Efforteen

5 Locked Out

With relief, Finster heard the men leave and go down the stairs. The girl pulled open her hiding place and climbed out over Finster. She still had not spoken. He struggled to his feet and followed her into the other room. She angrily surveyed the mess the men had left.
Finster tried to speak, but she ignored him as she began to clean up the mess. She was a slight woman, and quite young. Her most notable feature was her head of brilliant red hair, now a bit disheveled. Finster thought back to the flash of color he had seen in the window earlier.

"I'm sorry to..." Finster began, but she was ignoring him. She began straitening up the room. It was as if he wasn't even there. But she had seen him, in the closet, and took him into her hiding place. Finally, he touched her shoulder.

She turned, and looked at him as if for the first time. They were near the doorway into the hall. Before he could speak, she had pushed him out of the apartment, and slammed the door. He heard the lock click.


*The Fuzz realizes that if someone were to actually read this stuff, they would be getting it sorta backwards. There is a link in the sidebar, "Finster", that will take one to another page with this mess in it's proper order.