Pain

Andy woke up with a splitting headache. The pain caused him to reflect on the events of the previous night after he had found out his wife was cheating on him. He didn’t want to talk about it with her, and instead just drove into the city. He started drinking at a bar and couldn’t remember how many he had. In his drunk and angry state, he had hired a hooker. He had justified it as revenge on his cheating wife, but when they got to the hotel, he didn’t remember sleeping with her. Instead, he remembered crying about how his wife hurt him and how he just wanted to escape the pain of it all. That was the last he could recall before waking up this morning. He ran his fingers through his hair, hoping rubbing his head might relieve the pains of his headache, but the long cascading hair was an indication that something was far more wrong than a simple hangover. He caught sight of his reflection in a mirror. It wasn’t right; it wasn’t right at all. The face that looked back at him was that of the hooker from last night. His wish to escape the pains of his old life had been granted by switching bodies with her. But however bad his old life had been, he was sure his new life as her would be much, much worse!