Time Traveler

Chapter 18

Seon

"Is she going to be alright?" I heard my mother asking someone. I slowly fluttered open my eyes to not get blinded by the bright lights and as I was able to see, I saw her. Standing beside my bed, talking to a young blonde-haired nurse.

Mom? I mouthed but no words got out of my mouth. Why can't I speak? Nervous, I tried to move over to push the help button so they would see that I was awake, but I couldn't move my body.

My body started to heat up like I was in a sauna and I could feel sweat dripping down my back. Why? Why can't I move or speak? Am I in a coma and imagining things? I tried to scream and kick my legs but nothing happened. I was stuck, stuck in my own body.

Tears started to block my vision, I couldn't breathe well since snot had blocked up my nose from crying and I was sweating like crazy like my body was on fire. This can't be real. It just has to be a dream!

"Seon? Are you okay?" mother asked, I looked toward her only to see a blurry figure approaching me. "I'll wipe it for you darling," she said, taking out a napkin to gently pat dry my teary eyes.

"Here you go darling," she said, to which I slowly opened my eyes. She had squatted down next to me and was right at my eye level for us to look at each other face to face. "I'm so sorry that this happened to you. It was hard enough with your disease, but now I can never hear your voice again or hug you. Your body is paralyzed sweetie."

Everything in my head went completely blank. Everything surrounding me suddenly looked unreal and I could only hear this loud whistling that almost completely blocked my hearing. "Darling it's alright. I'll still visit you on your birthdays and maybe during Christmas too, but it's for the better if you stay here."

It took a couple of seconds to understand what she meant by saying that and then it hit me. My own mother was going to leave me to the hospital. She was going to leave her paralyzed daughter to the hospital so she wouldn't have to deal with me anymore.

I tried to yell and cuss at her but as before I was stuck. Angry tears filled my eyes but I was able to hold them back.

"I'm sorry darling but you are just too much to me," mother said coldly as she brushed her fingers through my hair. "Don't be mad at me. I'm doing this for us after all," she whispered as she stood up to leave.

"Don't worry she'll be in great hands," the doctor said walking up to us and I felt paralyzed once again as I saw her. She looked like Ji-ah but with a deformed face, her eyes were like black holes and there was flesh ripping down from her face. "Isn't it right Seon?"

I jerked up from my dream and almost screamed as I saw a strange man leaning over me. "I'm sorry if I scared you. Your pulse suddenly went up and I tried to wake you up to see if you were alright," he quickly explained and then helped me to sit up as I was struggling to do it myself.

"Have some water miss." He handed me a cup of water but my hands were too shaky to drink it myself so he took it from me and held the cup up to my mouth so I could drink some water.

It felt like I hadn't had anything to drink for days so I jogged down the water as fast as possible and asked for another one. "Here you go mi-" I grabbed the water before he could finish the sentence and jogged it down as fast as possible, choking on it before I managed to finish everything.

"Hey easy. I can always bring you another one," he said, trying to take the cup away from me, but I finished it before he could reach it. "Oh well, try being more careful next time miss," he said as he took the cup from me to fill it up again.

I took a closer look at him as he filled my cup with water again. He had light brown hair unlike any of my doctors and he looked way too young. Who is he?

"Mister, may I ask, who are you?" I asked to which he looked up, smiled, and stopped pouring water to offer me his hand for a handshake. Hesitatingly I took his hand and we shook hands. "I'm Doctor Callin, Mister Min's personal doctor. You collapsed yesterday evening and we were able to transform you here this morning," he introduced himself to me and then let go of my hand. I rested my hand on my legs, trying to remember what had happened, and as fast as lightning, memories struck through my head, making me dizzy again. What had I seen? Was it real or a hallucination? Am I going crazy?

"Miss, please try to rest and don't overthink stuff. Your doctors will be called soon."