Wake Me Up In Year 2202

Chapter 3

My body jerked as I gasped for air like I was deprived of oxygen for a very long time and I felt the electric shocks flowing through my veins waking every sleeping cell in my body. My breathing is deep and slow, my throat is rough and dry and my mind is blank and clueless of what's going on. My eyelids were heavy like they've been shut down and forgotten for so long but I managed to open it weakly and I was temporarily blinded by the bright light above me and as soon as my vision adjusted to the light I saw three women wearing white coats and mask while staring at my naked, cold and numb body.

"Lauren Lopez, can you hear me? If you can please blink once."

I weakly blink my eyes once and I tried to stand up but I can't move.

"Can you move your fingers?"

I tried moving it but everything feels numb.

"It's ok, everything's fine. It's just the effect of freezing you'll be ok soon. I'll be giving you this shot to normalize your vital signs."

Freezing? I don't understand. She injected something in me and I can feel my body warming up, I don't have any idea of what's going on. I felt them lifting my body and transferring it in a movable bed then they started walking with it effortlessly through the hallway. Who's carrying or moving the bed?

I can't speak nor comprehend what's going on, the horrifying silence makes my stomach churn in fear and all I can see are the vertical blue lights and the white ceiling above me.

"She's the 105th patient right?"
"Yes."

I heard them talking as they pushed my bed inside a room then they lifted my body once more and transferred it in a white bed and covered me with a blanket.

"We'll be back later ms. Lopez, you'll be fine."

Then they left the room and shut the door, there was silence yet there was chaos inside me. I scan the room with my eyes, everything is white and I don't know where the light is coming from since I can't see any fluorescent lamp, it seems that the walls are emitting its own light. There is no furniture, just walls like I was placed inside a big white box for quarantine. Questions keep flooding my mind endlessly when a hologram suddenly popped in front of me with a girl wearing white while smiling then I felt the upper part of my bed rising in order for me to sit.

"Good evening Lauren Lopez born in the year 1983 and died in the year 2002 at the age of 19."

Did I die? I shut my eyes and grit my teeth as memories flood my blank mind. I remember Casper singing a song and I remember how I died in his arms. If I'm dead where am I?

"You are in the Cryo Hospital and you are the 105th patient who survived the cryopreservation, the government has finally found a cure for your disease, you will be staying in this hospital until your treatment is complete. "

C-cryopreservation? My mouth trembled in fear as a memory of Casper flash in my mind.

"Those who were diagnosed with a rare disease that doesn't have cure during their time tries cryonics procedure where their bodies would be preserved after death hoping that they would be revived in the future one day that has the capabilities to cure their disease."

Oh my God! Tears stream down my face as I look at the screen in front of me, the girl is smiling like she can't see my pain. I can feel the rising panic inside me as I inhaled sharply. My lips are cracked and dry but I gathered my strength to speak.

"H-how long-- have I been dead?"

I manage to say my voice shaking, almost breathless because of fear.