00:00Jessica kept telling me she was so done with her mom and wanted to be my mom's daughter.
00:03I thought she was just saying stuff.
00:05But I never expected she'd literally swap souls with me just to steal my mom.
00:10Sophia, just accept it.
00:11You and I are never swapping back in this life.
00:14While I was still spacing out, Jessica had already chugged the rest of that spiked drink
00:18and sprinted toward the black Escalade that picked me up from school every day.
00:22Watching her bouncing silhouette, I slowly shouldered her old canvas bag,
00:26spotted her mom's gray Honda in the crowd, and secretly let out that sigh of relief inside.
00:32God, I finally escaped my mom.
00:35Jess, something good happened today?
00:37Jessica's mom opened the car door for me.
00:39She had no makeup on, wore a pair of worn-out sneakers and a black hoodie.
00:43She looked kind of thin and pale, but the way she looked at me was crazy gentle.
00:47Yeah, I just suddenly figured out this problem I couldn't solve before.
00:50I answered while sliding into the back seat and accidentally caught my backpack strap on the door handle.
00:54Jessica's mom saw it, stopped the car right away, and helped me untangle the strap.
00:58She didn't scold me at all.
01:00Instead, she pinched my nose playfully and said,
01:02You're such a little kid. Now sit tight.
01:05I sat up straight like she said.
01:06The tip of my nose where she'd touched felt a sudden sting.
01:09Since I was 10, I've been living on my own.
01:11My mom's super busy, flying all over the world.
01:13She never picked me up from school or let me waste her time acting cute.
01:16We haven't touched each other in forever.
01:18Our conversations were like CEO to intern.
01:20She gave orders, I executed.
01:22If I did well, she'd wire money.
01:24If I messed up, there'd be punishment.
01:26Thinking about all the punishments I'd been through, I shivered.
01:29That bone-deep fear instantly spread through my whole body.
01:31I quickly calmed myself down inside.
01:33Don't be scared. You're Jessica now, not Sophia.
01:36You won't have to go through that anymore.
