Two Minds Part 4

Amanda, becoming more agitated with every passing second, continued to run to nowhere.  Tears were flowing down all four of her eyes.  Running past the local grocery store, followed by the coffee shop, Amanda finally stopped running after nearly two miles and started to walk.  

Breathing heavily, Amanda tried to gain control of her emotions.  It’s been nearly four months since the day Amanda said the spell and her life changed.  “I can’t handle this much longer,’ thought Amanda.  ‘How can I live like this!?  Like some type of freak with two heads.   The worst part is that everyone around me thinks is just how it always has been.  I can’t talk to anyone about this.  I’m alone in this and there is nothing out there I can find to reverse this, Condition.”

Continuing to walk blindly, lost in her thoughts of frustration and despair.  “How can there be nothing out there to reverse the spell!  I’ve been looking for four months now and I can’t find anything, Anything!  How can I live the rest of my life with two heads! What am I going….”

“Excuse me Miss, can you help me?” said a male voice from Amanda’s right.  

Surprised, Amanda gasped and turned both of her heads to the right, her left head accidently smacking into her right head.  “Ouch,” said Amanda with her left head as she turned her left head forward and rubbed her cheek with her left hand.  Looking with her right head she saw an elderly gentleman standing not ten feet from her farther down the sidewalk.  

“I’m sorry Miss.  I didn’t mean to startle you.  I’m just curious if you can point me in the right direction.  I’m new in town and don’t know my way around.  Could you tell me where the local grocery store is?”  asked the man.

“Oh, it’s about a block down that way,’ said Amanda with her right head, pointing down the street that she came from.  ‘You can’t miss it.”

“Thank you, Miss,” said the old man as he continued on his way down the street.  

Amanda stood there and watched the man walk down the street for a moment, for no particular reason.  She sighed with both heads and started to walk back to her house when her cell phone rang.  

Amanda answered the phone after a couple of rings.  “Hello”.  

“Hey sweetie.  Where are you?  You ran out the front door like someone was after you.  Are you okay?” asked Amanda’s mother, Julie.

“Yes mother.  I just was overwhelmed with everything that is happening at school.  It got to me,” said Amanda’s left head into the phone.  The surrealness of hearing her mother with both heads even though the phone was clearly resting against her left head’s left ear was something Amanda still hadn’t gotten used to it fully and it accented her change even more at this second.

“Well do you need me to pick you up?  It’s no trouble,” responded her mother.

“No mom, I’m fine.  I’m only a couple of miles away from home.  I’ll walk,” said Amanda, brushing her hair out of her right head’s eyes with her right hand.

“Okay sweetie.  I’ll see you soon.  Dinner should be ready by the time you get home,” said her mother.

“Okay mom.  See ya soon,” Amanda said, hanging up the phone and placing it back into her pocket.  

About thirty minutes later Amanda walked through the front door of her home and called out, “Mom, I’m home.”

“Oh, great sweetie,’ called her mother from the kitchen.  ‘Dinner’s ready and we started eating.  Come on in to get some food.”

“Great, mom.  Thanks,” said Amanda’s right head as she walked into the kitchen.  Grabbing a plate, Amanda loaded it with food and dug in.

“Honey, do you want to talk about all that has been overwhelming you at school?” asked her dad from across the table.

“No thanks dad.  I’m fine now, really, I am,’ said Amanda with her left head as she continued to eat with her right head.  ‘It was just a momentary girl thing.”

“Okay, I’m just checking,’ said here dad.  He then focused on Ryan and said, ‘so did you see the ball game today Ryan?”

“No dad.  Remember I was at school all day,” said Ryan sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

“Oh right, um, it was a great one.  We’ll watch the highlights later,” said his dad, chuckling at himself for the brain fart.  

The rest of the meal went by well, the four family members shared laughs, gibes, and other conversational talk they usually did at the table during dinner.  By the time dinner was over everyone felt stuffed.

“Great dinner Julie,” sighed Wilson to his wife.  

“Yeah, get one mom,” seconded Ryan.

“Thanks for dinner mom,” said Amanda with her left head as she stood up and washed off her plate in the sink.

“I have to call it an early night everyone,” said Amanda as she put the clean plate on the dryer rack.

“Good night,” said everyone simultaneously.

A moment later, Amanda was in her room closing the door behind her.  She gave a satisfying sigh as she fell down onto her bed.  “I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself, this is still so strange,’ thought Amanda.  ‘I guess I just need to keep looking.”

As if by nature, Amanda looked with her left head towards her computer sitting on her desk with an annoyed look only plastered on her left face.  “But not tonight,” she thought.

Looking over towards her beauty desk with her right head she noticed something that she completely forgot about until that very moment.  She sat up on her bed in realization.

It was the box containing the two heart necklaces.  

“I completely forgot about those,” said Amanda with both heads, intrigued and berated herself that she completely forgetting about them for the past month.

Standing up from her bed, Amanda walked over to the box and opened it, exposing the two necklaces.  

Picking up the red one first, Amanda took a god look at it and figured it may look good on her right head.  So, she placed the necklace on her right neck.  Next, Amanda took out the blue necklace and put it on her left head’s neck.  

She then walked over to her beauty stand mirror and looked at herself with the two necklaces.  

Smiling with both heads, Amanda thought the necklaces looked great on her.  Thoughts of wearing them to school and socially crossed her mind.  

Suddenly, Amanda felt her body start to pull away from itself, as if it was wanting to run away from both sides of itself.  

“Oh, No!’ said Amanda.  ‘It feels like the day I gained two heads.  My body is starting to split apart.”

Her body start to gain girth and spread apart.  Amanda screamed in terror, not knowing how to react to her body spreading apart.  

Within thirty seconds her torso split apart as well as her legs split from two legs to four.  Her hips still were joined as one.  Amanda, as scared as she was, tried to focused on what happening to her without continuing to panic.  Her body continued to break into two different bodies.  

Amanda couldn’t take it.  She Screamed in panic as she watched her body continued to split.  Within another thirty seconds two different, yet the exact copy of each other, bodies emerged from Amanda’s one body.  

Seconds past and all Amanda could do was to look at her changes that were happening to her body.  Quickly, her body split into two.  Within, three minutes her body split into two complete bodies.  

Amanda, both mouths agape, looked at herself.  The two separate bodies with one head each.  With that, Amanda looked a herself as two individual bodies yet she saw herself as one with two different points of views.  It was complete anarchy in her point of view.  One mind was trying to comprehend seeing from two points of view.  

“Oh My God!!!” said both Amanda’s as they looked at each other as individuals.