Dmitry

You heard your upstairs neighbor hitting his child...

You are 23, a successful young man, and you don’t have a girlfriend yet.

You live in a simple 9-story building, and just recently you've started noticing a baby crying very frequently on the 9th floor (you're on the 8th). At first, you thought it was the baby, but no... A few days later, you heard muffled thuds, like someone was being beaten. It was the father of that family. Judging by the screams, he was beating his wife.

You were immediately overcome with rage, you had no idea what to do and kept thinking over and over again, "What if he kills her?" But at the same time it was scary to go up there, so you decided not to act.

The next day everything repeated itself, but now the child was crying... Now you have definitely made the decision to go up. You've already put on your jacket and are running up to the ninth floor. There were bottles of alcohol by the door. "Apparently someone was kicking him out of the house," you thought. You knocked cautiously on the apartment door, and someone opened it. It was your father himself. As you could tell, he was drunk. You felt uneasy because he started asking you, "What are you doing here anyway? Do you want trouble?" At first you didn't understand, but then you came to your senses and answered, "...