A successful suicide on Gubbys third floor

It happened just before the implosion of the penthouse crew.

When Mel told me about it, she claimed it had traumatised her. Yet, to me, she seemed completely unaffected by it, but I acknowledge that my judgement of her here would be both ignorant and hypocritical. After all, I am apparently empathy impaired meaning I struggle to, and sometimes cant, read peoples emotions and intentions, and due to my borderline personality disorder, I don’t behave how people expect a person to behave, ever, but especially in stressful situations.

It happened, if I remember correctly, on a Saturday morning. The residents from Gubbys other third floor, which was where Mel lived, had been out the previous night in central London.

The girl whose screaming woke the entire third floor that morning had brough her boyfriend along, as he was visiting her that weekend.

By the time Mel, who lived opposite her, made it into the corridor, several of her neighbours were already out there, trying without success to force open the unlocked door of the room the screaming was coming from.

“She’s behind the door, and she wont move,” one of Mel’s neighbours explained.

Another was speaking to the girl behind the door, trying to find out what was wrong, and persuade her to move away from the door.

Mel was a larger woman, both tall and sturdy, yet even when she charged the door, it didn’t budge.

It took several of the largest women to open the door just wide and long enough for the smallest of the group to squeeze through.

What she found inside had caused her to leave university, because she most definitely was traumatised.

At some point during the night, while his girlfriend slept, the vising boyfriend had hung himself from the hinge of the door, which made sure it shut and locked behind you.

Panicking, she had pulled open the door while he was still hanging there, desperate to flee, but instead closing the hinge, which severed whatever it was he had used to hang himself, causing him to fall on top of her.