Chapter 4, Part 3 - Jack's Dilemma

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“I’m not… quite sure what’s going on but… Maybe you and Andy should come with me. Y’know, to uh… calm down,” Jack offered, trying to keep it cool for everyone’s sanity. Roger stared at Jack in fear. The man, who was once at least a couple centimetres taller than him, is now blatantly shorter.
“I’m fine. I don’t need to come with you,” Andy replied with uncertainty. Although to Jack, John had said that, and he didn’t ask John to accompany him.
“Andy,” Jack said while pointing to Andy’s body, but Nick’s soul. Nick noticed Jack was pointing at him and felt a mix of fear, anger, and desperation in his heart.
“I’m Nick, you twat,” Nick yelled, hoping that this nightmare would end. He buried himself deeper into arms that weren’t his. Jack scrunched his face in pure confusion.
“Is… is that a joke?” Jack asked sincerely. “If you’re just fucking with me, it’s not funny,” he continued. Now everyone was looking at Jack like he was the crazy one. Can’t he tell that no one is acting like themself?
“Ok, that’s it,” Jack spat. “Everyone follow me now. I don’t care who you think you are.”
Jack thought Rich would know what to do. Either they are all on way too much coke, or they’re all insane. Whatever. He wasn’t dealing with this right now. They’re going to have to get over it. We are definitely not cancelling the concert.
Everyone stood against their own minds, who were telling them to stay put. The only one not totally strung was Simon. He was walking right beside Roger or actually, Roger’s soul. Instead of looking forward he was looking at his own body, which was weird. Being able to see his own face not in the mirror. He reached out to try and touch his face, which he recognised easily. Roger slapped his own hand away immediately. Weird.
“Stop touching… me.” Roger tried to get back to normalcy since he couldn’t stand this terrifying silence that had plagued them ever since they woke up. But, he finally realised that he was in Simon’s body and Simon was in his. Roger started to stare back at Simon. Absorbing the situation and coming to terms with it. Is this my life now? Am I stuck in Simon’s body forever? When they arrived at Rich’s room, Jack told the frazzled group to stay outside for a second. He entered Rich’s room hoping that he was actually in there.

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