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Chapter 3

Mel's POV

Life in the caves was slowly returning to normal, or least as normal as we could ever expect it to be. People had stopped referring to me as Wanda every five minutes and Wanda was enjoying the fact that she had Ian all to herself now without any resistance from me.

It'd had been a month now since I had gotten my body back. It was strange at first how lonely I had found it being alone in my mind. Now I was glad that Wanda wasn't in my head anymore since a lot of my thoughts would certainly not go down to well with her I'm sure.

I'd decided that there was nothing I could do about my feelings for Ian. After observing him and Wanda for a few days I could see how devoted they were to each other and there was nothing that I could do or say that was ever going to change that.

Therefore I had decided that I was going to forget my feelings for Ian and focus on my relationship with Jared.

He had seemed distant lately. I don't know whether this was my fault. I had been moping over Ian recently and since getting my body back we hadn't consummated our relationship.

If truth be told things had been kind of awkward between us both since I was myself again. I had gotten so used to being touched by Ian that I had started to see Jared differently. I still loved him but now when we started to get physical I was thinking of Ian and it put a big dampener on the whole thing.

"Mel" Jamie muttered.

I turned to look at him. By the look on his face he must have been trying to get my attention for a while. He looked at me expectantly and I smiled.

"Sorry Jamie" I explained. "I was in a little world of my own just then." Jamie just looked at me and laughed.

"You and Wanda are so alike Mel" he chuckled. "Every time I prise her away from Ian, she's away with the fairies. Don't tell me you're going to start acting like that when I get you away from Jared. I don't think I'll be able to take it."

I laughed in response to this. If only he knew the truth.

We had reached the end of the tunnel by now and were just entering the kitchen when I heard Kyle's dulcet tones.

The kitchen room was almost empty. Jeb had planned to get us all digging out the 2nd Field today and by the looks of it he'd spread the word fast enough.

I quickly scanned the area and saw that as well as Kyle we were joined by Jared, Wanda and...Ian.

I winced at the sight of Wanda and Ian together. Just because I had accepted the fact that Ian was Wanda's and that nothing was ever going to become of the feelings I had for him, it still hurt me to see him embrace Wanda that way.

I longed for his touch; for his arms to wrap around my waist, and for his voice to whisper in my ear as his breath tickled the side of my face.

I felt Jared tense next to me. Did he notice the way I was staring at Ian. I turned my head nonchalantly to the side to look at Jared and saw that he too was staring at Wanda and Ian.

Oh my gosh I so hope he hasn't noticed me staring at Ian. I really didn't want to hurt Jared. We had looked out for each other for so long now and he meant so much to me. As he looked over at Ian now I saw the sadness in his eyes and mentally beat myself for my lack of self control. Why couldn't I just forget about Ian?

Wanda's POV

I still wasn't used to the differences of Pet's body from Mel's. One of the many downfalls to this body was its tendency to blush uncontrollably at the stare or touch of Ian.

It had been a month now since the body swap. I used to think souls were weak if the failed to complete a full life term in a host body but I was glad now that I for one had swapped. It was wonderful to be with Ian now and not have any complications in the form of a third party; Mel.

I loved Mel to pieces but it was nice now to have alone time with Ian and not have to consider the effect we would be having on her. Plus I was able to enjoy Ian without having conflicted feelings for Jared.

Jared. He was in the kitchen now talking to Kyle on the other side of the table. He slapped his hand down on the table and laughed as Kyle dropped his porridge and it spilled all over his front.

I still loved Jared. It turned out that I had brought a few traits over from Melanie's body and one of those was my feelings for Jared. However, it was easier to repress them now I could fully be with Ian.

Ian was trying to attract my attention now and was tickling my side which he knew was my weak spot.

"Stop it Ian" I tried to get out while laughing uncontrollably. "You're hurting me. I can barely breathe."

Ian quickly stopped and looked me in the eye to see if I was seriously hurt. I laughed at his constant worrying about my state of health. Sure pet's body was a lot more fragile than Mel's but seriously he needed to relax just a little.

"Wanda, are you okay" he asked concern flooding his voice. I smiled up at him as his gaze made me blush again. Damn this body.

I saw Mel enter the kitchen with Jamie.

Ian seemed to be reassured by my blushing and quickly swept me into his arms. I loved being enveloped by his big, muscled arms. He made me feel safe, happy and secure.

I glanced over at Mel who had now moved over to stand next to Jared. As I looked, I caught Jared looked at me and yet again a blush crept up my face. I quickly buried my face in Ian's shoulder.

Jared's POV

Did Wanda just blush because I was looking at her?

No. That was just wishful thinking. I had long given up hope of anything ever happening between me and her. She was happy with Ian and I had Mel.

I watched as Wanda nestled into Ian's shoulder and decided it was time to leave. I was punishing myself by watching this scene because it hurt so much.

"Hey Mel" I whispered. She still stood beside me.

"Yes Jared" she replied.

"I'm going to go to start ploughing the fields with the others now. Are you coming or are you going to help out in the kitchen with Wanda today".

"I think I'll help out in the kitchen today." She said turning back to look at Wanda and Ian. "I think Wanda and I need to spend some time alone together. It feels like we hardly get to spend time alone anymore"

My mind started flipping. Did she suspect something? She must have seen me looking at Wanda. God, sometimes I could be so stupid. The last thing I wanted to do was hurt Melanie or Jamie.

"Okay" I said. "Well then, I'll leave you to it"

And with that I went to leave.

"Jared, man" That was Ian shouting behind me. "Wait up. I'll walk down with you, if you don't mind my company too much" He chuckled at himself. Gosh, Ian was such a dork sometimes.

"Yeah, well" I replied. "What if I say I do mind? You going to leave me alone"

"Nah, probably not. You could try though, it would be quite funny to see you try and make me do something I didn't want to do" he laughed again for good measure.

"Watch it O'Shea" I told him. "I take it easy on you, because I feel sorry for you for having Kyle for a brother and for being blessed with a face like that"

"Jared. You just crossed the line" Ian said with the most serious face he could muster. "You can say what you want about Kyle but my face...that's one step too far" and with that he cracked up laughing.

I couldn't help laughing either. Ian was probably the best friend I'd ever had. The other guys in the caves were good people but nobody got me like Ian. That was one of the reasons I decided to do nothing about my feelings for Wanda.

"You know Ian" I began. "I wonder what it would be like for me and you to have a normal conversation just once." I pretended to ponder this thought while Ian looked on.

"Who knows" he replied. "But, it'd be a miracle and half; I'll tell you that"

I thought about it for real for a moment. Maybe I could bring the whole Wanda thing up with Ian and get his opinion. I decided to breach it.

"Ian" I hesitated. Did I really want to go here? What if he realised what I was really trying to say?

"Yep" he answered.

I had to know and so I continued. I sighed and quickly grabbed Ian's attention.

"Ian" I said again and then came right out with it before I could chicken out. "Do you still have any feelings for Melanie?"

Ian turned away from me. He seemed to find the purple dust on the cave floor very interesting all of a sudden.

"Ian" I started again. "I'm not going to fly of the handle or anything. I was just curious" I then decided that I should be quiet and wait for Ian to reply.

After a few minutes I heard Ian sigh and then stop. I stopped too and turned to look at him.

"Jared, why do you ask me this" Ian said

"Look Ian, its fine. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to"

I knew it. I should never have started this. Ian was going to find out that I liked Wanda.

"No. Its fine" Ian said. "You deserve to know the truth Jared and so I'll give it too you"

This made me feel bad. Here was Ian who was willing to tell me the truth about his feelings and I was hiding mine like a coward. But as I kept telling myself, I was only going to hurt people with the truth of my feelings.

"I guess" Ian started and I was quickly brought out of my thoughts. "I mean. I love Wanda with all of my heart and I don't love Mel or anything" He spoke this last bit quickly so as not to get me angry. As if I could of course, right now I was anything but angry.

"Well what feelings do you have then" I added

"None really, I think. It's just that... I mean... it was that body that I fell in love with. Sometimes when she first walks in the room I think it is Wanda and it takes a while for me to register that she's not. I know its not what you want to hear but me and that body shared some good times and I guess that I still love the memories that body holds for me"

I could hear the truth in Ian's words. The feelings he had for Mel, were for the body not Mel herself. What I felt was different for sure because it was not Pet's body that I longed for; it was Wanda herself.

"It's okay" I told Ian. "I understand" and I did. I really did.

Mel's POV

I felt really sick. I had been off for the past few mornings and cleaning up this greasy frying pan was not helping in the slightest.

I was still upset over the scene I had witnessed this morning and was not looking forward to facing Jared at lunchtime.

Oh! There was that sick feeling again. I had gone over and over in mind for the past few days about what could be the cause. I really didn't want to think of the obvious because it couldn't be, could it.

No one else was ill, so it wasn't something I had ate. And it was every morning now around the same time. I couldn't think the words; I couldn't comprehend the fact that it was possible and very possible at that, that I was pregnant and the baby wasn't and couldn't be Jared's.

Okay so what do you think? The end of this chapter will make sense in chapter 4. I will explain how this is all possible but I wanted to leave it on a bit of a cliff hanger. This chapter had a bit more Ian in too. I might try to include his POV or something in chapter 4 as well. Please review. I might wait to upload till I get about 10 reviews. It all depends on how long that takes of course REVIEW PLEASE!!!