Awakening in another body

My breathing was slow but rasps. My body strolled back to consciousness. My eyes 

felt very thick as if an extra weight laid on them. 

Each motion I made to open my eyes, my eyelids felt like they were tearing them off but I managed to open them and then came another challenge-my vision was slurry. Unclear as my sight was, nothing felt recognizable.

  

My body laid fallow on the bed in a position like someone who had died. Being covered from feet to neck. It felt like I was sucked in deep into the bed, rising up felt like a riot between my body and mind but my mind won. As I finally rose my head welcomed me with a reverberating migraine. I held my head tight for fear it might burst open. The pain gradually subsided and I squeezed my eyes with the back of my hands making sure there was no dirt left, maybe with this exercise I'd be able to see better. It worked, my eyes finally opened. Though what I beheld from what I knew my room to be was totally different. I squinted my eyes to take a better look, scanning up and down, left and right.

"Is this another dream?” Slowly I whispered to myself. 

 My body felt strange. A thought immediately pricked my mind. I touched and rubbed my stomach.

  “My child!” I uttered with trembling.

“Where's the baby?” My thoughts swirled back to my labor moment. It was nowhere in this room. 

 I stood up in a flash and noticed strands of blonde hair slapping my cheeks. I held my hair by my left side, pulling it closer to my eyes, they dilated on seeing blonde hair. The color had changed from my brown hair I originally had.

 I whipped my eyes around and quickly cast it on a mirror. I ran swiftly to it and the image I saw was a totally different identity of another woman. I rubbed my face, sliding my hands on my eyes down to my jaw to see if I was still dreaming or wasn't seeing clearly but it was the same. 

I did it again and again but nothing changed. I was horror struck and retreated backwards, slowly, away from the mirror due to the terror I was seeing. My side eye quickly spotted a frame on the wall. 

My face switched in its direction. My eyes were casted on the frame and I quickly pulled it off the wall and placed it closer to my face to have a better look .

 The painting carried the picture of the woman exactly identical to the one I had seen in the mirror as I frequently switched glances at both the picture and the mirror. Fear seized me and I released the frame to the ground making it cause a loud thud , but only could be heard within the perimeters of the room. 

Then I gazed at myself, looking from my chest, observing my hands and finally scrutinizing my legs and fit. I noticed I was cloaked with a silver robe worn by women of royalty that had died.

“‘Why am I on this dress? Did I die? What has happened to my body? Who is this woman I'm seeing? Where am I ? ’ ” Were questions that held firmly to my thoughts.

  

  Something dawned on me, my senses had been struck into reality. I was in fact– in possession of another woman's body. I quickly picked up the picture from the floor and scanned the woman's painting and my eyes fell on a write-up, no not just anything written–It was a name. 

  Looking intently, I tried to pronounce the words, my voice barely above a whisper.

I breathed the name.

   “Au-ri-ela!”

“Aurelia?” 

I've never heard of someone with that name yet it sounds so familiar.

More familiar when I said it out loud. 

Sounds even in my ears, like it's been engraved in my bones. 

My feets moved themselves to the mirror and I stared back at the foreign image staring back at me

“Who is this? Who is Aurelia? And where is this place? 

Suddenly the door opened revealing a red headed maid carrying a tray of oil. She gasped in shock as soon as she saw me, her eyes mate mine in the mirror. Her eyes doubled in size before the tray she was holding let her hand causing everything in it to crash on the floor.

We both stared at each other for a few seconds before screaming, his time I screamed my lungs out with my hands shielding my eyes from staring at whosoever was standing in front of me. I've never seen a female so huge in my life. 

My legs gave way and I fell with a thud. 

“Where is this place? Where's my baby?” The question lingering in my head as I lost consciousness. 

I blinked my eyes several times as soon as I could open my eyes, the once silent room now filled with whispers. 

I furrow my brow once my blurry sight starts to clear out, I'm in a different room. Different from the one I saw before. 

I saw two maids crying a few feets from where I'm lying down. They held each other and were crying. 

Weird. 

I let out a small cough to clear my throat but it came out more than expected. 

“My Luna, welcome back”

“My lady, welcome back” 

They jumped on each side of the bed hugging the little breath out of me. 

Luna? Who? 

God! It's better not be me! 

“Are you okay? Do you need anything?” They both chorus when they see how strangely I was staring at them. 

“Noo, I just can't remember anything. My head is blank right now” I baited them, I need answers and I can't throw them directly. 

I tried to stand up and I couldn't, what the hell is going on in this body? Why does everything feel like they're breakable? 

“Let's get you clean up and help you remember fully” the Maid with the red hair said joyfully with a wide smile, somehow, I find that cheeky. 

And deceptive! 

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I watched them comb through my hair as I said down in front of the mirror. 

How did I get here? How did I find myself in a Luna's body again? 

And it's been two years since I died cruelly in a light smoke park. 

How am I just here now? Did I time travel? Did I swap souls with Aurelia? How… what… 

The door to the room burst open with a bang, and everywhere vibrated. The atmosphere in the air changed, the air became tight and I could see the maids trembling, they've stopped what they were doing on my hair and were trembling. 

I couldn't see the person through the mirror because they were tall. 

I turned my chair and I met the most gorgeous eyes I've seen, and his height was almost like that of a giant. He's so built and

“Out!”

I jumped out of my seat at the authority he commanded. My heart was thundering loudly against my rib cage, who the hell is this man? 

He's scaring the daylight out of me! 

I moved along with the maid, rushing to get out of the room with them. 

“And where do you think you are going, Aurelia?” I didn't stop till I saw the maids staring at me as we were all standing at the door ready to jump out as soon as the door opened. 

Then it dawned on me, he's talking to me. 

He's referring to me as Aurelia! 

“Hmm?” I turned to him with wide eyes, I heard the door closing behind me. My heart raced increased rapidly that I placed my hand on it, my blood pounding in my ears and my breath coming out shorter. 

“This is why I can't have a reasonable conversation with you!” he thundered, and tears rolled down my eyes. I wiped my eyes to shout back at him but my heart squeezed the life of me that I had to kneel. The excruciating pain is next to nothing I've felt before. 

Totally strange, I'm scared I'll die for real by how much pain courses through my body. 

Help! I can't… breathe” I was on the floor begging for my life and this man stood there watching me grunt and cry in pain. 

“Why did you come back? Aren't you fed up with this painful life?” he asked, squatting down. 

“You should have died and rested in peace. Free yourself from this torture! Free me from this hell called Marriage! And just Die! Die and life me the fuck alone!” he yelled, throwing his hands up.

He's Aiden, Aurelia’s mate. 

Now my mate! 

Those words knocked the remaining air out of my lungs, I gasped for air, trying to stay alive but I can feel my soul living in my body slowly. 

He saw it too. 

Fate is so cruel. 

Just like how Lucian smiled as he watch me give up the ghost, Aiden us doing the same

He brushed my hair back from my face, he smirked and said

“I hope you'd stay dead this time”