BULLY ROOMATE
At first glance, the house seemed vacant, no personal items or any resemblance of a home, but as I neared the living room, the glow of an old TV shadowed against the hallway.
A man sat with his back to me, legs kicked up onto a wooden table, a beer bottle in one hand and his balding head visible from the lighting of the TV. What am I doing? I grabbed a skillet from the kitchen and walked behind the man. A basement door stood to the right with a deadbolt locking it tight.
“Where are they?” I asked.
The man jumped up from his chair, reaching for a shotgun perched against the TV set, but I knocked his hand down with the skillet making him hiss. “Where are they?” I asked.