KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
Rose opened one eye.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
It was a little louder this time.
Rose looked at the unfamiliar clock: 9:27am
BAM! BAM! BAM!
"Someone's knocking at the door," Rose said to herself. But which door?
Rose jumped out of bed, and went to the door.
"Who is it?"
"Dimmy, enahasamethinjforyou."
"WHAT?" Rose asked with a trace of fear in her voice.
"Intsdimmy, enahasamethinjforyou. Thumb daoozbethlady"
Rose very nervously looked through the peephole. It was a young boy she did recognize, but what was his name again?
JIMMY! That's it! It was Jimmy, the messenger boy.
All Rose's fears were dismissed, and she began unlocking the first lock, and then the second. Wide she opened the door, and just as widely was she greeted by Jimmy's toothless smile.
Jimmy had lost his front teeth years before in a skateboarding accident.
Rose hugged Jimmy, and gave him $5.
"Thank ooo," Jimmy said, and walked away.
The strange words Rose had heard coming from the other side of the door were Jimmy saying,
"It's Jimmy, and I have a message for you. From the Uzbek lady."
"The message read: "Cannot meet you for at least a week; something unexpected has come up. Will contact you as soon as possible. Maxine is dead. signed, M."
Rose exploded into laughter.
"Maxine is dead! MAXINE IS DEAD!" Rose screamed at almost the top of her lungs while doubling over and falling on the bed.
Why was Rose laughing at the news of someone dying?
It was because no one had actually died. Maxine is dead was a code that Rose and the mysterious woman had used with each other for years; it simply meant the coffee was terrible where they were.
Yes, I agree with you: Rose and the mysterious woman were both very beautiful, but sometimes weird. Both on the same page.
The only familiar things Rose had seen since she woke up were Jimmy, and the message from M, the mysterious woman's nickname from here on.
But where was this room that Rose had woken up in, and how did she get here? Rose looked out the window. The street looked like a street in the middle east or central Asia.
"Am I in Uzbekistan?" Rose asked herself.
Rose wasted no more time, and quickly put on her boots, and ran out of the room counting her money, hoping she had enough to pay for the room, the room of which she knew not where it was, nor how she got there.
She went downstairs to the front desk, but there was nobody there. There was no one in the lobby. She could see into the kitchen, and there was no one there either. No time for questions. Rose booked out of there at maximum throttle.
That just meant she was walking fast.
Out in the empty streets, the same thing: Nobody. Nobody anywhere. And it was not yet 10 O'clock; a middle eastern or central Asian town would be full of people at this time of day.
She walked down the main street, and passed many shops, all empty. Rose was getting scared now, the only thing keeping her from a breakdown was the fact that she had seen, and hugged Jimmy a few moments before - he was real.
But wait...Jimmy lived in...
"QUIET ON THE SET!" A loud voice said from around a corner through a PA system.
HOLLYWOOD! Rose had remembered that Jimmy lived in Hollywood!
Rose was in Hollywood, apparently on a movie set; that's why there were no people on the streets or in the shops.
Her fears all gone now, Rose again used maximum throttle to find where she could get a cup of good Maxine.
There was a coffee shop, a real coffee shop at the end of one street.
Rose entered, and immediately saw someone she didn't want to talk to, so she ducked into a booth.
A waitress came over to her, and asked...
remove two nasty virusses from his computer 
"It's circular, it's name sounds like the Greek letter π, so 3.14 wasn't coincidental." On the other side of the road she stopped near the flower shop. "EXOTIC FLOWERS", the sign read. An enchanting scent came out of a window. In fact, what she smelled was so compelling...
