Sarah?

​Sarah


I do not know what made us switch that night. Sgoth was in no danger at all. She'd just been watching this marvellous view and was on her way to bed. Her body was exhausted, and so I walked to her bed and shut my eyes to sleep. It felt awkward to be in her body this time, like she had lost all will to be alive.


Wait a minute? Was she dead?



No, she could not be dead. When we wake up, everything will be just fine.



I woke up the next day, still in her body! I sat up. What the hell was going on?! I held my hair, Sgoth's hair, in lumps squeezed. "Aarrgh that hurt!" That sounded an awful lot like Sgoth. "Sgoth, is that you?" That sounded a whole lot like her too. Wait a second. Am I talking? "I'm talking!" Just then, somebody came rushing in.



"Miss Cain?" It was Cooper. He was frantic. I looked at him and it felt like one of the most important moments of my life. I grinned, and before I could think any better I shouted, "Cooper, I can talk!" Oh no, what have I just done? 



His look went from baffled to angry, to confused, to worried in a matter of seconds. He walked towards me mumbling. "She can't have amnesia or anything. She remembers who I am, so that cannot be right. Let me see." He leaned and put the back of his palm on my forehead. "You're burning up." "I am?" I moved my hand to touch my forehead. Whoa! Why did my forehead feel like a hand? "Cooper, you are a lier. This does not feel warm at all!" "That is because that is my hand Miss Cain." "Oh, right." I withdrew my hand and looked down. I was treading on a cliff and I felt like I was about to fall. He was probably thinking I had lost my mind. As Cooper's palm moved from my forehead, I remembered that Sgoth had wanted to go to the park. "You are acting really strange today Miss Cain." "Call me Sarah." "Sarah? What is going on with you Miss Cain?" "Sarah! Say 'What is going on Sarah!'" Before I knew it, I was pulling at my hair again. "Ow! Why does that hurt?" "Because you are pulling your hair?"I looked up. It was Keith at the door. This was the first time I had seen Keith from the outside. He looked different. Why? His hair had been blonde the last time I had seen him, now it was black?" Keith, what happened to your hair?" He looked startled, like he was surprised I had noticed. Oh wait, Sgoth would not have cared. That is why. What was that about a cliff again? A stone had just fallen into the abyss. "Oh, I just decided to change to black. It is easier to maintain, " he chuckled as he scratched the back of his head and walked in. "It really brings out your eyes though." More surprise from Keith. He was not even scratching his head anymore, but it would not go down. Keith had striking green eyes. Now they looked even more green because of the black hair. Unlike Cooper's curls, Keith's hair was not curly. It was spiky, sorta like the stalagmites that were waiting for me at the bottom of the cliff I was standing on. Cooper was just staring, and I was doing everything in my power not to look back at him. What should I say? What should I do? 


"I want to go to the park today. You guys wanna come?" 

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