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DANGER FROM THE OTHER SIDE

WRITTEN BY NICHOLE HAINES

©2017 Nichole Haines

I thought it was a nice day to go up to New York City for the day and walk around and get some relaxing time from my data entry job sitting in front of a computer all day typing all day. I wanted to get away from my everyday boring life. I haven't been to New York city in years so I thought it would be nice to go and visit a museum for the day and just relax. I decided to tell my boss that I wanted to request a few days off to get a few nice days of vacation time in. I decided that it was probably best to wait to request off until the end of the week. I looked at the clock and noticed it was almost time for me to clock out for the day. I got out of my computer chair and walked toward the building elevators. I was on the fifty-fifth floor and I had to go down to the ground level of my office building to get to my car in the parking garage. I got on the elevator and the doors closed. I pushed the ground level button, but the elevator stopped on the thirty-fifth floor. The elevator doors slowly opened and a man with a business suit on got on the elevator. He had dark brown hair and brown eyes. He looked like he was in his mid 30's. He smiled at me as he walked in and the doors closed. As the elevator was slowly going down to the ground level floor, he looked at me and said "Summer you know who I am and I want you to accompany me." As he said that my heart began to race because fear came over me. He looked at me and laughed in an evil tone to himself and then he got off on the twentieth floor. I decided to get something to drink at the cafeteria because I felt weak and felt like I was going to pass out. As I was standing there somebody tapped me on the shoulder, so I turned around. It was my old Russian boyfriend Anton from years ago. I haven't seen him in years since the year 2000. I asked him what he was doing in my building and he said he was there to update some computer software in the building. It was really nice to see him after all these years. He told me he was going through a divorce with his wife right now. As I was walking away from the cafeteria Anton asked me if I would like to come over to his place to have some coffee with him like I used to when we were younger. I thought to myself well having a cup of coffee with him wouldn't hurt, so I agreed to meet him at his place later on that evening. As I was pulling up to his house I noticed his younger brother Eli was sitting out on the porch drinking vodka. Anton greeted me outside as I pulled up in my car. They lived in a four bedroom contemporary style house, my kind of style house. As I walked into the house two cats came up to me and wanted to be petted as I tried to walk by them. Anton asked me to sit down at the living room table with him to drink coffee with me. As we were sitting there he said "Summer I want us to go out together again." I still liked him but I knew from the past his parents didn't like me because I was American and I wasn't Jewish. He said he had to go to a friend's funeral next week and it would be the perfect time for us to spend some time together. His brother came in with a few of his guy friends and they started drinking vodka. The two cats that greeted me earlier started to sharply claw at my legs. Anton seemed to disappear and I was sitting there trying to fight off these cats clawing at me. I then peeked around the corner and saw Anton sitting at a computer doing some sort of drug, when I asked him what he was doing he said he was doing acid. He then asked me if I wanted some but I refused. Anton mom came home and she was not very happy seeing me sitting there, but even though I knew she didn't really like me she made me some really good Russian food for me to eat. As I was sitting there I kept wondering what was going through this psychologist's head about me. I asked her if I coul