Chapter 11

Arthur woke up some time after sunrise. In a vain attempt at hoping that the previous day or two had been nothing more then a dream, Arthur looked around. And found the room that was not his own bedroom in his own home. From the newly found alarm clock he could read that it was a little after eleven AM. Funny how he missed it before.

First he stayed in bed for a while considering if he should leave it at all or not. After a long weighted decision he gets up out of bed. Next action was to check if the door out to the hall was locked or not. It wasn't locked, that was a plus. Though that gave rise to the next line of decision, should he or should he not leave his room.

It was very tempting to just stay in there but at the same time so wouldn't it lead to anything. Such as getting him out of this whole situation. At the same time so wasn't he really sure that walking out of the room would solve anything either. Aside from getting him from one room he wasn't all that familiar with to an other room that he was even less so. Arthur did come to chose to stay in the room for a little while longer.

Since he hadn't looked around the room all that well before so could he do that now instead. He have already found a clock that he had been unaware about so why not see what else he could dig up. He started with the biggest most obvious things, the furniture.

The furniture in itself was made up from the big bed, a good sized loveseat with room for two, a small table at the door, even smaller tables on either side of the bed, some floor lamps strategically places around the room even though there is a ceiling lamp, a dresser with a table lamp on top of it, a closet, and a bookcase.

There had also been found some animal plushies on top of the dresser alongside the one of them Arthur currently was carrying along with himself. He knows very well that he shouldn't do that since it wasn't his, but it was a hamster. A really cute, really big, yellow-orange-white patterned, hamster plushy and it was so soft and cuddly. And Arthur could really use some cuddliness at this time. So he carried it around now.

With a loyal companion at his side he walks first over to see what is in the bookcase. Unsurprisingly so are they books in it. Giving the titles a passing glance he sees a few that he actually recognize, maybe even read at some point. Otherwise so are they unknown to him.

Losing interest in the filled bookcase, he walks back over to the dresser again. The dresser was by his guess a normal sized one with three rather big drawers, and dragging out the one on the top he finds that it is split in to two spaces. One had been filled with socks that was still in there packages and the other had underwear that also was still in their packages. So new bought clothes then.

Looking int he second drawer was T-shirts and sweaters together with tank tops, there was a variations of color between them but the head theme for them was from yellow to red. In the last was pants and shorts, also in color of yellow, orange or red. Everything was very neatly packed in to the dresser.

Arthur had planned to look in the closet next. He couldn't understand what you needed it for if you had filled the dresser with all the clothes. So there was a curiosity in what would be found in it. But that plan would have to wait.

For one thing that had come to his mind when he was done looking in the dresser was that he had not changed clothes since he came to this house. When he had woken up the first time and had found himself undressed so had he simply put his own old clothes, thats been left in the room, back on again. Arthur usually doesn't have that high a feeling against using the same clothes more then one or two days in a row. But he had used these clothes, with exception for the socks and underwear, since two day's before his 'vacation' started.

Thinking on it just made it crawl under his skin, and with so obviously clean clothes right beside him the want to clean up was enormous. The exploration of the closet would have to wait as Arthur picked out one white T-shirt, a red pair of trousers. He had some slight hesitation about the socks and underwear as it's different to lend those then other clothes. But his own where so dirty.

In the end he picked out one pair of yellow boxers and a pair of orange socks. They did seem to be new after all and if need be he could always offer to replace them later. So with the clothes under one arm and the hamster held by the other, Arthur made his way towards on of the three doors. One that he had already learned was an adjoining bathroom.

He still thought it weird to have a bathroom connected to a bedroom like at a hotel but he had to admit some piratical points with that. He put the hamster down on the toilet seat to avoid any water accidents with it.

"Now sit there and keep the guard up for perverts okay hamster." Arthur turned his head to the side in thought. "I guess I should give you a name shouldn't I? Can't very well keep calling you hamster."

He put down the clean clothes on a place beside the basin so they wouldn't risk getting wet either. Then he started to undress as he pondered for a name for his new companion. The old clothes was unceremoniously left in a heap on the middle of the floor.

"What about Leo? No that is more for a cat I think. Maybe Oliver." When he was done taking his clothes off he went over to the bathtub with an inbuilt shower in it. "Is this supposed to work as a bathtub too? It's frickin huge. More like a bath cabin, oh God, that is what this is isn't it? Well lets stick with a normal shower as that one is faster and I will feel more clean after that then with a bath." He turned the water to go up on a ninety-two degree.

Waiting for it to warm up to the chosen temperature he turns back for the hamster. "No lets not call you Oliver. I know, I will call you Theodor, Theo for short. You know I have always wanted a hamster but have never been able to. My family wasn't big on the pet scale, and I couldn't after I moved out either. My apartment complex doesn't allow pets. So I have never had one even though it would have been nice not to be so alone all the time."

Noticing that the air in the room was starting to get warmer and more humid Arthur sticks his hand in to the water and feels how it is already warm. So making certain that a towel was in a good distance near the shower, he went in under the water.

"It really would have been nice."