The Missing Key

Epilogue: After the Fact

Vinyl slowly twisted the key, listening to the soothing sound of the lock unlocking. The click seemed like it took forever and when the door slowly crawled open, Vinyl gasped as in disbelief, dragging in a large amount of air, exhaling loudly.

"Thank god it's over," she sighed, relieved to finally be able to get some peaceful sleep. She took a few weary steps forward and yawned, bringing a hoof up to her mouth and then slowly taking a few more steps stopping and looking up the stairs then into her living room which was on the left of the front door, the red velvet couches looked inviting.

Vinyl looked back up the stairs, imagining her inviting bed before whipping her head back to the couch. Bed or couch, bed or couch, she pondered, waiting for an answer to come out of thin air.

She stood there in the gigantic entryway, looking back and forth between the couches and the stairwell. She moaned loudly, the sleepiness disorienting her, causing her to ponder over simplistic ideas and over think them thus never coming up with an answer.

Vinyl trotted up the stairs, her eyes slightly glazed over and her eyelids drooping over them from the lack of sleep. Dark rings were already becoming clearer in the small amount of light that came in from the small windows, drifting brightly onto the marble staircase which wined it's way up into a spacious hallway with a red carpet.

Vinyl walked as if in a trance through the hallway, passed several doors until she reached the one at the end of the hall, letting out a sigh of relief and grabbing the doorknob.

"I've got just enough time to sleep," she sighed as she twisted the handle and to her surprise found it wouldn't budge.

"What the hell?!" she asked as she peered down at the doorknob clenched in her hoof, "Why won't it open?!" At that moment the answer she had been looking for popped into her head. The damn door was locked...

The End