Chapter II: Swapped
[Present - 2009]
4 hours later Melinda was searching on her lapotop, while Jim was cooking dinner.
"Hmmm...smells delicious." Melinda said looking up for a second from her work in the livingroom.
"And what are you doing?"
"I reserved Lento's Restaurant for Sunday, so they will cook for us. I'll talk with Andrea tomorrow about the guest list, since Lento wants to know how many guests will be there."
"But 'reserved' is in past simple. I asked what are you doing now?"
"I'm fine with the grammar, Jim, but thanks." she smiled, closing her laptop.
"So, will you answer my question?"
"Yes." she sighed coming out to the kitchen "I am looking for Emily Dawnston, and her daughter. If her daughter born before she dies, I'm not really sure about if she is still alive. I mean that she has to be more that 80 years old, and actually apart from Gavin's grandma, I don't know anyone at that age from the town."
"What did she say, what's her daughter's name?" Jim asked curiously as he set the table for the 2 of them with all he cooked. They started to eat while they continued their brainstorming.
"She said, her daughter's name is Mary-Ann."
"Mel, your grandma..."
"I know, but as far as I know, my grandma was born in 1931, and as the sources I've found say, Emily Dawnston has died in 1929 on the 30th of June. Exactly 80 years ago. Plus, there is no way, that Mary-Ann could be her daughter, since then she was dead for 2 years." she said pointing on her closed laptop on the kitchen counter.
"What do you mean on as far as you know?"
"I mean, that I didn't know till 3 years ago that my mother also has the gift, I didn't even know that Tom was not my real father...I'm a bit unsure to say anythin about my family for sure." Melinda sighed and after some second she stood up then put every dish into the dishwasher.
"Mel, anyone can tell you any lies. But the archives, especially from the twenties and thirties are can't lie." Jim came up behind her and hugged Melinda.
"I know, I was thinking about the same. But today it's too late." she turned to face him "Can you come with me tomorrow? I don't want to find something that leads me back down there and I can't let it go away..." she placed her head on his shoulder receiving a quick kiss to her forehead from Jim.
"Of course I'll go with you, honey. I would go with you if you didn't want that." he smiled and kissed her.
"So, what do you think? Does she need my help before Andrea's wedding?"
"Nah, I don't think so. If she could wait 80 years, she can wait 4 more days. Plus if Emilyis really your grandma's mother, you'll have another problem."
"Yeah, that's the hardest, to explain to a ghost that who it's looking for is already dead, and due to me probably already crossed over..." she said while they were going upstairs.
"I know...hey...I'm going to get a shower. See you in bed later." Jim smiled, kissed her and went into the bathroom, while Melinda changed her dress into her nighties in their bedroom...
...30 minutes later Melinda and Jim were sleeping in their king sized bed. Both of them were in a deep but weird dream about Emily. Suddenly Emily appeared next to Melinda. She placed her hands on Melinda's head then at Jim's. Both of them felt like first something pulled down into the deep nothing them and then let them go like they were playing some game. Both of them felt like they changed, but they thought it was their dream...
...8 hours later they woke up. As Melinda slowly opened her eyes she was facing with the walls, no windows like when she went to sleep. But Jim's eyes first met with the window. They slowly got out from the bed and when they turned to face each other both of them screamed.
"What the hell?!" Jim asked seeing front of him his own body, and as he looked down he saw, that he was in Melinda's body.
"No better for me!" Melinda complained from his body.
"What...what happened?" they went don and this time Melinda made breakfast, well, actually it was still Jim who made the breakfast, just in his wife's body.
"I had a weird dream last night with Emily. She seemed pretty angry since I didn't help her, and it seems that she swapped our souls." Melinda said as she got a beer from the fridge.
"Beer? You've never liked beer." Jim said smiling as he took a glass of orange juice.
"But neither you drank orange juice for breakfast." Melinda smiled "We need to do like nothing happened."
"That won't be easy. Hey...how will I work?"
"You mean how will I work while you will be in the store?" Melinda asked, realizing that she didn't know anything about being a paramedic nor a firefighter.
"We will manage this somehow." Jim sighed and they had breakfast. After it they were trying to organize their new life.
To Be Continued
