his sink. It took us nearly an hour and a half to clear the worst of it up. Even then I was on my knees still scrubbing the floor dry, my jeans and tee shirt were soaked through and I still had my bathroom to do.
He watched me. I caught his eyes following the curve of my bottom as I was down on the floor on my hands and knees.
“What are you going to do?” I asked him, drawing his attention away from my tightly clad and soaked backside.
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