Maisie entered her apartment slowly, she was in a good mood today after she was given the case, nothing could have spoiled her mood even when she heard some bitchy women at work who were saying that she had already opened her legs for Mr. Huggins and that was why he gave her the case.

Maisie would have been angry, but she knew that they were just jealous and irritated because they knew that within a short period that she is going to outshine them. Now the bubble she was in while she was in work has slowly faded away, each step she took to her apartment was filled with dread, but she refuses to back down. It was her apartment, and something was wrong with it. Or so her senses tell her, but she would be damned if she is forced to leave her apartment because of a mere feeling.

First, if she does leave the apartment, Betty will either be as worried as possible and come to stay with her, it is still too early for Betty to leave her current city. If that doesn't happen, the other thing that will happen is that Betty will make fun of her not taking her serious but still the crazy girl will think that she was making up a story to drag her to Maisie's city. If she told Betty, two different reactions, the same outcome. And it was the outcome she did not want.

She entered her apartment only to be blasted by the cold. The feeling of dread increased in her spine as she slowly walked into the room. She tried to convince herself that she must not have locked the windows even though she specifically remembers bolting them. This temperature has been happening for the last two weeks. At first, she didn't pay attention to it but now, she was getting scared. She locks the windows and comes home to see that it was opened. Maybe it was just her mind deceiving her that she locked the windows.

She went to the windows, hoping to see them opened as she always sees them for the past one week only to get the surprise of her life. They were shut! Just like when she locked them this morning. Then where is the cold coming from? She turned only to see something move at the corner of her eyes, she quickly turned her head towards that direction only to see nothing.

" it is just hallucination," she whispers silently to herself as she tries to calm herself down.

Trying to convince herself, she started to talk in a low voice. " I am just imagining things, nothing more. It is definitely due to the case they gave me. Now I am thinking that somebody is out to get me in my own home. " Maisie said.

She heard something like soft laughter coming from her kitchen and instead of moving towards that direction, she moved to the door where she got a baseball bat, Betty made sure she had about three in her luggage when she escorted her to the airport.

Moving to the kitchen softly with her heart in her throat, Maisie gripped the bat tightly in her hand so much that her hands were turning white from the lack of blood, she knows that her face was just as pale. She didn't need a mirror to tell.

She burst into the kitchen with the bat raised only to arrive at an empty space. The space was void of any human but that didn't mean that the person didn't leave evidence of his presence. There was junk food all over her floor with her cabinet where she kept them was found wide open.

Maisie spun on her heels as she ran to the bedroom and opened her closet to dump some clothes inside and zipped it up in a hurry, she was not psychotic enough to stay in a place that had been broken into.

What she didn't know was that there was something that was watching her move around her apartment in haste to leave. And that thing was responsible for what happened with the junk food.

****

Maisie arrived at work the next morning looking haggard with dark circles around her eyes, she had a bad night. She was never really comfortable with sleeping in strange places and the motel room she booked for two nights yesterday was classified as that to her. She was stressed out and she knew that she was going to be attacked today because of her appearance.

As if conjured by her thoughts, Mr. Huggins voice barked behind her. " Miss Williams? "

She quickly turned to face him. " sir. "

" Why are you looking so haggard, do you think that this is a good look for the firm. " Mr. Huggins said, his voice was not soft either was it harsh. Maisie was surprised by it, Mr. Huggins she knew would have chewed her out. She looked at him only to see his eyes on her bust as her sleeve button shirt was exposing her cleavage. She quickly covered her cleavage which turned Mr. Huggins eyes to hers. He looked at her with hatred as if she just stole his favorite treat.

" I am so sorry sir. My apartment was broken into yesterday, so I slept in a motel. " Maisie said as she buttons up her shirt.

Mr. Huggins gave her the stink eye as he replied " and you want me to think that you slept alone in your bed. " Maisie let out a gasp but Mr. Huggins continued like he didn't just insult Maisie. " I want you to do all the groundwork for the assault case today. "

Maisie stared at him with a hard glint in her eyes, he knows that it was not possible, yet he asked her to do expecting her to complain. She held her tongue and didn't give in as she stared at Mr. Huggins face in anger. She wasn't born yesterday, she knew that if she complains, she would be taken off the case and not given another case for a long time. " I will sir. " Maisie said through gritted teeth. There goes her chance to rest today since she started to do the case in the motel when she couldn't sleep. With the length she had gone, she would be able to finish the groundwork today. She sighed as she went to her office and continued to work.

****

Maisie returned to her apartment to find it blasted with cold and her control snapped. She rolled her luggage in as she grabbed the bat and marched to the sitting room shouting. " I have had enough, show yourself to me and stop ruining my life. "

She didn't expect to see a being materialize before her eyes on her couch.