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III: Come with me

I woke up in the morning not knowing what time it is. But I felt the warm ray of sun coming through the window. I stood up from my bed and tried to find my way to the basics. For example cleaning up my bed, closing the window, getting my clothes (hospital clothes) and finally looking for the bathroom. Doing my needs seems to be a great learning experience here, good thing the bathroom had handle bars for me to grab on. I got my way through everything I needed to do in the morning and now I'm just sitting in a chair near the window of my room.

I had a thought of wandering around the hospital, I want to be familliar with it. I searched for my cane and my bag and went out of the room. Just as I started walking in the hallway someone bumped me, which made me fall down.

"WATCH WHERE YOUR GOING!!!" I shouted because I knew that the hallway wasn't that narrow for her to bump me.

"Quack quack" She helped me up as she said the duck sound. Why is she even saying ... ???

"Bumping people isn't nice you know" I knew she was still infront of me. I think she's observing or maybe staring.

"Quack quack" What is it with this girl, she even said those words energetically. I mean how is she even.

"Why are you sayin ..."

"Come with me" Before I could even finished my sentence she tood my hand a pulled me off to somewhere.

"Where are you taking me?" She didn't answer and still pulled me. Then after a few minutes we stopped. She led me to a chair beside a table then she sat beside me.

"Where are we? and don't you dare say quack" She suddenly starts giggling and then she shook my hair. I heard her leave her seat. What is this girl even up to? I heard footsteps coming back.

"Umm ... Duck is that you?" I heard her placing something at the table. Then she shook my hair while giggling again.

"Duck? I like it" this girl is totally crazy, She hasn't answer a single question i've asked her. But I could feel that she's fixing stuff at the table. So I asked.

"What are you doing?"

"Preparing food" she answered quickly, while still preparing.

"For what?"

"For us silly, don't tell me you already had breakfast" ahh, its still morning. At least I know that this Duck has good intensions. "Ahhh ... thank you"

She placed the food infront of me then gave me a fork. Based on the smell, we're having pancakes with maple syrup. I looked for the plate and happily ate the pancakes."Hot choco?" I nodded as I heard her leave the table again. She came back with the smell of chocolate with her.

"why did you bump me earlier?" I still haven't forgotten what she did earlier. I already forgave her because of the breakfast but i'm still curious.

"ahhh ... sorry about that. I was in a hurry to get breakfast and the lights in the hallway were out that's why I didn't see you" ahhh ... but I still dont get the quack quack thing. She should've just said so "What was the quack quack about?"

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ... Quack!!!" she's totally crazy, I could still hear her quacking and laughing. "Stop that!" I couldn't hold my anger and confusion.

"Your done eating right? wanna go to my room?" at least she stopped laughing. She cleaned our table and put away all the plates, cups amd utensils. I held out my hand for her to grab and lead the way. She held my hand gently and said lets go. Then we left to go to her room.

We entered her room as I smelled a sweet lavender. She guided me to her bed as we sat beside each other.

"Duck?" I didn't know what to call her except for the nickname that I gave her.

"Umm ... my name is Yena by the way but call me Duck if you want" She laughed then shook my hair again.

"Yena, what's your condition?" It may be a little straight forward but I hope she doesn't feel offended.

"I dont have one. Well, I did have lymphoma before and thankfully I survived" I felt her leave the bed and then come back. I heard her opening something "You want Jelly? open your mouth i'll feed you ... ahh" She kept on feeding me as she told me about her story surviving her sickness. Then she asked me about mine which made her stop feeding me.

"I'll introduce myself first ... Im Jo Yuri. And I suffer for retinitis pigmentosa, its a rare case that is genital. And I just hope that I could see the world once again" I continued to tell her my story. I knew that she was listening because she held my hand the whole. Then after I spoke we both became silent. I was about to speak when she hugged me. I felt comfort in her embrance, I also felt her heartbeat. Her hug was so warm. "Then I'll show it to you" She removed herself from the hug and told me to open my mouth again. I really dont know why but this duck keeps on feeding me jelly.

"Speaking of show ... How about I give you a tour of the third floor?"

"That would be nice ... ah, may I ask about the other patients here" I know she's really nice but I still dont know about the others.

"How about we meet them one by one"

"No it's alright, they might be busy"

"None of them are busy don't worry"

"But may I ask you about them?"

"Sure, what do you want to know?" umm ... what do I want to know, I'm not really sure.

"How about you give me a hint"

"A hint you say ... hmmm, wait I'll think of something" I heard that there are only a few patients here. So I guess giving a hint is not that hard.

"Hint!, there are five patients here and there's the:

1. Sleepy head- She sleeps for almost half her day. But when she's awake she likes to play and eat lots of food.

2. Secret keeper- other patients enjoy to tell their secrets to her because she will never tell it to another soul.

3. The baby- she enjoys to play and make the most of her day. She might have it a bit hard but people like to take care of her.

4. Scaredy cat- she is afraid of lots of things and doesn't like listening or watching anything gruesome or scary.

5. Killer- she locked herself here in the hospital and she also likes to kill in her free time.

Don't worry about it though, you would be surprised in each and everyone of them"

I honestly became afraid of meeting them. I hope everything goes well