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Alex sat up in bed and rubbed her eyes. *Was that a dream?* She thought *Nah, it seemed too realistic.* She decided to ask Dean later. She stood up and realized she wasn't in her room. Then it hit. She was sitting up in the stool she always sat in during magic lessons. MAGIC LESSONS!! She looked around and saw, OMG, HERSELF disappear in a cloud of smoke. Could it be? SHE was the decoy from yesterday that she had left. She looked at the chalkboard and saw it. In small letters: LEAD TWO LIVES IN THE SAME INSTANCE. BE YOURSELF, THEN PLACE A DECOY AND BECOME THAT DECOY WHILE "THE PAST YOU" DOES WHAT YOU DID EARLIER. Oh no. Alex was in a panic. Now dad would ask what that magic was all about, and she didn't have any idea what to do. But dad seemed as though he had no idea anything had happened at all, and Justin and Max were staring blankly at him. *Phew!* She thought *I don't know what happened but at least I'm not in trouble for it.*

"Alex? ALEX??" Jerry was yelling.

"I'M INNOCENT!!" Alex shouted.

"That's nice to know, but what's the answer to my question?" Jerry replied, unfazed.

"Can you, uhm, repeat that question?" Alex asked, blushing.

"I said, Can you test out the spell for me please? You say this," He points to the board. "And then the name of the place you want to go."

"Uh, yeah, ABOUT that…. you see," Alex started to say. Just then, the other Alex appeared in the doorway and in a big cloud of smoke, the two instances of Alex merged. Alex was dizzy for a few seconds, and when she looked around, everyone was staring at her, waiting.

"Uh, yeah, uh I can explain that…" Alex began.

"Explain what? Just do the spell already!" Jerry said.

"Oh, yeah, the spell… Antimino Serphlast, Waverly Sub Station." Alex cringed.

The familiar ball of green and yellow light shot around the room once more. Alex felt herself being pulled from her body once more and sucked into a look-alike. She then appeared downstairs in the Sub station her parents owned. She walked into the lair and saw something really unexpected. Not only did the decoy not look anything like her, but she didn't act like her either. She was being NICE and PAYING ATTENTION. Then she saw it. It wasn't her decoy, it was her MOM. *Nice going, Alex.* She thought to herself.

She saw her decoy writing on the board. It said: I HAVE STOLEN YOUR BROTHERS AND FATHER. I PLAN TO STEAL YOU. BEWARE. Alex was terrified. No, she was worse than terrified, she was furious. She leapt onto her decoy and wrestled. All of a sudden, the decoy disappeared and Alex was in a world of no existence. She was falling, no, gliding into nothingness. Then she fell hard. She rubbed her head. *What happened?? Where am I?* Alex thought to herself.

"Alex? What are you doing here?" It was Harper, but there was something strange about her. Something unusual.