I slowly woke up, rubbing my eyes slightly, silently hoping that when i woke up it was all a dream.
But it wasn't as I immediately noticed 2 small semi transparent people sleep on my desk.
I decided to check the time, I remembered sleeping at exactly 4 am last night so i wanted to know around how many hours i slept.
"...Huh....2 pm....Did I really sleep for 10 hours?"
I groaned as i felt hungry, but i didn't know how to cook nor did i know what was my current reputation around.
"....If only I was dreaming and wasn't in the world of my failed novel this would have been much more bearable..."
Atleast the only thing going for me were my eyes, that was somewhat unique as i dont remember creating any characters with heterochromia, and oddly enough this specific neon red and cyan blue combination were the exact type of eyes i wanted to have.
I always had an obsession with drawing eyes since i was a kid, it was why i decided to try being an architect anyways, since I liked drawing a lot.
I remembered only picking my favorite characters based on how beautiful their eyes looked, those were some good times since atleast they could never look ugly to me.
As I kept observing my body in the mirror, i noticed how i looked much healthier than my past life.
Before, i used to be extremely skinny, but to be fair i did often forget to eat to finish my novels as fast as possible..and forgot to take care of myself...
...I was probably not as nice looking as i thought i was that day before that car killed me-
Anyways! I seemed to have the body shape i always wanted to have, which felt pretty odd considering Sora never existed before.
I'm not even sure if Sora is really the daughter of a millionaire as she claimed to be seeing how plain and boring her room seemed to be.
I looked around, trying to find anything that could be part of her childhood or her parents or even how other people think of her, and thankfully i found a diary, which oddly seemed unlocked but whatever, I shrugged.
I noticed how the first entry started when she was 6 years old, she must have been very dedicated to writing every important day onto this diary.
'Dear Diary, my papa gave me this diary to write my thoughts and feelings in, but i'll instead write down important days! I'm not weak! Emotions means weakness, Mama taught me that! Hehe!"
Damn her mom must be toxic. Atleast this makes her overall character much deeper than i thought.
"I just turned 8! Papa is saying odd words like 'Dont have money' and 'Can't pay rent'..What does rent and money mean? They must be evil bad demons i must kill!"
Even when i was 8 years old I knew what money and rent is, though thats probably because i grew up middle-lower class so it makes sense.
"Dear Diary, I'm going to move to Arcania, Papa said i would have to stay with Mommy for money reasons..I don't want to be with mama! She's scary! But she buys me lots of candy so i guess its not that bad!!"
Lucky...That's what i would call her if i was a kid her age. Poor kid is what i would call her as a 25 year old.
As I kept flipping the pages, i understood more and more about her family situation.
I won't spare the details, but her dad was a gambler who lost millions of money to the mafia and to not put his family into danger, he left the country, but in return Sora and her mother were poor for most of their lives.
Since Sora's mother was busy acting like she was still rich, she taught and basically manipulated Sora to act like she's actually rich and loved, even though it was the complete opposite.
I noticed that the only sound in the place i lived in right now came from me, so i'm guessing that the original soul belonging to this body was living alone.
Atleast it makes doing whatever i want much easier, though I didn't read the most recent page of the diary, i doubt it would be something actually important to me anyways.
As I sniffed my clothes, i noticed how bad it smelled, i was surprised that someone this rude didn't take a bath at all.
"Ugh....I can't exactly judge since i was the same as her for a few years..I hope i can find my way around this place pretty easily..."
I glanced back at the 2 mini versions of me, I decided to just let them sleep as i opened the door of my room and took a step outside my room.
I looked around and the first thing I noticed was filth.
"Ew...Even in my past life i tried keeping everything tidy but....this....is..."
The smell itself was horrible, these were not good living conditions.
It was a 2 story house and i was thankfully on the 2nd floor because the first floor was extremely dirty, but i dont think there are any bugs around here for some odd reason.
There was trash, dust and dirt everywhere it looked more like a trash zoo than a house.
I'm pretty sure i smelled rotten food- Ugh- Its even worse than i thought.
I immediately ran back inside my room and closed the door, now i knew why the room was so plain.
Everything was trashed and the poor girl had no money to even decorate her room at all.
"Geez..Showering is now the least of my priorities..I need to clean this house immediately."
The place was so dirty i could barely see what color the walls were thats how dirty it was.
I took a random scarf and used it as a mask to protect myself from the awful smell before leaving the room, planning to clean everything up.
... ...
Sora softly woke up, she could smell something she hasn't smelled in years. She finally smelled a house getting cleaned with 500 different products, which gave off an extremely strong air all around the room, but it was much better than the smell of trash and rotten food.
Wait- why was she smelling cleaning supplies anyways?
She suddenly felt her soul get pulled towards the door and she felt anxious as she tried to grab anything to hold onto.
But since she's a soul, she couldn't touch a single thing.
She closed her eyes as a habit when she suddenly felt like she was sitting on something.
When she opened her eyes, she was sitting on S's left shoulder and noticed S wearing a lot of cleaning protective gear like a Gas mask.
...Did the house smell that bad?
As she looked around, she finally noticed how cleaned everything looked.
The walls weren't a brownish color but now a light greyish-blue color, the wooden floors looked much cleaner than before and most of the trash was gone.
"What...did you do?"
She asked, still surprised.
"Geez i've never been in a house this dirty before, how did you manage to discolor the walls with this much dust and dirt?! How the fuck did you manage to cover the walls in literal dirt i dont think thats even humanly possible!!"
S was clearly annoyed as she kept cleaning everything, it really was surprising to see the difference between a completely trashed house and cleaner one.
"Uhm....T-thanks for...cleaning my house..."
"I live in your body so it's our house now. How do you even pay rent anyways?!"
She hesitated before answering.
"My...My dad pays the rent every month for me..but when I was 10 years old my mom suddenly left me alone in the house..so I had to learn how to cook by myself but i didn't know anything about cleaning since she never taught me how to clean the house so..uh...this happened.."
S seemed shocked at this revelation as it looked like she was genuinely speechless.
"But its fine! Atleast i dont have to get a job to pay rent-"
"Yeah no i'm going to give you a better life. I thought you were just a rude and arrogant teenager but damn how good is the AC in your room for me not to smell anything bad?"
"Its...its an artefact i put in my room to get rid of any bad smells in my room...but thanks again for cleaning the place."
S looked a bit awkward before answering.
"Uh.....No problem.."
She said before putting some trash and rotten foods into a plastic trash bag, these bags were surprisingly bigger than other trash bags in shops.
"Ugh...so much trash i need an extra big bag..."
"Wait, S, how did you get the money to buy these supplies anyways?"
... ...
I immediately stayed quiet as I didn't want to tell her the bullshit i pulled to get these supplies for free.
I literally put a random sign close to the house saying "I need cleaning supplies i dont care what it is. Please just cleaning supplies that's all i asked" and the people were surprisingly kind enough to lend me the supplies for free
I was shocked when my plan worked, but i wasn't complaining.
"S....answer me."
"Aight but it might hurt your ego lil bro."
I replied immediately with a smirk on my face as I kept cleaning, though the gas mask hid my smirk so it was useless acting cocky anyways.
"So basically, i went outside and begged people for money or cleaning supplies."
Sora looked shocked and embarrassed, though what i said was a half truth.
I put a sign but i wasn't actually outside on the ground begging, i just took the free supplies when no one was watching so everything was fine.
I had my own pride too you know?
Sora seemed to have wanted to argue yet no words left her mouth at all.
"By the way its 6 pm. I've been cleaning non stop for 4 hours and i'm still not done. You better reward me with something."
I said, trying to lighten the mood but it seemed as though Sora took that seriously.
"...Fine...i'll compensate you."
She spoke seriously as I glanced at me, this felt more like a business meeting for some reason..
".....Dude its a joke the least you could do is let me live here."
I removed the gas mask to show a soft smirk.
As I smelled the air in the house, though it still smelled bad, it was much better than i initially thought.
It smelled just slightly bad but just enough so i could endure it.
It was getting better.
Finally, as soon as Soraya woke up, she suddenly got pulled towards me and sat on my right shoulder while i was still cleaning.
It was now 7 pm, and i managed to remove most of the trash in the house, now all i had to clean were the furniture, carpets, the other rooms and some of the dust in corners that i could have easily missed.
"Good morning...or rather afternoon, both of you. I cleaned most of the house. Soraya you are lucky you didnt see how dirty the house was earlier, the smell was so bad i needed a gas mask."
I noticed Soraya rubbing her eyes as she woke up recently, which i didnt mind that much.
Though they did sleep more than me surprisingly.
"Aight, imma rest à bit, Sora do you have a phone?"
"Yeah I do. Its in the top right corner of my desk."
I nodded as I went back inside her room and got her phone, but it needed a password.
"Wha-"
"Its 1505. My birthday, 15th of May."
"Damn that was quick, also we have the same birthday! Thats so cool!"
I replied as I entered the password and decided to check my instagram account.
As expected, none of my instagram accounts exists.
I guess that truly means i really did possess someones else's body in another world.
..Still feels weird. Just until yesterday i was a writer that was about to retire and now i'm in my own novel as a character i never made before.
..Feels weird.
Very...Very weird.