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My conversation with a security guard named Vincent outside of the office building.

My conversation with a security guard named Vincent outside of the office building.

I show you the entrance to the apartment, and then walk down to Mom’s office to give you an idea of the distance. Understand, I’m walking really fast so that I can get everything before my camera dies or I run out of memory (I was low on both), but you still get an idea of the distance – there are three parking lots and two other apartment buildings between our apartment and the office. The office is where the third row of apartments from our apartment begin. It’s an awfully long way for the little kids. I show the pool, which the kids have told me they swim at without life jackets and without supervision.

Some glass/trash on the ground, paint and wall is looking old as with the rest of the place.

The paint on the wall is cracked and peeling, the wall itself looks like it’s rotting off. Bugs/spider webs occasionally. I walk out to give you an idea of where the place is and what it looks like.

The floor surrounding the bookshelf is littered in junk, bits of trash and bird poop. I open the large bin to find it holding gallons of brown, murky water, which smells almost worse than the rest of the house.

When I first came, just Summer and Reid were in the apartment. After I’d been there for a while, Zibby and Reagan came in unattended – Mom was still working at the office, and sent them to go back to the apartment alone. Now, the 11-year-old who is supposed to be babysitting is watching TV while the little girls do whatever they want with themselves. I walk over to the door, pick up the scooters they left in the open doorway. All the kids’ clothes have holes in them, and they look like they haven’t had a shower in a week.

I walk over to the foyer closet. Stuff on and falling off shelves, junk covering the floor. I step inside, but it’s dark so I turn a light on. Floor covered in wires/bins/a birdcage/clothes/trash/tools/other, spider web-looking things on the ceiling. Smells as bad as everywhere else, more stains on the walls.

Brown stains on pantry floor. Not much real food in the pantry, mostly just extra stuff like mustard/peanuts/tea bags/a cracker box. A small birdcage is on the floor – same one at the same place that Mom placed when we moved there back in October. Still full of old bird poop and feathers, now covered in a white fungus-looking fuzz. More medicine on the washer and dryer. Grant’s birthday isn’t on the calendar, so I add it in for her. I walk over to the bird cage, feathers and poop on the floor surrounding it. Bunch of poop inside the cage and on top of it, no food, but it has a little water which has bird poop floating in it – as least the amount of poop isn’t as bad as it normally is. Poop and stains on wall beside the cage.

Brown stains appearing on the sink, counters are cluttered with uneaten food/papers/pots/other junk, a couple cabinets are open, sink was partially running with dirty dishes in the sink. More medicine on the counter. Old food stains on wall/counter/oven, more trash and dirt on the floor. Some stuff on the table, doesn’t look like it’s actually used for eating that much (it never was when I lived there – we’d snack around wherever, I usually ate in my bedroom or in the den).

Pink mildew on bathtub bottom as well, brown mold on edges and cracks of tub. Brown stuff is also appearing on the shower head. I flush the toilet, and try to turn the sink on – it appears to be partially jammed. Brown mold growing on the sink and facet as well. Toothpaste on counter, spider-web looking things on ceiling.

Pieces of trash/hair/brown stains/other gunk on the floor, mat and stool are filthy. More shelves of medicine. Dirty and very smelly towel on the floor, brown stains on the sink. Trash doesn’t look like it’s been emptied in a while, brown stains on toilet bottom and behind the toilet. Trash/black spots on top of toilet and on it. When I opened the toilet lid, unflushed poop was inside – brown ring at the water line.

Nice-looking bed – must have been added recently, since it wasn’t there when I lived there. Possibly Mom’s room? Still can’t guess which room is Reid’s. Closets are still pretty messy, but at least the trash isn’t as extensive as in the other rooms. Still smells bad, some stains on the walls and floor. Still stuff and papers on the floor/dressers, but it’s tidier than the rest of the place.

Crayons/markers/glitter on bed and floor, sheets stained, look like they haven’t been washed in forever – same with dresser and wall. Trash on floor.

I’m guessing this is the little girl’s room. Unmade bed, junk/clothes/backpack/plastic bad/towel/paper/other all over the bed and floor, as well as bits of trash and food crumbs. Some stuff shoved under bed, closet #2 is relatively tidy while closet #1 is full of unfolded clothes/trash/junk stuffed in it to make room. Also smells bad.

Drawer open, full of dirty and smelly unfolded clothes, a look at the messy closet and animal cage.

I’m guessing this is Summer’s room. Dirty clothes, shoes, stuff and trash all over the floor, bed unmade with several dark marks on the sheets, junk all over the dressers and pieces of trash, food and candy wrappers littering the floor. It doesn’t look like it’s ever been dusted or cleaned. The two animal cages make the room smell awful, and it doesn’t look like they’ve been cleaned in a while – poop and pee make up a good part of the bedding. Dingy walls, some stains. Pieces of trash on the bathroom floor, large assortment of medicines, dirt all in the cracks on the wood floor, brown stains on the sink. Orange/brown stains and mold on the bathtub, pinkish stain (mildew) on the bathtub bottom. Hair/dirt/trash/unknowns on the toilet top, bottom and lid, the inside has a brown ring at the water line.