Doctor lean closer to Soleil, "Do you remember who you are?" Doctor asked, then he pointed towards Soleil's parents.
"Do you remember who are they?" He added.
"Mi kaha hu? Aur app log kon Hao? [Where am I? And who are you?]" Soleil questioned. As no one speaks hindi, no one understand her.
"Doctor what is she saying?" Father asked.
Doctor after examine her for few minutes then said, "I don't understand. Seems like she lost her memory."
Soleil look around her, suddenly she look frightened. She looked shocked after seeing her own reflection on the Operation theater window.
'That's not my face, and that's not me... WAIT....How am I in that strange girl body... am I dead...' Anu said in her head. While inside Soleil's body.
"Please hold on... what's going on here...?" Anu asked.
"Look at Me... Don't you recognize your mother?" Her mother cupped her face and turning it towards her, her hands were trembling, tears flowing from her eyes.
"Sorry... I don't... I mean I am not the person you are thinking..." She replied. Trying to understand the situation around her.
"Maybe she got Amnesia. Maybe she hit her head pretty badly, which led to her memory loss." Doctor said after examine the situation in front of him.
Soleil's mother gasped, her hand covering her trembling lips. "You mean... she doesn't remember us?" she asked, her voice barely above a whisper.
Doctor nodded.
"Doctor.... is there any way that her memory can be restore...?" Father asked.
"We can't say when will a person will regain its memory. As maybe she will regain them in few days or maybe they will took many years or in worse scenarios — never." Doctor said.
But I can give some medicine for her head injury." He added.
"Soleil... it's me your father" her father hold her hands gently in comforting gesture.
"I am sorry but I am not the person you are thinking of. I am not your daughter... I—" As Anu could say anything else, parents hugged her.
"It's okay, even if you don't remember us... we are happy you are alive..." her father said, while giving a kiss on her forehead.
Anu could see the pale face, swollen eyes because of crying, the redness in eyes because of not sleeping, so she keep her mouth shut not wanting to bother their happy moments. She can see the happiness, 'They are happy, if I tell them that I am not their daughter but a Stanger inside this body. They might freak out. Or maybe they won't believe me. I should tell them after they will calm down.'
After a while she was taken to her room before operation theater.
"When can she be discharged?" Father asked, his voice was soft but urgent.
The doctor flipped through Soleil's medical file, nodding slightly. "Her condition seems stable, but I recommend a few weeks of complete rest. We'll run a few more tests before confirming the discharge." He placed a reassuring hand on the father's shoulder, offering a kind smile before excusing himself.
Soleil lying on bed, "So... what is my name?" She questioned them awkwardly. She was feeling bit weird asking name from them, as she is not the owner of the body.
"Soleil... my dear." Her father said.
"Sholay..." Anu said.
"No... Soleil not Shola..." Her father corrected her.
"Sho-lay....?" She tried to say the name again.
"Yeah, like this. You are doing great." He looked happy. He smiled.
"Soleil...[pronounced soh-lay]" she finally speak it right.
"There you go, my baby girl." He said proudly. His face was lighten up.
"Sir, you have to leave the patient alone for rest." A nurse come from behind and said to him.
"Alright..." He gets up, kiss her on forehead and leave.
After her medical cheak up. Her results were out.
"You can take her home now, sir." Doctor said.
Both were really happy. Relief washed over them, a profound joy swelling in their hearts. After weeks of fear and despair, they finally had their daughter back from the clutches of death.
****
On other side of earth, In India, estimates time - afternoon. Soleil inside of Anu's body.
Anu's mother sitting down on ground looking worried and anxious.
"Wake up, Anu...[Utho, Anu!]" her mother desperately trying to waking her up. Anu's forehead got a cut it's not deep but the blood flowing. Anu's mother take her head on her lap, her hands were trembling, seeing her daughter in this state. Icing her forehead to stop the bleeding.
She called her husband, "Hello... Anu hit her head... and bleeding... the bleeding won't stop...[Hello...Anu, ko sir mein chot lag gayi hai. Khoon bahut aa raha hai.]" she was stuttering while telling her husband.
"She... won't get up.... I am trying... but still...[Vah... uth nahin rahi hai... Main koshish kar raha hoon... lekin phir bhi...]" she said. Her husband on the other side on the call said something.
"I...I... am... doing... Icing, but ... nothing... she still not waking up... please come home... please... as fast as you can...[Main barf lagaa rahi hoon, lekin kuch nahin ho raha hai. Anu, jaag nahin rahi hai. Please, jaldi ghar aa jaayo]" she cried. Her voice broke into sobs. Desperately trying to woke her up.
After a while Anu - Soleil got into conscious. The surroundings were unknown to her. Unfamiliar voice echoed in her ears, she opened her eyes. A women sobbing, while applying ice on her forehead.
"Anu... anu... my child you woke up![Anu...Anu... mera bacha, tu uth gayi]" Mother said, hugging her.
Soleil who was in Anu's body now was shocked, knowing nothing about her surroundings and seeing a Unfamiliar women in front of her.
'What happened... where am I...' She thought to herself. Looking her surroundings she saw the dressing drawer. She gets up and saw herself, 'That's not me... that Anu... what happened how did I end up in her body?' As she was questioning herself. Her mother gets up looking happy after seeing her conscious and worried to.
"Anu... what happened... how did you gets this badly hurt? [Anu, Kay hua tha. Themhe ithni bori kese lagi]" mother asked her while applying ice to her forehead.
Soleil couldn't understand her language at all.
"Miss.... I am not Anu... I am Soleil..." she said in low and soft voice trying to explain her situation.
"I don't know how I end up here... but I am not your daughter." She said gently taking ice pack from her hands.
"Anu... what are you saying...—" As Anu's mother could ask more, the doorbell ring desperately. It was non other than her husband. He was worried, he was panicking, his hands were trembling.
Anu's mother opened the door.
The first thing he asked, "how is her condition...? Did she woke up? [Woh kesi hai, ose hoshe aaya?]"
"She did woke up but she is saying that she is not Anu... she is Sholay... I don't understand why is she saying that...." Tears pooled in her eyes, her disbelief mingling with a deep, gnawing dread. She clutched her husband's arm for strength, both of them now standing in front of Anu, Soleil who is inside Anu's body.
"What kind of prank are you playing. Anu?[tum yah kaisee prank terhe kar rahee ho anu?]" Father asked in cold voice.
"Sir... I don't know what are you saying... but I can say it's not a prank... I am not Anu but Soleil... I am from Calonia...
"Stop this act at once... I don't want to hear about anything. I came all the way here from the office just because I was worried. And this what you were doing. [yah sab band karo... main kuchh bhee sunana nahin chaahata. main office se yahaan sirf isalie aaya kyonki main chintit tha. aur tum yah sab kar rahe thi]" His hand turned to into fists. His anger is getting out of control.
Soleil flinched at his tone, her palms clammy with anxiety. She didn't understand every word, but the disapproval in his eyes was clear. "Sir... I am sorry... but what I am saying is true... please believe me..." she said her voice stammering and her body trembling.
"Dear... I never Anu like this before... maybe we should take her to hospital. I think maybe she hit her head too hard... [priy... mainne anu ko pahale kabhee aisa nahin dekha... shaayad hamen use hospital le jaana chaahie. mujhe lagata hai ki shaayad usane apana sir bahut zor se maara hai...]" Mother said with concerned.
He gets into his normal self, "Maybe you are right... Let's take her to hospital. [shaayad tum sahee ho... chalo use hospital le chalate hain.]" He said, his eyes filled with worried for her daughter.
"Let's go to hospital, Anu... [chalo hospital chale, Anu...]" Her mother said in calm voice.
Soleil just stare at them because she didn't understand their language. Her eyes blicking in confusion.
'What are they saying...? If I had my phone so I could.... wait Phone (Her eyes widened as she remembered something) yeah, phone' Soleil gets a idea.
"Can you lead me your phone sir...?" Soleil asked from Anu's father. Pulled out her hands gesturing to borrow his phone. He takes out his phone give her in confusion as he still thinks she is playing prank.
"Sir... here I have my universal student ID" she showed him her ID which written her name 'Soleil...' and her other information.
"What is this?" He asked.
"My student ID...."
Both parents were confused they don't know what to say about this.
"Then where is my daughter...?" Mother asked.
"Maybe in the void or in my body..."
"Huh?" His father reaction.
"What do you mean... you possessed our daughter's body?" Mother asked.
"No... I am not a ghost... I met your daughter in that strange place..." Soleil tell them about the place she met Anu.
"What do you mean by strange place.?"
"I don't know what was the place was but that place had no end... it was empty... as far you see you can only see the red sky and foggy environment. That lonely place I met your daughter... she was the only one there except me." She take a deep breath.
"I thought I was dead... so I thought she was... but after we talked for few minutes we suddenly fall and I come inside her body..."
"I don't understand what you just said..." Father said.
"Me neither." Mother nodded with his statement.
"Please believe me... I know it sounds stupid... no one will believe it but it's the truth." Soleil trying to convince them what she was saying is the truth.
"Yeah... ok... then let's go" He said.
"Where...?" Soleil asked.
"To Your parents..." He replied, he seems hiding something.
"Are you going Calonia...?" Soleil looked excited.
He takes a big sigh, "yeah... we are."
Soleil went inside to change her clothes.
"Are you really going...?" Anu's mother asked.
"No. Not at all" his eyes were cold. "We are taking her to hospital."
"Oh..."
They arrived in the hospital.
"This isn't airport?" Soleil said.
"Yeah... I have some work to do here. Let's get inside." Anu's father said.
They get inside. Anu's father went to meet the doctor while Anu's mother and Anu - Soleil sitting on the beach waiting for him to return.
"Are you sure... you are not Anu?" Anu's mother asked.
"I... I am not Anu..." she replied.
"Okey..." she said and turn her face.
After few moments later he returned.
"Anu... sorry Sholay... come with me..."
"Yes..." she followed him. "But my name is Soleil not Shola..." she corrected him.
"Ok... now let's go" He ignored her.
In the doctor cabin.
"So you are Sholay?" Doctor said
"No... I am Soleil." She corrected him also.
"Well it's the same. So tell me why do you think you are not Anu but Sholay and since when?" Doctor questioned her.
"Wait what... doctor, sir..." Soleil look both of them. It was clear that even if she try to explain them they won't believe her. So she silent herself.
"Mmm...." Doctor after examine her situation. "Maybe she got Amnesia." He said.
"What are you saying... you mean she forgot us... them what with this Sholay?" Anu's father asked in frustration but controlling his anger.
"I can't say about it... maybe she watched any TV show and started to think that she is the character from the show... sort of..." Doctor explains him.
Later at home. It's 6 PM.
Anu's father phone rings, "Now who the hell is calling..." He sees the number, "I don't know who is it..." He declined the phone call.
"So she won't recall us again...?" Anu's mother asked looking worried.
"Doctor said it may take time to remember like days, weeks.. months or something years... but in worse scenarios never." He said holding his head in distress
She gasped as she hear never.
"But doctor said that she will recall everything... her head injury is not that severe..."
Anu's mother phone rings, "who is it calling...?" She saw a unknown number. "I don't know who is it..." she declined it.