
Like a lot of people I got burned by

Like a lot of people I got burned by
It is dark. A girl in her mid twenties enters the living room swinging open the door with an unintended force. Her hair is dark. She is slim, pretty and dressed for a night out. She is holding a small, weighty plastic bag. She stumbles a small way in to the room and turns on the light. After surveying the room absentmindedly she drops the bag, spins losing her balance as she goes and stumbles out slamming the door behind her.
After a while the door opens again. A man, also in his mid twenties, strides in, shuts the door behind him and heads straight to one of the sofas where he sits down, rests his head on its arm, forces himself into the corner and shuts his eyes. He decided this would be his course of action some time ago.