As Liz climbed the stairs of the opposing building, she tried to keep track of how many apartments she walked pass, since the room with the bird cage was dead opposite from her own, she figured the apartment had to be placed the same way as hers, but just opposite.

It took a little wandering, but after a few minutes she was able to narrow it down to what had to be the right room.

'I hope they're home' she thought to herself before rapping on the door a couple times. She bounced on her heels while she waited, and after not getting a response, knocked again before leaning to press her ear to the door.

'Well it doesn't sound like anyone's home, just my luck' she grumbled to herself. She waited a few more minutes even though she wasn't really expecting anyone to come by before giving up.

'Now what do I do? I can't just have a bird loose in my apartment when I go to work tomorrow!' Liz had gotten a few days off work to get moved in but she was scheduled to start up again tomorrow, she worked at a small gardening store a ways out of town, and her good friend Lilli was picking up some shifts to cover her, but she didn't want to put too much of a burden on her.

Liz shuffled her feet as she pondered what to do next, and it suddenly hit her, 'Oh I'll stick a note under the door!' She searched through her pockets and came up with a pencil stub and a small ripped piece of paper, it was too small to write out a proper explanation so she kept it short and to the point:

I've got your bird,

come to apartment 207

to get it back.

'That'll have to do', she squatted down in front of the door and worked it through the door jamb letting it fall to the other side. When she let herself back into her apartment, the little bird wasn't where she left it! For a moment Liz was panicked and thought, 'Did it get out?!' She did a quick look over of the room, and then hurried to the kitchen and breathed a sigh of relief once she saw that the bird was once again eating the remnants of her breakfast.

"It looks like I need to make some more toast!" she said to the bird, "I'm surprised you were able to eat all that, your owner must feed you quite a bit."

As she got the bread out again, she realized she was actually kind of relieved that she hadn't had to return the cute little bird to it's owner so fast, having it around made the apartment a tad less lonely, and for some strange reason the bird seemed almost familiar, but she couldn't quite put her finger on the feeling. She had had a couple pets as a young girl, but hadn't had any for the past few years, with her busy work life she had never had the room or time for one.

As she watched the bird pecking at the toast, she just couldn't shake the feeling that she remembered it from somewhere, but she couldn't come up with where she could possibly know it from. 'My mind must be playing tricks on me' she thought as she munched on her freshly made toast.

"Well come on birdy, let's watch some tv!" The bird fluttered to the top of her head once again when it heard her addressing it, and settled down in her chestnut locks.

"You're a smart little thing aren't ya?" Liz walked into the adjacent room and plunked onto the bed, clicking on the television with a remote that had been tossed onto the foot of the bed. After flipping channels back and forth, she settled on a daytime soap opera, it was a rerun that she had already seen, but nothing better was on. Even though her friends told her they were cheesy and boring, Liz had always loved soap operas, the grand romances and drama of it all. She'd always been a romantic kind of girl, indulging in fluffy romance novels and catching the new chick flicks in theatres when she got the time. She settled back into the bed feeling lazy, and getting comfortable as she let the show suck her in, forgetting about her troubles for now. Her small companion was also getting comfy, and let out a contented chirp as it fell into a doze while nested in her hair.

I'm not even going to make an excuse for how long it's been since I updated, I'm just lazy and haven't gotten around to writing up new stuff until now. I'd still love to hear what you all think of the new chapter though!