Me, My Notebook & I

Chapter 02

Lucina? This is written to me...

How did this notebook get to my bedside table? And who is the one that wrote it? A lot of questions circle my mind. Was it Sau? She was the one that was going through my drawers and found it. She even knows that I never put anything studying related in my bedside table so she must've opened the drawers to put it there to surprise me. Perhaps it really is Sau who wrote this message to encourage me to study for tomorrow and get me out of this stressed out mood. I put the notebook in the first drawer of the bedside table and continue staring into space, lost in thought.

Thinking about this and trying to guess who left me the notebook gives me a huge headache. Suddenly, I feel extreme pain in my head and I start to get dizzy. All I see is black spots and the room spinning before total darkness engulfs me. What's happening to me?

...

"Lucina?" I hear someone calling my name from afar.

"Lucina?" The voice repeats dragging me out of my sleep. "Good morning, sweetie. Wake up. I have to go to work." I try to open my eyes but they feel like the heaviest thing right now. "Come on, Luci. You can't fall asleep now. You have an exam." I try harder to open my eyes and slowly I start to regain my vision. It's blurry for a couple of seconds so I blink a few times. When everything is back to normal I find my mum's face staring back at me. I smile to her to let her know that I'm awake now. She kisses my forehead and leaves to work.

I sat upright in my bed then as if a dam broke inside my head, yesterday's events came crashing. I had a huge headache yesterday. After it, I felt unbearable pain at the back of my head. I reach back with my hand to touch the back of head checking for a bump or any sign of blood that might give me a hint to what happened. Was I hit? After a thorough inspection and holding a mirror to the back of my head, I don't find anything out of the norm. I wasn't hit and nothing indicates that something might have fallen on me. I don't remember anything after that. Not even sleeping.

That intense pain must have caused me to lose consciousness. I get up from the bed and start to walk to the bathroom to get ready for school when I completely freeze in my spot.

Wait!

If that's what happened how am I wearing my pajamas?

I'm one hundred percent sure that I was wearing my dark blue jeans and a grey shirt! Now, I'm in a pair of cotton shorts and a tank top!

Oh God. Something extremely terrifying is happening to me. I start to look around me, searching for any signs of breaking in, but I find nothing. The window is closed and it locks from the inside and there's no other way in except for the door. Did someone come into my room yesterday hit me, change my clothes and leave? That doesn't even make any sense. Out of nowhere a thought crosses my mind. I decide to open the first drawer of my bedside table where I last put the notebook to... I don't even know to what. I just want to know whether the two incidents are related or not. However, when I open the drawer... I don't find it.

I look for it in the second drawer and the third one because I start to believe that maybe I'm just forgetting but I still don't find it.

At this moment, I start freaking out. I try to remember if I had changed its place and can't remember because of the headache or the unimaginable pain but I come out blank. I go through everything on my desk and its drawers, the shelves on the wall and even under the bed but after 10 minutes of looking I find it in the one place I never put anything in. Under my pillow. Even if I wasn't such an organized person who likes everything to be in its specific place, I would freak out about this.