HYEORAEK

THE BEGINNING

"How are her vitals?" A baritone voice asked.

"Normal, Doc," a sweet female voice replied.

I slowly opened my eyes only to find myself looking up at a plain white ceiling with two familiar faces in front of me.

What am I doing here?

When I looked down at my clothes, which had been changed into a hospital gown, they were white, just like the colors in my surroundings. Oh, yes. I recall now.

"Welcome back, Nurse Gordon! Mabuti naman at nagising ka na," greeted a nurse on my left. When I finally recognized her, I just looked at her and nodded quickly. She smiled again and moved her gaze up to my right side. "I'm going to leave you here now, Doc and Nurse Gordon. Pagaling ka, Nurse!" She cheered me up again.

When she finally exits the room, I turn to face the man on my left. He's looking over my medications on my table.

"How's it going?" I asked in a low tone of voice. Medyo paos pa ako kaya hindi ko alam kung narinig niya ako.

He drew his brows together and looked down at my face.

"Case?" he asked, perplexed. I simply give him my bored expression, and when he realizes what I mean, he immediately scoffed and looked at me with his unbelievable expression. "Hindi ka rin ba tumitigil sa pag-iimbestiga mo?" he inquired.

"What do you think?" I replied him with a question.

"Look, Ms. Gordon, your case was already closed 17 years ago, and they already proved that the dr-" he paused and gulped. He continued, but this time he's more careful with his words. "That the substance that was injected into you was proven to be unknown and unidentifiable; there is no way to know what was injected into you."

I know he has more to say, but he came to a halt and looked at me sympathetically.

"I'm sorry, Nurse Gordon; it's been a decade, and I think you should stop looking into your case that was dumped off years ago," he said again, and I glared at him. My reflexes were so quick that I didn't notice that I'm tightly holding his collar right now.

His eyes widen and the fear on his eyes was already reflecting on mine.

"You don't know what you're saying, Doc Lazariel. You don't even know what this thing did to make me turn into a different person," I gritted to him.

Nang hindi na siya nagsalita pa ay mabilis ko na siyang binitawan kaya hindi niya inaasahan ang malakas na pagbagsak niya sa sahig. I breathed hard and started to control my self. This is what I'm talking about. The harder I control myself the greater it's takes to conquer my body.

I have this extraordinary strength that nobody can beat.

I sighed deeply before biting my lower lip. I felt his gaze on me, so I quickly closed my eyes and gripped both sides of my sheet before he spoke.

"Leave."

He stood up and exited the room, leaving me alone. This isn't the first time someone has been scared because of me.

Ano pa bang bago?

This is me. This the curse I get when I get kidnapped and experimented by different chemicals and... dru--