My New Life

Chapter 2

I woke up feeling energized but deep inside there was a whiff of nervousness that threatened to tear me apart.

As I scrubbed the sleep out of my eyes, a doctor dressed in his usual blue attire with a stethoscope around his neck came into the room. I stiffened myself, ready for the news I'd been desperately waiting for.

"How do you feel Miss Julia?" The doctor asked me, looking at a notebook in his hand.

I found my cheeks getting warm. I thought that the doctor was quite handsome. He had lush dark hair framing his perfect face and his cheekbones made all his features seem so perfect. But what seemed to attract me was his deep blue eyes, as blue as the deep ocean.

I shrugged the thought off as quickly as it had come into my mind. It was wrong to think like that about someone who took care of me for God knows how long. Maybe I was thinking like that because I hadn't seen a man for so many years or maybe he was really very handsome, but that was definitely not the right time.

"I'm quite good" I said, coming back to reality as he took my hand to check my pulse.

"Great, you are ready to go" he said in a formal way as he motioned a nurse to go to fetch my discharge papers.

A smile formed on my face before quickly fading as I realised that I was all alone in this enormous alien world. I had nowhere to go, no money to live and no plan on what to do.

"Here they are" The doctor presented me some sheets of paper which I was supposed to sign.

I looked at the paper for quite a long time without moving an inch. Thousand of thoughts wandered in my head and I couldn't shrug them off no matter how hard I tried.

"Miss?" The doctor said, not even trying to hide his impatience. I took the pen he was holding and quickly completed all the formalities.

I had no family and no friends so the place where someone had to sign for me remained blank. That straight blank line looked like a line of death for me, like the line that showed on the monitor when a person's heart stopped.

My bag was already packed. I didn't have a lot of things anyway. I had my parent's belongings which consisted of my mom's jewelleries, my dad's watch and wallet and my mom's purse.

I looked one last time at the hospital before making my way to the new world.

"Hey you forgot these" Someone called behind me.

I looked back to see a beautiful plump nurse coming towards me. In her hands was a gold ring which I recognised belonged to my mom. A tear dropped on my face as I saw the locket she was holding. It was the locket I had since birth. A locket that had a picture of me with my parents. I wiped the stray tear quickly and thanked the nurse before finally leaving the place.

A cool breeze engulfed me as I stepped into the open air. I took a deep breath, my brain recognising all the sweet scent of the flowers as well as the suffocating fumes of the cars speeding down the road. I took a moment to look around before deciding to continue on this new journey.

I thought of getting into a taxi but quickly realised that I didn't have any money. It was quite far to go by foot and the only option left was to sell the gold ring the nurse just gave me.

"I know it's worth more than that" I said to the jeweller in an irritated voice.

"You want the money or not?" He said in a higher tone, guessing how much I needed the money.

"Fine" I said in a low voice as I took the cash in exchange for the precious ring, agreeing to make a huge loss because I didn't have any other option.

I finally took a taxi and asked the driver to drop me to my destination. As we drove along, I caught the driver's amused face from seeing my amazement through the front view mirror. But I didn't care as I was quite surprised at all the changes around me. I looked curiously at the tall buildings that I had never seen before, at all the new infrastructures and all the new developments around me. The world no longer remains the green fuzzy place I used to know. It's hard to even find a garden among all the colourful houses so close together.