the tap was turned off, but not tight enough. droplets of water were still slowly leaking out. drop after drop, every two seconds. it clung to the inner rim of the tap, accumulating until fat enough and heavy enough to let go and just drop into the bathtub that was half full. there are 12,174.4 drops in a liter. and the tub only had about 15 liters of water. but there are 18,298 drops of water, making it 364 drops of something else, which was not water.
strands of hair are splayed on the surface of the water. not heavy enough to completely submerge as the rest of the hair was hanging over the side of the bathtub. black strands of wet hair that dripped more droplets of water onto the black and white tiled mosaic floor.
the bathroom feels stuffy. condensed steam formed more droplets of water along the transparent shower curtain that was partially covering the perimeter of the bathtub. you see, it does not matter if there were drops of water on the shower curtain or on the mosaic tiles as long as it was kept inside the oval that was meant to be wet. as long as the tiles outside of that invisible line drawn by that thin, and now steamed, transparent shower was dry, it was fine. for the one thing that was more annoying than a steamy bathroom is wet tiles.
steam on the other hand, refused to be contained and instead of just hanging around in the air within the confines of that shower curtain, it rose above and out of its boundaries. up to the pristine white cement ceiling it went before it realized there was no other option unless to spread out along the sides before all the upper air in the bathroom was lightly steamed. and so, the bathroom smelt and tasted and felt quite steamy.
then again, it did not matter to the droplets that were still steadily forming and accumulating and dropping from the tap, nor did the steam irritate the strands of hair floating on the surface of the water in the bathtub. even the hair that was not floating inside the bathtub, but which was hanging over the side of the bathtub did not seem to mind what the steam chose to do.
what mattered was they had a place to themselves. although, it does not appear as if they felt anything at all, for they are only droplets of water and strands of hair. inanimate subjects that had neither the capacity to bother or wonder or feel anything regarding other elements, such as the steam and the way it chose to behave.
perhaps the inability to bother, or wonder or even feel helped. because if something cannot wonder, it would not wonder what those 364 foreign droplets in the tub half full of water was. inanimate objects would not bother to investigate for they had no purpose but to just be what they are. they would not even begin to feel anything if someone told them that those exact 364 droplets were blood.
they would not have the capacity to understand that inside the tub, is a dead person. for all they cared about was doing what they did best.
and so the droplets of water was still leaking, and accumulating every two seconds before it joined the 18,298 droplets of water intermingled with blood in the bathtub. those strands of hair would still float on the surface of the water without the least care in the world. the steam will continue rising upwards before hitting the white cement ceiling before spreading out.
although, the steam will eventually get tired of rising up and solidifying into droplets. then they will just cool down and then perhaps, just perhaps, the bathroom will get less steamy.
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