Richard -- Neighbor's Baby -- Living Arrangement

Richard woke up that next morning in the strangest of places. He was surrounded by bars, wooden cylinders; painted white, that stood vertically in his vision, a baby pink were visible beyond these. Little time did he have to himself before his neighbor peered around the corner in a purple nightgown.

"I... Didn't expect that to work..." Richard's neighbor mumbled to herself before a wicked smile played across her face. "Good morning sleepyhead! Why don't we get ready for the day!"

It wasn't long after that little interaction that the two adults sat around a breakfast table talking intimately. Richard felt awkward after having been pulled out of the crib, which had laid in what looked to be an incomplete kind of nursery. Despite how he felt however, he still filled his neighbor in on his job and what he was expected to do there.

"Fascinating, well I have my job too and I believe we both must get going!" The woman whose apartment Richard had woken up inside of said before she motioned for the both of them to part ways to their respective daily occupations.

Richard worked robotically that day, without thought or consideration, as his mind was too filled with wondering about how his life would change. He was rather uncertain of how it would go on, now that his neighbor held onto the magical object which could change the reality of all the world. Still his thoughts of the future were bright, as the more he thought about it, the gladder he was to have those tough decisions which would spice up his life taken care of by someone else.

The end of the day came and no-one payed any particular mind to Richard, despite how close he was to a precipice which would mark complete and utter change in his life. No matter how close to that he stood, he looked completely normal to all observers which he faced.

As Richard stepped through the door to his new home, he saw his neighbor handle some baby bottles. She thought that she was alone in the room, which meant that once she noticed Richard in the doorway, she quickly tried explaining it all away, "oh, don't mind this, this is just a little something for... Work... Yes... Speaking of work, how was yours?"

The deflection was obvious, but Richard didn't feel like prying, preferring what was coming to be a surprise. Thus, he simply went along with his neighbor's wish to talk about what had happened at work.

The conversation went on for most of that evening, without Richard receiving any hints as to what was to come. Instead he simply spoke of his work-place, while he felt something like excitement building inside of him.

Soon, after he was finished eating, Richard felt uncharacteristically tired and headed of to bed. He didn't realize that he was marching towards the crib until he once more found himself in the nursery, something which he immediately tried to restitute by heading towards a proper bedroom.

Yet, before he even blinked, he found himself in the crib and in another blink, Richard was fast asleep.