Switched

The wake up call

I wake up every day thinking what am I going to do wrong today? Once I do something wrong to someone else I like to see how they are hurting.  This can be a blessing and a curse. Every morning I wake up to the sounds of the birds chirping and my sister crying.  Most people think I'm weird or strange.  My name's Bailey and no one knows my secret.  If you tell one person it will spread around like the flu. 

I'm not normal.  I wish I was just like everyone else, but I'm not.  I get judged for me being different.  If I let this huge secret out to the world I could be killed for what I know about other people. Today I woke up in a person named Shae. Shae sneaks out and gets into a load of trouble with the police and with her boyfriend. I cannot control the person I wake up in, I'll know everything about them .

As the day gets shorter and the nights get colder there's something that is pushing me to do something I would never do myself. I barely know my own name because I have never been in my body for more than ten minuets.  This all started when I was five years old after I saw something that I can never get out of my head.

Today I (Shae) woke up and left the house immediately, and went off with friends.  Shae was 18 which means she could do whatever she wants. Shae went out with her friends Jason, Mandy Kayla, and Taylor.  They all have tattoos but the only one who didn't was Shae. Today was the day Shae Wilbur would get a tattoo. Shae didn't feel like she wanted to get a tattoo, but her friends don't stop pressing her until it get's done. 

At the end of the day Shae walked away with a tattoo.  Shae's parents didn't care what she did or didn't do.  Shae got home around midnight when her parents were fast asleep because they had work the next morning . Shae's dad woke up to the sound of shae screaming in pain from laying on her tattoo. Shae's dad ran into her room and asked why she was screaming.  Shae didn't reply and went to sleep.

Shae didn't tell her parents about her tattoo because Shae was only sixteen years old. The tattoo artist didn't ask for Shae's age or for her driver's licence to prove she was over eighteen years of age. Shae wasn't thinking about what her future would be like now that she had the tattoo. She went to go apply for a job that she really liked and as soon as the interviewer saw her tattoo she got turned down.

Shae realized that tattoos can ruin your opportunities in life and can close doors.  She met up with Taylor and asked her some questions about how to get away with getting the same opportunities  she had before she got the tattoo. The best way to get around it is to lie and say you don't have any.

Shae had a long day, she was tired and her arm hurt.  Shae sat down trying to relax from the pain. Shae started to feel sleepy as if she hadn't slept in three weeks.  Shae passed out because she didn't want to deal with the pain all night. Tomorrow I will wake up in someone's body other than Shae's.....