Andy managed a whole hour of sleep before another screaming fight from her next-door neighbors punctured the morning quiet. More than once she’d considered calling the police just to stop them from disrupting her rest, but she knew the realities of the overworked NYPD and never quite managed to pick up the phone. Once their yells had awoken her, all the noises of the city crept back in from the muffled noise of the street below, all honking horns and the bustle of people. Her own apartment joined the conspiracy, with the windowpane rattling faintly in the breeze and the dripping in the bathroom impossible to ignore once she had registered them.
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