One Body Two Soul

3.

All my surroundings were covered with fog. There was just an ample amount of light around me which was from the moon above me. I was running around the place but couldn't find anyone here. But at a distance I see a girl standing in front of me with her back towards me.

"Who are you?"

The girl turns around and smiles at me. She walks towards me and places a hand on my chest. I was perplexed by her action.

"What are you doing? Who are you?"

She looks at my chest and then back at me. "Take care of him for me"

"What?"

She smiles and vanishes in a puff of smoke. I was confused, I turn around to look for her instead I come face to face with a man unknown to me. He was looking right at me with an expressionless face.

"Who are you now? Where did she go?"

He looks behind him at a distance and my eyes travel his sight. I find the girl standing in front of me with a smile waving back at me. Before I could guess what was going on, my surrounding changes and I was back at the hospital. I slowly open my eyes to the hospital lights and find a nurse checking my pulse monitor. She finds me awake and smiles.

"Where am I?"

"You just had a heart transplant Mr Wei. You are healthy now"

"Heart transplant? Was I sick?"

"Yes you were. No one knew about it until you were admitted yesterday after fainting. It was serious, so we had to do immediate surgery"

"Who was the donor?"

"I am sorry Mr Wei, it is confidential. The family of the donor do not want to be known"

"But___"

"I will call in your parents. If you feel discomfort you can press this button and an attending nurse will tend to you"

Before I could ask her more she walks away. My parents walk in crying happy tears. My best friend was also in the room and smiling sadly. My parents dismissed the question when I asked them about the donor.

I was back in my house after a month in the hospital. The visions I had every night haunted me. I always see a girl and a boy where the girl would tell me to take care of him. Is this the girl who was my donor? What happened to her? Who is she? Who is the man? Why did she decide to donate her heart? All these questions were running around my mind. I needed to find out who she was. I tried for so many days to ask my father about her but he wouldn't give me a single information. I even went out few times to talk to my friends to know if they knew about my donor. But no one had any idea. And as I was in the hospital my dad sold my favorite red mustang. I was so mad at him. He didn't even tell me why did he do it. He said it was getting old fashioned and he would buy me a new car which wasn't in the market yet. But it was my baby, still he should have atleast informed me about it.

One night I snuck out to my father's office and started to look for the information about the girl. I just needed the name and address. After a while I found a blue folder with 'Donor lists' name on it. As I opened the folder, I found nearly 20 people in the waiting list for the donor and my name was on the 21st. I then realized, my father paid money to the doctors and made me jump the line. I was disgusted. There were already 20 people on the line. But I knew that's how my parents worked things their way. Always solving the problems with money. On the next page, I found the name of the donor and address. I took a photo in my phone and sneaked out before anyone woke up and saw me in the office.

I immediately took my laptop and sat on my bed. I searched the girl's name and found an article about her death.

'Street racing ends up taking a life of a 20 year old Fei Hong, an active volunteering member. The car A•F0236 hit her around 3 :05 AM and escaped. The case was registered under Hit-n-Run case. The culprits are yet to be found. The girl was declared dead after reaching the hospital.'