Isaac Whatever

I wrote this a few months ago. The exact date has been lost. Probably May 2nd.

Last night, around 11:00, I heard a knock at my door. A particularly loud knock, now that I think about it. At the time, I didn’t think about it, any more than Kevin did. We were sort of expecting JB, Mike, or Fish. So Kevin opened the door.

A guy I didn’t know stepped blinking into the room. He was wearing dark clothing, and asking for “Eddie.” “Eddie who?” I asked, “There’s no Eddie here,” I continued.

He seemed annoyed. He stepped further into the room, and began looking intently at Kevin, who was playing poker on his laptop. At this point, I realized that several things were wrong. He wasn’t exhibiting normal looking-for-a-guy-not-sure-this-is-the-right-apartment behavior. He was coming further into the room, instead of staying outside the doorway.

He was also keeping his hands behind his back, and I was catching a hint of black leather or something on his hands. I decided that I didn’t want this guy in my apartment anymore. He seemed really interested in Kevin, who was oblivious, and Katie didn’t seem to have caught any of these distressing details either.

So I got up and put on my shoes. I told the guy that the mailboxes downstairs had names on them, and the best way to find a guy in these apartments is to look down there. I quickly and quietly locked my door on my way out, with a behind the back movement that I’m sure the guy didn’t notice.

Once we got down to the hallway between the apartments, where the stairs are, I showed him that whoever he was looking for didn’t have a mailbox in this building, and therefore was unlikely to live here.

He said that this guy travels around, and was unlikely to have a name on the mailbox. He also mentioned, somewhat heatedly, that this Eddie guy F-ed him out of some $400. He crossed his arms over his chest, and I took a good look at him. He was around 5’7” or 5’8”, stocky, with something of a gut but not obviously overly fat. He might have some muscle on him. He had glasses, and was balding. He was otherwise unremarkable except for the gloves he was flaunting and trying to make threatening gestures with. They were black leather gloves. I was unimpressed.