More Than Felix Bargained For

The sound of the shower slipped into Felix's dreams, causing him to stir slightly. His eyes opened slowly at the familiar noise and he turned around, groaning when he felt how sore his body was.

"Fuck!" He uttered as he slowly rose up from the sheets. "I'm too old for this shit."

He stretched painfully and looked at the closed bathroom door. "Honey?" He called.

"I'll be out in a minute, dear!" A voice replied from the other side; Mia's voice.

Felix felt a wave of adrenaline run through him as he recalled what happened last night. He had fallen asleep with both women still under the effects of his instructions.

"Where is Emilia?" He asked the young student with a worried look on his face.

"What?" Mia shouted from inside the shower. "I'm in here! Just give me a minute!"

Felix quickly put on some clothes and left the room, searching for his wife through the entire house. She wasn't anywhere to be found. He got back to the bedroom and found a confused Mia attempting to put on some of Emilia's clothes.

"Did I lose some weight?" She asked while she struggled to pull on a skirt that was way too large for her.

Felix didn't reply, grabbing his phone in his pants pocket and calling Emilia straight away. Her phone started ringing a few feet away, on her side of the bed.

"Why are you calling me?" Mia inquired as she took the phone and stared at its screen. "What's going on?"

"Fuck!" Felix whispered loudly, shaking his head.

Mia got closer and attempted to wrap her arms around him but he pushed her away, only making her more confused. "Dear... Are you okay?"

*SNAP*

Felix watched as the young girl froze and opened her mouth before dropping the smartphone on the carpet.

"Mia, listen!" He said urgently as she stared into the void. "You will forget everything that happened after your father left yesterday."

"I'll forget everything that happened after my father left..." She repeated numbly.

"You will be Mia again."

"I'll be Mia again..."

"You will stop following all the instructions I gave you."

"I'll stop following your instructions..." She nodded.

"You will remember that you stayed in your room the entire day, had dinner with us then went to bed. Understood?"

"Yes..."

"You will stay in the house today. You want to stay in the house." He explained.

"I'll stay in the house... I want to stay..."

"Good!" He answered, relieved. "Now can you walk to your bedroom and wake up there?"

"Yes..." She replied in a flat tone.

"Do it!"

He watched as she left the bedroom slowly and made her way back into her own room. The oversized skirt she had attempted to put on slipped and fell to the floor before she reached the hallway, leaving her totally naked as she stepped through the door.

Felix rubbed his temples as he tried to figure out where his wife might have gone. She was probably still convinced that she was Mia. However that didn't really provide him with any clues about her whereabouts since she didn't actually know much about the real Mia and would therefore make up most of the details of her life. Suddenly, he heard a knock.

Mia was standing behind the door, wearing pajamas and looking confused once again. "Sorry... Mr. Peterson?" She asked.

"Yes?" He replied, smiling weakly at her.

"Erm I'm sorry but have you seen my phone?" She inquired while staring at his face intently.

"Your phone? I haven't seen your phone..." He said absentmindedly before slapping his forehead as he realized what must've happened. "Fuck!"

"What?" The young girl muttered nervously as Felix quickly grabbed his wallet and keys from his nightstand and ran into the hallway to put his shoes on. "Is everything alright?" Mia asked as he opened the front door and left in a hurry.

"I'll be right back!" He shouted right before closing the door.

Outside, Mia's car was missing.

This was a nightmare, he thought as he drove around the neighborhood hoping to find his wife just wandering nearby. He tried to call Mia's phone for the fifth time but once again she did not answer. His heart pounded in his chest with every turn of the wheel until suddenly, an idea popped up inside his head like a bright flashlight shining in his mind. It was Monday! What would someone pretending to be a student do on a Monday morning?

He quickly typed 'Caldon University' on Google Maps and put his phone on its stand in front of him. On the way there, Mia sent him a message asking him where the hell her car was. Then his boss tried to call him a couple times, probably wondering where he was, and then Emilia's phone rang a couple times as well, her own boss no doubt worried about her whereabouts too.

Felix ignored the call and drove as fast as he could to the Campus, parking beside some other cars and rushing inside toward the Administration building. Students stared at him as he ran around, looking for his wife. He would stop some of them and show them a picture of her, asking if they'd seen her but all of them either shook their heads or laughed at him. However, after twenty minutes of running around, he noticed a crowd of curious people gathered around two police officers and... his screaming wife, wearing one of Mia's dresses.

"Let me go!!" Emilia shouted furiously as the cops restrained her. "I told you! I'm a student here!"

"Ma'am..." One of the officers, a tall black man, said. "The teacher told us he's never seen you before and that you were pretending to be someone else."

"But I am Mia Jackson! For the love of god!" She insisted as the other officer, a young brunette with a ponytail, put some handcuffs on her wrists "The students told us you're not Ms. Jackson, so quit it now!"

"But I am!!" Emilia screamed in frustration.

Felix pushed through the crowd and jumped in front of the officers, his arms outstretched towards his wife.

"Step away, sir!" The tall policeman ordered firmly.

"She's my wife!" Felix explained. "I've been looking for her all morning! She's unwell!"

"Is that your husband?" The brunette asked Emilia.

"What?" Felix's wife responded while still struggling to free herself. "That's Mr. Peterson! My landlord!"

Her husband groaned and pulled out his phone, quickly looking through his gallery and turning the screen toward the officers.

"Look! That's us in front of the altar, alright?" He said pointing at the image. "She IS my wife and as I said she's unwell."

Both officers exchanged looks then turned their attention back to Emilia who was still struggling against them.

"Alright, sir." The man finally said with a sigh. "Do you have a car nearby? I'm not letting your wife go until I'm sure you can take her back with you safely. We just spent half an hour chasing her through the entire campus."

"I'm parked over there." Felix indicated. They moved to the parking lot and **** Emilia to climb inside her husband's car before uncuffing her.

"Please keep a better eye on her next time." They finally instructed him before leaving him alone with her in his vehicle.

"What the fuck is going on?" His wife shouted from the back of the car.

*SNAP*