Hide & Seek

Always

I opened my  eyes to sound  of  'bip-bip-bip-' and Reya.

"Get up young woman. You  deserve  a scolding." She was muttering the sentence again and again in different voices as if rehearsing . The  last one was quite scary, motherly one. And I registered  I was in for a big chiding. God!

I opened  my mouth and tried to croak out. "Shut up."

She wipped around  and was instantly  hovering  over me. "You! You are the most irresponsible  young woman I've  ever seen! How could you be so careless! I was worried out of my mind-"

"You were?"

"Well, not, particularly, just for the sake of worrying and you have the audacity to ask!"

"Confirmation."

"Shut up! And you  listen to me!"

"I'm."

"So, were I was....ah, yes. Do have any idea how much I've  to run around the hospital  asking about you-"

"And they, answered?"

"Oh, hush. Anyway, thats not the  point. You are seventeen! Grow up! You  can't  even take care of yourself. When I was your age, I knew all  the way to the train-station  and back home. I knew every  single alley in the town. Even when the neighbors kitten got lost I was the one who found it and treated it, even though, my mother  had an aversion  of cats but my father liked it. We took care  of him...her...whoever  it was. Do have any idea, how expensive the cat food was? Specialy  the most healthy one?
My mother tried  to feed it spinach, ofcourse, its not like the cats eats spinach  or somehting  but you know  mother and all. She even once tried to feed spinach to street dogs. She loved dogs.  One day she even brought  a puppy home, what breed, what culture, religion, class, no idea  she had to had it and my father, I mean, no one would deny him, like, ever. But one day my sister did, I mean, it was for my sake-"

"Thats not the-"

"Anyway. Thats  not the point!"

"Yep. So not."

"You are alive."

"Glad to know that."

He eys flickered to the door. "And here comes  your parents."

The door opened and in walked my parents. They didn't  say anything, well, nothing depressing  to say the least. Maa sat by me holding my hand while Baba wiped his tears blooming with smile but there was my brother filling me in with all the things Red Ranger had done.
When the doctor  came with the nurse and filled me in about my condition Reya hovered behind him  rolling her eyes, scoffing and making weird  noises and I tried my utmost  to ignore her and not laugh  at the faces she was making and focus on the doctor. Apparently, some breakups in medications, changes in diet and too much of exercise, meaning  my dance  performance  had led to some  inconveniences in my heart. My dear heart had a great  timing  to go on a fever!

*

The week streeled over as I sat on my hospital bed  contempalting what had happened. It was thirty minutes after the debate that a girl from one school found me, unconscious, my friends went hysteric while I was being shifted to the ambulance. The school called my parents and here I was. It was almost a week since then and I was  disconcerted that my friends hadn't even called.

It was the usual reason  of my moping when one morning I heard tumult outside my door. I decided  to check  but then, the nurse peeked in, gave me a look  and I quickly, like a cat, shrank back into the quilt. A moment  later, the door burst opened. I jerked up and there stood  my friends.