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A lone man develops the ability to see through the walls.
Mr. Tomas, at 42 years of age; he lives totally alone apart from society and his family for his own interest; a man full of resentment and with few things in his apartment number 24 of the 4th floor, in the suburbs of chicago illinois, where he spends most of the time, locked in his own thoughts and with a bipolar personality, where he is his own company , a portable radio, goes on all day in the same station 365 days a year, eating little and having hallucinations, paranoia, this develop skills with your mind.
At first I was a bit confused by so much medicine that I consumed daily, that I did not finish developing completely his mind to another level, which was something that had been proposed, as a result of his confinement, one day he started moving small objects, he was frightened like a new experience in his life, but did not stay with that and continued the next day.
One day, he focused on moving a glass vase, which moved him but as he did not control these skills perfectly, the vase was levitated made several movements in the air, and hit him in the face strongly, fainting instantly, step About an hour or so when I reacted, he got up a bit stunned and some remains of glass and a cut on his forehead, by the impact of the vase; He went to the kitchen for a little water, then went to the bathroom, and took a shower with hot water in the bathtub, removing one by one the remains of glass from the vase that had hit him.
When his face is drying in front of the mirror, he gets a little dizzy, turning everything over his head, when suddenly he stabilizes and sees that in the wall facing him he can see towards the other room next to him, he squeezes face and eyes with hands; and he covers it for a few seconds and returns to look at the same place and actually confirms that he can see the other way, at that moment his neighbor comes an attractive girl about 24 years old almost naked and Tomas reacts by throwing himself on the floor, surprised by such a thing; He was intrigued and decided to get up and continue looking at the sculptural body of the beautiful young woman, after watching her for a while, he left the bathroom to the living room of his apartment, the radio sounding in the distance, voices murmuring in his mind but the thousand and one questions Turning around in his head, he falls dazed again to the floor and when he wakes up the next day, he stops and touches his nose and realizes that I bleed a little.
He sits in his old chair, damaged by daily use for all the time he spends in it, when he decides to look towards the wall, which he faces towards the other neighbor, when suddenly he observes that his neighbor is beating his wife and he is buries a knife providing several stabs in cold blood, impacted by such brutal act, takes and locks in his room placing the pillow on his face covering his eyes, afraid, with a thousand questions in his head.
Tomas is armed with courage and decides to leave his apartment and decides to knock on the door to the neighbor, it takes a while to answer and does not open the door but takes insists and the man will have the door with the pin on and half showing signs on his face of violence by the brutal fight he had had with his wife, which ended with his death, given by his own husband; tomas asks him if something happens to him that if everything is in order I hear some noises and he replies that he was watching television with the loud volume just that and that he should get away, that it was not his problem or issue.
Tomas left but knowing that he had witnessed a brutal murder in cold blood. go to his chair, pensive and impatient, with sharp nerves; dial the 911 number but when they answer your call this cuts the call.
He decides to see through the wall, everything the murderer does, he decides to chop the body into pieces and put it in black bags to vote the body impregnated with the blood of his own wife a vile murderer without any remorse for what he had done , takes decides to take note in his diary of everything that was happening, with all the details; When the neighbor cleans the whole crime scene and has his wife packed in bags, he waits for it to be 2am in the morning to vote for the body, shots without sleep, wait for the murderer to leave the apartment with the body of the poor woman; He decides to follow him and sees that he puts the remains of his body in the suitcase of his body, waits for him to go away a little and starts his car to go after him when they leave and the killer goes to a secluded and wooded place. vehicle and takes stops much earlier to go walking and among the bushes to observe everything and not be discovered by the neighbor murderer, he decides to take a shovel out of his car and begins to open a heard to bury his wife already dead.
Tomas observing everything for a while, decides to approach a little more when he steps on a dry branch and the neighbor realizes that he is not alone and that someone is watching him; he grabs his flashlight and decides to search by screaming; who's there!. takes a firearm from his waist and makes a shot between the bush, at that moment he discovers who was watching him and he realizes that he is taking his neighbor and he asks him what he does because he followed him and he he says he knows everything but he will not say anything to the police and the neighbor murderer does not believe he takes his shots and in the struggle receives a bullet impact, on one side, falling slowly on the floor the neighbor murderer tells him; You take these at the wrong time and place I'm sorry but I have to kill you and gives you 4 shots in the chest and he decides to find it in the same hole where he would bury his wife, also ending with the life of shots and he takes with him his greater secrecy and ability to see through the walls and ending an empty life, sad and without any purpose; with a loose assassin and without being reached for justice.
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