The Man in The Hatch
Once upon a time in a Guro-gu far away lived 5 girls, a puppy, and hopefully what was an empty hatch.
Egh just the word “hatch” freaks me out. I’m going to ask Miran to add it to her list of words – her list of words that she doesn’t like and we’re not allowed to say at home.
In one of our previous living abodes, there was a hatch in the bathroom ceiling. Which is the worst possible place that there could be a hatch because if something were to suddenly emerge from it like always happens in those alien movies, it’d be sure to happen when one is in a very vulnerable state, as one usually is in when in the bathroom.
Before continuing further, let me give you the basics of how our personalities differ when it comes to scary things.
Jeanne has got to be one of the coolest people in this regard. If she is scared or irritated, you’d never know because she handles everything like a boss. For example, if there’s a mosquito in our room, my go-to response is to throw a blanket over my head and hope it doesn’t find me, meanwhile Jeanne will hunt it down, and I mean hunt – like a panther. That’s pretty boss.
Miran and Ari are the oldest of the Oreos Sisters but they are basically 3 year olds when it comes to confrontation or anything the size of a dime with more than 3 legs. They stick together and run away from situations they don’t want to deal with, either laughing or screaming – I’m never sure which one they’re doing….
Ali has Oreo to protect her so she’s okay.
Ella would definitely be the person eaten first by a monster, and not because she couldn’t run away fast enough. Ella would be the one to go find the monster because she’s curious what it looks like. It’s not quite that Ella is fearless, but her curiosity outweighs her fear.
Alright so there’s some insight into how we differ in handling scary things, so let’s continue the story on the day of discovery:
Ella: “What do you think is up there? Should we see if it opens? What if…what if a man lives in there???”
Jeanne: hmm. *too cool to respond further. Goes back to making dinner*
Ali: “Ella don’t even joke. That’s so creepy.” *Takes Oreo to her room to watch her Chinese drama safely from a distance*
Miran and Ari: “No Ella! We absolutely should not check if the creepy hatch opens. Let’s just pretend it doesn’t exist.” *as they both ascend to the loft where they firmly believe nothing scary can get them*
However, a couple days later..
Ella: “So, that hatch… in the bathroom…. Where do you think it goes? … Why would it be there? Aren’t we going to open it?”
Around the same time as the discovery of the hatch, we always seemed to be running out of peppermint tea and peanut butter. Someone made a joke that the man in hatch was coming down when we’re sleeping and having peppermint tea and peanut butter. We’d be fine if the hatch was a secret passage that led to the gorgeous Chinese guys on the sixth floor. We’d happily give them all the peppermint tea and peanut butter they wanted, but we knew the most likely way of meeting the Chinese guys was to go outside in our pajamas.
At first, the joke of a man living in the hatch and coming down at night to eat peanut butter and drink peppermint tea was funny, and we knew it was a joke, but the faster we kept being out of peppermint tea and peanut butter, the freakier it got. Okay, someone has to open the hatch! Ellaaa!!!
Ella was actually happy to volunteer to open it and despite having dust and dirt fall on her face, she survived the experience. Phew! No man! It was just an empty space. Probably for the previous ceiling light and electrical stuff.
So, the REAL question is, what was happening to the peppermint tea and peanut butter???
Stay tuned!
