University High (Yizhan Fanfiction)

Chapter 35: Everything was new again

Yibo's POV.

Noises could be heard in the background.. It was bright, so bright. His eyes fluttered and tried to open but the blinding lights around made him lose the will.

He fell asleep again.

When his senses came to the second time around, the lights were less blinding and this time it was slightly bearable to open them. The first thing he noticed was the boxed patterned ceiling and the compact fluorescent lights above the bed. The TV was turned on and emitting intangible noises.

He waited for a while and the voices became more pronounced. The window sills were white framing a view of the night sky.

He moved his fingers. They were stiff. He lifted it up and they had tubes attached to it. His hand looked swollen.

Where was this place? How did he get here? What happened?

An unfamiliar girl was sitting on a chair by the bed. The faint movements alerted her and she turned to look at him staring at her.

"Ahh Yibo dear.. you're finally awake!!"

"She leaned and gave him a hug."

"Yibo who? Who are you? Where am I?" he did not realize it but soon as those words were formed in his lips, a bad feeling crept up almost choking him.

The girl realized that something very wrong had happened. She left the room hastily and called for the doctor. Soon, troops dressed in white uniform spilled into the room. There was an annoying flash light being pointed at straight at his eyes. The one they call 'doctor' was asking him a bunch very confusing questions which the more he tried to answer, the worse the pain in his head. He might have passed out during the interrogation.

When he came round, that same girl was standing by the window, she had a panicked look on her face. She was calling someone and was muttering very confusing words. He tried to sit up. She noticed and quickly ended the call.

"Yibo you're awake.. don't quickly get up like that." She pressed the remote control attached to the bed and the bed moved upwards pushing his back to an upright position while supporting his back. She held his hands.

"Yibo dear, its me, your jiejie. Do you remember?"

Yibo shook his head. Suddenly he felt very scared. The feeling of realization came so quickly like he had been hit by a typhoon. It dawned on him that he was in an unfamiliar place surrounded by unfamiliar people. He knew no one and felt completely alone.

"Jiejie? why can't I remember anything? Whats wrong with me?" he started sobbing. She hugged him and stroked his back. She might have cried as well.

"Its okay dear... What matters is that you're awake. Just take everything slowly, It will slowly come to you."

He might have remembered fragments of his childhood, there might have been a sister, a grandmother, a dog...

He glanced at his fingers and noticed a band of beautiful silver attached to his middle finger. He ran his fingers on the ring and felt the bumps that was the thin rope pattern around it.

Beautiful. he thought, yet he could not remember its significance.

His jiejie left after tucking him in bed and making sure he went back to sleep. Yibo did wake up a few times during the night and she was no longer there.

The next day she brought him old photo albums explaining his past and he was starting to familiarize himself with what he saw.

A guy came whom she introduced to be her lover. His name was Binbin. He did mention a guy named Xiaozhan. He could not remember who that was. He must be someone important seeing his expression.