Recap: "I don't belong here."
Harper steps forward a bit, though, Alex puts her arm out, preventing anymore movement.
Alex whispers to her, "I think it's best if I talk to her. Clearly she has amnesia." Then, she focuses her attention on the familiar appearance of her acquaintance.
"Princess Loxia?"Alex calls in a wary voice, unsure of what would happen.
To her surprise, the girl perks up like a dog would by hearing something near it. Then, the girl turns slightly to see Alex and Harper with teary electric blue eyes.
"Why does everybody keep calling me that?" She says with a tired sigh. "My name is Jade Harley. Everyone in this dang castle keeps calling me 'Mistress' and 'Princess Loxia'.
Alex is startled by her friend's words. "B-But, isn't that what you wanted to be called, Princess-"
The outer shell of her friend slightly glares at Alex as she corrects, "Jade."
"Well, Jade," Harper steps up, not wanting to witness anymore without knowing what happened to their friend-uh, acquaintance. "Why don't you belong here?"
Their friend stands up, turning to face them, hands on her hips with a glare. "Because. I have college to finish? Duh?"
Alex narrows her eyes and automatically knows that this isn't her best...acquaintance. She'll never get used to that. "You never went to a public school, Lox-er, Jade. You were home-schooled since you were 5."
The girl standing opposite of them seems to stagger slightly before asking a strange question.
"Is there a computer here?"
Alex and Harper look at each other.
Dave hums after a few minutes of silence, attracting the attention of his sister, best friend and stranger.
"Yes, Dave?" Rose calls from the kitchen, preparing some red wine for you three for some reason.
"Nothing..." He trails off, forgetting his sister's question.
John waves a hand in front of Dave's face bringing him back down to Earth. "Dave~? Is something wrong?"
Dave just begins to murmur something to himself, making the others perk up.
"Dave, we can't hear you. Speak up." Rose coos.
"Well," Dave starts, still deep in thought. "If that was Jade..."
Rose and John nod slowly, allowing him to continue.
"Then, who is in Jade's body?" Dave finished.
Just then, a sweet fragrance passes through the room. John quickly gets up, and races out the open door.
The other three watch the place where John was with confusion. The stranger then stands and walks out, down the other side of the hall.
Rose and Dave then jump up and go after their friend. As they reach the, strangely, open door, They see Jade being squished by John.
"Jade, you're back! I'm so happy to see you!" John happily cheers.
Jade pushes John off of her, and looks at the three in the room.
"How dare you call me by such a name!" Dave and Rose look at John, who is completely saddened. "I'm am Princess Loxia the 2nd, and you shall not refer to me as a commoner, much less one of your friend or sister, even worse your mother." The claimed 'Princess' finishes like one, formally.
Rose speaks like she is really talking to one as she extends her hand.
"It's nice to meet you, Princess. Though, you must realize how we mistaken you for our best friend, and his-" Rose points to John briefly. "-sibling. You look exactly like her. I hope we didn't get off on the wrong foot."
The lime-eyed girl that they used to know blinks, and asks for a mirror. When she is pointed to a full-length in the back of the room, she returns with horror in her eyes.
"Why, exactly," She tries to keep her calm, but her voice cracks up. "Do I look like one of you commoners?"
The two boys shrug, but Rose stays on task asking a few questions.
"Where do you live, Princess?"
"Incarnitia Castle."
"I see. Do you remember what happened that might have made this happen?"
"Not that I know of. I was simply preparing for my birthday next week."
"Hmm..." Rose pauses, weighing her circumstances. The Princess thinks along with her, which seems like she doesn't do it often because she looks like she's in pain.
"It seems like spirit transfer magic was involved. Even thought I know that it's impossible, it might be just that."
The Princess sighs, pulling out Jade's phone. Rose becomes startled.
"Who are you calling?" Rose asks for the boys behind her.
Princess Loxia looks up from the lime green phone with a stern expression.
"The person behind it."
Alex jumps at the sound of her phone ringing. She lifts the phone to her ears and speaks into it, "Yea?"
A familiar tone, yet strange voice projects through the phone. "Alex Russo! You better have an explanation for this treachery you showed!"
The loudness of the voice causes the aforementioned girl bring the phone away from her ear. Jade hears the voice as her own, and jumps towards Alex.
"Hey, that's my voice!" Alex's eyes widen, along with Harper's. "You have to get me back into my own body!"
Alex nods slowly, speaking to the other one the phone. "Princess?"
"What is it, Alex?" She snaps. "Make it quick. I'm about to call Mother and bring me to you so we may settle this in person."
Jade smiles at that point, making Alex hesitate saying it was fine, that she could handle it. Truth was, she couldn't. So, instead of saying don't, she told her,
"Go ahead. I need to get my brother." The other end silences out, leaving a generic woman voice to take over. Alex snaps her phone shut, and sighs.
"Harper." Said girl stops talking to Jade cheerfully, turning to Alex. "Take care of Jade. I have to get Justin."
Alex then got out her wand from her boot, and waved it in the air. Before she left, Alex waved to Jade.
A sentence came from Jade that made Alex become surprised.
"See you later, Alex."
Yay! Finished.
