Still in bed, I could hear my grandmother making coffee in the kitchen below my bedroom. The bedroom had been my father's. For all I knew, the bedroom had been my grandmother's when she was a girl. Apparently my family had lived in the old row house since immigrating from Norway decades before I was even a thought. Both of my parents worked as professors at the university a short walk away.
I heard the front door of the row house open and shut close. My grandmother worked in an elder care home, which was ironic, considering she was older than many of the patients. She was still healthy though, just a bit slower and more careful with her movements. I got out of bed and walked down the little hallway to the bathroom, peeling off my underwear, not bothering with modesty now that I was alone in the house.
I looked at my face in the small bathroom mirror, probably original from when the house had been built. My hair a light chestnut, and my skin pale. For a moment, I looked at the patch of hair growing above my penis. I ran my fingers through the course, curly hair; I find myself still fascinated and intimidated by the changes happening to my body. My penis had grown over the summer, and hardens from excitement constantly. My armpits are bushy, and my body is developing lean and hard muscles, where fat and softness once dominated. I am lean and of average height. I would probably grow to be handsome, or at least unique looking, but now my body is that of an awkward teenager. I had recently just turned eighteen.