[SS] Voices

Name: Azhann Rosmin
Class: LGB3A
Semester: 3
Title: Voices
Word Count: 556 Words
Category: Story
Brief Summary: N/A


I hear voices. They come from the other side of my bedroom door. I’ve been hearing them for a while now. The voices are always bickering at each other – like some sort of dispute erupted and they haven’t ended it for a long time. I keep hearing them at nights, especially like tonight. I was sound asleep and was awaken by them – the voices. I never braved myself before to go out and find the source but once, I had.

It wasn’t fruitful at all. I was partly mad at the voices for waking me up and a sort of blind fury took over. I jumped out of bed – not bothering to slip on my slippers – and went straight to the door. But then, I stopped dead. I held my face close to the wood of the door and I could hear them quite clearly, though I couldn’t make out what they were saying.

I lowered my ear to the door and tried hard to distinguish any word or slang or dialect I could. But to no avail. They seemed to bicker nonetheless.

But what shocked me the most that night was that I found out they were more than many of the voices that were present. It was like they were hundreds. We live in a regular apartment where everything is regular. The rooms aren’t too spacious, they are comfortable enough. And most of the rooms connect with the living room which held a few pieces of furniture and an old TV set. It couldn’t fit ten people not to mention a hundred.