I stared at my empty phone. I sat opposite it and spoke to it like I would a friend. Of course, it didn’t reply back, what was I thinking? Every beep and every slightest sound the phone would make made me jump up and open the phone in anticipation. What was I anticipating you may ask? I left Rick dozens and dozens of calls he was supposed to have returned but he didn’t return any. I even told him I was on the verge of dying but he still ignored me. How heartless could he be? Or maybe he knew I was definitely lying. Somebody tell me why I was sitting there and anticipating a call from somebody I knew wasn’t going to call me back. Speak of boredom. “Jane we’re going to be late!” My sister often yelled at my door just to get me to come out and go to the counselor. Oh, how I despised going to meet her. My mother never failed to meet her every month to update her on our life and get the best advice from her. She started doing that ever since my father died.She noticed she started making
“But mother, that’s my recent development at least for now. Or what did you want me to say to her?”What my mother did next, shocked me till this very day.She whacked me so hard across my face that left me seeing little stars. “Mom!” I yelled, holding my face with my left palm.“You don’t come in here and disrespect anyone like that, we’re all older than you and I didn’t teach you how to be disrespectful!” She yelled and I already had tears welling up in my eyes and anger filling my chest. I knew I had to leave.My flight to France wasn’t until two weeks and I planned to go to my best friend's place to stay till it was time for me to leave. I was tired of the toxic situation at home and extremely tired of having my mother over my neck at my decision that would affect my future, not hers.……………….“Jeez, are you okay?” I heard a voice as I slowly opened my eyes. My vision was blurry again and I looked around, noticing that I was still in the hospital, I groaned inwardly.“Get me out of
“You are here but this isn’t you. You’re half here and half of you is gone,” she said and it absolutely broke my heart.“When will I see Rick?”……………..“You’ll see him soon,” she responded and I nodded. I was waiting patiently, anticipating his arrival. I wondered how he looked now. I wondered if he still hated me or how we would react when we see each other. Well, my sister did say that we were on the verge of a divorce so I didn’t expect a nice, warm welcome either.“When will he be here? I mean, I’m so anxious to meet him,” I tucked my hair behind my ears and moved my hands slowly to my chest, my heart rate had increased and so has my breathing.“I’m right here baby,” I heard a voice coming from the door, I shifted my gaze from my sister to the door, and oh my days. “Rick?” I muttered to myself, moving my hands to my lips, I noticed they were chapped and dried. I tried adjusting myself to make sure I looked presentable to him but I already knew that no matter what I tried, I still
“I will not say a word about this until I have proof,” I said, folding my hands over my chest. She glared at me for a while before speaking.“I will show you proof.”………..“Here, look at that,” she said handing me her phone after she had been scrolling through for a couple of minutes. I wondered what it was she wanted to show me.I gasped when I saw the picture before me. It was a picture of my swollen and beaten-up face. I swiped and I saw more pictures and videos of different parts of my body where I had been bruised. Soon, my memory drifted back to when I was in the bathroom earlier that day. I did see some marks that I never noticed on my body. Little did I know that it was my husband who gave me those marks.I was stubborn, I still refused to believe because I loved him and needed him in my life. Or so I thought. “Trust me, Jane, you don’t want anything to do with that man,” my sister tried to convince but I obviously turned deaf ears. “I believe our marriage can still work,” I s
“Alright so just lay down right here. Take in deep breaths, and calm your mind. The doctor will be here soon,” the nurse said to me. She was making me lay down back flat on my bed. I did need to take deep breaths because I was a nervous wreck already.Her voice was already soothing enough and I took refuge in it while I relaxed my back. My head still hurt a little from all that thinking and remembering. I was glad there was a remedy for all of that. I knew Rick was lying to me about how we ended up. I wanted to know things for myself. I didn’t want even my sister to tell me what had happened because even if I confided in her, I was still the one who felt the pain. Nobody else can interpret the pain I felt but me. It was a roller coaster in my head.“I know that so many thoughts would be going on in your head right now,” the nurse smiled warmly at me. How did she do it? She must have really loved her job to actually spend her time being nice to patients. From my memory, while growing
“It’s your husband,” he whispered, frantically looking around to make sure no one was to hear us. “What about him?” I asked, confused at that point because it could mean anything.“Please ma’am, I wouldn’t want to lose my job here but then I don’t want to watch you suffer forever,” he pleaded and a thousand and one things started running through my mind. “Did my husband ask you to kill me?!” I snapped, raising my voice while he rushed to cover my mouth with his hands“Shhh,” he hushed me and I kept mute. “What’s going on?” I whispered back to him and he hesitated a moment before telling me what the problem was.“He paid me to do the opposite surgery. He wants me to take away your memory forever so you will have no knowledge of your past that you don’t already remember,” he said and I gasped. “How’s that possible? Rick would never do that,” I refused to believe that my husband would do that to me.Well, who was I kidding, from the information I gathered, our marriage was never rosy, to
“In love?” I gasped in shock staring at the doctor. “Well, I wouldn’t be surprised, Doctor. You have quite the body and I’ve been crushing on you since I got here,” I smirked and winked at him while he smiled back at me. “I will give the anesthesia now, you will be asleep in no time,” he smiled and I nodded. “I’m ready,” I said.He pressed a bell on the corner of the room to summon the nurses. The nurses rushed in and took me into the theatre. “Are you ready? Count down from 10,” the doctor said holding my hand while they injected something into me.“10, 9, 8, 7…” I counted and the more I went on, the heavier my eyes got. When I got to seven, my eyes closed shut.……….Throwback………“Hi, welcome to the most prestigious school in France. What’s your department?” A pretty lady with a beautiful smile tapped me from behind and when I turned around she was a rare gem. I had actually lost my way as I just got to France a few days before and decided to visit my school to start with the regist
……. Throwback Ends…….I was slowly coming back to life as I heard the beeping sounds of the machines and I felt something on my nose because I wasn’t breathing pure air. I tried to open my eyes and I had a terrible headache instantly. The headache shot through my entire body.Where was I? I pondered for a minute then remembered I had just gone through surgery. A surgery that was going to determine my fate in the nearest future.I finally opened my eyes and was welcomed by the blurry sight of bright light. I squinted my eyes as much as possible trying to avoid the light from burning my eyes.I looked to my side and saw a notebook then memories came flashing into my brain. I remembered how the doctor had given me that notebook and how I had written something down on it. I sat up carefully on my bed and reached for the notebook. When I read the content, my heart rate shot up. What if it didn’t work? Am I not supposed to start remembering things now? Let me try.I took in a deep breath a