Appartment Room 221

Step…Step…Step

The sound of a person's step was very clear on this empty room that was full of dust.

"Ah… although I know I could just let someone else do this troublesome thing but I am too bored so I want to do it!" the person complained while waving his hand around.

This person is Michael Febrianto, he is an apartment story owner, he just finished his high school a month ago and he found a collage life was just to unappealing because the collage around here is not up to his standard and the one that's up to standard is too far from his apartment story so he decided to not go to college.

In the one month he spend around his apartment story, he only lazes around in his own apartment, taking the monthly rent, even though he enjoyed his life just watching film, anime or reading manga and novel it became a little boring when he did that all day in one month so he decided to do the real apartment owner job that he usually hired someone to do so, that's is checking the apartment itself.

While doing this he found out an apartment that's under someone's name even though the rent was already paid 7 years in the advance 2 years ago, the detail of the renter is dubious so Michael went to personally check the place. He was clueless why his parents that have left the world 1 year ago would agree to do so but it indeed provides him with a lot of money.

When he arrived there with the master key, he knocked the door several times and every time he knocked he would do it seven time with a loud and clear knock while waiting at least 10 minutes between each period but even after 30 minutes or so the door didn't opened.

So Michael shouted out "Excuse me…, I am going in if you won't answer me anytime soon!" after shouting that Michael waited for a dozen minutes and so he grew irritated, even if he is bored he wouldn't just spend more than half an hour standing here if it didn't looked interesting so with impatience Michael opened the apartment, he was greeted by a wind full of dust to the face, after coughing his throat out, Michael opened the door wide open to let the wind in.

His chough was so loud that the renter beside the room 221, the room 222 opened his door and looked out, after finding out it was the owner he asked in concern about what was happening but Michael just brushed him off while cleaning any dust that got into his eyes, so the room 222 renter closed the door leaving Michael alone.

After calming himself down, Michael looked inside the apartment room and it was indeed full of dust with no sign of anyone ever entering at least in 6 month but the weird thing is the dust in the room was so accumulated that it looks like as if nothing ever entered here but it was impossible right after all at least some ant or mosquitos or cockroach maybe even rats would infiltrated this places.

So Michael stepped into the apartment room while still wearing his shoes.

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Now back to the present.

Michael switched on the light and it looks like the light bulb still works and the light turned on.

While Waving his with one of his hand and the other covering his mouth Michael stepped into the living room and he was astonished because the living room was bare of anything but the thing that have been built into the room, as this apartment room was designed with a family in mind there was several room.

Michael then opened the rooms and finally he entered the biggest bedroom designed for the parent's room. Finally, he found something that didn't originally belong to the building itself and the sign of someone ever been here.

In the room, there was a bookshelves that only have the middle row filled with books and just like any other placed in this apartment room 221, it was full of dust but weirdly there was no bed, chair, table, or any furniture in fact only a wooden bookshelves full of thick looking book that could be mistaken for encyclopaedia, well perhaps it is.

Michael looked back at his footsteps that very clear and standing out amidst the dust and the door leading toward outside before he turned his attention to the bookshelves inside the bedroom.

With curiosity overwhelming his mind, Michael stepped in and walked toward the bookshelves, Michael walked carefully to not stir the dust on the floor. Finally, he reached the only possession or any sign that the even this place have been rented.

Michael carefully covered his face with one hand leaving a small gap for his eyes too look before using the other hand to wipe the dust covering the spines of the book where the tittle of the book is usually written.

After one full wipe just as he expected before the dust on it flew around and thankfully, he had already prepared for it. So Michael continued to wipe several more times before he waited for the dust to settle down. After the dust settled down there was a dust covered figure of Michael along with the spines of book fully uncovered.

After patting down the dust on his body Michael finally turned his attention toward the book while patting his hands to let the dust flew down.

Michael looked one book after another but he was disappointed by the lack of tittle between all of the spines of the book in the bookshelves.

Michael scanned the middle row of the bookshelves that's full of book once again before pausing on the middle of the middle row of the bookshelves.

Michael found a book with a tittle that he weirdly missed out. Michael was confused for a second before his curiosity took over so without any second thought he grabbed the book.