The Mystic Flat

The Mystic Flat

    Nobody, except the two girls, would have thought that something is wrong with the old flat in a brick shabby house. This little, dark flat with dim, shady rooms has own hidden from prying eyes secrets.
    А strange odor which presents here pervades in all the cracks and splits of this place. This is the odor of hopelessness and desperation. From time to time, it becomes so strong that unexpected desire to jump through the window of the rotten balcony comes to everyone's mind.
    Not only smell of this unpleasant place may disrupt the usual order of thoughts in the head of everyone who visits this place. At the first visit, the eye catches dirty brown, longstanding furniture with its all artsy patterns, frayed corners and cracked doors. From time to time, the doors make squeaky noises, which sink down into the soul of uninvited visitors. At nights, the cold howling breeze blowing at the girls’ faces. It makes heart beat faster.
   On the shelves of the cupboards, weird things lie in a mess. It is hard to imagine how they got here. For example, a small jar with something incomprehensible and repulsive - looking or a bunch of huge keys which looks as if it has not been used for a hundred years. On the back shelves, creepy, porcelain dolls are sitting with a grin on their faces.
     At night, the girls hear terrible sounds ringing out around the flat. So, in deep night the floor squeak or awful rustles sound throughout the apartment and mysterious whisper murmurs to the girls, causing an expression of horror on their faces.

  And just before a dawn everything abates, when the first rays of the sun fill the apartment with balmy, soft lights and only at this time it seems that this place gets quiet and calming. Everything here is nestled by a weightless layer of dust, as if the flat takes care of its things by covering them with a blanket. And girls sleep heavily in their warm, fluffy beds.