Your Turn

What will you do with my body?

Through his window, he sees the same girl again. Likes to laugh, cute, and kind to animals. She usually walks home with the same group of girls, but this one Thursday, she was walking alone.

Pavel Yermakov, aged 36, a recluse, unemployed and on disability, seems to have an attraction to this high school girl, Yui. His obsession grows stronger each day hearing her talk and laugh through the walls of his house. It was only a matter of time until he did something about it. He'd always pray for a chance to talk to her, and it seems god answered his prayer.

Thursday, 6PM, 

Yui wakes up in Pavel's basement. Tied up to a chair, she tries to scream but Pavel wraps some more cloth over Yui's mouth.

"I won't hurt you, just hear me out okay? I'll let you go"

Yui calms down and Pavel takes off the cloth.

Pavel says how much he's always wanted to talk to Yui and expresses his love for her, only to have her look disgusted and reject him.

"please just let me go"

He unties her and takes off the cloth. A few seconds later after getting up, she starts running to the stairs. Pavel panics and runs after her. He takes her down on the stairs.

"Were you planning to report me to the police?" he shouts.

Yui screams her lungs out and the lights go out.

Thursday, 9PM, 

Yui's dead body is 6ft deep under Pavel's backyard. He paces back and forth in his kitchen and reaches for a knife. Thinking about committing suicide he grabs it with both hands and aims it for his chest. Eyes shut, hands jittering, it seems like he's really about to do it. But he drops the knife and sobs on the kitchen floor. He can't do it.

Pavel goes to sleep hoping this nightmare would be over the next day.

Friday, 9AM, 

Pavel wakes up and heads for the toilet. He tries to urinate and realizes he doesn't have a penis. He panics and takes a look at the bathroom mirror.

His appearance has changed completely. He looks exactly like Yui. Short bobbed black hair, 5'2" and Japanese. He drops to his knees and wonders if he's in a dream. After the reality settles in, he tries to cut off his hair to look different but the scissors won't cut the hair for some reason. He then plans to just not go outside.

A few days go by and some police start knocking at his door. He doesn't answer, and they leave thinking he's not home. But they have someone to keep an eye on the house. A day later, Pavel has ran out of food, so he goes outside in the evening and the police that were waiting by his house spot him as Yui.

They bring her to the police station for questioning while also having Yui's parents present. They conclude Yui has got some type of amnesia because she doesn't know her parent's names or anything from her private life. However, they still wonder where Pavel went since there's no trace of him, even Yui's body Pavel buried in his backyard is gone.

Pavel, now identifying as Yui is brought back home. She refuses to go to school or socialize. The feeling of guilt haunts her as she never expected this to happen.

50 years later, Pavel, now Yui, is staring out the window of a retirement home, with no goals or accomplishments. Wondering when it'll all end.