The Comeback

Chapter 26 - Making Contact

Chapter 26 - Making Contact

When I wake up I feel weird, like numb. Like my body is not my body, like there’s something missing. I close my eyes again as I collect myself and think of what happened. I open my eyes again and I find Zayn staring at me, worry all over his face.

By the way… where am I?

“Oh God, you’re awake. Mate, you scared the shit out of me!” Zayn exclaims and I blink, confused.

I’m not sure what happened, the last thing I remember is leaving Emily’s house after that… oh. Now I remember and I feel dizzy again. Too much information.

Jake… his soul… within me… I need to help him… Louis… Emily’s brother.

Well, I feel dizzy again. We went to Emily to find answers and although we got some, like Jake actually being around me, not as a ghost, but just his soul, inside me? I don’t know. But although we got some answers, I’ve come up with many more questions. There’s so much I don’t understand, like exactly why and how I’m supposed to help or how this is even possible.

So… Jake is my inner voice and he always talked to me, but how do I contact him first? Is he always present? All the time listening, watching what I do? Even when I’m with Cassie?

Oh… now I get it. That’s how I got to know things about her that she didn’t share. Like her age at the beginning. That’s how I knew of her memories. It wasn’t just her stories, it was Jake. All those dreams… all those dreams were actually his memories. All that was Jake showing me his past. But why?

Wait a second… I dreamt of Jake being in love with Cassie, that means Jake was actually in love with her. He was telling me that, he was showing me how he fell in love with her. And he was telling me not to confess my feelings to Cassie the other day. It was him… stopping me. It was him showing me that memory of him and Cassidy at the playground that made her cry. It was all him.

How many other things has he done?

Is he really inside of me? I know I’ve felt different but I’m still me, I know that. He hasn’t taken over my body because I can think of all this and because I’ve defied my inner voice.

I think I got a migraine.

“Liam? Are you listening?” Zayn asks and only then I shake my head. I got lost in my thoughts.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I was just… trying to put things in their place,” I answer and look around. This is not our dorm, and definitely this is not my car. This is Emily’s house, right? “Where are we?”

“You fainted in front of Emily’s house. We’re in her place. Oh, there she comes,” my friend replies and looks over my head. Then I hear footsteps and I turn around to see her approaching with a tray with three cups of tea.

“Hello, Liam. How are you feeling?” She asks me leaving the tray on the coffee table in front of me. I’m lying on the sofa so I sit straight.

“Overwhelmed,” I say and she smiles sympathetically at me. “I still don’t fully understand what’s happening.”

“I don’t know either. I’ve never encountered something like this. Souls don’t use other bodies,” she explains and I nod, as if I really understand what she means. “To be honest, I don't think Jake knows what’s happening either. And it’s weird, I can’t feel him now, but when you arrived his presence was so strong.”

“You think he left?” I ask, hopeful.

But Emily shakes her head. “I don’t think so. Souls don’t just leave. If he has stayed until now, he must have a reason and he won’t go until he dies or he fulfils this. The most common reason why a soul stays in this dimension is because they have an unresolved business, so I’m assuming he has one.”