We're All Just a Walking Travesty

You know that excitement you get when you’re moving. So happy to finally get out of mom and dad’s house. Well it was sorta exciting. Until now when I’m lugging boxes up the stairs to my new apartment.
My mom told me this was one of the safest complexes in Baltimore Maryland. So I of course took my opportunity when it was put in front of me.
I have a the money to afford this place because of my job. I work as a photographer, taking pictures of things when people tell me too.

Later on that night I was laying on the leather couch in my livingroom. I played around on my phone until I hear a bang coming from the hallway. I flinched then I heard laughing. By instinct I got up to look outside. I didn’t actually open my door, I just looked through the peep hole. I looked out and saw a brown eye trying to look in the small hole. I jumped back covering my mouth, horrified. I looked at the lock, it was locked. Than I realised you can’t see through those holes from the outside. I took a deep breath then looked back through the hole. The eye was gone, but replaced with a face. It was a boy, or man I should say. He looked about 23, 24. I heard two voices whispering, so he had an accomplice.
“Are you sure someone’s in there?” The accomplice asked the man.
“Yeah, Jerry told me I’d get a new neighbor and she’d be here today. I just wanna say hi! And see if she’s hot.” For some reason I blushed, then realised Jerry was the landlord. So this guy was my neighbor.
He was quite cute, so i’m not complaining. I don’t have a very good view right now, but for what I see he’s not bad.
“Jack for all you know it could be a 78 year old women.” Jack was his name.
“Our, she could be totally hot and 23, Alex.” Jack mocked his tone.
I listened to them bicker for a while before I heard a knock at the door. I saw it coming, so I don’t know why i flinched.
“Hello? Anybody home?” I slowed my breathing as he continued knocking.
“Give it up man, she’s not home.” I heard him pout and eventually footsteps followed by a loud door shutting. I let out a long breath, not realising I had it in.



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I woke up the next morning feeling tired and sluggish, I lugged out of bed and slammed my hand on the buzzer going off across the room. After it kept making the noise I unplugged it and chucked it at the wall, completely not wanting to deal with it. It had hit a shelf I hung yesterday causing books to fall and the noise was louder than intended. I immediately regretted throwing it, it was a gift from my mother after all. A housewarming gift she called it. To replace her for waking me up every morning.
“Jesus christ what the fuck!?” A person yelled from the wall. I jumped out of my thoughts and realised I have neighbors. I guess his bedroom wall is right by mine because I heard movement.
I pressed my ear to the wall too hear him better.
“Fucking 9 o’clock god damn too fucking early.” He grumbled. I recognised it as the snoop from last night. He must not be a morning person.
“Sorry!” I yelled through the wall.
“You live!” I laughed at the stranger and walked into the bathroom to get ready for work.

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“Can you move a little bit closer to the tree?” I instructed the boy. He moved by the tree and I snapped a few pictures.
Today I’m going senior pictures for a group of students at the local high school. This kid was the last one.
“Okay do you wanna go ahead and to the thing with the creek?”
“Yeah that sounds good.” He replied. He wanted to a picture where he jumps into the water from this rock kids always jump from.
We made our way down there and he got up on the rock.
“One, two three!” I yelled unenthusiastically as he jumped off of the rock. I snapped as many photos in a row as I could and he returned to shore.

“Okay so tonight I will go through and edit this, do some touch ups on them. I should have them done in few days since I’m working on so many other senior photos, I’ll call you when they’re done.”
“Thanks so much again, It was hard to find a photographer in such short notice.”
“Welcome Jake, see you around.” I smiled at the taller boy and began packing my camera as he walked away.




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Entering my apartment after a long day seemed completely natural considering it was my first time doing so with the new place. I looked at the leather couch and walked further into the room, dropping my keys down on the coffee table.
I had just sat down on the couch, when a loud knock sounded on the door.
I got up and looked through the peephole and was greeted by the same eyeball from yesterday. I grunted realizing I had to face the neighbor eventually.
I slowly opened the door and sighed loudly.

-Leanna.
Me and my best pal ever are co-writing this. We each are going to be writing the part of a different person because we're so original. Her parts are going to be better bc she's witty and a good writer and well, you read the chapter that I wrote.

Notes

-Leanna.
Me and my best pal ever are co-writing this. We each are going to be writing the part of a different person because we're so original. Her parts are going to be better bc she's witty and a good writer and well, you read the chapter that I wrote.
Sorry if there are any mistakes in my grammar and stuff i'm jsut naturally bad at taking my time