I was... where was I? What's this... feeling of... emptiness?
*Sounds of chattering and ambulance's sirens*
Why... is everything so... dark? I.. I can't see anything...
"Yes, we are reporting that a man just fell down from a 12 stories building..."
"Oh my... J-Jason?! I-Is that you!"
"Please hold on ma'am! We can't allow anyone in without any-"
"THAT'S MY SON!"
Ngh.... That.. voice, it sounded familiar... I can't quite remember where I have heard it... my body is feeling so hot... why...
"Oh... Why Jason... Why did you leave me, your father, brother and friends behind like that..." The woman or the feminine voice... I couldn't tell but I could feel she was saying all that in a trembling voice... Ah, the rain... I could feel it hitting my face but... I felt something hitting my face more than the rain... Someone's... crying? Why... cried for someone like me... *Radio sounds*
"Yes, we have called the nearby hotel that the suspect stayed in. It seemed like he went up to the top of the building"
So... noisy...
"Yes... We got confirmation... Yes we did check the cameras and there was no one going up and down the stairs at that time as the suspect went up... It looked like the suspect was just up there to light his cigarette for a quick smoke..."
It was a rainy night as I remembered... All of it seemed so vivid... like I was living in a dream... The noise of the people talking, cars honking their horns mixing with the splashes of water from the rain hitting the asphalt... As I laid down on the ground... lifeless. I couldn't feel or move my muscles even if I wanted to... I felt myself being carried onto a stretcher and into the ambulance. I tried lifting up my fingers but to no avail. I managed to open my lips but couldn't get one word out.
*Bip* *Bip* *Bip*
I managed to open my eyes but what greeted me was a blinding light. The ambulance was moving at a frightening speed down the slippery road. I felt slight bumps but it was subtle at most. I tried to adjust my eyes to the light as I looked around or tried to at least. I turned my head slightly to my right and saw a nurse. I then turned my slightly to my left as I set my eyes on a woman crying... She is my mom who is in her fifties, she got a couple of wrinkles on her forehead with some strands of white hair. I couldn't speak or move as I shifted myself back to sleeping again.
I remembered... something... not much but I remembered working as an officer worker lock up in the office all day. I was a 26 year old guy living a rather good life you might say. Back in highschool I was the top of my class and had many love interests. Soon after highschool ended, I got married to a beautiful woman and even got a child like what more could you ask for?
"N-No please I need to be beside him when-"
"Sorry ma'am but who did you say you were?"
"I'm Samantha, I'm his wife!"
"Okay miss, please stop shouting and wait outside. We will make sure nothing happens to your husband"
Hm? That voice... It sounded familiar...
"Hey! The patient is in critical condition!"
Ah... Am I going to die? That quickly? I guessed it's not really...
"Sir! Can you hear me? Can you speak your name?"
... that bad...
Have you ever had the feeling... of floating about in space? I don't know since I had never been to space before but I felt myself floating around in the dark empty void with no clear direction... Rather my soul really, I can't even see my body or anything... It's this what you see after death? Just infinite darkness for all eternity? Now even if I wanted to move 'something', I couldn't even feel anything... *Chirp!*
Oh? I heard something... Wait... What am I in right now? I tried to move around and bump my head into some thing as it made a crack sound, *crack* I did it again as something fell out revealing a light. A blinding one at that as I tried to nudge myself out of this infinite darkness, *crack* *crack* *chirp* I uh well tried to speak but why am I making bird noises? Is this a side effect of falling off a building? Have I gone dumb? Well no... I quickly realised after bumping my head again and again against what looks like egg's shells. What awaits me was the light of the sun blinding me. Is it morning already? And woah! Why are my visions split like this! It's hurting my eyes! *Chirp!* And who's- Holly mother of feathers! It's a bird! U-Uh hey now, calm down and why do I feel so small in comparison to you?
I was pretty dumb maybe that fall had really damaged me beyond repairs. But it looks like that I have been reincarnated into a bird. I'm not much of a Buddhism but I had heard that they believed in reincarnation so I kinda believe it now. I couldn't really do much, my other siblings have also just hatched and all of us were chirping for food. About a week has passed and well I'm used to this now. We live in a jungle it seems like and I just sleep and wait for momma bird to feed me and the rest of her kin. I do feel like I'm getting bigger than the others. Strange... but I remembered that baby birds take around 10 days to 3 weeks depending on the species, right? Since I have grown feathers now! Hm? Oh, it's my mother bird! *Chirp!* She's coming in with the food again. Hm? She seems unusual today, maybe too tired to care for us maybe? Like don't worry so much, we will be able to fly soon... That was when I realized she pushed me off of the nest and landed on the ground. Hey! What's the big deal! *Chirp!* Hm... I have a growing suspicion for a while now but I think that I'm from one of those birds that laid their eggs in different nests or something. But like you couldn't abandon someone else's offspring! That what adoptions are for! I was chirping like crazy being unaware of the danger as my life ended again by the jaws of a beast. It was too quick for me to even comprehend as my vision turn black and feel myself weightless as I float around the empty void again.
It was depressing that I died a second time and that time was pretty somewhat short. I then feel 'something' like I'm being pushed out of the womb, now I know how first born babies feel. Hm? After being pushed out, everything still seems dark. I could now move but more like falling over actually. *Whimper* what the... *Pup noises* Why did I get reborn into a dog of all things! Well it's better than an ant I guess...
"Oh my! Mollie! What cute puppies you have just given birth to!"
Huh? Mollie? *More puppy noise*
"Especially this one! Look at you abuhuhu~"
Woah there, lady! You're making me fall over-
"Come here to your aunt Miseria~"
Now I know how puppies- wait... Miseria? Why are those names sound so familiar...
*Door creaking sound*
"Welcome back, Samantha..."
"Hi auntie Miseria..."
"You still look gloomy... as usual... Like I said you gotta get through this lost of yours. I know everyone had lost someone before-"
"Alright auntie Miseria, I get it... Oh! And are those Mollie's pups? So cute!"
"Sorry Mollie for missing your delivery..."
"*Arf!*"
"*Other puppy making puppy noises*"
Wait... Don't tell me *puppy noise*... I do faintly remember now. Mollie was about to give birth and we were all excited then my unfortunate accident happened... I thought that it was a dream or I was in a coma but everything seems too real.