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The Exchange of Souls
Laiba Tambe
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Submitted to Contest #2 in response to the prompt: 'The lines between fiction and reality get blurred when your character starts writing a new book.'

She tried but it took her away. She stayed where she shouldn't be, she never knew how but it was there somehow.
The story began when Emma Katz felt something abnormal from a book she never bought, which was in her bookshelf,
On, 1st April 2025 [10 pm]
She ate her dinner as usual and went right upstairs back to her room. As she entered her room, her phone vibrated and she got continuous 3 to 4 messages, she ignored it and went near the window, it was so clam and cold that the breeze made her feel sleepy. Then she remembered that she have to submit her office documents due tomorrow, she went to her desk and start working on it. She got a notification again and this time also a miscall, she thought it might be important so she checked the message, as she read those messages she was blanked for a moment, then she thought that someone was pranking her with some kind of creepy message of something dangerous present in her room. She kept her phone and started focusing on her documents. This time felt someone's presence in her room. she peeped outside the window and again came back to work thinking that she might be overthinking the messages she got. She was so tense that night cause her documents need more work and she was distracted by this messages. Her body somehow felt uncomfortable, as if someone was watching her continuously from the back. It was [12 am] she completed her work and took a deep breath. She was not feeling sleepy because of this weird feeling in her room, so she decide to read the book she left half yesterday, she stood up and went to grab her book from her bookshelf. She noticed a book that she never bought "might be my mother bought it", She said, and started searching for her book but unfortunately she was unable to find it, she then decided to read the book she thought her mother bought. she grabbed that book and sat on the corner of her bed. She felt as if someone sat beside her, as if it was also reading the same book. She ignored and started reading it, she first saw the book it was a pale brown old diary which was not in a proper condition. she opened the book and the 1st page told her that "The message you read wasn't a play, it was a message to stop here!" Yet she turned the pages ignoring that message. She read the book till a page which was blank and at a corner it was written, "Write what you want and you will get it but there is a exchange of soul that you must scarifies." The parts she read till now was creepy enough to close the book, so she decide to write something she want. She thought for a while and wrote "I want to get promoted in office and I want my family to live a long and happy life." It was [12:45 am] by then, she kept the book back into the shelf and went to bed. She now turned on her phone and a message popped that says " You are in trouble, why did you write on that book ?" After this message she was shocked, she already had a feeling of someone watching her and now this message, so she ignored and tried to sleep. She slept and when she woke up in morning at [7 am] as usual, she went near her mirror but as her eyes saw the mirror, her whole life went upside down. Her reflection, it was no more there. She turned behind and saw her body sleeping comfortably and alive. She tried touching things but she cannot touch anything expect for the book pages and her phone she slept while holding it. She tried going out of her room but she was unable to go as the book bind her with it. She was so scared cause her mother called her, she heard her footsteps coming upstairs she thought, "what if my mother thinks that I am dead ?" Her mother knocked and entered the room, Emma started panicking but she saw that as her mother tried to wake her up, and her body got up, smile and acted normally as it was her. then her mother left the room and that body glared at Emma and quoted 3 times "You scarifies your soul in exchange of mine now you shall go to the world where there is no time." She didn't get it but then she checked through her clothes and felt something in her pocket, she removed it outside and it was a watch but more like a stop watch. She turned the clock time and suddenly her surrounding changed, and went back in time but the time where Emma was, never changed. She got want that soul in her body wanted to tell. She then took back the arms of the clock to 2nd April 2025 to last night. She tried messaging her but the messages went when her body returned from the dinner to her room. Emma understood that last night, she was the only one who was there in her room texting and watching her. This was the 2nd day she was trapped in that book, as she can read the book, she understood that her soul was exchanged by a girl named "Bellatrix Wilson" She was so young when she was constantly bullied by everyone because of her looks and a gang showed her the worst nightmare of her life. She was bitten up every single day by a heated iron rod leaving a mark on her body, which reminds her of her ugliness. All she had was her parents and it was the saddest part, when a masked man killed her parents in front of her and took Bellatrix with him to make her suffer. One day she got a chance to run but someone from that place saw her running, she ran to the nearest library she can and hide there but the man caught her. He grabbed a book and hit her on her head with a corner from the back. She started bleeding and she died right there. The man was scared and shocked. He ran from there living her to die. Her soul was somehow cursed by many people that "She will never get peace." And also blessed by her parents "To protect her through out her life." Her soul went into this book and the body disappeared somewhere no one knew. After reading this all, my heart melted and I started crying. She was just a girl, yet the world turned cruel to her. Just for her looks. The next day my mother donated all my books to library and a small girl picked the book. She never read all the pages but she just saw an empty pages and wrote what she wanted, as a fun but that night she was free . She wondered about that girl and book . How that book came into her self was still a question to her, also the library she usually visit was the place she died, so she assumed the soul watched her. Asking for help.

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