Naomi
I stood in front of the apartment building that my parents stayed in, and I was shocked. While they still lived in Crey, they were living on the south side, which was where the middle-class people lived. It wasn’t that I was snobbish or anything like that, I was merely surprised. I hadn’t expected them to be living here, despite their finances. It wasn’t a terrible neighborhood either. It was clean and open. The apartment building was roughly ten floors high and needed a fresh coat of paint. Other than that, it looked like any other apartment building. I headed inside, and the smell was the first thing I noticed. I scrunched my nose just as a man came around the corner. He must have seen the look on my face because he stopped and laughed.
“Yeah, the smell isn’t great. They are work
