I've gone apartment hunting. It's a place in Juhu. Pretty dope interiors. There's no security guard or anyone at the entrance of the building, you can go straight up to the flat.
I open the front door and walk right in. I start looking around, expecting someone to come greet me. A man enters the room. It's not the hall. This is some kind of holding area or lobby, with a bedroom to the left and a door that probably leads to the hall in the front. On the right there's another door, which I can't figure where it goes. This is easily a 4 or even 5 bhk.
The man shows me around. He's wearing a necklace of some kind, with big, maroon, rectangular stones. He takes me through the door from which he entered earlier, and it does turn out to be the way to the living room, which is huge. There's a couch in the center, and next to it a big pillar. Curios lie neatly arranged all over the place, and the room has a very modern and at the same time rustic feel to it. Off to the left is the master bedroom, with a sprawling balcony overlooking a lush green playground. I look down upon the road and figure it's one of those quiet bylanes in Juhu.
His wife comes by, and there's some kind of a fight (which I don't remember). At the end of the fight, she wins, and leaves with his necklace, while the entire time I'm thinking it's the apartment she's fighting over. Then I realise this entire thing has played out exactly like someone once told me it would. I don't know who, and the harder I think the more the name slips away from my grasp. I walk around the house and it's totally empty now. The husband is dead and the wife has taken the necklace and disappeared.
I go out through the main door, and enter again, and the whole scenario with the man and his wife coming plays out in the same order all over again. So it turns out to be some kind of recorded virtual sequence that is getting triggered every time someone enters the house.
Across the lobby there's another apartment in which they're conducting a deal to sell the place, and my mother and father are making an offer.
Mom and dad come out, and they're laughing with the broker saying the rate they've offered is okay for the place. Dad and I take a tour of the apartment together, and he says very happily that they're willing to let go of it for 3 cr, which is damn cheap for Juhu. And if we haggle a bit more, they might even come down to 2.7 cr. I'm thinking there's something suspect about the place,.if it's going for this cheap, but I can't tell what it is. But I'm getting some strange vibes, I think.
I'm showing papa around the bedroom, and he loves it too. We see the master bedroom toilet and it's like a long train compartment with the pot on one side and the shower on the other, and I tell papa see how big the bathroom is.
Only one thing, I wonder. If the sequence with the husband-wife is virtual then no one's actually been living here. So why is the goddamn bathroom floor wet?
Made a sketch of the floor plan this time:
On a side note, don't know why I see so many random apartments in my dreams. Maybe I'll do one whole thing on the floor plans of my dream houses. Like not dream houses dream houses, but houses from my dreams. Lol.
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