I remember the fog becoming dense, as I walked home from the frat party, through Lincoln Park, to get back to the house my friends and I rented on the other side of the park from campus. My roommates had opted to party longer, but I had my part-time job at the campus library in the morning, so needed to get some sleep.
The further I went, the thicker the fog seemed to get. When it started to swirl in multiple colors, I wasn't sure if I was actually seeing it or maybe someone had slipped something into my last drink or if the last joint I smoked had been laced with something extra.
I kept moving forward, keeping to the path that was all I could see.
Moments later, the colors faded and the fog thinned once more, as I reached Murphy Street and could barely see our house several doors down on the opposite side of the street. I crossed and walked the rest of the way, still thinking about the colored fog. I was definitely buzzed, but that had to be a hallucination. Right? Fog simply didn't change colors on its own.
As I unlocked the front door with my key, the sudden urge to pee struck me, so I rushed to the house's one bathroom, relying on the night-light, and started to furiously piss.
As I finished and turned towards the sink to wash, I heard moaning. Female moaning, coming from one of the bedrooms. Had one of my roommates come back before me with a girl without my knowing it? I hoped it wasn't Zack, as we shared a bedroom and I didn't look forward to seeing a sock over the doorknob and the prospect of sleeping on the lumpy sofa Zack's parents had contributed to our motley mix of furnishings.
That's when I started to notice that the bathroom seemed different. These weren't our towels, our soap, our shower curtain. Nothing matched that hadn't been there when we moved in. What the hell was going on? I knew I hadn't walked into the wrong house, because I had used my key. Yet, nothing looked right.
As I exited the bathroom, the living room furniture was all different, too. The layout of the house was the same, but the interiors weren't.
It turned out the sex sounds I was hearing were coming from my bedroom, but there wasn't a sock on the doorknob. In fact, the door wasn't even closed. As I crept closer, I realized I was actually hearing two women moaning. When I reached the doorway, I saw they were in a 69 position on a king bed instead of the two twins that Zack and I put on opposite sides of the room. Lamps on matching nightstands lit the room.
Confusion warred with voyeurism as I watched the two lovers, who weren't aware I was there. The foot of the bed faced the door, with the head of the woman on top closer to me, her wavy black hair obscuring any view of the pussy she was eating out. The sounds of her slurping were my primary evidence that she was doing so, as I couldn't see. Her skin tone was a few shades darker than her brown-haired partner's, but lighter than my own.
What I could see of both bodies looked delightful, though, above-average boobs on fit physiques, especially Wavy Girl's bubble butt squirming over her partner's hidden face.
I suppose if I had been sober, I would have interrupted them to find out what the hell was going on, but horniness was winning the fight in my blurry head. I quietly unzipped my pants and fished my hard cock out and started to fap at the sight and sounds in front of me.
I heard a murmured "Oh, Terri, right there," from Wavy Girl, as she raised her head slightly, revealing a glistening shaved pussy under her face, before she dipped down again and resumed licking. I got a brief look at her tongue making contact with engorged labia before that wavy hair fell back down and obscured my view.
Still, it aided my imagination that I could see her licking Terri and I jerked my cock harder still, not thinking about being caught.
Another two minutes passed and Wavy Girl started to moan Terri's name some more, as she shuddered and her hips pressed down on Terri's face, while Terri's body also bucked beneath her.
I reached my own orgasm at the same moment and shot such a forceful stream of cum that it arced towards the bed and splashed along Terri's leg.
Terri noticed. She looked around Wavy Girl's hip and spotted me. She screamed, then Wavy Girl looked up and joined in. All while I kept spurting cum towards them, hitting the bed, hitting the floor.
Not the smoothest introduction, I'll grant you.
"Who the fuck are you and what are you doing in our house?" Wavy Girl shouted, as she jumped off the bed to confront me in what looked like a karate pose, not bothering to cover herself in any way. Now that I could see her face, she looked partly Japanese, but with darker skin that might mean another race in her heritage. Probably late 20s or early 30s, they didn't look like the college girls I was used to being around, at all.
I said the first thing that came to mind. "Your house? This is my house! Can someone explain what the hell is going on?"
Terri had also gotten out of the bed, but was mostly hiding behind Wavy Girl. From what I could see of her, she had long straight brown hair and puffier areolae, but otherwise had the same curvy figure as her lover. Definitely Caucasian, the last of the summer's tan lines nearly faded away.
Wavy Girl asked, "You actually think this is your house? We've lived here for two years, kid. Are you drunk?"
"Yeah, I'm pretty buzzed," I admitted. "I'm just coming home from a frat party. But, I'm not so drunk or high that I imagined unlocking the front door with my key. Is this some prank my roommates cooked up?"
"No, we're not playing some prank. What's your name? Let me see this key you say you have. My name's Mercy, by the way, and that's Terri." She glanced from my face to my half-hard cock, as I tucked it back into my pants, then back to my face, with a bit of a grin on her face. It looked much better than the anger that had been there moments earlier.
'She's still really turned on,' I thought.
I reached into my left pocket and pulled out my key ring and handed it to her. After looking at it, she looked surprised.
I said, "I'm Ted Jackson. I went to a party at Kappa Epsilon Gamma tonight, walked home through the park, which was weird because the thick fog started changing colors. Got here, unlocked the door and had to pee, then started noticing that all of the furnishings were different, about the same time I heard the two of you having sex. Watching turned into, you know..."
"Colored fog?" Mercy asked, as she walked over to a purse on a dresser and pulled another key ring out, then compared my house key to one on that ring. "Terri, come look at this. Am I nuts, or are these two keys an exact match, not just the shape and numbering but right down to the scratches? I knew the landlord hadn't really changed the locks. But why are the scratches the same?"
Terri had grabbed silk robes out of the closet and was putting one on and carrying another for Mercy. She handed the robe to Mercy as she accepted the two keys and compared them. "You're right. They're exactly the same. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Mercy said, "It would make sense. He must be from one of the parallel Earths and lives here in that world, which is why he has the same exact key to the same lock. Tell me, Ted, who's President of the United States?"
"Donald Trump," I answered.
"I suppose he had to win somewhere," Mercy responded. To Terri, she said, "But that means Ted's not from one of the eight worlds the public knows about, since Trump isn't President on any of them."
"I'm confused. What parallel Earths are you talking about?"
"Oh, you don't know? Brace yourself, but there is apparently an infinite number of parallel universes, each different from the other to some degree. More than 20 years ago, in two of those universes, a research center called Carlson Labs--which existed on both worlds--succeeded in simultaneously establishing a portal between each other and had the gall of calling themselves Earth-1 and Earth-2. They kept it a secret for a long time. More recently, they've been establishing additional portals to other worlds, with greater differences between them, but still only diverging events within the last 35 years or so, with history slowly drifting apart, so there are still a lot more similarities. They opened a portal to this universe a year ago and designated us as Earth-8. One area of known difference is US politics, where each world has either a different President or Vice President right now, due to variations in the last three elections."
'Holy crap,' I thought, then asked, "So, who's President here?"
Terri answered, "John Kasich from Ohio. He had been our John McCain's VP until McCain was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2015 and stepped down to seek treatment, then Kasich won in 2016 and is running for another term now. McCain's tumor was caught early here and he successfully fought it off. But on other worlds, he has died."
"He died on my world, too."
The two women then gave me a dizzying rundown of the elections on all eight worlds since 2008, some where Obama won in 2008, some where Hillary Clinton did, with and without Obama as her running mate, or where she won in 2012 or 2016, some where McCain beat either Clinton or Obama. Even one world where Al Gore ran again in 2008 and won with Hillary as his VP, with her succeeding him in 2016. There was further divergence in later elections, to the point that Kasich was President in this world and VP in two others, Clinton was the current President in two worlds and Obama in another, with Jeb Bush as President in two and VP in a third, plus Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney as President in the remaining two worlds. Nikki Haley was either a past or current Vice President in four of the worlds, including the current VP on Earth-8.