{"id":23281,"date":"2026-10-15T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=23281"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:21:59","slug":"this-evening-i-went-into-my-girlfriends-bathroom-and-found-this-on-the-floor-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=23281","title":{"rendered":"This evening, I went into my girlfriend\u2019s bathroom and found this on the floor."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For several moments, I searched for an ordinary explanation. Perhaps a broken rubber seal had fallen loose, or someone had tracked something inside. Instead of approaching it, I examined the pipes, ceiling, and corners, wondering where it could have come from. Eventually, I forced myself to inspect it more closely. Its texture and slight movement convinced me it was alive. After comparing photographs online, I believed I had identified it: a leech. The possibility that it had emerged from somewhere damp was unsettling, although I never established how it arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What stayed with me was how quickly an everyday room became unfamiliar. I found myself watching the floor and questioning shadows I would normally ignore. Finding an apparent explanation had settled one question, but it hadn\u2019t immediately calmed my nerves. That small, unexpected creature left me with an uncomfortable memory: standing in my own bathroom, suddenly reluctant to take another step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several moments, I searched for an ordinary explanation. Perhaps a broken rubber seal had fallen loose, or someone had tracked something inside. Instead of approaching it, I examined the pipes, ceiling, and corners, wondering where it could have come from. Eventually, I forced myself to inspect it more closely. Its texture and slight movement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23285,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281\/revisions\/23285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}