Mr. Weaver's 'The Aftermath Of The Landlady'

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The Aftermath Of The Landlady…
As Mr. Weaver goes to his room on the 2nd floor, he thinks about what the old lady said-”there on the 3rd floor”, keeps on repeating in his head. As he enters his bedroom he instantly exits out because the stench of rats overruled everything he could smell. Then he bumped into the old land lady behind him, he jumped it scared him. Mr. Weaver is starting to get scared about her presents, ‘she was creepy’, he thought. The old landlady looked at him and went in the room and took a sniff, she took a deep breath “it smells like sweet pumpkin pie in here, mmmmmmh”
Mr. Weaver stepped back into the room
“mmmh it really does, I guess my mind is playing tricks on me”
“I guess so,” the old lady said with a evil grin

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