>>5800647The lock sticks as usual, but with a little jiggling the door at the top of the stairs swings open with a defeated creak! As the faint light from the alley creeps into the room ahead, Pepper’s eyes light up again like a pair of headlights…
“Woaaah….” She remarks, strolling in as if it were her own home, “You… you <span class="mu-i">live</span> here?”
You answer by flicking the light switch next to the door revealing your bohemian lair for the last few years. Past the door just to the left of the entryway sits an old leather couch and an equally-ancient coffee table–the myriad stains and scrapes turning it into an art piece of its own. A stack of dogeared textbooks, cookbooks, and martial arts manuals are stacked next to the right end of the couch–your end–creating an adhoc end table for all sorts of sundries, namely your favorite <span class="mu-s">COFFEE MUG</span> and the <span class="mu-s">TV REMOTE</span>!
Right, the TV… standing on a crooked stand you built in shop class a few years ago, the flatscreen is flanked by small piles of DVD and video game cartridges… along with an old <span class="mu-s">UBER SHINENCO</span> console and some controllers with the color worn out of their buttons.
“Where’d you get <span class="mu-i">that</span>?” Asks Pepper with renewed interest! “Looks… newish!”
It <span class="mu-i">was</span>, you nod as you help her take her jacket off and place it on the hooks you installed in the entryway, until the guy you bought it from lost hold of it offloading it from his <span class="mu-i">truck</span>... still works, you shrug as you give the dent in the top right part of the screen a loving rub, despite it all…
Past the <span class="mu-s">ENTERTAINMENT CENTER</span> lies a battered wooden wardrobe along with a few drawers for the clothes you couldn’t fit in the former. Next to that is the end table, of course, its surface crowded by a dusty desk lamp, a single coaster for drinks, and an alarm clock.
The bed, of course, sits next to it. Your cousin swears it’s a queen-size… queen of the <span class="mu-s">ANTS</span>, more like… Clad in some basic white sheets and a plaid comforter, it gets the job done… and there’s a little storage space below, so you can’t complain!
To anyone else it might seem shabby, but to you, well… it’s more <span class="mu-i">home</span> than your parent’s place was…
>CONTD. 