It was a few hours later that Layla heard a knock on her apartment door, and she really didn't have the energy for this. She thought of just ignoring the knocking, but she knew that he would only come back later again, if he even left at all. She thought of telling him to go away, too, but she doubted that he was going to respect that.
But then she realized that she actually needed to talk with him for her own purpose. She knew that she couldn't be around him any longer, and she knew that there was no way that he would simply stay away from her. Not if she was just one floor below him. And even if he did, they lived in the same building. They were definitely going to run into each other more than a few times.
