“I don’t understand why you didn’t let me drive.” Andrea grumbled from the passenger seat as Michael frowned at the windshield. “You don’t have a driver’s license and I don’t want to literally be in an accident because of you.”
Andrea rolled her eyes as Lisa giggled from the back seat.
“It’s all your fault, you never taught me how to drive.”
Michael was the one that rolled his eyes now as he glanced at his daughter. “You never asked, and with that attitude of yours, I would’ve just plucked all my hair out.”
“Oh, come on, I’m not that bad.”
“Oh, you’re bad.” Andrea turned to look back at her sister, who smiled innocently at her father. “Really, Lisa, you’re going to take his side.”
“Well, technically, she’s taking your side. I am you, so yeah.”
Andrea rolled her eyes as she looked at Lisa’s school approaching in the distance. “Her school’s here.”
Michael drove straight down the road before he stopped right in front of the school gate. “Now, did you remember to grab your lunch from the counter?”
Lisa nodded her head as she found it weird to hear all this from her sister’s body. “Okay, now give daddy a kiss.”
Lisa moved over to kiss her sister’s cheek, which made Andrea smile a little and this made her do something a little more out of her character as well. “Where’s my kiss?” Lisa and Michael shared a glance before Lisa moved over to peck her father’s cheek too.
“Okay, I’m going now. Bye!” Lisa was out of the car as fast as lightening, leaving Andrea and Michael in silence.
Michael smiled as he glanced over at Andrea, who was back to frowning. She still couldn’t believe she had requested that from her sister. She hated any type of human contact, so this was definitely something she had never imagined herself doing.
“Let’s go to that store now.” Andrea nodded her head as Michael put the car in drive again.
They had still yet to completely believe that globe theory but what was there to lose in finding out a little more about it. It wasn’t like something worse was going to happen, worse than being in a different body.
…………………………………………………
“Okay, so this is the place I got this from.” Andrea looked at the shady store before she glanced back at her body. “You’re a creep for even going in there. This feels shady as fuck.”
“Language, please.”
Andrea rolled her eyes before opening her side of the car to get out. Michael rolled his eyes before he followed.
“Are you sure this was it?” Andrea asked again as she looked at the signboard that read ‘Grab a Globe’. “That name sounds so cringey.”
“Hey! I liked it that’s why I went in here.” Michael spoke up as he walked to the front of the shop before going in. The bell over the door rang annoyingly as Andrea followed her body in.
“How may I help you, sir and ma’am?” Andrea jolted a little in surprise as a creepy dude came up to them out of nowhere. They weren’t even in the shop completely, and what made things weirder was that the shop was dimly lit, giving off an extremely dark vibe.
Michael smiled at the man, before he showed him the globe. “Uh, we had a few questions about this globe, I bought – I mean, my dad bought this yesterday and it suddenly broke after my daughter – ehem, my sister accidently caused it to fall.”
The man looked down at Andrea’s body in a weird way before he looked back at Michael’s body.
“You both feel weird.”
Andrea rolled her eyes before she blurted out, “Coming from a guy that feels like a fucking creep.”
Michael widened his eyes as he looked back at his body in disbelief, but Andrea didn’t care as she folded her arms in front of her.
The guy didn’t really seem fazed by the spontaneous cursing as he smirked. Glancing at the two of them again, he looked back into the store and called out to someone. “Merida!”
Andrea and Michael glanced at each other before they looked over in the direction where a woman came out from.
The guy smirked again before he looked back at the two father and daughter.
“Merida, these two have some questions. And if I were you, I wouldn’t get on the bad side of the man. He seems to have some teenage tendencies in him.” Andrea opened her mouth in disbelief as the guy chuckled to himself before leaving to go somewhere deep in the shop.
Merida was an old woman that looked sweet and nice, but as soon as she saw the broken globe in the teenager’s hands, her attitude took a whole 180-degree turn.
“What did you two do?!”
Snatching the globe from the teenager’s hands, the woman inspected the globe closely.
“Uh, we didn’t do anything. It just accidently fell and broke.” Michael explained which didn’t faze the woman as she tried to turn it on. “It won’t work.” She whispered more to herself than to anyone else.
“My globes don’t break easy.” Merida spoke up as she looked at the two of them with narrowed eyes. “Did you two do anything before this broke?”
Michael and Andrea looked at each other before Michael sighed. “My daughter – I mean sister wished for something before it broke.”
The woman glanced at both of them again before she became a little too furious. She wanted to hit the both of them with the globe but tried to control her anger.
“You idiots! Do you have any idea what you’ve done?!”
“Hey, hey. Be a little nicer, we paid for that little shit of yours. If you say these globes aren’t easy to break then why’d this shit break?”
“Andrea.” Michael grumbled as he ran a hand through his face.
Merida noticed both of their behaviors and she was sure of what might’ve happened. “You both switched, right?”
Michael and Andrea widened their eyes at the same time as the woman squinted hers. “How’d you know?”
“This man has no manners at all, and you called him Andrea.” The woman explained which made Michael sigh out in agreement. “I don’t even know who she takes after.”
“Come, follow me.” The woman grumbled as she turned to go to the back of the shop.
Michael and Andrea glanced at each other again before they began to follow her. The two had been glancing at each other more than ever since they were both unsure of what was actually happening. All they wanted was for things to go back to the way they were again.
“This has never happened before, so I don’t know if I’m correct.” Merida mumbled loud enough for the two of them to hear as she brought them to a small room in the back of the shop.
She opened the door and went straight in.
Michael and Andrea followed her as well.
“Try not to be too surprised by what you see in here.” Andrea gasped as soon as she saw snow covering the whole room. It looked real but then again, it was a small room so it could be easy to cover it with fake snow.
Michael was surprised as he looked around. Even the shelves were covered with snow.
“Is this real?” Andrea asked up as she bent down to touch the white thing, which did melt as soon as she picked it up.
Merida smirked but didn’t answer her question as she went to go sit at the lone table in the room.
Michael and Andrea watched the old woman as she placed the broken globe in front of her on the table.
“So, you say this broke after your sister wished something.” The woman looked at Michael’s body, which surprised Andrea, but she nodded her head nonetheless.
“Hm, do you know what she wished for?”
Michael and Andrea looked at each other before nodding their heads. “She wished for us to understand each other better.”
Merida chuckled before she shook her head, “What an innocent child. She wants two dimwits to understand one another.”
“Hey!” Andrea took offense while Michael just sighed.
Merida glared at the man, before sighing, “Couldn’t she just wish on a shooting star on something? What kid even wishes on a snow-globe?”
“Uh, that would be my fault, I believe. I told her to wish on the first star she sees after turning the globe on.” Merida practically face-palmed herself as she sighed heavily.
Andrea smirked with her arms folded. “Yeah, he’s the real idiot.”
“Andrea, don’t talk to your father like that!” Michael retaliated.
“Shut up, both of you!” Merida reprimanded the two, which silenced them immediately.
“You two are an annoying pair.”
Andrea wanted to say something in reply but she was immediately silenced by one sharp look from the woman.
“Now look away for a minute.” Michael and Andrea raised an eyebrow before they hesitantly turned around to look away from the woman.
They didn’t hear anything as they looked at the door of the small room, while the woman grabbed a handful of snow from beneath her feet.
She looked at the two before she placed the handful of snow over the broken globe. The snow melted as soon as it hit the half-broken glass of the globe.
Merida gasped as nothing happened. She repeated the same actions again, and got the same result.
She tried three more times before frustration took over her and she bent down to lift up two handfuls of the white mass. Dropping the snow over the globe again, she watched it melt before it disappeared.
“Okay, we’re screwed.”
Michael and Andrea immediately turned around to look at the woman that sighed to herself heavily. “We’re screwed.”
“What do you mean by that?” Merida angrily looked at the man and the teenager before she looked down at the globe. “The globe refuses to fix itself.”
Andrea looked at the woman with disbelief as she tried to register what she just said. “Fix itself? Were you asking it to just fix itself?”
Merida stared at the man with an unamused look while Michael sighed. “Does this mean, we have to stay like this forever?”
Merida scratched her head before she went to grab a book from one of her shelves. She was sure that there was some kind of instruction in one of her books.
If this happened, there must be something in her books that could give her a solution.
“I think she’s a witch.” Andrea mumbled silently to Michael, who looked up at his daughter with an unamused expression. “Do we live in the medieval era? No, we don’t.”
“I’m telling you; don’t you find this snow weird?”
“She’s a snow-globe maker, or something, of course she needs inspiration. Maybe she just used some kind of central cooling thingy to keep this snow here all cool.”
Andrea rolled her eyes at her father’s answer before she folded her arms.
Merida rolled her eyes since she could hear everything the two were talking about, but chose not to call them out on it as she flipped through the pages.
Finally finding something close to what had happened to Michael and Andrea, Merida spoke up, “Okay, so there are only two instances when the globe breaks and refuses to fix itself. One is when the globe owner dies.”
Andrea and Michael raised an eyebrow as Merida continued to speak, “And the second is when the owner wishes for something. The globe will remain broken until the owner believes that her wish has truly been granted.”
“What the fuck, I don’t believe all that shit is written in that old-ass book.”
“Andrea!”
“Look, kid, you can curse out at anything if you want, but don’t curse at the globe or the books. They are your only chance to go back to your body.” Merida pointed her finger at Andrea, who frowned.
“This all doesn’t seem real. I’m dreaming right. This must be a dream, or you’re actually a witch.” Merida smirked as Andrea grabbed her hair crazily while Michael tried to calm her down before he’d find himself going bald.
“Now go back to your sister, little girl, and grant her wish. It’s just that easy, if you want to feel like a teenager again. Or you can just stay in that man’s body forever.”
“Oh my god.” Andrea mumbled as Michael went to get the globe from Merida, who smiled apologetically at him. “Your daughter must really want you both to get along if she wished for something like this.”
Michael smiled back as he nodded his head.
“I’m going back to the car.” Andrea grumbled as she walked out of the room, leaving Merida and Michael behind.
“I have one question though.” Michael spoke as he scratched his neck. Merida raised a questioning eyebrow as she looked at the teenager.
“What if we never understand each other, or if my daughter never feels like her wish was granted, what then?”
Merida gave the teenager a small smile before she looked at the broken globe. “I’ve never really had something like this happen before to know the answer to that, but I do know one thing. You both might never go back to how things were, and stay trapped in each other’s bodies.”
Michael nodded his head with a weary sigh before he thanked the lady.
Leaving the room, he walked to the front of the shop, passing by the creepy guy at the counter. He also gave Michael a small smile, which he reciprocated before exiting the shop.
Michael saw Andrea already sitting in the car as he went over to the driver’s side.
Getting in the car, he let out a loud sigh, “If only you would just listen to me, this wouldn’t have happened.” Andrea sighed as she heard her father.
“I had listened to you? Oh, come on, you were the one that never listened. I told you many times that I just wanted to be left alone, but you never let me just be.”
“What’s going to do you any good by being alone? Ever since your mom died, you’ve been so distant.”
Andrea folded her arms as Michael sighed again. “I know it was hard to let her go, but you have to know that Lisa and I are here for you.” Michael reached out to touch his own hand, which felt weird but he did it anyway.
“I will always be here for you.”
Andrea pushed away her hand as she looked out the window. “I want to go home.”
Michael sighed before he put the car keys in ignition. Bringing the car into drive, he glanced at himself once more before driving back to their house.
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