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Chapter 33

Hiyo, turns out I did update yesterday. Maybe now I would type in a day-to-day format, like so:

Day 1

Starting from the day Wanwan entered Natalia's body, time was counting down. At exactly 10.10a.m., Sunday, tenth October 2100, we begin counting down.

"Ling, what are we supposed to do?" Wanwan asked. 

"Uh, window shopping?" He replied. 

With a blind leading the blind, it's definitely going to be hard to make any progress. Therefore, we shall fast forward to the parts when they did. 

"Well, uh, peachy, see you tomorrow? Maybe we try watching a movie at the headquarters," Ling dropped Wanwan off at Natalia's place and said. 

"Okay linguini. Why don't you come in?" Wanwan teased, pinching at Ling's bony cheeks. 

"Humph! No fun! Your cheeks have no fat!" She whined, "So, you coming in or not?" 

In his head, heart, and entire body, he wanted to go in, to take a look at Natalia's house, to take a look at her body... 

"NO!" He shouted, it wasn't exactly meant for Wanwan to hear, he meant to say it to himself, in his head, now he's worried whether he said everything else aloud. 

"If you insist," Wanwan shrugged. 

"I'll take my leave first, bye peachy," he said, giving 'Natalia' a peck on the cheek. 

"Bye, see you tomorrow," Wanwan replied, waving from the door of her apartment, or at least, Natalia's apartment. 

Wanwan herself wasn't familiar with Natalia's house, but being in Natalia's body, would mean that anything requiring her thumbprints, facial recognition, or what not wouldn't be a problem, only navigating around town and protecting herself would. 

Wanwan explored the apartment, not small, not small at all, she thought. 

Wanwan's POV

The kitchen was large enough to bake a humongous wedding cake, just except for the fact that the oven wasn't of the right size, you could cycle in the living room without having the need to turn every ten meters, and the bedroom was quite nice, quite nice indeed. Apart from the fact that most of it was covered in pictures of people whom she needs to kill. Nope, not doing it.

I flopped on her bed, not bothering to shower, for who knows what kind of horrors would lurk within the walls of the toilet. 

But I feel disgusting now come to think of what happened at the ice cream parlour, at the mall, and that bird. 

Not Ling, I mean a crow who just flew over my head and decided it would make a great place to excrete it's waste. 

So, I decided to shower. 

Now go away while I shower.

Ling's POV

I went to shower the moment I got home, and after that, I went to lie down on my bed, and think of everything that has happened today. 

Everything seemed so surreal, everything felt like a dream, no one can just somehow switch into someone's body like that. 

I closed my eyes, and remembered the time when I first met her when she was a kid, when she didn't know much, the time when she first called my name. 

The next, when I looked into her eyes nearly ten years later, my heart skipped a beat. I didn't know what that was. 

Today, when I kissed her, it felt different. 

Really different. 

When I kissed Nat, it would feel more, cold, no incessant heart pounding. 

When I kissed Nat, with peachy's soul in it, it felt like a gush of warmth ran down my spine, I felt like wrapping my arms around her body, and my heart was pounding faster than it should, despite the fact that I didn't know it was her, despite the fact that I thought it was Natalia there, what's going on?

Is this–

Affinity?