Into the Stars: Pneuma

“Put your loving hand out, baby” Playing “Beggin’ by Maneskin” E’s POV I woke up with maneskin’s song again and it’s my third time by the way. It’s my third day in this ES body, ES means empty shell or soulless body. This kind of body can live without soul but can’t feel emotions or anything. The memories they spent as an ES are stored inside the body for us pneuma to pick up. I got up, turn off the alarm and walk straight to the bathroom. I admit this new body is kinda rich. A bathtub next to a shower with glass and walls covered with a neutral paint that really looks like a high end hotel bathroom. My room got a really large space with a big bed, a balcony, a mini living room, and a walk in closet with a huge amount of clothes. They way I said huge amount of clothes is not exaggeration. It has a mirror wall, carpet floor, a glass container in the middle for watches and accessories and tons of clothes. By the way I’m in a girl college student body and of course I need to go to school too. Just like what I said earlier we pneuma pick up their memories and that means we pick up everything they do too. My body right now automatically moves like how it moves before (as an empty shell). I can just adjust things about things body little by little. I got out of my room and go downstairs. As I go down I’m hearing a woman and a man talking, they are my mom and dad drinking tea. The parents of this body are pure humans which means they are born with souls already. If we are talking about luck, they got all of it. I waved at them and smile. “Hi sweetie have a great day” mom said while my dad just smiled at me My body automatically went in front of them kissed them both on their cheeks. “See you mom dad” I said while getting my car keys. I told you this family is wealthy and yes I have my own car. A handsome 4 door Billet Silver Metallic Clear-Coat Jeep Wrangler. It’s just a 20 minutes drive to the school and I still have 30 more minutes to spare. In that case I’ll stick with my own routine as a pneuma and I’ll introduce myself now. Hi I’m E, I just randomly named it for myself. I belong to a group called pneuma, sounds like human lol but we’re not like them. Our goal as pneuma is to enter empty shells and look for our matched body. —Pneuma, a Greek word means breath, a vital spirit or a lost souls. We bring life to empty shells. Pneuma got the emotions and the ability to feel something. The longest time I’ve been in a body is 10 days and the shortest is 5 hours. Yes 5 hours it’s really possible. I just woke up and eat then I passed out at the house and woke up in different body. Amazing right? But also kinda tiring. As far as I remember I already entered 41 body before and this is my 42nd body entered. I’m on my way to the library where I hid something that belongs to me. While walking I noticed there’s a lot of pneuma here too and Because I’m an experienced pneuma I can easily distinguish if the person in front of me is a pure human, a newbie pneuma or expert pneuma. * newbie - looks awkward and also I can sense their aura (an aura of unfamiliarity) * experts - we also got this aura of confidence and as an expert pneuma too I can sense it right away. I found this book a long long time ago at this library. It’s an empty navy blue book without a title or anything inside that’s why I used it. Pure humans called it diary where I can write everything I want inside. The door open automatically as I stand in front of the library. I went straight to that hall for historical section. My book is at the top of the shelf, it doesn’t have a title at the side and looks really boring so I’m not worried that humans might get it. *ring ring ring Before I got in front of the book shelves my phone rings. It’s her friend Trisha, a pure human. “Hey where are you??” I can hear her yelling at the other line. “Oh I’m at the library” no I’m not like this it’s just that this empty shell used to have no emotions I can’t just give her emotions in just one day,, pure humans around her may notice it too so I need to be careful. “Geez Jastine you really are something. You didn’t receive my messages last night?” My gosh she’s still yelling. My ears will bled out. By the way this girl is named, Jastine. I looked to my messages and saw tons of messages on my notification bar. “Jastine meet me at the park before class” “Hey are you sleeping already” “Geez Jastine wake up” I didn’t see this last night haha my bad. “Sorry didn’t see your messages last night, I’m on my way” I said as I hang up the phone. I don’t want to engage myself to pure human just because I’m in Jastine’s body because the possibility of claiming this body as my own has less than 20 percent. Plus engaging with pure humans when I’m in a shell might get me in trouble in the future. I’m heading out of the library and walks to the park. I didn’t mention that this library is just in front of our school. 65 percent of the shells or body that I have entered are going in this school but after they got occupied (means owned) by a pneuma the past pneuma will forgets the face of that shell. For privacy purposes maybe. “At last you’re here” I saw Trisha in her skirt and white top sitting at the bench near a tree. She’s with some boys who looks unfamiliar to me. I’m still searching inside Jastine’s memories and she doesn’t now them at all. “Yeah,” I answered quietly as I look at the unfamiliar faces. “Oh I forgot to introduce them to you” Trisha said while smiling at us while I’m still waiting for her to talk. “This is Tristan, Mark and Dan, I met them at class yesterday and they said they want to meet you” she’s still excited while telling the story. As an expert pneuma I can sense them. Yes they are one of the luckiest living being which are the pure human. And I can also sense that they know that Jastine is a rich a*s kid. “Nice to meet you. I’m Jastine” I said while trying to smile I can only think four words while I’m smiling at them awkwardly. I. DON’T. LIKE. THEM. Two minutes have passed and the atmosphere is really awkward. I tried to think hard to save Jastine from this situation. I look at my watch and it’s already time for our class “Trisha” I silently call her and poke at her side “we need to go to our class” I whisper at her. I saw Trisha look at her phone “ sorry boys we have to go. Our class is about to start” “Oh okay” said that Tristan blonde guy. “See you again later. I’ll text you” that mark small guy said. Trisha just waved at them while I’m dragging her away. Gosh this girl need to be alert. I think Trisha is also a rich kid just like Jastine and they need to think wise before meeting with that kind of guys. Everybody has an eye to a rich kid like Jastine especially because they look innocent and easy to take advantage of. Even me pneuma, it would be really advantage for me to own this body. She have a perfect life that everybody wants. She got a pure human and a super wealthy parents. They live in a elegant styled house filled with columns and chandeliers. She also owned a handsome wrangler and entered a prestigious school for college. Isn’t that amazing? But I should not get my hopes up so much. I don’t want to get disappointed if I wake up in another body tomorrow. As we enter the room, I saw it filled with new faces maybe because it’s the start of a new semester. Jastine is an fine art student sculpture major Maybe you are wondering how an empty shell decides what to choose about their lives. In this world we believe that everything is planned already by almighty, the creator of all being. He already planned something on that human so even he or she is an empty shell, they surely have purpose as a human being. Pure humans says almighty is perfect but as they praise him they didn’t know that even that perfect person can also create a huge mistake. We, the pneumas, he made a mistake and didn’t put us souls to its matched body. He failed to do that and now we are classified as lost souls. If he didn’t made that mistake everybody should be all pure humans. The world can become better if all humans understand each other, if all human got their souls. I don’t know everything but I blame him for that mistake. The teacher starts talking while Trisha is still at her phone texting someone. We sat near the window, my favorite spot in the class. Sorry Jastine but I don’t like to pay attention to the class. Maybe this is the only part that I hate whenever I enter a shell, the moment that we need to use my brain at class. Because our goal is to find our match empty shells and not to waste time learning. I just stares at the sky outside when I remembered something I opened my bag and get my phone. I switched the browser in to private so no one can trace what I am doing. I go to this site and I logged in my account as E. I forgot to mention that I have a group of pneuma friends and they found a way for us to talk to each other even we change shells. As I opened my account the message notifications starts to blow up. Maybe they’re wondering why I’m not responding back hahaha. “Hey E where are you it’s already 12 PM” “Don’t tell me you’ve got your own body hahhh!!!” I laugh silently as I read their messages. They were really worried about me. There are 5 members at this group chat including me Members: First is “E” ( that’s me, I am the one who put us all together) Next is “One” ( I met him/her from my 25th body, I noticed right away that s/he is a pneuma). We became friends and close with each other since then. One is the tech guy who made this group chat for all of us. Because of this we all got our safe place to talk about ourselves. I use he or she because we don’t have given gender. No one knows what our gender was. We will only know it once we got our body. Third is “Jin” they got that name from a famous boy group member. I met him while he/she is struggling at being a newbie pneuma. Since pure human doesn’t know anything about pneuma and empty shells, we should keep it like that to prevent chaos. Jin almost told his pure humans parents everything about pneuma while they are at a mall. Even though they won’t believe jin’s story I still pretend to be jin’s classmate and dragged jin at the corner. Jin cried to me and believe me I know how it felt. I comforted Jin and answered every question he/she have. Fourth is “Lee” I don’t know who named Lee but I just call him/her like that. Lee said that name sounds rich and also his her goal is to be rich. I met Lee after I met jin at the mall. Lee overheard everything we talk about that’s why Lee approached us both and became a friends. Lee is so caring about us. Lee always check each us every time sometime he she even meet us in person especially when that person have a problem. The last member is “Z” the last letter of the alphabet. Z and I met when we are still a newbie. Together we find answer to our questions about ourselves, about pneuma and where we belong. In short I met Z since I entered my first shell. Don’t get me wrong. Starting as a newbie pneuma is really hard especially when no one is beside me. We don’t start with an orientation of what we are just like how students starts their school. Pneuma just woke up as pneuma that’s all period. Remembering everything about my friends makes me feel happy. Having a thought like this on my mind as E makes me feel like I have my own life. It kinda gives a feeling of being a pure human. “Hey I’m still alive” I sent my response. I saw them read it immediately “E you freak us out!!!” Jin replied “We thought you already got your own body,, well it will be nice to have one but how about us here!!!” Lee’s long message About what Lee said, that moment we claimed a shell as our own, our memories as a pneuma will be gone. That is why they freak out earlier when I didn’t message them. When someone is not messaging back in this group chat in 24 hours it just mean one of us got a body. After getting a body they’ll forgot everything and also this account that we have. “Nah, having a body might take forever to achieve” I replied. But yes it’s true, is it really possible for us to got one. “ a like emoji “ - One One always just read messages he she doesn’t like to respond or type anything. “ nice one you really are a good talker” - z said I saw the teacher and it looks like the class is going to end soon. I should get ready to go out now. Our next class will start later at 7:00 pm and I have tons of time to waste. “Okay bye guys I need to go” - i replied at our group chat I cleaned up my table as the teacher end the discussion. “Hey Jastine come with me” - Trisha tapped me at the back then she dragged me out of the room Oh my where are we going now. I really have no energy to spend at anything. “Tristan ask me to meet them up at the cafe. Let’s go. ” Trisha smiling while dragging me She really like this kind of thing, such as dating. While walking I’m still thinking how I’ll stop this meeting. Now we are waiting for the traffic light to turn green. I saw a mud puddle at the road near us and I got a really good idea. I saw this group of big bike squad coming from the other side of the road. I look at Trisha and she’s still glued at her phone. I called her “Trisha!!!” The group of bikers drives fast while passing the mud puddle near us. I grabbed Trisha’s shoulders and hide behind her from the dirt splashing to us. Haha I won Now Trisha’s top is filled with mud from the splash and she’s still not moving. “OMG!!!!! What should I do??” She screamed I’m still trying not to laugh and be a nice friend even if I planned this to her. She didn’t even noticed that I pulled her to protect myself because her focus was on her phone. “Trisha you should go home now. Just message Tristan and his friends that we couldn’t make it” I said in a persuasive tone. I hope this works. * Fingers crossed * She didn’t speak and raise her hand. I saw her calling at the taxi coming near us. Yes it worked. I think she left her car at the school parking lot. She might be embarrassed to walk here to the parking so she’ll just ride a taxi. “Okay I’ll message them and you Jastine wait for me at our next class, okay??” She said while opening the car door I just smiled at her and stares at the taxi until it is gone. I felt guilty for doing that to her but I did this for this two pure human best friends. They should not meet boys like that and this is the only thing I can do for them, to drive them away from those kind of human. Thank goodness I’m alone again. This time I can freely go to the library to get my book. Wait a blue hoodie guy walking in front of me dropped something. I picked it up and it’s a school ID. Silver Valley University? He’s from our school and also a pure human. I run and tried to call him. “Hey blue guy” I said as I reached his shoulder He stopped and turn around to face me. Oh he got a pretty face, another lucky human that gets it all, being pure and being handsome. “You dropped this” I speak again as I show him his ID. He grabbed the thing on my hand and said “thanks” with a slight smile at his face. What was that? That’s it? Well I’m not saying I want to talk to him longer. Ugh never mind plus he looks like he’s in a hurry. At last I’m in front of the library again. Actually it’s really near from where I came from but Jastine’s body just don’t like to walk fast so I almost spent 30 minutes just by walking. The door automatically opened again and the cool air from the room touches my exhausted self. This library have a huge space for everyone. As you enter people will see a information desk with 5 librarians. At the back of the information desk is 20 long tables, 10 at the right and 10 at the left. The tables has lamps each sides. The atmosphere inside the library is really nice especially when reading. The tables are surrounded with tons of book shelves. It almost look like a vintage church with old chandeliers gray brown and black colors and the smells of books. Now it’s my time to get my book I walk straight to the historical section. Why I choose that section? Because students here doesn’t like history, history books are filled with boring stuffs and filled with word, in short no one really go here to find book. That one the second to the last shelf at the right side of the library. Wait. Hoodie guy? He’s in front of my book shelf right now. Oh my gosh I can’t get it in front of him, I don’t want to get caught. By the way what are he doing at this section. Doesn’t he feel sleepy just by looking at the book titles? My mind suddenly flashed the information I saw at his ID “Silver Valley University, A Name that I don’t remember, 2nd Year College, history major” History major? Is that even exist? Gosh this guy has a lot of time in his hands I’m still waiting for him to finish and he’s still looking for a book. I sat at the corner of the shelf waiting him to finish picking After 5 mins I think he decided to pick a book. Wait why he doesn’t have a book on his hands. He’s walking towards the other edge of the shelf and grabbed the sliding ladder. He’s a tall guy with an average body that suits his height. He climbed three steps up to get my book. WAIT MY BOOK WHY IS HE GETTING MY BOOK I started to panic and don’t know how to move. I got up and tried to run as fast as I can to grab the book from his hand. While running I felt my head spinning and lost all the energy I have. My body starts to melt down. My body dropped at the floor and I saw him running towards me. I passed out And my book is gone. —————— Thank you for reading my first ep. Please don’t cringe with my grammatical mistakes. I hope you like this story and I’ll be happy to write more episodes for you —Vante