Apartment 4b Novels & Stories

The guard has a special key to send up visitors. The entrance is large with beautiful white flooring that shines under the soft light from the overhead lightning. On the ground floor there is a pool and a private gym that all residents can use. The apartment is on the fourth floor and it is huge. There is a nice and modern kitchen with an open plan to the living room. It has three bedrooms, all with en-suites and walk-in-closets. Josie is practically bouncing as she walks through the rooms and hallways and every now and then a loud shriek of excitement escapes her. James is a bit more collected and reserved as he takes in the luxury.

the man behind the desk asks. I smile. “I’m here to see Sadie Wilde.” I tell him. He nods. “Okay can you give me your name?” he asks. I nod. “Beckett King.” He nods typing on the tablet in front of him. “Okay it seems like Miss Wilde added you to her list of visitors, you can go straight to the elevators on the left.” He tells me “Oh floor four, apartment 8” he says with a bright smile. I nod wide eyed, taken off guard by this whole place. I am out of my element in this place. I feel like I’ve stepped out of my world into James Bonds world.

"Alright, you're all set. The room's yours for now." As he walked away, Becky took a deep breath and inserted the key into the lock of the door beside the room number 3B, then she entered the apartment. The room was small, with a single bed pushed against one wall and a small table with a chair in the corner. The walls were painted a dull yellow, and the carpet was stained and worn. Becky looked around, taking in the small space. It was cramped, but it was home for now. She knew she had to make do with what she had. The room was tiny, but at least it was hers.

“His apartment is 4B, “ Grace told the driver, but didn’t specify which of the doors it actually was. Then she let go of Damian and allowed the driver to take him there himself. “No, no…this isn’t my place,” Damian grumbled as the driver stopped in front of Wren’s door The driver looked at Grace uncertainly. She gave him an encouraging nod towards the door. This was when Damian forced his head up and squinted at the plate on the door. He saw that the door was 4B and blinked. Then he giggled loosely. “Oh! Wait…that’s actually my door…mhmm…yeah yeah that’s the number.”

The apartment building was on the west side of Manhattan, the kind of building that had been ordinary in 1984 and stayed ordinary by never trying to become anything else. Four floors. A buzzer panel with names written in different hands across different decades. A lobby that smelled like old carpet and someone's dinner from two floors up. Dominic pressed the button for 3C. A long pause. Then a voice through the intercom, small and clear and entirely unsurprised. "Fourth floor. The elevator does not work."

Silas felt the shift in gravity, his weight sliding against the steel bench, the black composite boot clicking against the floorboards like a dead weight. He was out of the script. The permanent signal had done its work, and the house was no longer his to look at. In New York City, two hundred blocks north of the federal holding facility, the afternoon light over Tribeca was the color of a wet zinc counter. The apartment on Franklin Street had no name on the buzzer—only a small, white piece of adhesive tape with the number 4B written in a sharp, thin hand. Inside, the floors were long planks of unvarnished pine that had been salvaged from an old nineteenth-century butter warehouse, scarred b

The building was a low adobe, two stories, the colour of dry earth, with a covered walkway along the ground floor and terracotta pots outside several of the doors, some with plants in various states of seasonal life and some empty, waiting for something to be put in them. Apartment 4. Ground floor, second from the end.

I answered honestly before resuming the climb toward my old life. We reached the fourth-floor landing a minute later, and I let out a long sigh of relief because the hardest part of the day was supposedly over. The hallway smelled like burnt cabbage and stale cigarette smoke, reminding me exactly why I hated coming back here every night after work. We walked down the narrow corridor until we reached the scuffed wooden door of apartment 4B. I pulled my keychain out again and slid the brass key into the lock. I expected to walk into an empty, silent living room where I could quickly gather my things in peace while Max waited by the door.

She did not want to stand in a kitchen and see the city from the same angle. The fourteenth floor apartment faced east. The agent showed her the main room first. It was smaller than she was used to. The kitchen was a galley. The bedroom had one window that looked at the building opposite and would not get direct sun until late afternoon. She stood in the centre of the main room and looked at the walls and the floor and the ceiling and the window and thought this is manageable. She said I will take it. The agent said did you want to see the bathroom. She said no. She said I will take it.

Walking onto the floor she looked to the left where her family’s house was located, before walking towards the right where another house was open. “Miss Wright, I was waiting for you. Come here, this is the apartment I was talking about.” A woman in her early thirties came out of one of the four apartments and urged her inside in a jovial tone. Emma nodded with a gentle smile, as she followed the broker inside. The apartment was moderately sized, with a kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, and bathrooms, along with a balcony facing the lush greenery behind the complex. Even though the apartment complex was more than a decade old, the furnishing and utilities in the apartment were in well-kept