*Sierra* After Dave dropped me off at home, I bumped into Cynthia who was also coming in. She invited me up to her place and I agreed. I needed to shave off these looming feelings hanging over me like Damocles’ sword. “I went shopping earlier in the day,” she told me as she opened the door. I stepped inside her apartment that had the same layout as mine as we were both on the same wing and the same side of the building. However her house was more welcoming and homely than mine. From the furnishing to the scents and smells coming from her house. Her taste in drapery made the house feel warm like an evening by the beach. If I didn’t know better I almost thought her house had been furnished unlike mine and I asked her. “Not all the houses here are bare, not even a cooking stove is includ

