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Chapter 4
Jamie's POV
Once we had settled down Mandie, whose name we soon discovered after we accidentally called her Andi, we had gotten on the road. I stared at Mandie for a few moments. She had strapped herself in, and she was starring at the sky. She took a great interest in it. My eyes fell from her face to look at her arms, wrapped aruond a stuffed animal. Panda, if I wasn't mistaken.
"Mandie?" I curiously asked.
She quickly looked at me. "Hm?" she answered. Her eyes showed nothing but innocence. "What is it Jamie?" she questioned further when I didn't reply.
"Well I was wondering, as a soul how old are you?" I questioned.
At that question everyone in the jeep became aware. It seemed I wasn't the only one who wanted to know.
Mandie looked up. Thinking. "Uhm," she whispered. "I was born-" she muttered, trailing off. Her eyes were starring at the ceiling of the car as she thought. "I arrived-" she added trailing her words off again. Then she came to attention, and bolted up right, with a bright smile on her face. A smile only a young child would carry. "I'm five" she said happily.
We all stared wide eyed at her. Even Jared who was driving looked surprised through the rear view mirror.
"This is my first planet" she whispered. "It only took four years to get here."
I looked at Wanda. "It's surprising that you survived in that body." Wanda looked stunned.
"I know I can't do many things it's frustrating" Mandie explained. "I can't drive, cook, read or anything it's annoying" she stated flatly.
After that everyone had settled down. Wanda and Ian had fallen asleep, so had Mandie. She was even leaning against me, breathing lightly holding on tightly to that little stuffed animal. It was kind of cute, the soul that is, no offense to Andi but I wasn't into her. I was only a kid myself after all. Not a young kid but still a kid. Mel was driving, taking turns with Jared who forced himself to stay awake. I eventually gave a yawn and drifted off myself.
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Mandie's POV
Three days later, and we were driving through Tuscon, Arizona. Wanda had informed me that we had almost made it home. I gave a yawn. I had just woken up and was recovering my senses. It was early morning, and we were leaving our hotel. The car had gotten surprisingly cold during the night and I gave a slight shiver. The sun wasn't even up yet.
I felt Jamie plop next to me and wrap me with a blanket.
'I think he considers you as a younger sister.' thought Andi.
I just gave a mental groan not coherent enough to care. I also snuggled into the blanket Jamie covered me with.
Hours later we had turned off the road and on to desert land. I stared at it with horror. It was so barren.
'That's usually how deserts are' thought Andi.
And soon we had made it to a shelter dropping off the jeep and hopping out. It felt good to finally stretch, and once so I had took notice of the two people waiting for us at the entrance of a cave.
One held a gun, the other looked like Ian. I quickly looked from Ian to the new figure and back several times. They didn't look the same just similar something similar it was a little confusing.
Ian and Wanda laughed. "That's my brother" he explained. "His name is Kyle."
The man named Kyle looked unhappy as Ian gave me his name. I didn't move.
"Chill bro even in soul years she's just five years old, a child" Ian laughed. "She can't even read, even with her host's memories."
That seemed to calm him a bit and I hugged my little animal tightly and walked a couple steps forward.
"It's okay" Jamie urged. "Jeb has got a gun but he won't use it on ya" he assured me.
I stared at the man name Jeb as he slung his gun over his shoulder. "I'm Jeb" he stated as he gave me a warm smile.
I still didn't dare move or say a word.
"I hope you don't mind but we're going to blind fold you" Wanda stated. "Just to make everyone else feel safe."
And with that I was indeed blind folded and brought down through whatever caves we were going through. Of course I had no idea where we were going but it didn't seem necessary to know as long as I was safe.
'I wonder what this place looks like' Andi mussed as we both were in complete darkness.
'I dunno but I hope everyone likes me...' I thought a little nervous.
'There's bound to be someone who doesn't but who cares' Andi added.
'I do' I thought, and after that the blind fold was suddenly taken from my eyes and the sun blinded me through what looked like a green house. I looked around at all the new faces and there was a load of people. I blinked quietly.
Melanie and Jared stepped forward blocking my view and taking a protective stance in front of me. Jeb had his gun in his hands and I could only guess they talked about me on the way down here, and now they had to prepare themselves for everyone else. So once the story was out I now stared at all the people. Of course there were only a few that glared daggers at me but otherwise everyone else didn't have a problem. I walked up to Melanie and put me chin on her arm and she turned her head to smile lightly at me.
"Mandie" she stated slowly.
I looked at her blinking and then gave a slight nod. I must have looked silly with my age to everyone else, but I couldn't help but feeling small and defenseless.
"This is our small community, I'm sure the majority of people who accept you will get to know you soon enough" Mel explained. "And they all know how old you are and to not" and with the last word strained she looked at the crowd. "Not" she repeated. "To overwhelm her" she said glaring daggers at them all. They all nodded and I looked at them giving them all a small wave.
'Oh don't be so afraid of them, if it were me I'd be able to kick half their asses for ya' Andi stated as I groaned mentally.
'I don't want to kick butt' I thought relaying the swear to what she meant. At least I had some knowledge and wasn't completely stupid.
'Don't worry I'll coach you' she thought amusement within her gesture.
That made me groan mentally once again.
I turned my attention back to the crowd that was starting to break up. I must have missed it, since whenever I think thoughts and talk to Andi I get side tracked, I can't multi task it's too difficult.
Melanie and Wanda had started to pull me off as I stared at them curiously. "Where are we going?" I questioned.
"To find you a room, and then lunch" Wanda said to me.
I tilted my head. "I get a room?" I questioned, and then I was suddenly excited. "Do I get to share a room?" I asked. "I don't want to be by myself..." I muttered.
Suddenly Jamie was beside me. "She can stay with me!" he exclaimed. Melanie and Wanda then looked at each other then Jamie.
"Okay" they said in unison.
"Yippy!" Jamie shouted as he then ran ahead to the cafeteria.
I gave a smile. "I'm staying with Jamie?" I questioned. "I like that Jamie is nice" I stated.
Wanda and Melaine both laughed and Andi gave me a mental groan.
AN: Yeah okay so they finally reached the caves haha. And yes Mandie is in fact meant to be a small child soul haha. Trapped in a human's body of the age of 19 lol. Poor soul. Read and Review! Plz.
Oh right for those of you who are wondering how this fits into a romance story. Well it'll show up later. I plan to have Andi's point of view later on, when she gets her body eventually. And there will be other surprises, maybe. ^-^
Yeah so I decided I wasn't going to post another chapter, until later or until I got more reviews. O.o sorry people who are reading and not reviewing but it'd be great to know if people are reading, so reviews would be helpful.
