0:00 i'd just finished my shift and was walking out of the coffee shop to head home when i suddenly heard a voice say hi are you katherine mill oh what else i'm exhausted already i reluctantly turned around to a view that almost made me leap out of my skin standing in front of me was a girl with a face exactly like mine who who are you i stammered i felt like i was seeing things she smiled at me and said i'm tracy is this wallet yours oh wow you found it i dropped it at the seattle mariners baseball game i never thought i'd see it again that's right we met there then tracy took out a cap
0:46 and put it on hang on that hat seemed so familiar and so did that smile um are you the one i accidentally bumped into at the stadium that must have been when i dropped my wallet i was in such a hurry to get to my seat that i'd gone crashing into tracy at the time she was wearing that cap so all i saw was her smile but now seeing her standing here it was like looking in the mirror i kept staring at her as she said yep that was me in fact i came to find you not just to return your wallet but because i need a favor can we chat for a sec um sure let's go back inside the cafe what favor could she possibly want
1:32 well i was about to find out catherine i'm just going to say it outright we have something in common don't we i hesitated to speak up but i knew exactly what she was talking about she then continued i mean look at us you're basically my doppelganger which brings me to this favor to ask for kathy i was hoping you'd impersonate me i'll pay you of course i'll pay you a lot before i could even reply tracy handed me an envelope and showed me a photo of some very posh looking people this is my family she said wait what turns out they were royals or something close too her grandfather had been an earl in the
2:19 uk and then they'd moved over here to washington they're what you'd call an aristocratic family so yup mega wealthy must be nice i thought however it was suffocating tracy and that all of the duties that came with being from a family of nobility drove her crazy plus one other little problem she was in love with a guy that her family definitely wouldn't approve of because he came from a normal family her parents had arranged for her to marry the son of one of the country's richest ceos and so that's what led us to now she wanted to hire me to pretend to be her so that she could be with her lover boy without troubles i was stunned what if someone finds out
3:04 i muttered and shoved the envelope back into her hands saying that it was too much money but tracy just laughed oh this is just the initial payment you'll receive so much more please i'm begging you think about it then she looked at me with proper sadness in her eyes i really did feel sorry for her but i needed some time and it would be better to get my mom's opinion on this first ever since i'd been a little girl i'd always talked things through with her she was the only family i had and the only one i could trust and rely on mom would know what to do when i got home i found my mom waiting for me at the table we ate dinner together in silence as i could barely
3:49 focus she knew something was up right away honey what happened at work i hesitated then handed her the photo of tracy's family my mom as you can guess was shocked to see how much tracy looked like me and so i told her what had gone down earlier i explained that she offered me a ton of money to impersonate her but that it felt risky i'd assumed my mom would be deadset against it but what she said surprised me that poor girl indeed how people always say it's not as fun as it looks being too wealthy but hey a bit of extra money in your pocket couldn't hurt i mean you could use it to pay for your vocal training and at the same time you'd help tracy so that she can be with
4:36 her true love yeah becoming a singer had been a lifelong dream of mine but because of money struggles i'd had to put that aside mom's right this was my chance i had to take it so i called tracy to seal the deal she was over the moon about it and we arranged to meet the next day to start preparing i thought i'd just have to learn all of her favorite things and maybe borrow some of her clothes so that i didn't get caught out but no there was a whole lot more to it than that for starters i had to take etiquette classes can you even believe that first day i had lessons on how to walk properly they legitimately did put books on my head to improve my posture and then came the elocution lessons to
5:23 teach me how to speak more clearly seriously was this princess diaries or what but the best part though was her wardrobe wow her outfits were to die for now that's what gave me the urge to dive into the royal life now everything was going well until we sat down to go through all of her likes and dislikes her dislikes were about a mile long oh man tracy was one fussy girl i mean who didn't like pizza i basically lived off the stuff plus she was vegan gluten-free and had a nut allergy what did she even eat but despite that we got through the week every morning i had my etiquette classes
6:09 which now were easy peasy i could totally pull it off as a high society girl and then in the afternoons i hung with tracy and learned everything i could about her by the end of the week we got all things set and ready for the swap so tracy and i went out to celebrate katherine look at our faces she said while squinting her eyes i took a closer look at the phone screen and gotta admit despite being pretty identical there were still some differences between us sure her cheekbones were more prominent and her nose was slightly upturned but with a bit of makeup i could fix that right tracy wasn't convinced though listen i think you're going to need to get plastic surgery
6:56 wait i wasn't ready for any of that but on second thought i guess that would be alright as it'd only make me prettier which would totally help with my singing career so i went under the knife not only my nose and cheekbones were fixed but they also added a birthmark to my shoulder to match the one tracy had i looked like an egyptian mummy with all my bandages on coming out of the operating room but when the day came to remove them i was amazed just a little touch-up could make me look this incredible i twirled around in front of the mirror in one of tracy's glitzy dresses and just smiled we were totally going to pull this off tracy was even more excited than me she turned to me and said
7:42 ready for the family party wow so my first mission had arrived already i nervously looked at tracy and she just giggled and said oh don't be nervous it's just my cousin's baby's first birthday party no big deal although thomas's whole family will be there that's the family i meant to marry into okay now i was even more worried tracy told me to simply do what i learned in the classes as for thomas she instructed me to just ignore him as that's what she usually did he was used to the cold shoulder well the moment i arrived at the party i was already so overwhelmed i couldn't believe my eyes her cousin's house was
8:27 basically a palace with butlers and a grand staircase as you entered just like in the movies i almost had to pinch myself that i was even there as i walked in one of the butlers asked me to follow him through to the banquet hall a banquet hall how insane there were crystal chandeliers hanging from every part of the ceiling and the room looked like it was literally made from gold i noticed tracy's dad standing in the middle of the room with a young couple and a baby that would be tracy's cousin and the baby was obviously the reason this insane party had been thrown i took a deep breath gathered myself and walked towards them in the way my etiquette teacher had taught me i greeted them casually and it seemed no one sensed anything weird not even
9:14 tracy's dad however i was still afraid someone would realize so i grabbed a glass of wine and went to stand in the corner just to be safe while i was fiddling with the glass and trying not to make eye contact with anyone a guy came up to me and clinked my glass oh boy the coolest most handsome guy ever was standing there grinning at me i smiled back at him politely trying not to blush and then i realized wasn't he thomas and tracy the happy couple suddenly i heard tracy's dad from a few feet away speaking towards us you two look exquisite together be good to him now tracy won't you yep it's thomas the fiance that tracy
10:02 doesn't like it all okay so i need to act cold towards him otherwise i'll ruin everything for tracy but heck he was just so good looking i quickly walked away towards the desert table and started stuffing my face with some almond cookies anything to distract myself from thomas as i picked up a third one i heard thomas scream and the next moment he was running over to me shouting tracy put it down there are nuts in those i dropped the cookie in shock right i was supposed to be allergic to these delicious snacks totally forgot that gosh i turned around to see all eyes were on me this was a disaster
10:48 i was like a deer in the headlights didn't know what else to do i pretended to faint thomas immediately carried me somewhere while others called the family doctor i only took a peek when i felt like i was let down on a bed and wow even their guest room is gorgeous anyway the doctor did some quick checkup and said i was okay well obviously then thomas rushed over holding my hand and kept saying thank god you're okay baby really how come tracy didn't like him he was so sweet he was looking at me so lovingly wait at tracy actually oh boy this was getting weird guess i have started off this mission on the wrong foot but having that first
11:35 incident actually helped me become more careful so i've been getting better and better at playing tracy i was like a secret agent that would be summoned by duty at any sec sometimes you'd find me as a princess other times i'd be waiting tables my life was getting busier but much more fun in some senses then one day tracy suddenly appeared at my door looking all loved up how strange it was usually she only contacted me over the phone then she said kathy i have a big mission for you as she sat down she put a bulging envelope on the table and said kathy sweetie i need a big favor this time so here's the thing me and arnold are going to asia for a
12:20 month and um i was wondering if you could maybe move into my house and cover for me i was shocked a month um that's quite a long time i mean surely i'll get caught oh i'm not sure tracy i tried to avoid her eye contact but she kept begging and looking like she was about to cry oh god what should i do guys please give me some advice and stay tuned i'll be back with part two to tell you how things go down why do i have uneasy feelings about all this
