Chapter 4.

DEMI.

I froze and backed up slightly. She couldn't have been taken. It all suddenly made sense to me. Jeb said he hadn't made contact with Mel because this was not Mel. It was her body but not her soul.

Jared had said Mel was gone and now I knew what he had meant. This, this thing had taken over my twin sister's mind and she would never be coming back.

Mel- it- started to walk towards me. I narrowed my eyes before I spoke harshly.

"Who are you?!" It looked down slightly before sitting back down and sighing.

"They call me Wonderer. But I'm guessing you know me as Mel?" It said and I stared at it for a moment before quickly walked outside to where the two boys and Jeb were.

"Can you like give us more space? Like can you just leave this tunnel, I'll be fine." They were hesitant at first but eventually left for me. I walked back into the room and stared at Wonderer who was in my sister's body.

She-I guess- looked back up at me. I knew Mel wouldn't have given up without a fight, so I had a gut feeling that she was still there. Knowing Mel she would have told Wonderer not to tell anyone in fear of them killing Wonderer for accusations of lying.

I smirked as I walked over. Wonderer gave me a slightly panicked look and I just smirked even more. This was a part of the plan.

"I was meant to be here a few minutes earlier but I was too busy making out with Mel's boyfriend Jared." Just like I had hoped, Wonderer's hand whipped right up and slapped me across the face. She gasped at what she had done and started to panic.

"I'm very sorry! I do not know what overcame me!" I just laughed and she stopped talking.

"Hey Mel."

"You know?"

"Only Mel would slap me fore saying that!"

I pulled Wonderer into a hug. She tensed up at first but soon relaxed into the hug.

"I'm not going to let them lay a finger on you. I don't care if you're a soul, you have my sister in there and if they hurt you they hurt Mel."

I promised I would be back in a second. I walked out the tunnel and over to the boys and Jeb.

"So here's what is going to happen okay? And you better listen to me because this is my twin we are talking about and I'm not messing around." They all gulped and nodded. I was very intimidating when I wanted to be.

"No-one lays a finger on Wanda." They all raised an eyebrow at my shortening of the name but I cut them off. "She is allowed to be like the rest of us and have all the same rights. But I know you will only agree on certain terms, so she will be with me at all times." Hesitantly they agreed to it. I smirked and walked back inside.

Wanda was sitting staring into the distance. We heard a yell from just outside the room and we both shot up. I heard another angry shout and I saw one of the two boys loading up a gun and walking towards us. I started yelling at him as he tried to aim for Wanda, but I did the first thing that came into my mind so I pulled my fist back and punched him right in the nose. He fell to the ground clutching his nose and I quickly dissembled his gun.

Jeb, Jared and the other boy heard the noise and quickly ran in. I stared them down. They all stare at the sight in front of them.

"I was serious about the no finger laying rule." They all nodded and Jeb decided to take Wanda on a tour while Jared pulled me to the side.

He stared at me. "What?"

"How can you tolerate it? It killed your sister." I glared at him.

"Look Jared. You know how when you first met Mel she slapped you because you kissed her?" He nodded confused. "I told Wanda I kissed you and I received a famous Mel slap. Only she would have reacted that way and Wanda was confused as to why she had done it." It took Jared a second to realise it but he clicked on.

"Mel's still there!" I nodded and we hugged. The two other boys coughed as they weren't listening but only saw our embrace. I guess they thought we were like getting together or something I don't even know.

The decent one held his hand out for me to shake. "Hi, I'm Ian." I shook his hand. "And that jerk is my brother Kyle. I'm gonna just borrow Jared so Kyle can apologise." Ian dragged Jared out of the tunnel and left me with Kyle.

"Look I'm sorry. I just got reminded of what happened to my old best friend and I freaked." I accepted his apology and he was surprised.

I smiled slightly at him.

I recognised him but I wasn't sure where from. He stared back at me and we searched each other's faces of a while.

"Hey! I know you!" He sudden exclaimed and I realised it too. He was the ice-cream kid! I had once gone to get an ice-cream before the whole invasion when we were visiting Jeb and he had bought me an ice cream because he said a pretty girl like me should be bought only the best. We had been together that summer. As Mel, Jamie and I had stayed for a month or so, we had blossomed in a relationship.

We both spoke the memory and started laughing. I reached around my neck and pulled out the black string that held the small bird charm on the end. He did the same as I saw his charm which was a silver shark tooth. We both grinned.

"I've not taken it off since the whole invasion." We both spoke at the same time before laughing. He started to get up from the ground.

I was leaning against the wall and as I helped him up from the floor, he tripped and his body stumbled forward, ending pressed up against mine, with his arms of either side of my head. I felt my heart speed up at how close we were.

He was very good looking and although he was a bit of a jerk, I still didn't push him away. It reminded me of the old times. When we were together before I went home.

He moved a stray hair out from my eye and leaned in.

Before I knew it, his lips had captured mine and we were kissing. I smiled into the kiss, it was now exactly like that summer, apart from the whole souls thing going on.

A cough made up jump apart and Jared and Ian stood there looking disgusted.

"Well that escalated quickly." Jared mumbled as the four of us made our way to find Wanda and Jeb.

Unknown to us at the time, Jamie had heard mine and Jared's conversation and he too knew his sister was really alive.

He had also heard mine and Kyle's conversation. Jamie knew more than anyone wanted to tell him but that was his greatest asset.