Jules, a single, lonely, newly licensed CPA for a new law firm, works long hours, late nights, which leaves no time for a social life that she should be having. After one, long, hard day at the office, she takes her time walking from the subway station to her apartment, trying to take in what she can, for what its worth, of the outside world before she turns in for the night. Suddenly she hears a slow, steady step behind her and quickly turned and looked for her safety. She saw a man, well more of a silhouette of a man; tall, broad shouldered, youthful, yet shadowed. She was a bit startled and concerned at first but then she gained a sense of security. There was something about being followed that awakened her senses and voided many of those lonely feelings that she had been experiencing up to this point of discovery. She did not address the man, he did not address or approach her, he just followed.
After several nights of her being accompanied by this shadowed stranger, she started to feel a bit more open, liberated, and attractive. One evening, after an extremely taxing day at the office, Jules decides that she is going to push the envelope a bit further. She was feeling confident and a bit ballsy. She was going to make a move that could either open a whole new "side" to her or could possibly kill her. But she was not worried of the latter. Jules catches her train, steps off at her stop, and walks up the subway stairs to the street surface, without looking, and heads for her apartment three blocks down. She hears the footsteps again, she's nervous, but anticipating seeing how far this stranger will go with her.
Jules walks up her building's front stoop, picks up an abandoned newspaper and kicks it in between the door and frame to leave the door open. She then steps into the elevator, alone, and pushes the button to her floor, still hoping that the stranger will take notice to her discreet, yet forward invitation. She walks to her apartment, swinging her keys in between her delicate ring and middle fingers and unlocks her front door and walks in. She hovers in her foyer to listen to the elevator chime at each floor, making sure he found her apartment. She hears the elevator getting closer and she quickly rummages through her mail and items by the door to find something to prop it open for him. She shoves a phone book in front of the door and hears the elevator open, then his footsteps, she has an urge to open the door and just look, but didn't want to startle or scare off her wanted stalker. The footsteps stop at what seemed just a few feet from Jules' front door. She then regains composure and starts to saunter towards her bedroom, leaving very little light to be seen to accommodate her shadowed friend.