I should not admit this but sometimes I fantasize about making myself into a singlet (non plural person), and I am not by any means the host. I have been here just under a year, my anniversary is in August. Obviously I miss having my own body and being fully lucid all the time, everyone in here does. And on occasion I fantasize about ways to get rid of the others, especially since Nathan told me if he ever disappeared he would want me to take over. I would never do it. Ever. Firstly for moral reasons, any form of needless killing is wrong, also goodness knows I would hate having to interact with the world and the people in it that much. Yet somehow in my most private moments I imagine being the only one in this body. I know exactly what physical changes I would make and what kind of job I would get. The transition would inevitably continue, because I am a man and that is final. I would cut myself a fringe, then relax and bleach the messy black proto-mullet until it looks my real hair. I would cover his tattoo and take out the lip piercing and start dressing differently. Maybe not the exact way I used to. Lately I have been wondering about experimenting with the whole goth thing, but that might be an option. I do not have any desire to entire the disgusting bars or nightclubs in this dreadful city, especially not without Nathan ready to throw hands with anyone who touches us, and there aren't any goth or even remotely alternative bars here but I understand that is part of it. At the very least I am starting to develop the right music tastes and enough brooding "dark emotions" to justify such a consideration. I know my boyfriend would not let me away with getting rid of or repressing the others, but if I could have him all to myself I would. I could be the one to meet his friends and parents, to be the one he introduces as "Jayden, my boyfriend". I could befriend his friends, blend into his group like a regular partner and not some strange secret thing attached to his original boyfriend. The one who falls asleep next to him without having to worry that someone else will wake up next to him. I would get a job that requires as little human interaction as possible. Maybe something I could do from home. An office job or a library would be perfect. Then every night I could go for long walks on the beach and listen to And One and Sisters of Mercy, and smoke Marlboro Reds on the beach under the stars. Alone and free and maybe even happy in an empty mind that's mine and mine alone. But that is a terrible, terrible thing to even consider.