[ WP ] you find a door you have never noticed before in a home you 've lived in for 20 years .

When my wife died in the accident I went to a bad place, but I trudged on, having always been a creature of habit. Yet, I had to adjust to only cooking for one instead of two, which did not go that well. Time passed, the refrigerator filled up with plastic containers each containing one portion of whatever I had cooked that evening. Alcohol crept into the picture as well. And falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV. 
 
 I woke one of those nights and stumbled towards the bathroom. The humid buildup toward thunderstorms had always given me a headache, but judging from the spinning I could not honestly divert the blame toward the weather. Get a grip I thought, and that was when I noticed it. 
 
 We both used to read a lot, and throughout the years wall after wall in the small apartment had been hidden behind bookcases and shelves. And here it was, in a gap in the furniture that should not exist, the door. I cursed the booze and the weather for screwing with my mind and continued towards the bathroom door. 
 
 The next day I concluded that the door, being placed as it was, could not possibly lead to any room in the apartment, but I was too hungover to examine it closer. 
 
 I did not sleep uninterrupted that night either, the bad weather was back again slamming the open window shut and startling me awake. I checked the window and noted that the door was still there. The cat was news though, fur dripping from the storm outside, examining the plate on the coffee table. I went for a towel from the bathroom. No necklace, no ear tattoo either. I fell asleep on the couch, still holding it in the bundle of towels. 
 
 The next day I fed the cat the meatier parts of one of my leftover dinners and pulled some blankets together in the gap between the bookcases for it to sleep on. The mystery of the door faded, it simply had to have been there all time, drunk me having had experienced some sort of reverse deja vu that lingered, or whatever, the cat was more important now.
