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As a frustrated groan broke out from one member of the class, a huge smile broke out on my face that I tried to hide by burying my face in my textbook. After all, it was I who put itching powder onto his desk, and he was now scratching my arm wildly. Well, he did soak me with the hose the other day, and I got into trouble with the teacher.

Another teacher came into the class and told us to go to the hall as my science teacher was not at school that day, we went there cheering. Once there, I sought out my best friend from another class (who's teacher was not there either), and told him about my joke. He seemed disapproving but I did not want to give him enough time to let him tell me about it, so I quickly pointed out a person from his class who was alone and looked quite upset. I asked him about it. My friend shrugged, so I did not pester him either.

After school, I went to the nearest shopping center to have a little walk. But the place looked different, there was nobody there. I was getting the creeps and was about to go out of there, but a flash of light came, and two figures emerged from the light. They were an elderly couple.

?Are you willing to help our grandchild?? The old man asked me.

I did not know what they wanted, so I did not reply, instead, waiting for more information.

?We will switch your souls for two hours and will be at your side during that time. You will know what to do when you get there. ?

My parents would not be expecting me to be back that soon because I told them I would be going out. And so I nodded my head. After that, the shopping center seemed to blur as the image of a house appeared. I know what had happened, and I went to find a mirror to see who I had become. I had become the boy from my friend's class who I had asked about earlier.

I walked around the house, hoping to find someone. I thought there was nobody around so I sat down on a chair, thinking of what I should do next. The old couple from earlier appeared and let me towards the living room. When I heard some noise, they just disappeared and left me to it. I went closer and saw a woman sitting there. Her appearance scared me, her face was whiter than snow and her mouth looking like blood, was enough to make me stare in disgust.

?Well?? Was the reply from the sofa, a soft voice with the hint of cruelty spoke.

I did not reply, so she got up from the seat and came towards me. A sense of dread washed over me, my feeling was proved right wh

she kicked and punched me. She did not stop even when a man came in and asked ?what did my son do this time??

?He did not address me, a rude act to come from someone like him? She screeched.

The man, supposed to be the boy's father, encouraged her. ?He deserves it, a rude person cannot appear in my family? before disappearing to the kitchen.

Perhaps the owner of this body could put up with it, but I could not. I shoved her towards the sofa. And in a temper, I also overturned the drawers in the place. A round object caught my eye. A yoyo and as I picked it up, images formed in my head. The father and another woman, (as the old woman said) his mother was playing together with the yoyo.

Another scene, of the father asking the mother to go and using all his power to make sure that no lawyer would help his mother to get custody of the child, and the evil woman, supporting this move to inflict more damage on ?her enemy?.

I saw the boy, crying as the father forced him to get rid of everything that his real mother bought for him. And saw him also, shoving the yoyo in his mouth, and hiding it in the drawer.

Anger burst inside me suddenly at the thought of the couple, making a harmless child suffer because of their cruelty. Well, harmless no more I thought as I let the yoyo fly close to the woman's ear and I pulled it back. As she ran into the kitchen for her husband, I followed the elderly couple into a room. It had a table full of beauty products and a picture of the father and that woman behind the bed.

I first pushed the makeup bottles onto the floor with a loud crash. And then I followed the elderly couple?s pleas to break the frame of the wedding photo. I swung the yoyo and it crashed. Then I made to move out of the room. The scary lady was there talking to me. I told you this long ago but you seem to have forgotten. So I warn you, stop this or I will tell your father that I no longer want you, and since you mother has run away, she will not want you either? Her face stretched into an evil leer. I swung the yoyo back at the picture and her leer dropped into a look of disbelief. And she started screaming at me. By now, the father had come up. He looked at the yoyo in mounting anger. ?I told you to get rid of it?.

I did not open my mouth or show any expression. But I vented my anger by swinging the yoyo at them. They jumped aside in shock. I could see fear on their face. Even on the father's face, which means that he knew that what

that what he was doing is wrong and he is still doing it. He was not able to say that it was I who am doing wrong. But nevertheless, the jumped aside for me and I followed the now smiling elderly couple to leave the house.

I caught sight of the father shouting on the phone with someone. But I continued to rush out, aware that the two hours was almost over. As soon as I stepped out of the door, I saw myself standing there. And as soon as I stood beside my body, our souls changed back again. And then I went behind a tree to see what was going to happen next.

A woman, his mother come running to the house at the same time his father run out of the door. His face red with fury, he yelled ?I do not want this child anymore, you take him back.? His mother smiled and pocketed her voice recorder, planning to give it to her lawyer.

I saw him after school one day. And saw his mother come to fetch him from school while his father shouting about ?abusing the law?. And I smiled to myself. The elderly couple at that time, his grandparents came to thank me in the night for helping their grandchild that day.