It was a huge change. He obviously wasn’t ugly, but it was crazier than you thought. His head was shaved. And when he told you that, you thought of maybe a buzzcut at most. Some hair left, just immensely short.

Nah.

Fully shaved. Bald, almost. Not a clean bald, just barely any hair. Only a fuzzy outline. When he came home you stared at him. He got worried.

“What’s wrong, darling?” he says, setting his keys on the rack and his bag on the floor. Who cared about that right this minute.