Part 1

And then she saw it. All her senses became numb. Emotions ran wild in her as she continually watched the kissing couple under the pounding rain. A tear trailed down her cheek, one after another. The couple broke apart form their passionate fiery kiss. She turned her back toward them, sobbing quietly now. Finally, she couldn’t bear it any more, she ran away from the unfolding scene.

“How could you do this to me! How could you Max!”

That night, the rain wailed to her will. She was now lying on her bed, softly trying to cry herself to sleep in vain.

This was not an easy task for trains of thoughts were colliding on full impact. At long last, her drowsy eyelids closed. Heart still troubled but calming down slowly beat by beat. Her dream state was no better than her reality one.

Dream…

“Take a step back,” Max said.

In her mind, she was replying all the times and moments she felt as if her world was falling apart, caving in on her, and no one was there to catch her fall. The scene changed to the one she had witnessed herself just hours ago. Max and Tess, kissing. Faintly, she could suddenly see an outline of a strange stone that was in the background, apparently trying to hide from view.

“What’s this?” she questioned, holding this object in both her soft hands. It was an oval shape, much like the orb, with a dark shade of blue with a different writing in the middle. The writing looked much like the one on the orb, but yet different. She brushed against the engraved symbol lightly with her right hand and surprisingly, the stone lit up like a fire. It was so bright that she almost dropped it in her haste in trying to shield her eyes. Blinking rapidly, her eyes showed her an image of a girl that looked much like her age and her appearance except her eyes that were shining light blue.

“I am Celia,” the image began, “I bear an offer.”

“What kind of offer?” Liz asks, listening to her tentatively.

“I am what you humans call an alien. But, I have died already. I was onboard on the spaceship that crashed at Roswell, New Mexico long ago. I was barely alive when the people from the government came and took me in. They ran many tests on me and I was fortunate enough to pass away before they found anything from me. I am now a ghost that contains my soul. I have past observed your troubles. The offer is will you let me take your place?”

“Take my place? What do you mean?”

“Share your body with me. Let me possess you.”

“Possess me? What are you, crazy or something?”

“No, this way, you can finally be free without any worries. Without any, complications.”

Liz for some odd reason felt a suddenly urge to accept her offer.

“Will you please give me one day to decide?”

“Okay, I’ll be back tomorrow. I await your answer.”

The image blinked out, and that was the end of the dream.

End of Dream…

Liz shot straight up in bed.

“It was only a dream. I was only a dream,” she chanted over and over again. But suddenly, she spotted the very same stone that was in her dream in her hand. Just a dream? Or was it?

Next Day at School…

From the moment she steeped on school grounds, she noticed that something was wrong, way wrong. She wandered around in the hallways, looking desperately for Max, Maria, Michael, Isabel, Alex, or even Tess. She tried looking in the bathrooms, waiting by their lockers for them to show up, she checked the eraser room also. But in the end, she found no one. She finally gave up when the bell rang.

“Time for class!” she thought tiredly.

At Lunch Time . . .

Spotting the group, she rushed toward them. The day was half over already and she now found who she was looking for. There, in front of her very own two eyes, were her friends, even Tess, sitting in couples, cuddling!

“Hi guys!” she faked cheerfully called out.

They paid no mind to her. Everyone was in paired off and was very into the individual conversation they were having. Maria and Michael, Isabel and Alex, and, Tess and Max. Tears stung her eyes. Hands were holding together. She spun on her heels and ran straight back to her home, her home sweet home. Running up the stairs, throwing he backpack onto her unusual messy bed. Tears now spread wildly on her face despite the fact that she was desperately trying to wipe them away with tissues found in her room. Taking a deep breath, she reached under her pillow and drew out the stone. The instance she saw the disturbing sight, she had made up her mind and no one was going to stand in her way, no one. Touching the stone, it glowed a shade of light blue with additional warmth.

“Celia,” she spoke to the stone.

A flash of blue light filled the room. When it faded, the girl called Celia was standing in from of Liz. Nothing had changed from the last time Liz saw her. Celia’s white gown was transparent, as was everything else of her.

“Have you made up your mind yet?” the soul of Celia asked politely, no hint of pressure whatsoever in her tone of voice.

“Yes, I have. I accept your offer.”

The soul cocked her head studying Liz’s dead serious expression that masks her face firmly.

“Are you positive?”

“Yes I am.”

“Okay then, let us begin now.”

No protest was heard from the human. Celia lifted her hand up, palms facing Liz. Mutely, as if already possessed, Liz held up her hands also, entwining her fingers with those that belongs to the already dead. The feel of the ghost/soul’s hand felt solid yet freezing cold, making it hard for Liz to believe that Celia was already dead. A few seconds after the hands were together; they both leaned forward, falling into one another. Just as Celia entered Liz’s body, the soul of Liz Parker emerged out of it along with the memories of both happiness and pain cause by a little alien called Max Evans. Just as the soul popped out, it disappeared suddenly, vanishing out of thin air. Another brilliant flash of blue zapped into view.

Back at School…

Lunchtime was still on. Noises of teenagers talking and gossiping could be heard 10 miles away. The group was still sitting in the exact same spot where Liz had last saw them.

No one was talking. Silence hung about them like a storm cloud, a very QUIET storm cloud. Suddenly, all heads snapped upward. Everyone was now looking upwards for some odd and stranger reasons outsider knew not of. They them looked at each other in utter confusion and bewilder.

“Did you guys feel that?” Max Evans asked around.

Nods were received, no words exchanged.

Back to Liz’s Room…

“I’m back!” Celia, now as Liz Parker, said, testing out her host’s vocal cords.

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