A Wonderful Awakening

Deciding that I was going to have to use a hair drier at the same time as realising I had no suitable clothes for my 5'9ish frame (that I guessed was about a size 12 to go with the DDs I felt sure I was sporting) I fastened the towel around my chest as if I had been doing it for years and wondered across the hallway to my flatmates room.

Kate had been away for a week on a purchasing trip for her company and wasn't due back for a few more days so I reckoned I would be safe. As I flicked the switch the bulb blew and I had to stand at the door waiting for my eyes to adjust to the dim light before threading my way past furniture, bags and myriad clothes scattered over the floor. With the curtains open I could make out the dressing table and stool covered in what looked like her work clothes. Clearing these onto the floor I sat down and faced the mirror – once more seeing my lovely face and neck, still slightly damp from the shower. My hair hang slick down my back with a few wisps beginning to curl up as they dried off. Rummaging around produced a drier and I began the first, laboured efforts at drying thick and long hair. I was just beginning to appreciate the efforts women went to every day even before they walked out of their bedroom door.

Finally satisfied with nearly-dry hair (though it still looked fairly chaotic and nothing like it had when I had woken up in the morning, how I now wanted that wavy curly look to reappear!) I sat back and pondered my next move. Normally I would be showered and dressed within 15 minutes of waking up but it had already been 45 minutes and I didn't even know where to start with clothing. Kate was smaller and stockier than me though probably about the same at the hips and chest, I figured I should be able to find something suitable amongst the overflowing drawers and piles of (I hoped) clean clothes scattered about. She may have been untidy but she was certainly hygienic and I reckoned she was probably fastidious about using the laundry basket in the bathroom.