Chapter 2 - Home?

I took a second look at what was around me. There was an exhausted woman seemingly having just done something like a marathon, a white room that could possibly have been used inside of an actual hospital, and a group of nurses to support the woman.

Am I in a birthing ward or something? I thought, I don't remember hell ever having a birthing ward, but I guess not everything can be taken for granted. 

The nurses around the woman and I finally parted, and a man with a doctor's outfit walked through.

He was saying some weird words that I didn't understand, but from the expressions on the woman's face I could tell that whatever it was, it was good.

He then picked me up and seemingly put a stethoscope to hopefully use it, but when he did it felt like an impossibly cold ice cube had just enveloped my back.

"Waahaahh! I cried, "Wahahaaah!"

I was shocked, What is that sound? 

I tried to look down at myself with all of my might, but somehow I was unable to move my body right.

It was like my body wouldn't be able to do anything it was supposed to.

Every move that I tried to make resulted in either the opposite, or something completely new.

What is happening to me right now? I wondered, I am seemingly in a birthing ward, with a seemingly new mother, and have cried like a baby.

There is no way this is happening, I thought, There is no way that I have become a baby.

I could just be disabled right now from the fall, I thought, But that wouldn't be able to explain why everything seems so big. 

I wasn't the smartest person in the world, but I wasn't the dumbest.

No matter how outlandish it might have sounded, I just couldn't deny that I had become a new born baby.

I looked back at the person dressed as a doctor while he put me back into the woman's arms.

He had a pleasant expression on his face as he spoke to my mother.

I still couldn't make out what they were even saying, but I just had to hope that it would come with time.

Is this even hell? I thought.

Even with all of the crazy things that had seemingly come out of no where before I died, I didn't find it anything more than crazy.

The whole idea of dying and then being reborn as a baby made very little sense.

I had understood that this was a common trope with anime, but even when I watched it I always had taken it with a little grain of salt.

I can't be mulling over this anymore, I decided, I need to figure out what this place is, and who these people are. 

After the doctor had put me into the woman's arms, she decided to seemingly just cuddle with me.

I didn't hate what had happened, and I know that it could have been bad, but the woman looked completely exhausted and filled with satisfaction.

If I have been reborn as a baby, would she be my mother? I pondered.

I couldn't put the idea completely to the side, but it wholeheartedly confused me.

I had just committed suicide, and the last thing I remembered was the sensation of falling through the air.

The feeling of her arms under me brought an indescribable sense of comfort, despite how sensitive I seemed to be.

I thought for a second, A stethoscope shouldn't be that cold.

But for me it had somehow felt like an ice cube, and that was unrealistic.

Everything was lining up to tell me that I wasn't who I was before, and that I had been reborn.

But I couldn't come up with a conclusion before I felt an immense sense of fatigue fall over me.

My eyes started to droop, and I couldn't stop my mouth from dropping.

Why am I so tired, I thought as I tried to fight the sense to sleep.

The woman noticed that I seemed to be getting ready for a nap, and started to wrap me snugly in a soft blanket.

Everything just feels so perfect right now, I realized, There isn't any reason not to sleep.

So despite my best intentions and forewarning, I fell asleep.

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I suddenly awoke to the alarming sound of a car parking.

I was carefully nestled in the arms of the woman who I had been with when I had fallen asleep, but instead of being inside of the hospital bed, she was walking through what seemed to be a garage.

There were 2 cars, one read and the other black, and they looked recently cleaned because of the way the dim light from the ceiling created an illustrious shine on them.

But we didn't stay there for long because the woman walked through a wooden doorframe, and passed through a white hallway with paintings and photos of various plants and animals.

I could have sworn that I was just inside of a warm blanket inside of a hospital, I thought alarmed, Why the heck are we in a house right after I fall asleep. 

"Wahhhh," I cried, WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME. 

The woman heard my cries and a shocked expression appeared on her face.

She tried to calmly whisper some soothing words into my ears, but I didn't hear them and only saw her lips flapping with no sound being made.

I kept on crying, but despite all of her attempts to soothe me I didn't stop and neither did she.

Whilst I was crying we had passed through the hallway, a big room, and a stair case leading to the second floor.

I wasn't paying full attention to the surroundings, but I had seen at least four other doors that led to other rooms.

After we arrived at the top of the staircase the woman passed by two more rooms, and I stopped crying as we entered one perfectly made for a baby.

In the center of the room was a wooden crib that despite being wooden was made to contain no loose pieces of wood that could give splinters.

There were small gaps between wood pieces that looked made to be handles to take down some of the walls.

Inside of the walls was a small blanket that looked perfect for me to dive into, and continue my nap with the wonderful blanket.

There was also a white pillow that looked made for a small head, and I wanted only to shove my head onto it and sleep inside the blanket.

There was also a set of planets and moons dangling from the ceiling, and because it was situated above the crib I was a little worried about it falling on it, but I looked at the secure base and erased the thought of it falling from my mind.

There wasn't really anything else inside of the room except for a black, round device on the floor plugged into the wall.

The woman finally put me down in the crib and after seeing everything I had a thought, Isn't this kind of plain? 

There was only the crib set up and a black devise that I couldn't identify, but there wasn't anything else inside of the room.

The walls were bare and the floor was covered with a white carpet.

It was like being alone on an island stranded in the middle of the ocean.

After the woman had left the room I took a longer look at the unknown device.

What is that thing? I wondered as I peered through the walls to gaze at it.

It seemed to have some holes on its surface but I couldn't fully tell.

Suddenly the woman came back into the room and rushed over to me.

The woman picked me up and held me with one arm, and when I was safely nestled in her arms she shoved a bottle in mouth.

I instintively bit down, and a tasty liquid rushed into my mouth.

My mouth was filling up quickly and I knew that I couldn't do anyting other than drink it, so I tried my best to swallow up the liquid, but it just kept coming.

In the end I drank it all, but I got incredibly fatigued.

So when the woman put me back into the crib, and tucked me in there wasn't anything else that I felt like doing other than sleeping.

What the heck is going on with me? I thought, as I fell asleep.

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I was heavily because of the unexpected results.

Nothing like this had ever happened before in my family.

The newest addition to the Roxwell family had been born unresponsive.

It wasn't anything completely unexpected, but what was scarier was how silent he was.

He wasn't dead.

His curious eyes that seemed to absorb all of their surroundings into them while shifting to find more. 

Their insatiable cravings left little more to be desired from them.

The intelligence they displayed made me feel a little prideful that he was in our family, but I cast it aside when I tried to call out for it multiple times only to be met with no response.

It scared me how the baby's eyes let no details escape it, but the ears had left everything to be desired.

In the end I had him drink the elixir that should help with his ears, but I don't think that I can do anything else other than hope for the young one.