[ WP ] You wake up in a parallel universe . Only one tiny , insignificant thing is different ...

The alarm blares. Josh presses snooze. Fifteen minutes later, the alarm again blares. Josh wearily hits the snooze button. Fifteen minutes later, the alarm again blares. 
 
 `` Do n't you have to go to work?'' Samantha asks. 
 
 Josh grumbles, pulls himself out of bed, showers, dresses. The bump in the bed that was Samantha disappeared. Her existence has shifted to noises in the kitchen. 
 
 Josh, dressed, heads to the kitchen for a kiss and a cup of coffee, and maybe some scrambled eggs if he's lucky. 
 
 `` Do you have a busy schedu...,'' Josh begins. `` Did you change your contacts, Sam?'' 
 
 `` I have n't put them in,'' she says. 
 
 Josh loves Sam's sparkling blue eyes. They were part of her features that drew him to her. Only they were light brown. 
 
 `` Have you been to the eye doctor?'' Josh says. 
 
 `` No. Why?'' 
 
 `` What color are your eyes?'' 
 
 `` Do n't be silly, Josh,'' Sam says. 
 
 `` Just humor me.'' 
 
 `` Brown, like always,'' she says, teasingly. `` You always said that was what drew us together. How do you like your eggs this morning?'' 
 
 Josh shrugs, hugs her, kisses her earlobe and whispers, `` Scrambled.'' 
 
 `` Pour me a cup?'' she asks. 
 
 `` Right away,'' Josh says, pulling down two cups from the cabinet. A momentary tingling runs down his neck then disappears. *Hope it is n't Alzheimer's*, he thinks, then duly forgets about it. 
 
 The world continues to revolve.
