“Lucy!” was the first thing I heard out of the speaker when I rang the buzzer for unit 304. “Why didn't you text me when you got to the station? I would've picked you up.” I smiled. Just like Bekah to try to plan someone else's trip. “My phone died,” I told her. “Let me up. A long pause. Had she even heard me through my mask? I reached for the button again when the elevator doors opened and a tall, blonde woman in a loose tank top and jeans emerged and opened the door to the building for me. “You didn't have to- oh, hi-" I managed before my friend wrapped her arms around me in a huge embrace. “Did you take the tube all the way here? Oh, honey, I wish I'd known!” “It wasn't that bad,” I assured her, rolling my suitcase along into the building and up the elevator to the third floor. “Well, I got a car for a reason, which was so I would never have to hear some stinky teenager on the tube tell me that twins are hot ever again,” she said as she opened the door to her apartment. The
Magical Advice from Miss Made by thgiEytnewT, literature
Literature
Magical Advice from Miss Made
Dear Miss Made, My wife and I have been playing around with magic for as long as we've been together. Tomorrow is our anniversary, so I thought I'd surprise her with something new, but I wanted to practice ahead of time, to make sure I got it right. Today, while she was at work, I detached my head, like I've done a thousand times, and I tried to grow myself a replacement head. I was trying to make a duplicate of myself, so I could be in two places at the same time. Instead, I lost control of my body as soon as the new head appeared. I managed to grow a new body for myself, but now I had two of me to deal with. The other me still acts like me, and she has all my same memories, but we don't have the same mind. Which led to the rest of the problem. Since she was a different person from me, her ideas about how to fix the problem were different from mine. I tried my original experiment again, but this time I kept my consciousness in my body and grew a replacement head for myself. I grew