Genius in Distress

Chapter I: New life

So I decided to proofread and edit my story from chapter one to chapter twenty. For new readers.

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Chapter I

            Atlantis woke up from a deep sleep. Thirsty and numb. She felt dead from the neck down. Her arms and legs felt impossibly heavy, and her head seemed disembodied from the rest of her. She looked around. It took a moment for her to realized that she was in a dimly lit room, it looked like an ordinary room converted into a hospital room with all the machines she was able to take a glimpse in her bedside.

Panic crashed through her.

Those machines are attached to me!

Then she remembered.

It came to her in a sudden overwhelming, vivid rush of memories so real she felt almost as if she was back to that unfaithful incident with her mom. She was happy having her mom beside her and excited to see her dad after such a long time. She was going home! But suddenly the car they were in, halted briskly. There was no time to complain because the van in front of them unloading armed men in all black and mask, walking towards them. Guns aimed at them.

Then gunfire rang out. It was deafening.

In that very moment, Atlantis thought it was the end of them.

Before she succumbed into darkness she saw her mom covered with blood, fighting for her life.

My mom!

At the thought of her mom, the flashback occurred all over again and again.

A sob escaped her, and then she was wailing, a dry-mouthed, throaty keening of grief too terrible to express any other way, she screamed.

Atlantis only stopped screaming when she heard voices outside her room. And then suddenly the door fell open. One unfamiliar face showed up.

Again she panicked. Who is she? Am I being kidnapped? What about my mom? Where is she? What happened to her? Is she still alive?

The woman walked towards her bed. She checked her vitals. “She’s a doctor!” Atlantis heaved a sigh of relief.  She wanted to ask the woman who entered the room but couldn’t find her voice.

The woman reached for a pitcher on the bedside stand, poured her a glass of water and handed it to her. She drank it down gracefully.

“Who are you? Where am I?” asked Atlantis to the unknown woman.

“I’m Doctor Sandra Sebastian,” she introduced herself, “I’m your doctor. And for your second question, you’re here in my home. You see, we converted this room so that we don’t have to admit you in a hospital. Can you still remember what happened?” asked the doctor.

She nodded. Tears started to fall down her face.

“I wish I didn’t,” she said, “Remember I mean. It would be easier. I thought I’m going to die after I got shot right there and then,” Kinapa niya ang tama ng bala sa dibdib niya. Nagtaka siya ng malapit nang maghilom ang sugat niya. Pinakiramdaman niya ang sarili ngunit wala nang masyadong sakit sa bandang sugat niya. “Doc, ang bilis naman yatang gumaling ng sugat ko. What really happened? And where is my mom? My dad? Why I’m here instead?” She was confused and her head was throbbing with ache.

Doc. Sandra looked down at her, “You were shot twice. One in your stomach and the other one was near the heart. It almost took your life. But you’re so brave for fighting to salvage your life. It was a miracle you were able to survive,” her voice softened.

Atlantis brow snapped, “But that doesn’t answer my question, doc.” What was she hiding? Could it be worse than being ambushed and shot to death? Kinapa niya ang tama sa tiyan niya. Doc. Sandra was right, may tama nga siya sa bandang tiyan. At gaya nang tama niya sa dibdib, malapit na ding maghilom iyon.

“You were in coma due to severe blood loss for almost a month.”

Her breath caught in her throat.

“You actually died twice and were resuscitated both times while you were in coma,” Dr. Sebastian added.

Atlantis trembled. Mahirap paniwalaan ang nangyari. The truth was, parang ayaw mag sink in sa utak niya na in just a short span of time, horrible and terrible things happened to her. She was ambushed, she was shot, she was in coma and she almost died. May mas lalala pa da doon? She remembered her mother. Before she lost consciousness, nakita niyang nabaril din ito at duguan. Did her mom able to survive just like she did?

“And my mom...?” Atlantis was almost afraid to ask about her mom. She glanced at Doctor Sandra with pleading eyes. “Please tell me she’s alive.”

The doctor avoided her gaze. “She died on the spot,” she said in a small voice. “I’m sorry.”

Atlantis freaked out. That couldn’t be true. Buhay pa ang mommy niya. Siya nga na dalawa ang tama at malala pero nakaligtas pero ito hindi?  The doctor held her but she jerked her hands and tore her IV on the process. 

 “No! Tell me you’re lying.  My mother is still alive. That she and my dad are waiting for me to wake up,” she shrieked through gritted teeth, kicking, screaming.

The doctor tried to pacify her, “I’ll call your dad. I’m sure he’ll be glad to know that you have woken up.”

“Noooooooooo!” she screamed, sobbed, and screamed until she lost consciousness. The doctor sedated her.

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