After getting out the shower I get changed into a fresh pair of clothes from the drier, my thoughts are still all over the place.
I decide to confront Katsuo about how to deal with my pain, hoping he would be some type of councillor. I knock on the door to his apartment but nobody answers, maybe he's not home at the moment, I turned around and walk into someone.
"Ow, sorry I didn't oh" I look up at the person I just ran into, "Hi Katsuo"
"Hey, can I help you with something?" he asks.
"Um, I just wanted to vent, are you ok with listening?" I ask.
"sure I dont mind, and it's not like you can tell anyone else, they wouldn't believe you" he replies "I'm kinda glad I'm someone you can rely on"
Katsuo invites me into his apartment and I tell him about the mental strain the dreams have on me.
"So what you're telling me that you would like to find a way to deal with your dreams so you can sleep..." he says losing himself in thought.
"Yeah, sorry to get you involved in my personal issues," I say.
"It's fine I'm happy to help anytime" replies Katsuo.
"I would also like to find out what happened to my original body, " I tell Katsuo
"That probably a good idea, we might find somethings that explains why this is happening to you," says Katsuo.
After a lot of thinking, Katsuo couldn't think of anything so we decided that we should go and check out my old body to see what happened to it, did the people I switch with take over my body? and if that was the case how where they dealing with it.
We go downstairs to the car park where Katsuo motorbike was parked, we put on our helmets and I tell him where I lived, he takes off at full speed towards my old apartment.
When we arrive I take the elevator to the floor I lived on we approach my door and I pull out my hidden key from inside the window frame, I open my door and a bunch of cold air hits my face, I start shaking.
"Did my senses change with my body?" I ask myself.
"Probably, it's freezing in here" Katsuo responds, I look around my apartment but nobody was around, did someone take over my body and leave? I thought to myself.
"Hey Hina, if it's not a bother I was wondering if I could have something to eat," says Katsuo still following me.
"Sure, look in the fridge" I replied still looking around, he walks over to the fridge and opens it a disgusting smell covers the apartment.
"When was the last time you bought fresh food? everything's mouldy" says Katsuo.
"really? The last time I was here everything was just in date" I tell him.
I go into the room I last remember being in, it's as dark as I remember and my computers still on, I go to look at the screen but I see nothing but errors, I try to close one of the error pop-ups but another one takes its place.
"I think you might need to go and get your computer checked out," says Katsuo as he walks towards me.
"This is what popped up when I switched bodies the first time" I reply.
"Do you think it has something to do with the body-switching or do you think its just a coincidence?" he asks.
"I'm not sure," I say trying to close all the error pop-ups on my computer, then a different message pops up, "You can not return until we are done," it says, what?
"Done what? do you think someone's doing this to you?" ask Katsuo.
"But how, do they have superpowers or something, I mean it just doesn't sound real" I reply.
"That doesn't but you changing bodies does?" he says, he has a point though anything could be possible at this point.
"It doesn't look like my body is here, do you want to go?" I ask.
"Sure, but what now?" asks Katsuo.
"I dont know, do you have any ideas?" I ask Katsuo.
"Well, we could look at supernatural studies groups" replies Katsuo.
"Good idea, maybe they have something" I reply, we take the motorbike back to our apartments, Katsuo searched up locations of supernatural studies groups and came up with several locations.
"So which one do you want to go to first?" asks Katsuo.
"Which one is closest?" I ask.
"Yokosuka High school" he replies.
"Wait doesn't Shiro, Akari's little sister go there?" I ask.
"I think so, I don't really know, she didn't tell me" he responds, "You should know, you were like her big sister for a couple of days"
"I think she does, it's a shame that she won't know who I am, even though she was my sister for a couple of days she was fun to hang out with," I say thinking about the time I spent with her, "oh well, she didn't even know that I wasn't ever her sister so she won't miss me"
It was getting late so we agreed to go to see the school tomorrow, but I still didn't have a way to sleep that didn't make me depressed every time I wake up, I searched online for a while but came up with nothing, in the end, I went to ask Katsuo if he could wake me up tomorrow and comfort me.
After Katsuo assures me that he will help me out in the morning I finally feel better about my sleep situation, I close my eyes and fall asleep.
I have a dream about the same things, but I was prepared this time, and it wasn't that bad because all the bad dreams I'm having I've dreamed of the night before.
This time I didn't toss and turn, nor did I scream in my sleep, Katsuo comes to wake me up gently, I look up at him while I'm still half asleep and smile.
"Thank you Katsuo..." I tell him.