Annoying Neighbor (3)

Lina returned quite late that night.

All her classes were scheduled for the second half. Plus there were a few lessons left from previous classes to be completed. So she decided to complete them before returning.

Being an assistant to "The Prof. Shin" was not an easy task.

There was less time now left for herself. Actually Lina enjoyed her 'me-time'.

But this unexpected assisting offer filled her with lots of experience in the medical field which can never be compared to any other thing in the world.

Lina was well aware of it's importance in the future. It was a blessing in disguise for her.

As the cases from the previous day's OPD were covering a vast portion of medicine, Lina had to look for various books. So she had to go to the library complete the lessons in her free time.

The calmness and peaceful environment of the library always motivated her to study hard.

Being a studious person, she often forgot about time while studying. Today was also no exception. When she wrapped up her tasks and looked for the watch, it was already 11 PM at night.

Lina sighed looking at the time.

She had to eat ramen noodles today too.

Her go -to - food source aka the restaurant near her apartment used to close at 11. There was no way she gonna made it there now.

Lina dragged her exhausted body back to her apartment.

On the way, just she was about to enter the gate, Lina noticed few cars parked in the adjacent parking lot just across the road of her apartment building.

This was unusual.

The place was in suburbs. The whole area was nowhere near to be 'posh'. There was all cheap apartment buildings filled in the whole suburb and mainly students in need of saving money used to live in those buildings. This was one of the reasons Lina decided to settle down in this calm and quiet locality.

But... Something was amiss.

Although few of the cars were devoid of logos Lina could identify them at one glance. The cars were expensive as hell. Some of them were from limited edition models from famous brands.

The suspension of being followed and few incidents from last few days suddenly came across her. Lina mentally alerted herself and watched her surroundings carefully for anything suspicious.

Although even after checking the area for next few minutes Lina was unable to find any foul play. But the suspension never left her mind. She needed to be more alerted.

The number plates of the cars suggested most of them were from the capital and few others were from the main city.

" Who..?"

Lina tried to guess about the cars and the car-owners and the reason of their sudden visit in this area.

As per her knowledge there was no important people living near the area or invthe surrounding areas too. Unless someone moved in recently or visiting here.

"Moved in .... recently?"

Immediately her brows were knitted.

'Yes! Someone moved in. Recently. Yesterday.'

Lina's brows were further raised "Annoying neighbour? "

"How?"

Lina shook her head. Maybe she was extremely suspicious. It might not be the case. The neighbour seemed alright though she had yet to meet him. But...

Suddenly last night's events flashed through her mind. But... She couldn't join the dots no matter how hard she tried.

Without any prior knowledge she decided to not to give it any further thought for the time being. Lina parked her scooty in the garage and walked to the elevator.

As just she was about to enter it Lina saw the night guard sitting in front of the elevator greeting her.

After greeting him back without much ado she decided to approach him.

"Uncle Ru, Is there anyone important moved in the area recently?"

The guard, Ru BeiXhan was surprised at her question. The girl, Lina generally was too cheerful. He noticed her treating all the guards of the building every time they came across her. But the girl somehow today looked disturbed. And her question also made his suspicion firm. Never had she was curious about others matters. But today indeed she was different.

" No Miss Park. I haven't heard anything like that. "

" Oh.. It's okay. I just noticed a line of cars across the street. That's why I thought .... " Lina tried to lighten her mood after his answer.

" Oh.. that's.. they might be the guests.. came for the new tenant moved here yesterday. I heard the others were talking about some house warming party or something .... "

Immediately her effort to remain calm was disrupted. She couldn't hear the rest of the words. Her whole body shivered in an unknown fear.

" Oh .. that's why.."

She somehow thanked him and walked in the elevator and pressed for her floor. Her thoughts were all messy.

Lina lived in the third floor of the building. Out of the 4 apartments on the floor, she was the only tenant until yesterday.

After exiting the elevator, Lina saw the lights filling the whole passage.

The passage usually remained quiet. And the light on the passage was broken for few months now. As the only person living there Lina was too lazy to make complaint of changing it.

Today, the passage seemed totally new to her. The passage got a new colour during her absence and the floor was also altered. And last but not the least, the entire atmosphere was different.

The usual quiet passage was filled with different voices coming from the end of the floor.

Lina looked for the source of the noise and found it to be coming from thr new neighbors' room. His room was the last one.

From the enthusiastic voices she could feel that the people were so close and they were chatting happily even teasing each other. The people inside were cheerful indeed.

Lina finally shrugged and let loose herself. She finally breathe which was held till now. Iit seemed like her suspension might not right.

" Whatever... Ahhhhh..... it's goona be a long night it seems." Lina brought her exhausted body to the sofa.

'Thank you new neighbor.It seems that you are really annoying.'

The voices and music were stll heard from outside. No wonder it was annoying indeed. Lina had a hunch that her peaceful and happy days might be coming to end an end.

After tossing and turning around for few time with a splitting headache Lina woke up to refreshen up herself.

Then only, She noticed the door to the balcony was open and most of the sound was coming through it.

Lina could tolerate everything but loud noise was not her cup of tea. She despised it very much.

Donning the sleepers she walked towards it and closed the door with a loud 'baam' in irritation.

And just then, surprisingly, the noises coming from the next door immediately stopped.

A shocked Lina thought she might become deaf Suddenly.

'Or was she having auditory hallucinations?' She questioned herself as she knew well that her room was not that soundproof that it could resist sound at once.

She decided to re-check it.

And after opening the door what she found was enough to be astonished.

There was not a single sound coming from the next door. It seemed like suddenly someone ordered the class to remain in pindrop silence. As the persons over there never heard of sound.

A shocked Lina thanked God for stopping the source of noise and sighed in relief.

Peace and calmness and quietness were all needed after a long tiring day.

Lina connected her Spotify account to the home theatre and went to take a bath. Taking a warm shower after a long day was such a stress reliever.

Lina began to sing along the mesmerizing voice of G-dragon that could be heard from the speaker....

" If you....

If you.....

Ajik neomu neujji anhassdamyeon

Uri dasi doragal suneun eopseulkka.."