Tian Shou Ren takes out his suit case from his car. He is finally home. Yet he is dragging his feet. Fiddling with his mobile phone. Scrolling through the messages. His sunglass slip down his long straight nose. A lollipop is swilling around in his mouth. His hair is messy for he did not wash it for a day since he on a 24 hours flight back. A flight pillow hangs on his neck with some sauce stains on the corner. His black sweater and pants looks like they need a wash.
On the way to the elevator, he meet some neighbours. They greet each other by smiling and nodding their heads. Using his mobile phone, he tap the sensor of he lift. He continue to fiddle his mobile phone on the way up to 22nd floor.
Upon reaching, he remove his sunglass and hang it on the back of his neck. He begin to feel all his pockets on him to look for his wallet to tap to open the door. Once he open the door, he drag in the suitcase remove his shoes in a rough way. He notice his shoe rack is rather neat. He wonder if aunty Mei had drop by to clean his apartment. He quickly find his house slippers on the top of his shoe rack usually he have to bend over and use his hands to sweep under to find them. He left his shoes on the floor haphazardly and walk in. He throw his wallet in the fish bowl where he put all his business cards or other cards. Then he notice the bowl is wipe clean and the cards are line neatly. "That is strange why did aunty Mei line up the cards? Is she too free?"He tilt his head and walk on to his sofa. Shuen Ren jump on it and put his feet up on the coffee table. His hand had landed at the usual spot but he don't feel the remote control that should be laying there. He look around and see it laying on the coffee table. Even the newspaper is place on the coffee table in a neat angle. He pick up the newspaper and turn on the TV. As the news report on the back ground, he read the gossip column. He stand up with the newspaper in hand walk over to the fridge. He take out the bottle of milk and drink from it. After that he left the newspaper with the lollipop stick on it and the milk on the counter. He walks over to his suitcase and drag it to his room.
After a nice hot shower, he lay down in his underwear on his cozy bed. "Goggle close the blinds". Immediately it is done. He remember he have to charge his phone and get it hook up. "Google lounge music" Soft jazz music begins to play in the background as he slow doze off to sleep.
At mid night, he is waken up a violin music. However this doesn't bother him at all. It sounds soothing and so relaxing. He doze off again.
In the morning, he wakes up at the usual time. Dress up for work, search for his paper works. stuff them in his file. He step outside to the kitchen, he finds everything is neat again. He looks around if aunty Mei is in early but there is no one. The clock on the wall tells him he is going to be late. He grab a slice of bread and drink the milk in the fridge. Again his shoes are place neatly on the shoe rack. "No time. Got to go. Later remind myself to ask aunty Mei."
For the next five days, he notice the things in his apartment keep going back to the neat conditions when he have mess it up. Also he can't reach aunty Mei's mobile phone. Even the land line is not working. He start to wonder if something strange is going on.
Usually he doesn't use the bathroom near the kitchen but today he need to get some supplies from it. He open up the cabinet to find everything neatly stack up. "I think i did that. For convenience sake. That's right." He took the toilet roll and one of it drop on the floor. He bend down to pick it up, he spotted a few very long hair on the drainage. He squad and stare at it for awhile. "When did i move in? Did the last tent not clean up their mess before they leave? Why didn't i notice this?" As he mumble to himself he stand up and see at the corner, a set of toothbrush and toothpaste in a mug. They are slightly wet. "Why they left this behind or... i think its aunty Mei! She have teething problems and needs to brush. OK that solves the problem of this but those long hair... must be the previous tent. Never mind they are there so long so won't bother me. I am an easy going person! " He laugh awkwardly and walk out.
Next few nights he keep hearing the violin music in the night. Even thought it nice to listen to, he develop some goosebumps. He had to calm himself down and sleep. Eventually when the song ends, he will naturally fall asleep.
One night he got up after a peeing. He have an urge to get a cup of water. Walking out of his room half asleep. He got his cup of water. As usual the TV is on so he sit at the counter and watch the movie for awhile. Suddenly the channel switch to an international news channel. He got a wake up call something is not rite. He then notice a ball of hair appear infront of the sofa where he alway sits. He tell himself to remain calm and he chant the buddhist chant. He look at the kitchen if there is anything he can use for protection. In a while he found a long cucumber. "Hopefully this is enough. I mean you no harm. You can watch finish and leave. I am not a young man, you won't like me." Shuen Ren keep mumbling with his eyes close and the cucumber infront of him like a sword. Shuen Ren keep walking towards his room like a crab on his side. He take a peek to see the figure is still on the sofa. She is staring at him. They both freeze for awhile and they both scream.