The Curse Of Fate

Abandoned Home

The pain was overwhelming, my whole body felt like a cinderblock. Moving was something I couldn't do, only dream of when I opened my eyes to find myself in another hospital room.

As I hesitate to lift my hand up and press the red button on the wall, hearing the request through the speakers. Nurse, I repeat a nurse is called to room 109. The speaker confesses as I start to gag, choking on the tube in my throat.

"Stay calm!" The nurse says as she hears me and rushes into the room and I try to but my natural instinct is against it all. "Here you go" the nurse whispers to me as she unhooks the tube from my throat and I take a deep breathe as she runs to the machines as I grab my throat, trying to soothe the soreness. "It'll be sore for a while darling" the nurse says as I continue to lay in bed, feeling defeated.

"What happened?!" I hear someone ask the nurse as I try to look to see who the voice belonged to, hoping deep down inside it would be my mother.

"She woke up" the nurse informs the women as I try to sit up but I can't. "I'm paging the doctor now" the nurse says as I hear footsteps come closer to me.

"Mom?!" I murmur through a horse tone, calling out to the stranger that I hoped to be my mother.

"No, I'm not her" I hear as regret builds in my heart. "I'm Zela, your half sister" she admits as I see the look of hate for me in her eyes. As I just nod.

"Mom?" I call as my voice fails me and it only comes out as a whisper.

"Mom?" She ask me as she leans down to my eyes and chuckles. "She's dead, but lucky you!" She says as I can do nothing but cry in silence at her words. "You haven't missed the funeral" she taunts me as I sob quietly to myself, wishing she'd just stop.

"I'm Dr. Evans" I hear a man's voice as I sigh, wishing I would just simply disappear at this very moment. "I'm here to help you Francesca" I hear the man as I can't help but more tears trail down my cheeks and hit the pillow. "It might be hard to move so I'm going to give you this" the man says as I try not to look at the needle and instead my eyes find the ceiling. "That's it" the doctor says as I see him then lead Zela outside and I know this is my chance.

As I slowly, using all of my strength to lift my arm and I brace myself for the pain. I take the IV out of my arm and slide myself out of bed, my elbow bruised from the fall but I keep going. Slowly standing to my feet, I walk to the door as I wobble to the hallway and envisioning home, where my mom is.

"Nathaniel" I hear as I hide behind the wall. "You got yourself into another mess!" I hear a angry old man protest as I take a deep breath. "You are being discharged now, before you find yourself anymore trouble. We'll have to deal with that girl later" the angry man continues as I look around the wall and I see him.

My Nathaniel in a white shirt and black pants to match. He looked out of it. Did he remember? Was it all just a dream? Was I crazy? Maybe I wanted this to be a nightmare, have my mother back instead of him. Maybe any minute my world would appear and I wouldn't have to live on this nightmare anymore!
But suddenly as I turn around I bump into the wheel of someone, "I'm so sorry" I say as I finally look down to their face and I'm stunned!

"Don't worry dear" she says through her menacing grin, "Had to get your attention somehow" she says as she wheels closer to me and I back up against the wall, clutching to it with my fear.

"You lied! The curse is over! Nathaniel doesn't recall anything but I remember it all! You lied" I say as I bend over her wheel chair, thinking about choking her with my bare hands for her doings.

"I never lied, he doesn't remember" she says calm, ignoring the hostility in my eyes.

"YEAH! Don't you think I know that already!" I yell at her as she chuckles at my anger. "What about the five?" I ask her as she looks confused at my words.

"The five lives your meant to live?" She ask me as I nod. "The last is....." she says as she leads me in suspense with her words as I lean in more, our eyes meeting. "Is your own" she says as I collapse against the hospital wall at her words.

It was all too much! I hope that this nightmare was over, that as soon as it was everything would be normal for me again. Maybe Nathaniel would see me differently, the way he told me he always did! But, no! In the middle of the treacherous curse I lost the little I had, and the little I had to gain. And while I laid against the cold hospital wall I prayed it wouldn't leave me too, I couldn't take it for much longer.

"Nobody said the curse was easy!" She berates me as tears start to fall at the thought of losing Nathaniel and myself with him. And the only person that I want hear comforting me is my own mother, which only brings more tears at the thought of my deceased mother.

"I KNEW IT WASN'T GOING TO BE!!!! BUT I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE!!!" I scream at her as I look up and I notice that she's nowhere to be found and I realize that life was something that continued to get harder.

Mom always said that life would get harder then get better like it was meant to be but maybe she was wrong. Because crying on this hospital floor, alone and tired made me realize that maybe I should give up! Maybe it wasn't meant to be worth it in the end.

"She's here doctor!" I hear a woman yell as I continue to cry, calling out for my mother I wished was there, and ignoring everything else.

"Mom?!" I repeat through my watery eyes as I stay crying against the wall as I wish nothing more than for the sun to stop shining and the world to swallow me so I could be with my mother. For me to hear her soothing words again, to feel her hugs instead of this loneliness that surrounded me that I start to fear.

As I feel hands on me and I quickly shove them away, fighting with ever part of me that's left.

"SEDATE HER!" I hear them command as suddenly I feel a sharp pain in my neck as I slowly lose control of my body. And doze off into a deep sleep. As for once I just wish it would all end.