The Box, Chapter 5
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Naina heard a knock on the door the next morning. It was Thursday. She froze in place. No one other than her landlady knocked on her door, and the landlady only did that after checking with Naina that she could come by. Naina wanted to make sure the knock was not on her neighbor’s door. She waited and sure enough, it came again. It was definitely on her door.
She enjoyed living in her apartment. She spent hours staring at the exposed brick wall and hardwood floors that had been there since the mid-1800s. When the building was converted into apartments in 2008, the owners kept the exposed piping in the high ceilings. It made her one-bedroom apartment feel spacious. She loved living there even more when they installed a double-stacked washer and dryer in the unit. She cherished no longer having to spend time going back and forth to check on her laundry or washing her clothes in the same machines as the other tenants.
At that moment, she hated that her door didn’t have a peephole and she couldn’t see who was knocking. She opened the door slowly, peering with one eye before committing to engage.
“Hey, there neighbor. Remember me? We met yesterday.” It was Raiya. He smiled.
