Reborn

Xui Xiang (Jake)

"Ouch!" I said, wincing in pain as I suffered the worst headache known to man. I shook my head slightly, trying to get my eyes open. And when they did I was welcomed with an unfamiliar scene. 

A face, a little child pierced down on me. 

"Are you okay? You flew Jake! You flew! Yippee!"

What the fuck was this child talking about, who's Jake and why did he fly? 

"Where…where am I?" I said as I scanned the environment. So far it looked like a well-lighted barn. Wait a minute! Was that my voice!?

I sat up, trying to register more about what was happening. I tried clearing my throat, "Ehm..ehm, my name…what! What happened to my voice!? Why is it so gruesome and maley and disgusting? And I can still hear it. Ahhhh!" I said in a frantic manner, touching my throat.

I stood up, I felt different, stronger. I looked at my hands, I could see veins, they looked veiny and hairy. 

"Wake up Xui, wake up!" I slapped myself countless times with both hands, but nothing happened. 

"Can…can you see me? What do I look like, please?" I asked the little child who stared at me like I was possessed.

"I guess you bumped your head, lemme see. Yeah you did, there's a bump." 

"I asked tell me what I look like!?" I screamed, yanking the little boy.

"Mummmmm! Jake's acting weird. He's hurting me!" 

What's with this Jake name? I noticed the little boy was of no help to me. I dashed out of the barn, into a more unfamiliar environment. It looked like the slums, but a modernized version of it.

Where's my house, my JiLi? Think Xui, think! What happened? 

I stared down at myself. My legs looked masculine, matching my hands, and my voice. I touched my hair, the length was gone, replaced by a short one. 

I touched my boobs, "No boobs!" I felt a wobbly thing in between my legs. I opened my shorts to see what was there and….

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"

I opened my eyes to see a woman, applying a wet brown rag to my forehead.

"Jake! You're awake! He's awake! Jason? Go call your dad!"

She turned to me, "You gave us quite a shock, for someone who hardly falls ill. I found you burning up on the farm. How do you feel now?" The beautiful lady pierced her face into me. 

Still in this place? I thought. Does it mean that? 

"Omg, I've been reborn!" I said without thinking and covered my mouth with my hands.

"Huh? Jason? Tell your daddy we might still need the doctor." 

"No!, mu…mum, I'm fi..fine." Was this my new family? The grandma voice thing was right? 

"I need to use the bathroom." This new voice was surely going to make me puke. 

I looked behind me and realized that my new mummy was still staring in my direction. The restroom didn't have a demarcation from the room. What kind of a house is this? 

"Why, why a boy, why grandma," I spoke in a hushed tone, facing the mirror, expecting something to happen. The wobbly feeling between my legs was starting to irritate me, it just couldn't stay in one place! I felt my chest, it was as flat as a board. "Even the boobs! Even the boobs!" I breathed in and out. This wasn't happening. 

I closed my eyes, and in a remembrance manner, the flash of this life zoomed into my brain, like it had been there all along.

Jake, a 17-year-old child with very handsome features, is firstborn to the Wilsons. Parents- both farmers, with little to no progress. Was playing ball with his little brother, when a roadside teenager ran in, took the ball from his little brother, and shot it directly at Jake's way, me, and it sent him flying into his dad's barn, where he hit a rock, and then I came, or my spirit. How powerful was the shot?

I touched my tummy, I felt no pain.

Wow, second chance indeed. More like death Chance. What do you mean by making me a boy? A poor one at that. Urghhhhh! And how am I supposed to find love when I'm poor and live in the slums? How? When I don't even like me.

Like I'm a fucking boy! I thought pulling my hair.

"Urgghhh!" The frustration was much. I hated myself as Xui, but now I was a boy, I hated myself even more! 

I closed my eyes again, trying to focus on my breathing, to regulate it. And more flashes came.

It came in Jake's voice in my head. 

Powers, blessed with the power to make just about anyone fall In love with you. You'd see a book, buried in the barn, just where you bumped your head. 

Yeah right, typical, trying to make everything about me a joke. I mean, of all places to bury my power-activating book, it had to be where I supposedly died? 

I walked past my mother, "Where are you going Jake, wait." 

"I uhm…I need some fresh air, to help with uhm.. the..uhm..thing. Yeah, the thing."

"Oh..Kay?"

Now where's the damn barn? But I was in Jake's body now, so I had his memories, or at least some. I didn't know for sure. 

"Hey! Jake! Wait up! I'd follow you!" Great!, in my past life I was the only child, now I had an annoying creature to bug and tag along just about anywhere I went. Just great! 

It was really hard walking around with this thing in between my legs. Yes, I was complaining for the untempth time because I was so conscious of it. It felt like walking around with a flexible hot dog. I had thoughts of taping it to my legs permanently. It's a penis, I know. Once I was 9, I mean Xui, I'm still Xui, right? Well, when I was 9, a boy, Wang Kai, told me to touch his penis, he said it was for good luck. But by then I had already gotten irritated with the gender so hard that I punched him right in the face. 

Of course he couldn't tell his parents what had happened, we both knew it was wrong. Some fucking luck, I scuffed. 

I reached the barn and scanned the room for the rock. It wasn't hard, I walked towards it.

"That's where you bumped your head, right Jake?" The little kid said out of nowhere, startling me. 

"Gosh, kid! Could you back out a little," but he clutched on my waist. This was going to be a hell of a ride! 

I pushed the rock aside, digging with my hands through the bay and straw but I didn't see anything. 

"Is this the right place?" 

"What you looking for big bro? A book?"

"How do you know," I shot him a confused glance. 

"Charles, the fat one, he took it!" 

What?Charles the what? And why the fuck was the kid smiling?