Part 5 (2/2)

DemonBoy: You are reading my thoughts as I am writing them down right now. Ha ha ha.

DemonGirl: Very funnya As I started writing something else I heard a noise from outside the open window.

DemonGirl: Ben? Hold on, I need to check on something.

DemonBoy: Sure thing, DemonChick, I'll be right here.

As I approached the window and peered between the blinds, I didn't see anything. I was still jumpy from before, so I kept looking around, and that's when I saw a dark figure behind the thick pines. I opened the balcony doors and stepped outside for a closer look, but the shadow was gone.

I came back in and locked the doors. The time had pa.s.sed and it was now after seven in the evening. I will be changing again soon, I thought as I walked back over to the computer and typed another message to Ben.

DemonGirl: Still there?

DemonBoy: Yep, still here.

DemonGirl: Where are you?

DemonBoy: At the library in Cleveland.

DemonGirl: Why Cleveland?

DemonBoy: Hada save someoneawhy else? By the way, how is your saving coming along? I hear you're zero for zero!

DemonGirl: Sorry I am not great like you. Remember this is my first annual.

DemonBoy: Ah, but you will be!

DemonGirl: No, I won't be. Someday I will be human again. Jesse loves me. Things will work out. They have to. They must.

I waited for him to message me back as a few minutes went by.

DemonGirl: Still there?

I a.s.sumed he had to leave the library; from what I remembered they only give you a certain amount of time to use the computer.

I signed off and lay down. I could feel my body beginning to change. Every time it did, my thoughts raced more and more. Who was that standing behind the trees? Was I just seeing things? Who the h.e.l.l would break into my apartment? My dad comes to see me too? Now, after all this? I desperately wanted to talk to Jesse and tell him everything. I needed a friend, but I had no one. Benjamin was a good guy, but I still didn't trust him. There was something about him that rubbed me the wrong way, and yet I had to admit, I was attracted to him. However, he was a demon. He didn't care anymore about not being human again. I did. I still hoped it would happen. I just needed to tell Jesse the truth, but how?

Chapter Eleven.

I woke up in an unfamiliar room. Not knowing how I got there, I slowly got up and looked around. The walls were gray, and the T.V. was glaring an old black and white movie. I was in someone's den. There were bottles of all sorts of prescription drugs on the coffee table. The strange thing was I didn't feel like myself. Something was different. I was someone else, but who?

Looking down, I noticed I had on a nightgown. My hair was long and dark brown, and I was heavier, especially around my waist. My hands and arms were of different skin tonea”an olive color. It was too hard to tell exactly in the dim light. I was scared and patting myself down everywhere. I could feel I was in someone else's body. Was this another dream? Who the h.e.l.l was I, and where was I?

”Do you need anything else?” someone called from downstairs. The voice was m.u.f.fled. I couldn't tell who it was at first, and then it became more distinct.

”I'm bringing up some fresh water for you,” he said, coming up the steps.

Oh, G.o.d, how could that be? Where was I? That sounded likea My thoughts where in a whirlwind, and I panicked. I wanted to hide, but I couldn't. I searched around the room for the light switch, feeling along the walls. With the flick of the switch, I was in shock to see who I was. The image in the mirror on the other side of the wall was of Sarah! Every move I made, she made, but there was a slight difference; she had a look in her eyes like she was trapped.

Dear G.o.d, I was in Sarah's body!

”Here's water. Did you need anything else before I go?”

It was Jesse looking right at me. I couldn't believe I was standing within three feet of him! I wanted so badly to run up and hug him, touch him, anything. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. I was being cheated out of my first encounter with him. Did I create this? Did I make this happen?

I took a long, hard look at him, and my heart seemed to stop. I couldn't feel it. Stillness was inside me, like I was a statue. I couldn't move, yet I was being moved by some kind of force.

The body I was encased in moved in directions I did not want it to go. Sarah's hands grabbed the bottle of water as her feet walked over to the couch. I could feel her body sitting down, but all I wanted to do was jump out, but how?

”Sarah? Are you okay? I could stay home if you want. I'll just call in,” Jesse said.

”No!” I shouted. Oh, G.o.d, I could speak her voice! How could I when I was having trouble motoring her body? It was like half of me was there and half of me wasn't. Was I possessing Sarah's body?

”Sarah, you're scaring me. How about I stay home with you tonight?”

I tried to settle my thoughts and think of what to say next without being detected somehow. I reacted again, using her voice.

”Jessea” I said, pus.h.i.+ng my voice out of Sarah's mouth. It was hard to be talking to him face-to-face, for the first time, and I wasn't myself. I had to act as though I was Sarah.

”Yes?” he asked again.

”Just go, I'll be fine.”

”Are you sure?”

”Yes!”

”You seem so jumpy, what's wrong?”

Yes, I did seem jumpy, and that was because I wanted to jump out of her body and escape this entrapment somehow.

”Please go. I'm just going to rest,” I said.

Jesse came close, kissed me on the cheek and left.

Once I knew he was gone, I had to act fast. I could feel the forces pulling me to the den again. I watched Sarah's hands pick up a prescription bottle and felt myself moving to the bathroom.

Someone else was controlling me. It was Sarah's spirit still inside me. I looked in the mirror and saw her face. She was down and depressed, and it looked like she wanted to speak, but when I opened my mouth, it was her mouth moving with my voice!

”Please, G.o.d! Help me!” I said in the mirror as I saw Sarah's lips move.

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