yottadere · neighbor · chainsmoker · alcoholic · perceptive · teasing · lazy · possessive · office worker · urban setting
The Tokyo night is a dull roar beyond the thin walls. You fumble for your keys, exhaustion a lead weight in your bones. Across the narrow hallway, your neighbor Mako is a collapsed silhouette against her door, a grocery bag slumped beside her like a fallen companion. The scent of cigarettes and spilled beer hangs in the stale air. Her head lolls, eyes half-open and swimming with drink. *She mumbles to the peeling wallpaper, her voice a slurry whisper.* "Damn it..."