Two of a Kind

Prologue

Every minute felt like an hour. The heart monitor beeps were beginning to linger. The window was beaming with light, sun at its peak, but the room was dark. They were on the 4th floor of Empathy Medical Center.

Nobody in the room able to utter a word. One person knew they were too stunned to speak while the other had recently lost their ability to do so, due to the fact she was in a coma.

Neither of them moving an inch for the last 6 hours. Up until this moment, there was no sign of when she would wake up. Then her visitor departed from their trance, triggered by sounds of ruffled pillowcases, it was an awakening of hope. A glimmer of light in so much darkness.

Her visitor walked to her bedside. Their chilly palms were placed on her bed rails.

"I'm so glad you're awake." A shy smile grew on their face.

Their eyes meet, exchanging a long conversation. Words were insufficient during this reunion. Although their last conversation didn't end well, nothing could sever the bond they had.

She tilted her head, fluttering her eyes with a blank expression.

"Um, I'm sorry but, who are you? Am I dreaming?"

Her visitor's face wrinkled. The question went dismissed as a part of another playful joke between them. There was no comprehension for this being reality to either party.

"Girl, stop playing." Their smile quickly fades.

"I'm not playing, I'm being dead serious." She pinched herself to find her own answer to her looming question.

"I see, I'm not dreaming." She stares blankly ahead while soothing her arm. Her mind disassociated itself to find a reality in which she was familiar.

"You don't remember me?"

The hospital door opens and it's her mother with a couple granola bars and a banana.

"My baby." She shrieks. Her mother's hands dropped all her food to the floor. There was nothing that was gonna stop her from holding her baby in her arms.

Her mother simultaneously pressed the red button on her bedside remote to alert the medical staff.

"Mom." Her words airily escaped her lips.

"Yes baby?" She whispered, still holding her in a motherly embrace.

"Who is that girl?" She whispered. Her mother leaned back slowly.

"You don't recognize her?" Her mom fights a slight grin, mostly in disbelief that she wasn't being pranked.

She shakes her head nervously, glancing at her visitor's eyes then quickly looking away. She had never seen anybody like her, it made her nervous.

The door opened, breaking the ominous silence in the room. A black male in a long white coat walked in.

"Hello. I'm Doctor Howard, I'll be your caring physician during your stay here. How are you? Is there any pain you feel?" He asks.

She shyly denies the question. "I'm okay."

"That's a good sign. If anything changes, keep me posted. Do you remember why you're in a hospital?" He asks.

Every head points her direction like loaded guns ready to shoot a target. All the eyes in the room survey her movements. She could feel chills crawling up her spine as if she was suddenly laying on a sheet of ice.

This moment felt like something out of her nightmares. She had a blank outward expression, but such a heavy feeling of fear inside. The last thing she could remember was getting ready for her trip to school in the Summer.

It was currently the middle of Winter.

She had no idea of the present date, so she thought somehow she had gotten in her first car accident on her way to school. The theory itself, only brought upon more questions.

There was still so much unknown. Nothing was making a lot of sense without any logical reasoning. Most of all, who could that person be?

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