© 2005, Jay Lovito				
					  THE APARTMENT 

                               By
                                   Jay Lovito

INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

A young man stands in front of a mirror looking at the acne on his face. This is JAKE. The super of his building. After a hard day's work he decides to call it a night and go to bed. 

After removing his sweat pants and T-shirt, he turns off the light, drops to his bed and falls asleep almost instantly.

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CLOSE UP ON A TABLE CLOCK WITH BIG RED NUMBERS - The time reads: 3:00 PM - THE CAMERA PANS UPWARDS towards the ceiling.

Right when the CAMERA focuses on the ceiling, we hear a loud thump coming from the apartment above.

THE CAMERA PANS DOWN over to JAKE. Another thump is heard and JAKE is slowly coming out of his sleep. 

A louder thump is heard and JAKE jumps from the noise.

				Jake
			What in the hell?

JAKE gets out of bed. He looks at the clock it now reads: 3:03 PM.
He looks up at the ceiling very puzzled.

Another loud thump is heard. It sounds as if someone was getting their head smashed on the floor.

JAKE stands on top of the bed and puts his ear to the wall waiting to hear another sound.

After about two minutes, another thump is heard. JAKE looks shocked at the fact that the apartment is vacant at the moment and is now hearing these noises coming from it.

				Jake
			Somebody break in?

JAKE gets down from his bed and puts his sweat pants on.
He turns his cell phone on and goes to his closet.

From his closet, He takes out a green metal army cartridge ammunition case. He opens it and takes out a small .24 caliber berretta and puts it in his pocket.

INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT

JAKE gets the keys for the apartment above from a fruit bowl on top of the fridge and a flashlight from the table.

INT. STAIRCASE - NIGHT

JAKE slowly goes up the stairs trying not to make any noise.

As he gets close to the apartment, he takes out his pistol.
When he reaches the apartment he puts his ear against the door but nothing is to be heard.

After about a minute he takes out the keys and carefully opens the door.

INT. APATMENT - KITCHEN - NIGHT

A small one bedroom apartment. The kitchen is dark and empty.
JAKE holding the pistol with his right hand and the flashlight with the other, carefully walks past the kitchen through hallway to the bedroom.

INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

The bedroom is completely empty except for a chair standing right in the middle of the room. JAKE finds this odd. He moves the chair against the walks over to check the windows.

The window gates are perfectly intact and there are no signs of any break in.

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INT. BUILDING HALLWAY - AFTERNOON

JAKE is mopping his floor hallway. He hears someone coming up the stairs. A tall young male who appears to be a visitor is making his way up the stairs. JAKE has never seen him before.

				Guy
			Hey man, are you the super here?

				Jake
			Yes I am.

				Guy
			Oh so maybe you can help me.

				Jake
			What can I do for you?

				Guy
			I would like to know if you happen to have an empty
			Apartment in this building.

				Jake
			Oh sorry man, not at the moment. 

				Guy
			Oh ok then, thanks. Have a nice day.

				Jake
			You too.

The guy quickly goes back down the stairs. JAKE looks a little suspicious.

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INT. BUILDING HALLWAY - LATER

JAKE is taking out the garbage of the building. He has finished with two floors already. The fifth and the fourth. He's working on the third floor. Three full bags accompany him while he works the fourth one inside the garbage room. 

A scream is heard from the top floor. JAKE is immediately alarmed and stops what he's doing. We hear another scream. It sounds like the scream of a little girl. 

JAKE decides to go up and see what is going on. As soon as he reaches the middle of the staircase, the garbage room door closes shut.

				Jake
			Hello? Who did that?

The three garbage bags begin to move and shake as if they were full of rats.

				Jake
			Holy shit!

JAKE starts running up the stairs. He tries to open his apartment door but to his amazement, the door is locked.

				Jake
			What?! Who the hell is doing this?!
			Stop this!

Another scream is heard from the upper floor and JAKE goes up to see where the screams are coming from.

On his way up to the top of the stairs he finds a bloody finger with roaches crawling around it.

				Jake
			What the....

We now hear a soft little girl's voice. It sounds like some sort of chant.

Little girl's voice
					(Whisper)
			The doors are closed.
			The doors are closed.
			The doors are closed.
			The doors are closed.

JAKE'S POV - The vacant apartment door is open then slammed shut.
He looks down to his right and sees a little girl with tears of blood rolling down her cheeks.

				Jake
			Aaaahhh!!

JAKE blacks out and faints hitting his head on the stairs.

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INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

JAKE wakes up gasping for air and sweating all over.
He's relieved at the fact that it was all a dream and sits up exhausted.

JAKE'S POV - THE CAMERA pans right and the guy who asked JAKE about an apartment is sitting on a chair with a gun pointed at him.

				Guy
			Don’t move.

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					THE END