Known Strangers

Chapter One - Earth Unexpected

Bell's POV

Something's different.
Something's not quite right. Everywhere smells different. Everywhere feels different. Everywhere sounds different. Everything's just different.

Everything even looks different-
Wait... Oh my God, what's happening?? Why can't I see??. Everywhere is dark no no no no no. Am I blind?

Wait.........

I slowly opened my eyes. Oh thank God. My eyes were just shut.
Then I scanned the room I was in, I was lying down on a bed with white sheets, there wasn't much in the room just walls, a cabinet, and a rectangular flat screen.... I think they call it TV.

Yep. I'm on Earth.

Then something caught my eye, I noticed a mask on my face covering my nose and I looked to my left and found a screen displaying zig zag lines on it.

Oh no, I'm at a hospital.

I quickly removed the mask from my face, removed all wires from my skin and stood up. That's when I noticed what I was wearing. I had a white gown on.

What happened to my clothes, I was undressed??

I can't be worrying about that now. I'm at a hospital, meaning they could have taken some blood, and they could have found out that I'm an Arphaxadian. They will either kill me straight away or use me as a money making machine.

I started wandering around looking for the door.
Suddenly the door opened, and I took a defense position with my hands in fists in front of me and a young girl around my age walked in wearing a white coat.

Isn't she too young to be a doctor?

When she saw me, confusion flooded on her face and she eyed me up and down.

"Okay...... I don't know what you're doing, but you need to go back to the bed, so I can take your blood" she said

My blood

I didn't make a move just stood there starring at her. Humans.
When she saw that I wasn't moving, she looked frustrated.

"See girl, I don't have time for this" she said reached into her coat and took out a needle and started walking towards me.

"Stay back!" I shouted. She stopped. Surprise on her face.

"Wow... We have a mental bitch.." she mumbled but I could still hear her. "maybe you should go back to the bed and rest" she said still walking towards me. I started walking back.

I looked towards the bed and back at her.

"No" I said

"No?? See girl I have other patients waiting for, now go back to the bed and rest"

"What's up with the bed? Why do you want me to the bed? What's in the bed? What's in it?" I said getting scared. These humans are awful.
She looked at me like I'm crazy

"Nothing. You're acting weird Look just go lay on the bed and you'll feel better and stop that weird position you're in" she said walking towards me again. I still stayed in my defense position.

"No" I said firmly.
She got frustrated.
"Alright. You bitch! You're gonna go to that bed whether you like it or not!" She raised her voice. I was about to yell back at her, when the door opened and a much older woman wearing a white coat walked in. She looked at both of us studying the expressions on our faces.
And she sighed.

"Anna could you please go to the next room, your attention is needed there, and let me handle this" The older woman said. Anna turned towards her
"I can't leave you here alone with her, she's crazy." Anna said loudly enough for me to hear her.
"Anna just go" The woman said. Anna murmured something but left.
The woman walked towards me slowly, I was still in the defense position.
"It's okay, everything's alright, I'm not going to hurt you. I just wanna talk" she said and sat down on the bed and motioned to the side for me to sit down

What's up with that bed?

Instead I sat on the floor.
The woman's eyes opened wider
"Okay...... I'm your doctor and-"
"What about Anna?"
"Oh, she's a doctor in training"
Okay... That makes more sense now.
"Look I have some questions, what happened to you" she asked. I frowned slightly.

"A boy came in here with you in his arms unconscious asking for help from us, he looked scared" she said. And I was now on alert.
A boy??
"How did this boy look like?" I asked. The doctor frowned but answered my question.
"Ammm.... He had short blonde hair, about 5 feet 9 inches" she said

Oh my... Gonanz!
I quickly stood up opened the door and searched the hallway but he wasn't there. I looked back inside the room at the doctor.
"Where is he?" I asked
"We don't know, after bringing you into this room, we went back outside but we couldn't find him. Is he like your boyfriend or?"
"No he's not" I said sadly.
"See I have to know. Where do you live so we can call your parents to get you"
I sat back on the floor. Felt like crying

"They're dead" I said
"All of them? What about relatives?" She said. I shook my head.
"Who's that boy"
"A Friend" I replied.
The doctor pauses like she's overwhelmed
"Okay....What's your name?" She asked

What am I supposed to say now

"Bell"
She looked like she was waiting for something
"Bell? Is that like short for Isabelle or Anabelle..."
"What? I don't know what you're talking about. It's Bell." She still looked confused
"Last name?"

They will definitely recognize me now, well.....

"Narkasell" I said carefully. She didn't seem to notice that was the name of the King of Arphaxad, so I'm good...
"Okay Bell I'm going to call the foster care home."

Foster homes? No way, my father had told me how foster homes are. I can't go there.

"Please don't. I can't go there"
"Then where do you want to go"
"I'll stay on the streets, just please no foster homes."
"this foster home isn't like the others you have nothing to worry about."
"No, please" I said
The doctor sighed
"I can't let you stay on the streets though and you can't stay here you'll need money to stay here and now that you don't have a family...." She said and then thought for some while
"You can come stay with me"

What???
Just like that??

"No I can't"
"Don't worry, it's just temporarily until we find out what to do. Besides I have children your age. That is if you don't look younger or older than your age" She said. I smiled a little but it wasn't still enough.
"I'm 17"
"Oh great, I have a son who is exactly your age, let me get you some clothes and log out of the hospital and we'll be on our way." She said and walked out of the door but...
"Wait, Doctor....-"
"Ryan"
"Doctor Ryan, was my blood extracted?" I said and she frowned
"No. Why?"
"Nothing"
"Alright" she said and left.

After exactly 31 minutes. It was now 12:00 PM. Doctor Ryan logged out of the hospital, got me clothes; jeans and a t-shirt. This is actually the first time I'm wearing trousers apart from combat class in Arphaxad when we have to fight.
We are currently in her car driving to.......... actually I have no idea where we're going, but I guess it's her house.

I've never been in a car before I've been hearing about cars from classes in Arphaxad, we only rode on horses.

Arphaxad..... My home...

I really wish Mother and Father hadn't died.
Now that I think of it, even if their dead, they won't be happy as to why I left Arphaxad, as to what Krell and I are doing, as to why I'm seeking help from........ Humans.

"Hey look, I'm sorry" Doctor Ryan said while starring the wheel, I turned in the passenger seat to look at her. "I mean it must be hard loosing your parents, having no where to go, most times in the labour room the mother doesn't make it so the child is left alone. Bad things happen to people and it's not their fault. I don't think it's your fault either."

Well....... It's kinda sorta maybe partly my fault.

"But don't worry, we'll take care of you. You're gonna be happy" she said pity on her face then she starred back at the road.

I really hope what she said is true. But from now on, I feel a lot is going to happen.
Lots
A lot
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