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Chapter 5 by Rowenar Rowenar

Can they help?

What's the opposite of help?

Her neighbour, an elderly woman, peered at her. Colleen squirmed, shifting back at the judgement in the woman's eyes.

It wasn't her fault, ok! She hadn't planned to get locked out, especially not like this, she'd just wanted a shower. She fidgeted awkwardly, mind reeling from an attempt to work out a way back in.

"I thought your apartment was down there," the woman said, gesturing down the hall.

What? Colleen frowned.

"N-no," Colleen said. "Oh! No, that's a friend, I visit her sometimes."

The woman continued to peer at her judgementally, making Colleen squeak. Then:

"Someone call the police!" the woman shouted suddenly. Colleen wouldn't have thought she ha dthe ability to make so much noise in her. "Someone's trying to break in, call them!"

"N-no, I'm not- This is my-" Colleen stuttered.

Her eyes widened in horror. She couldn't explain things to the police like this! It wasn't like she could explain the truth as it was, short of 'Oh, yeah, I'm a member of a secret organisation of ninjas.' But even without that, she was not going to talk to the police naked!

Frantically she shook her head, trying to convince the woman to stay silent. Instead, her elderly neighbour glared at her in some kind of triumph.

"You can't pull the wool over my eyes," the woman sneered.

"I-I'm not, I swear I'm not!" Colleen said. She raised her voice, flushing. "I'm just trying to get into my own apartment! Don't call the cops!"

"She's lying!" the woman shouted. Then, more levelly; "If it was your apartment, you'd have a key."

Colleen looked at the woman incredulously, then down at herself. Where exactly did the woman think she'd keep a key? Did she think this was intentional?!

Colleen squirmed, then yelped as someone else poked their head out of their door to get a look at the source of all the ruckus. Colleen desperately hunched over, trying to take up as little space as she could.

Sometimes she just wanted the earth to swallow her. She stared back, mortified and ****-

And then she heard the sirens. Oh god, they couldn't be here that fast could they? It had to be something else; not that she wanted to risk it. Oh god, of all the days for a rapid response time...

Thoroughly refusing to be caught by the cops like this, Colleen started running away from the sneering woman, sobbing slightly as she showed off her ass behind her. She didn't even know where she was going, just-

She wasn't going to stay there! She'd have to figure out another way into her apartment.

What's the plan?

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