Chapter １４

" Whatever!" I mumbled.

I navigated the restroom base on Karl's direction and finally, I found it. I slowly stepped in my feet inside and I saw a small mirror which leveled my upper part area and that is my face.

As I saw my reflection in that mirror, I don't know what's gotten into me but as long as I saw myself, the whole house quivered with my loud and screaming voice.

" Ahhhhh!!! This can't be happening!" I shouted with anger and confusion.

You wanna know why I hoot?

My long dark shiny hair turned curly brown like it was the time where princes and princes reign in the country with an ugly hair clip which is color green. My eyes who were iris blue became light green. My place face and lips like I was been swept away from the Kingdom, got raped by men on the roadway and left behind. The worst part is my dress. My ugly, old-fashioned, and dirty gown like I'm the bully inside the ball party, and nobody wanted to dance with me.

How can I make myself looks like Anika in the present time? There, I was the law, the ruler, abductor, the Luna of the packs, and the heartbreaker but here, I guess it's very the opposite.

I saw Karl storming towards me. I locked the door so he can't go inside easily.

" Hey, are you okay?" His tone seems worrying about me.

I rolled my eyes and sometimes winced when I saw my image in the mirror.

" Yeah--I-I'm okay! D-don't be bothered about me, o-okay " I did my best to sounds good like nothing happened.

" Okay. I'll be heading to my room now. The couch is ready for you to use for the night!" He said and I felt that he walked out near the bathroom.

"Okay," I replied.

Now, back to my biggest problem tonight, how am I supposed to dress like Anika. Maybe, he had extra dresses from his girlfriend, or if he took someone in for the night, maybe they sometimes left their extra pieces of clothing.

Studying my reflection again, I understand now why Karl called me one of the concubines in the Kingdom because I honestly look and dressed up like them.

Never mind, all I have to do is to figure out how I can go back to the present because maybe this moment, the girl who used my body was having the time of her life enjoying my wealth and all the things I owned.

Thinking about the real-life I have, made me cry.

After cleaning myself and taking off some dresses which she used, I feel a little lighter with a white cotton dress I left from it.

I'm sleepy and exhausted so after my body slammed against his old and small wooden couch, I quickly fell asleep.

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"Hey, wake up!" I heard someone poking my cheeks.

I slowly peeled my eyes to stretch open wide and I almost fall from the couch when I saw my face.

" Who are you? Give me back my body!" I yelled at her but I stop when I saw a small Genie who was sitting behind us.

" A Genie? What is this? Am I dreaming? Did you just poke me! Meaning we can switch life now! Where did you pass through?" I feel excited to see my room right in front of me.

" Hello, both of you, the lost souls. I'm Ergo, your genie at your service!" He looks like a clown to me.

He was like a dwarf genie with a curly hairdo on his purple hair, his big golden earrings beside his ears look weird, and his purple pointed shoes that similar to Snow White dwarfs shoes.

" Genie? Hey, maybe you're the one who switches us. Will, you put us back to our normal life? I want to go home! I'm worried about my company!" Anika begs for him.

" Yes, me too. I need to see my husband. I have to tell him that I was wrong for running away from him! " Ariana begs for his mercy too.

Ergo, the genie laughed at them.

" Nope, not so quick!" He said while twinkling his eyes.

" You have a mission to do and that is for you to wait when I come back tomorrow! Goodnight! See you in your dreams!" After making them more confused, Ergo subsided like smoke in the chimney.

Ariana and Anika woke up together but they saw similar pillars of the place they were at. They thought that the genie was real but they're only dreaming.

" Genie in a dream?" Anika mumbled.

" What is that for? Maybe, he's a real bit he's only appearing in our dream!" Ariana spoke under her queen size bed which is the bed of Anika.

" Tonight, we can meet him again" Anika said and went back to sleep again.

Ariana Pov ( as Anika )

" Ergo?" I mumbled after waking up in my deep dreams.

If you ask me about my dream, I recalled some but not all of it. The only image that closes to my mind was the weird face of a genie coming out from a small bottle full of thick violet fume and I saw my face inside my dream.

I saw myself but was used by the soul of the owner of this body which I'm using right now. She's trapped inside my era and I was also trapped in her time. I wish, we could swap our souls last night but how. The only thing I remember was what the genie said before he put us back in a deep sleep.

To be back to our bodies, he will tell us again tonight, in our dream. I had no idea what is it, but I'm positive that that could help us and if that's the only way to do it, I had to take the risk. I want to see my husband because I missed him so much.

I'm about to get up from the queen size bed of the owner of this house when I received a phone call this early. I'm still wearing the blue nightgown I found in her cabinet. I feel a little cold because of its silk cloth. In my era, we wear a couple of undergarments on our dress so it's a bit awkward for me to wear this so I put five Sandos under her nightgown.

"Yes, hello? You know what time is it to call?" I asked the early bird caller and it's my secretary Denise, I mean Anika's secretary.

" I'm sorry to disturb you ma'am but your ex-boyfriend Jerick screaming outside! He's looking for you. Should I open the door?" That's what Denise said on the other line.

Denise was living with her and Sebastian and Celine. She was using the phone from downstairs to call me. I don't even know that the owner of this body had a past lover. My head throbs after hearing what Denise said.

" What? You mean her ex?--I mean my ex?" My lips quivered because I don't even know what I'm going to do about him.

Why she had a past lover and why I need to deal with it? I had no choice but to face him and tell him to come back tomorrow.

"Okay, tell him to wait for me!" I ordered her and I look for a jacket to use first to cover my nightdress. I comb my hair and put on light makeup to cover my sleepy eyes.

" Okay, ma'am!" She replied and I hang up after.

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Jerick POV

I looked up at Anika's gate and I was like wow, she made her dream come true. I never thought that she could pay all the debts her parents left to her after they died.

I was a fool and scared at that time that I may fail her and can't help her with their company's stock problem. After hearing that their family business was about to collapse, he decided to not show up to their wedding day. He loves her but he was afraid to accept the fact that she also loves her because of her parent's money.

I became a ran away groom that day and I had no idea what did Anika do that time after she waits for me for nothing. Now, I just missed her and I realized that I still loved her. I raised my left arms to check my wristwatch if what time is it because I think I came here too early but I knew Anika very well, she's an early bird who always waking up every four in the morning. I was now inside their gate. I rang the doorbell outside but nobody came out. I pressed almost ten times when a lady in her early twenties appeared in the front door and was approaching me.