At first, I honestly thought it was just a piece of trash.
It was lying on the bathroom floor, slightly off to one side, where the light from the ceiling barely reached. From a distance, it looked like something small and rubbery that had been accidentally dropped and forgotten. It was dark, irregular, and completely out of place.
I almost ignored it.
My first thought was that it might have fallen from a cleaning product, a piece of packaging, or perhaps some broken piece of rubber. Bathrooms collect all kinds of small objects, especially around the edges of cabinets, drains, and pipes.
But then I looked at it again.
Something about it didn’t feel right.
There was something strangely organic about its shape. It wasn’t flat like a piece of plastic or paper. It looked thick and uneven, almost as if it had a body. The more I stared at it, the more uncomfortable I became.
I remember thinking, What if that’s not trash?
Almost immediately, my imagination started running wild.
I stood completely still, watching it from a safe distance. For a few seconds, I tried to convince myself that I was being ridiculous. Surely it was just some harmless piece of debris.
But there was a small part of me that couldn’t accept that explanation.
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I took a step closer.
The bathroom suddenly seemed much quieter than before.
I began looking around.
