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After a rough day at work, the one last thing Kara wanted is another head-exploding problem. Snapper had given her yet another disapproval for her article; saying that it would not be exceptional enough to be release against ‘The Daily Daxam’. However, when she arrived at her apartment, she seems to be out of luck.
Loud pondering sounds can be heard throughout the apartment, and it seems to be getting louder each steps she took to get to her room. As she walked through her apartment’s hallway, she cannot help but to noticed Mrs. Dorris, her apartment’s landlord, with a hammer and nails in her hand pounding a bulletin board on the wall.
“Um..excuse me, Mrs.Dorris, what is going on?” asked Kara as she slowly walked toward Mrs. Dorris who had putted her hammer down on the stool to talk to her.
“Oh, nothing really important dear. I’m just putting up this bulletin board for the tenants to write down some notes for the others. Just you know? Some friendly greetings and comments to each other for you to get to know each other.” Mrs. Dorris beamed back at Kara and returned back to her task. With that, she turned herself to faced with the bulletin board and read its title, ’ Please Leave an Affirming Note’
“So we just write some notes and greetings on the board daily or……?”
“Yes, dear. You might just found someone who can change your life” Mrs. Dorris winked as she replied to Kara. Her hands were packing up the left over nails and her tool box. She turned her heels and was about to walk away.
“But, there aren’t many people on this wing. There’s just me and the new neighbor who moved in like, two weeks ago.”
“Actually, it’s two months ago, dear. You should notice that, Kara, he's your neighbor after all. I know you love your journalism work but you need to let it go sometimes. Take notice in the world around you, enjoy your life, your relationships.You might be surprise on what this board can do, it sparks neighbor friendships. Did you know that my husband was my neighbor too? Just open up and you’ll be surprise. Take this chance, starts slow and it will pay off, Kara. Trust me.” She gave her a warm knowing smile as she turned away and walked to the elevator. Her grey curls bounced to the rhythm of her feet as they hit the floor.
That left Kara stung with her words circling around her head. She never thought about bothering with the neighbors before. For her whole life, she was focus on her career. She wants to be the best reporter she could possibly be just like her cousin, Clark. Especially when Snapper was now her boss, she needed to work extra hard on her articles to get his approval. Recently ‘The Daily Daxam’ had came up with many viral articles that caused a big drop in the rating of ‘Krypton’s News’ popularity. It was not that Kara hated her neighbor, she was just focused on her life and career.
Kara lost count on how long she had been standing in the middle of the hallway. But according to the tingly- numb feeling she felt in her legs. She can assume that it had been a while since Mrs. Dorris had left. Gathering her thoughts again, she continued walking to her room. She fumbled with her purse as she tried to find the key for her door. Her hand reached into different pockets of her bag, fumbling through them to find the silver key. At last, she found them in the font pocket of her bag. As she pulled the keys out, it slipped out of her hand and landed on the ground a few feet away from her. Kara quickly ran to the spot and bent down to pick up the keys. However, she met with a hard object against her head.
“Ah!” Kara squeaked out as she stumbled back, causing her to landed on the wooden floor of the hall way.
“Oh Rao, are you alright? I'm truly sorry for that, I just was trying to help you pick the keys up and I guess I accidentally bumped into your head.” The mystery man replied back light-heartedly with soft laugh left from his mouth with concern tone. He reached his hand in front of Kara, willing to help her up from the floor. As she grasped his warm hand, she could feel some feeling she had never felt before. Something very warm and soothing. The warm hand pulled her up from the floor, bring her back to normal state.
Readjusting and smoothing out her skirt from the accident, Kara finally looked up from the floor and faced with the man. Their eyes locked to each other; the blue eyes interlock with the blue-grey eyes behind the think black glasses frame. The man has dark brown hair that was perfectly parted and style, some strand of hair still hang over his eyes. Curiosity filled her body as she realized that she had never met nor seen this man before. How could he be on this wing?
“Yeah, I’m okay. But who are you? This wing is only allowed for the residents of this building only. How can you be here? Are you a thief? Are you a pervert?”
“Whoa, Whoah, Whoa, calm down, miss. I’m not here to steal anything nor do anything like that, actually, I’m your new neighbor…3A…right across from you. Hadn't Mrs. Dorris informed you already?”
“Oh, yes, right, you’re the new guy, how can I not know you! I’m sorry for that. I just never really pay attention around here, since no one really lives at this wing.”
“Well, now there’s me. I guess I can change that.” Those words left his mouth jokingly with a small smile appeared up on his face.
“I see that Mrs. Dorris had made a small change with decoration around here. And you know what, I think it’s a great idea. You can finally loosen it up, get to know me and maybe I’ll bring you to bar sometimes. I know this one place where my friend and I likes to go after work.” He continued as he turned his body around exploring different aspect of the hallway before turning back to her.
“Um, yeah, we’ll see about that. You see, I’m busy all the time, like busy busy.”
“Yep, I’ve noticed that.”
“What? Are you stalking me or something?”
“What? No! Why would you think that, I live right across from you. It’s not hard to notice. Anyway…..” There was a long, awkward paused after his rebut to her.
“Did you notice that there’s something on the board? Maybe you should go look at that.” The man mention up and pointed toward the brown bulletin board on the wall of the hallway.
Just like what he had said, there was a small, yellow square pieces of paper pinned to the board. Kara walked toward the paper as like there was a magnetic force pulling her toward the paper. When she stopped in front of the paper, she noticed that there were scribbles of words written on the paper.
Take the chance to meet your neighbor, I don’t bite :)
- Mon-el
“Mon-el?” Whispered out the man’s name, Kara turn back to where she was just a few seconds ago. However, the man was already gone, left with blank space of where they had their conversation.
“Well….I guess I will take this chance.”