Nineteen year old Maggie Disantis was loving life. Today was the day she would move into her own apartment on Corbin Avenue with her boyfriend Peter, who she was engaged to be married to. At Java Dreams, a coffee shop were she worked she had just become Assistant Manager. Her grades had gone up in her night school classes at the New York Community College. Things were on the up and up, she had only wished that her mother had felt better. Maria, her mother was suffering from Breast Cancer.

Maggie had pleaded with her mother when they went out looking at apartments to let her stay at home so that she could take care of her. Marie wouldn’t have it. Ten brown boxes sat downstairs by the front door. Clothes, pictures, sheets and the like filled them. Maggie was excited no doubt to be on her own but she was also sad. She had lived with her mom for so long and she knew when she steps out the door that things will be different. She went up to her room to make sure she had not forgotten anything. Standing at her doorway she surveyed the room and just when she was turning to leave she noticed something under the bed, it was Joffrey, her brown teddy bear that she had dressed in a little tuxedo. Joffrey was a gift from her mother on Valentine’s Day 9 years ago. Joffrey was Maggie’s best friend. He could listen to all her problems and kept an expression of love and understanding on his face no matter what she told him. Maggie debated about bringing Joffrey with her because she couldn’t help thinking that Peter might find it childish and be upset with her.

Maggie and Peter had some problems, but hopefully with this move things would turn around in their relationship. Oh crap, Maggie said as she looked at her Mickey Mouse alarm clock, it’s 2:30 already. She flew down the hallway towards the front door in a panic. She was supposed to meet Peter at 2:00, and she knew he didn’t like it when she was late. She had taken off work for the day and didn’t have class, so there should not be any reason for her lateness. Maggie stuck her teddy bear into one of the boxes and ran out the door, got into her hunter green Nissan and drove over to the their apartment. As she pulled up she saw his truck parked near the building. He was already there, waiting for her. Her stomach tightened as she took notice that he was not in the truck. That means that he was upstairs. It must have been 3:00 by now, she was an hour late. Quickly she unlocked the door of the building with her key and walked up 2 flights of stairs to the door number 317. She trembled as she put her key into the door. She hesitated for a moment, but thought maybe it would be okay. As she opened the door, she took in the sterile white walls, the windows with no blinds and the cute kitchen with brand new appliances. She did not see Peter though. Peter, she hollered out, are you here.