Flashy Ending

A Memorable ending to a great day. But by memorable ending, I don't necessarily mean great.

I was sitting back on my couch, enjoying a relaxing night in preparation for another day of study tomorrow. Just as the movie I was watching, enemy at the gates was nearing the end my apartment suddenly filled with the smell of fuel. I rose up from the couch and looked around, went to the door, opened it, nothing in the corridor. I didn't have any fuel in my apartment.

I walked to the window. Several people were down in the courtyard looking up at the building. I thought "What the hell, is the building on fire? There's no alarm" I walked back to the kitchen to get the radio to hear the news and see if there was a fire nearby when I saw the vent for my air exchanger. There was soot all around it.

I grabbed the phone and called the fire department. "Hi, well I'm not sure if this is an emergency, but it is defiantly of concern..." I started the conversation with the 911 operator.

Moments later sirens were outside the building. The smell of fuel was getting thick now, sickening. A couple of seconds later as I putting my scarf on and just stepping through my door to get outside and get some air the Alarm went.

....

Something had happened with the furnace at the hotel next door. It had spewed soot and ash into the air in huge clouds of smoke. The stuff had rained down on my building and been sucked into the air intakes. But Alas, no disaster.

The couple of hundred of us walked back inside.
The movie long over.
The night half over.

And I, left in not much of a mood.