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"Should I even ask...?"
My housemate Lydia looked up at me from her bedroom floor as I put my house keys in my pocket. She acted as if there was nothing weird about what she was doing - using a hairdryer at full blast on a large, thick sheet of plastic she was holding. She was a university student studying art, so I was used to a certain level of antics and weirdness she engaged in for her degree, but this definitely took the cake. She gave me a smirk.
"Could you close my door? I'm clearly doing something important here."
I laughed and obliged. I closed her door and headed over to my own room next door to crash, even through the loud sound of the hairdryer through the wall. After some time I heard her turn it off, and could hear some laboured sounds of her doing something, including a little yelp - the kind you do after stubbing your toe.
"You okay?" I asked through the wall.
"Yeah I'm fine, it's just quite hot." She eventually muttered back.
Thinking nothing of it, I went back to scrolling on my phone. After a few minutes I heard her start making similar laboured sounds again. A lot of grunting later, it sounded like she had given up on whatever she was doing.
"Mike, can you come help me for a minute?" She suddenly asked me through the wall.
"Yeah, sure."
I got up and made my way back over to her room. As I was about the open the door, Lydia suddenly spoke up -
"WAIT! Close your eyes please."
"Why, is this meant to be a surprise?"
"No, I just don't want you to look."
Why not? I thought to myself. Not wanting to step over whatever boundary she had about this, I opened the door with my eyes closed, entered, and closed the door behind me. She suddenly took my hand and made me sit down on the floor with her.
"I can't get it off..." She mumbled, and brought my hands to the edge of the plastic sheet.