WHAT IS MY NAME?

WEEKS EARLIER

Kim opened her eyes, closed them again, and began to recall the faces of some of the people closest to her. She remembered Ian, her mom, her sister Wendy, and her dad. She recalled how she got sick and how she died. Her eyes shot open again.

"Mom?" she asked.

She sat up and looked around. She was in a room and had been lying on a bed, and the sheets were white.

"Where am I? Is this the afterlife? Mom?" She called again.

"Ian?" But there was no reply.

Everywhere was quiet, and she couldn't understand why. She remembered that she had given up in the middle of the night. She had found it difficult to breathe, but couldn't say anything to Ian.

He was lying right beside her, and she was afraid that if she said anything to him, he would panic. Knowing that her death was imminent, she had closed her eyes and given in to the darkness.

Or could she have survived? She called out one more time, "Wendy, Ian, Dad, Mom. Who's there?"

Right at that moment, the door was opened and a t