Celine blinked her eyes a few times. She was so confused as she started becoming aware of her surroundings.
'Where am I? What am I doing here?' was her confused thought as her still blinking eyes roved around her surroundings.
The room was so white.
'Am I heaven? why is there no clouds or something?' she thought in confusion.
Why was she here again?
Why did she die? She remembered feeling pain, something wet that was probably blood from her injuries...
Oh yeah, she died because of the fans of a certain popular male celebrity stampeded toward the stage and Celine got caught in the surged of the thousand of fans who went to the mini concert. And despite it being a mini concert, the audience was a lot! And Celine happened to be standing in the general audience side. She just wanted to go out and pee, but she ended up dying from a stampede! How embarrassing and idiotic way to die, she was too ashamed to face her ancestors in heaven!
Does she even have enough face and courage to see and greet them in another life? She died as an undergraduate student, too! How embarrassing! She'd probably even need to ask for forgiveness to the ancestors she embarrassed due to her foolishness.
If Celine didn't agree to go with her best friend and schoolmate at the university she was enrolled at, and if she just stayed at her apartment near their university and study for their upcoming exam, then she wouldn't have died even before she graduate college and got her diploma!
What would her parents think about her tragic and foolish death?
She wouldn't be surprise if they were cursing her instead. She brought shame to their family. Celine couldn't help but lamented.
Did she feel any regret? Of course! Her dream was to earn money and be successful, so her parents could be proud of her and she could finally be proud of herself after almost five years and a half in college. Yes, she took so long from graduating college, because she changed her majors five times already. Even her brother who was two years younger than her managed to graduate before her! And her younger sister, who was in high school when she attended university was also in college already!
She was being left behind and surpassed by her youngest siblings! And her older brother and sister, yes Celine was the middle daughter of five children in their family household, her older siblings were finding love and marriage while being successful with their work with high salary and high position in the company.
While Celine was stuck in college! It was not by choice, okay?! She just got bored so easily. She was smart, but since she was smart, she found her school subjects boring, hence she became lazy and decided to change majors, but nothing could stimulate her interest.
That was why on her last major change, her parents begged her to at least graduate and get a diploma. Her mother even hired some kind of feng shui master and also a shaman, just so she could finally graduate. But the shaman woman instead only said that she would have a bright and exciting future before sprinkling her with some powdery herbs and fragrant water.
Her siblings even gave her gifts and treat her to foods that she like, so she would be more motivated. Her older brother and sister was even sending pocket money to her bank account. Celine was so spoiled and she loved it! She loved shopping after all.
That was why Celine decided to do her best this last time. She would graduate before Kylie - her youngest sister - could graduate from college and surpassed her. Celine would definitely be so pitiful if Kylie graduate college before her! So, she must do her best!
That was why despite her oncoming boredom with the redundant subjects she already know due to reading the books for their syllabus in advance, she tried her very best to not be bored. She got high scores, if not everything was perfect, at least it was still all high marks.
She even joined some school activities to add more things to put on her resume. Celine was only waiting for the finals and then her internship before she could finally graduate.
It was so near...
But then she ended up dying!
All her hardwork, gone!
How ironic and unfair was that? Was she curse? Why was she so unfortunate?
And now she was in this white room with a glass window looking out from somewhat high place. Was it a cloud? Cool! She wanted to look!
Well, since she already died, and her material things back when she was still a living human being was useless to her now, she could only indulge on cloud sighting at the moment.
Celine was about to get up, since she also felt like she needed to pee. Weird, since she had no idea that even dead people also need a bathroom break. That was one weird thing for real. Then she thought, what if they still needed to eat? She had no money with her! Would her parents even bother to leave money on her casket even if she brought shame to them? That she died at the stampede in the concert rather than studying in her apartment for her finals?
She doubt it. Celine sighed and frown.
She never thought that dying was also troublesome. She probably still needed money!
Well, she would think and worry about that later. First, she needed to pee. So, she needed to walk toward the bathroom.
And when she got up from where she was laying, she noticed some tubes that was stuck to her arms. She also have something on her nose and also something taped on her head near her hairline.
Ugh! What was this for? She probably was brought to a hospital and then finally died there, but why did she have to be stuck with these wires of tubes if she was already a spirit ready for her next adventure?
Who knew that dying was like when she was also alive. So troublesome. She thought it would just automatically fall from her, but it didn't.
So, Celine meticulously took all the tubes attached to her.
Then there was a loud noise and she was about to go deaf!
And then she heard running feets from somewhere as she covered her ears to prevent her ears from being damaged.
A door opened.
A woman in white scrubs who looked like a nurse went to her side and checked if everything about her was fine, there was also a woman in white coat, probably a doctor, checking her vitals.
And then there was a handsome man standing right just behind the doctor and nurses surrounding her. He looked like he's between twenty two or twenty three years old. Almost near her age of twenty years.
Why did a dead person like her still needed a doctor and nurses? Or was this some kind of symbolism or maybe she was recalling what happened in the hospital?
But first, she couldn't keep her eyes off the handsome guy not far away from her. He looked even familiar!
And then he spoke with a worried frown on his forehead. "Doctor, what happened, is my girlfriend okay?"
'What?!!' Celine's eyes widened after hearing that word.