Chapter 8

Mandie's POV

The next day I felt more calm. Which slightly annoyed me since I couldn't get a hold of my emotions.

'Don't beat yourself up about it, you're young this is a young adult's body' she said trying to make me feel better. 'It had different emotions than a child's body.'

'Yeah but I'm sure I'm the first soul in existence who sucks at being a soul' I muttered.

'Nah, I'd say you're the...' her voice drifted off. 'How many souls live in the caves?' she questioned me.

'Uhm,' I thought counting in my head. 'Three, I think' I told her.

'Okay, so you're the third soul here into becoming human, rather than a parasite. You're just so young it's harder to control the emotion thing, like a human child' she tried explaining. 'Maybe you are more human than you think.'

'That's because you always send me violent thoughts' I countered. 'If you weren't in there, in my thoughts I wouldn't be mean' I explained.

'But if I wasn't in here you'd be with the annoying Seeker back in Psychology class' she stated.

'True, I like you better' I mumbled.

Right then Jamie came walking into the cave like room, we still shared one. He looked at me and smiled.

"Hey you're up" he said happily.

"Mhm" I stated with a slight nod of my head.

'Oh stop being so obsessed with him' Andi thought, if she had her body she'd be rolling her eyes.

'Obsessed?' I questioned. I wasn't aware of Jamie staring at me with a strange expression on his face.

'Yeah, you get all excited when he walks into the room' Andi thought.

'Oh...well...I'm excited to see him, Jamie is nice, like a big brother' I explained.

'Yes but you take being a little sister too seriously, you're always bouncy and following him around' she thought.

'So, it's fun!' I exclaimed.

'But you're in my body! An older body, not a five year old's body!' Andi shouted and I winced.

"Am I interrupting a conversation?" Jamie asked.

I noticed he was sitting on his bed with an eye brow raised.

'Yes!' Andi shouted.

"No" I lied trying to block Andi out.

'Oh, don't you ignore me!' Andi shouted.

I winced as I held the sides of my head. "Okay, okay yes, yes you are interrupting!" I said loudly. I continued to hold my head as Jamie watched with amusement.

"Ow...st-stop! Ow!" I shouted.

'Oh no! You're going to feel my wrath!' she exclaimed.

"But- I told him the truth! After I lied..." I mumbled. I was now talking out loud, and squirming on my bed as she continued to yell. Jamie started laughing.

"Good luck!" he said waving before he left the room.

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Later when Andi had settled down and my punishment had been dealt, I headed off to do chores.

'When do you think I'll get my own body?' I asked Andi in my thoughts.

'Well when we arrived they said they had to wait a month, since you'd be missing. Tomorrow we'd be here for two weeks' she stated. 'So you'd have to wait two more weeks, and I'm pretty sure they're not going to snatch a child anywhere near here, so probably three days or more of travel' she calculated. If that wasn't enough she added more. 'And they just can't take any kid it'll have to be one with a soul already in it, I'll give that a week' she said.

I groaned. 'This is taking too long' I complained. 'I want one now' I pouted.

'Well be patient' she thought.

'O-' I was about to say okay, but my thoughts were interrupted. I looked at what had done it. It was that orange haired boy, Neo. I'd apparently walked into him.

"An the soul with attitude" he stated with a smile.

I raised an eyebrow. Trying to play it cool.

'I bet your cool phase wouldn't last sixty seconds' Andi interrupted. She then started counting. 'One..'

I crossed my arms.

"Ah more attitude" he added.

'Twenty...Twenty one...'

"So," he said leaning against the wall. "For my apologies" he added holding out his hand.

I looked in his hand and my eyes widened. Candy...

'Forty...Forty one, forty two...'

I quickly snatched the candy and unwrapped it shoving it into my mouth. Neo laughed and Andi stopped counting.

'I was right' she stated.

'So I got candy and you didn't' I gloated, mentally sticking out my tongue at her. I had a smug little smile on my face as I walked off to do chores.


AN: Okay that's that with the new chapter. Longer than the last definately lol. If anyone wants to know I have been keeping track of the timeline as I go along. If anyone wants to know Mandie on Earth has been - 1 month, 1 week, and 6 days. In the caves it has been - 1 week and 6 days. And that's not including this chapter. If you want this chapter including it'd be 2 weeks in the caves. Also Jamie only looks out for Mandie's well being as an older brother lol nothing more. I don't think there will be anything more than that. If there is then you'll see a dramatic change in Mandie's personality as of not being a younger child lol.