Being replaced Part 1

It all started innocently enough. I was going through my late Grandmother's belongings that had been sent to me and found a small strongbox. Inside the box I found a book and some rolled up papers. As I read through them I noticed that they all had incantations inscribed on them. I was one of the few people in the family that knew that Grandma was a witch and had the limited ability to cast spells. She used to entertain me with cantrips when I was a little girl so finding these documents in her stuff was pretty exciting! She had always told me that I had the power of magic as well so I was eager to give a spell a try.

A couple of days after I got home from work I finally found a spell that looked interesting to me. According to it's description it would allow the caster to trade places with any one or anything the spell was cast on for 24 hours. That sounded amazing to me and I could think of endless possibilities for fun with it, however I needed to try it here at my house first to make sure it worked before I tried to switch places with another person.

I went to my closet and grabbed my black patent stilettos and placed them on the floor in front of me. I repeated the spell in my head a couple of times to make sure I got it right and then recited it out loud. As I recited the spell I could energy being pulled out of me and it made me a little light-headed and when I finished I felt a surge of energy slam back into me and the lights in the house dimmed. My body locked in place and the scroll I was reading from slipped from my nerveless fingers and drifted to the floor.

That's when the tingling started. My body got a tingling sensation that quickly grew in intensity until my whole body was vibrating and then I started shrinking down through my clothes! I watched with fixed eyes as the room seemed to grow around me. I kept shrinking and it felt like my body was getting more solid and then my body bent forward sharply at the waist and my arms moved of their own accord behind me and were merging with my torso while my legs merged together becoming one. Finally I was looking right at the toes of the heels I set on the floor and my body kept feeling more and more dense. I could see my nose and mouth push outward as my face started changing shape and I could see my skin darken to black and become glossy. It was also with no small amount of panic that I noticed that I was not breathing anymore! My vision and hearing faded out momentarily and then came back but it felt and looked like I was staring through a window and my hearing was muffled now. The weirdest sensation I had experienced yet then started happening. I could feel my insides hollow out and form the opening for the shoe I was becoming and then I split in two and was now an exact copy of the shoes in front of me. Just as the black skirt and red blouse I had been wearing settled over me obscuring my view, causing the right side of me to fall over on it's side I saw my shoes start to glow.

After a few minutes I heard a voice that sounded like mine ask what was going on and that she didn't know who she was. After an indeterminate amount of time I felt the clothes that were covering me be lifted away and I was then staring and the new me's feet! She reached down to pick me up and as soon as she made contact I felt her stiffen as if she had just been shocked. At the same time everything that was me started flowing in to her! All of my memories, my likes and dislikes, my job knowledge and my deepest fantasies and fears were all being sucked away! Just as I felt like the last of my being was being sucked forever into oblivion it all came rushing back to me! The new me dropped me and fell to her knees from the information that had been drawn into her! As a pair of shoes I didn't feel any pain when my two halves bounced off of the floor but the sensations of looking in two different directions at once was very disorientating.

When she recovered she got dressed in the clothes that I wad been wearing and then picked me up again and said, “Oh Susan, you naughty, naughty girl. Look what you've done to your self! You've taken my place as just some pretty shoes to be worn and I get to live your life for a while!” She laughed and then continued, “Let's go out and have some fun shall we?” She said as she slipped me on her feet and grabbed what was now her purse and walked out the door.