That's... disturbing. He quickly shut and locked the door behind him and started to look through his moonlit apartment. Now that he was home, he was starting to remember what had happened after he had gotten back from work. Everything was as he had left it. Letters on the table; keys, wallet on the nightstand by the bed; even some frozen garbage he was going to heat up for dinner still out. Wait. He had taken a bath. To relax, of course. The vacant white of the bathroom door stared ominously at him.
Oliver slowly turned the handle. Warm orange candles, ceiling light off. In the corner of the room, a body was submerged in the tub. His body. He would have screamed, but his breath seemed to have preemptively left him. He covered his mouth anyways. The water was high in the tub, and the body reclined, sloping down so that a thin layer of water covered its mouth and nostrils, from which no bubbles of air escaped. In a way, it was almost - peaceful. The stillness of the water, the closed eyes, the warm twilight of the candles and vestiges of lavender soap, his glasses folded on the countertop just out of reach. Like he could've fallen asleep. Oliver shut the door.
The white door welcomed him again. He drifted to the bedroom. He was laying on the bed. Who knows how long. He was still naked. Oliver shifted up, turned on the light, and walked to the dresser. In the brightness, something seemed different. As he opened the dresser drawer, he knew what it was. His arms were not his arms. They were a little thinner, tanner. In fact, his body was not his body. Thinner. Tanner. His hair was brown, not blond. And longer. He hadn't just been hallucinating on his cold, windy walk home - he was taller. He crept into view of the mirror beside him and a stranger looked back at him.
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