Not expecting it to be 120 years

Matthew stood there in his silk gown with long blonde curls down to his shoulders & a candelabra in one small feminine hand.

He had been trapped in this old creepy mansion for almost 3 months since his car broke down and he found his way to this god forsaken place wanting to use the phone.

He rapped on the front door and was almost taken aback when it was answered by a man who could have been lurch from the Addams Family who informed him they did not have a telephone & was about to shut the door on him when a sweet sultry voice told the butler to invite him in.

A young woman stood there framed in the moonlight that came through the high mullion windows at the top of the stairs.

She invited him to spend the night as there was nothing they could do at this hour of the night.   

He was shown to a palatial bedroom that look like it had not been used in years & went to bed as a 25 year old man and woke up as an 18 year old girl with beautiful blonde ringlets.

He recognised the face of the woman he saw last night staring back at him from the reflection in the mirror.

Still standing there when the door opened his own body entered and set about calming him down and explaining the situation.

That his name was Simon he was a man before he entered this house & overnight had his body stolen and ended up in the body of the woman & as far as he could gather it had been going on for centuries.

He told him a victim could only enter the house freely and of their own will

Matthew asked Simon how long he was stuck as the young woman?

Simon answered about 35 years and it was not a bad life you do not age and you live in the lap of luxury but you can never leave the house.

If you walk out the front door you will find yourself in the living room.

Matthew spent his first few weeks getting used to the antiquated female clothes he now had to wear & no matter what he did with his hair it always return to its original style.

He spent his time waiting for a body he could steal & searching every inch of this mansion for a clue to what was going on.


And the butler was no use he only appeared when it was mealtimes or the door needed answering which never happened so he resigned himself to his fate to wait however long it was going to be.