"Drrriiinnnng... "
As the bell announced the end of the alloted time the female examiner said "Time's up, stop writing everyone"
After submitting my answersheet i got out of the exam hall and went down the hallway discussing along the way with them. After a while I crossed the schoolgates and got outside with a deep sense of ease as today is the last day of my high school life.
Some may say that who says you've already passed you may end up failing. Well they are not wrong I may end up failing as I'm not some perfectionist who is 100% confident that he will clear it no matter what but I know my parents very well it's either pass or the family business there are no second chance.
Well I'm atleast grateful to them being strict with me Or I might've ended up like those buffoons who can't even score in double digits.
But this joy is short lived, I have to start preparing for my college entrance exam from tommorow onwards atleast I've got today to enjoy myself and what might be a better way to celebrate than going home and sleeping till I wake up naturally and not by the maddening voice of that damned alarm clock.
Feeling a bit suffocated I loosen up my tie but it didn't help 'What's wrong am I sick or something, should go to the doctor... ' but before I could finish that thought I collapsed.
***
'Ah...' my body is so sore, it feels like I've been sitting on my desk nonstop for 8 hours even opening my eyes feels so damn tiring. After alot of effort I finally managed to open looking, it was a very typical hospital room with a doctor sitting nearby waiting for me to get comfortable.
"How are you feeling right now" the doctor asked.
"Not too well" I was surely in a poor state but it was still not the worst I've ever been. It probably doesn't even make it in top 10.
"Well I suggest that you rest for a bit longer we've already conducted all the necessary tests while you were asleep with your parents permission"
Seems like I've been out for along time, I hope it's nothing serious.
"Can I see my parents"
"Of course I'll have them informed that you've woken up" and with that the doctor left.
After a while, my parents came in barraging me with questions like how I feel, do I feel hungry, is there anything I need and many more. Once they calmed down a bit they told me that I've been unconcious since yesterday.
The reason for my sudden collapse is still unknown as I do not show any symptoms of any known diseases. Atleast I celebrated my last day of school the way I planned but it was not enjoyable at all. I don't feel like I will be getting out of here anytime soon.
And that is how it went once the doctors figured the cause, it turned out to be a really rare sort of disease which doesn't show any symptoms till it's impossible to save the patient and it's rarity makes it incurable at the moment after all there have only a few such reported cases.
Means that I'm plagued by an incurable disease which will end my life in about less than a month.
Once the news about my condition reached the ears of all those who knew me I received continuost visits from friends, relatives, teachers, neighbours and many more there were some who felt pity, some told me words like you've been a good friend, a good student, a good person but as the days kept on passing the number of visitors decreased but there were still some who continued to come everyday.
As for me my condition was deteriorating with each passing moment. After the first week I was not even able to eat by myself and after the second even my thoughts became hazy I laid on my bed feeling sore and miserable and after the third week it started to feel like if I close my eyes now I might never wake up again and by the end of the fourth week I died.
'What I'm not dead yet why are they all crying I'm still alive' why can't I move my body even my breathing has stopped and I can't even close my eyes. That doctor what did he inject in me, but I could do nothing except staying still and then my father closed my eyes.
I don't know what happened after that but it seems that my body has not been disposed of yet. Opening my eyes I try to look around but it seems that my body is restrained in such a way that I can't even move my neck. All I can see is a white ceiling with unusually bright lights.
"You're awake"
I know that voice it's the doctor, so am I gonna be used as a test subject for some experiment because I can't think of any other reason except for this.
"Don't worry I won't hurt you, you were doomed to begin with I just wish to give you a second chance" And after that he never spoke again.
From then on he performed performed many sorts of weird tests on me but atleast none of them were painful but my condition was making just being alive rather painful but today it all ends as today seems to be the last day of whatever he is doing.
He injected me with the same thing again which he used on the day I was declared dead and my eyes were closed once again.
After that whatever he did I couldn't feel a thing, but at one point my entire mind shuddered as if my conciousness itself was being hurt but it only lasted a moment but my senses came back but they felt different like how I felt before I was hospitalized.
Opening my eyes I looked around, it was a small room with poor lighting and a doublebed in the middle with me laying on it alongside a beautiful women who was atleast a few years older than me.
'Who is she, where are my clothes wait... ' I'm naked in a bed with a women what did she do to me while I was asleep was I sold to this women but what about my disease did the doctor cure it just to sell me doesn't seem to be the case.
Before I finished figuring out what was going on the beautiful women woke up. Rubbing her eyes she looked at me with a gentle smile
"Good morning dear"
Who... Me...dear is she in her right mind I do not even know her but wait the time frame between the time I blanked out from the doctor's medicine and the time I woke up is too short for me to spend a night with a women it was like half an hour and it doesn't seem likely for him to arrange such a scenario for me to wake up in. Just then the women spoke again
"I'll go make breakfast you get up as well" and after giving me a kiss she went to pick up her clothes from all around the room. I noticed it now that the women was walking around the room naked.
'I shouldn't look' looking away I got back to the thing I was thinking about the thing the doctor talked about a second chance was it to transfer me into a new body into someone else's because I've realized it already that this is not my body. How I just looked down under the sheets and that thing was probably not mine I think I get she sees in this body.
'Ahhhh...Yaaaawn, another beautiful morning where is Matilda and why am I sitting up'
Who said that, it's like it's sounding directly inside my head have I gone crazy from the scientific experiments of the doctor. After a bit of caution I asked "Who spoke"
'Huh, who are you and why can I hear voices in my head' the voice seemed startled and his head is it the original owner of this body.
"Hello brother, I'm a nameless soul who was on the brink of death and entered into your body after the experiments from a crazy doctor" I didn't know how to explain myself so I said what was the truth it's not like a voice can hurt me.
'What... Are you some sort of sorcerer, get out of my body before I report you for misuse of power'
"Sorcerer what bullshit is that whatever I said is the truth I know it's sudden but it's sudden for me as well I didn't know that I was gonna enter the body of someone else"
'Matilda, where is she what did you do to her'
"Relax she just went out to make breakfast and told you or us to get up"
'Listen I will warn you one last time, see that on the back of my right hand I'm a five star potential do me any harm and the higher ups will kill you'
Five star potential what's that I did think that there might be chances that the body I've entered is not from my own world but I guess I'll check it just to be sure.
"Listen can you tell in which country we're in right now"
'Country, what is a country the if you're asking this place this is Matilda's house it's in the market area of land under the rule of the Ice Queen in the northern continent'
"So listen whoever you are, I know you're the owner of this body but it seems that I've entered your body and don't know how to exit it so please be kind enough to tell me about what this world is cause it feels like I'm not from this world"
'What so wish for me to believe that you hijacked my body but don't know how to exit but I should treat you nice and tell you all about this world cause you're completely unknown to it, very good it's so stupid that I would've believed you if you were inside someone else's body but not mine'
"Listen it's your choice if you wish to believe me Or not cause it feels like I'm the one who can move this body now not you so if you won't tell me I'll figure it out myself"
'Wait... Ok I will help you because if I don't you will get yourself killed before in the blink of an eye and me and Matilda in the process as well'
"What do you mean killed I'm not a baby who will get lost or get taken advantage of by some bad guys I know whom not to approach"
'Doesn't matter because with those stars on the back of your hand you will not approach them they will approach you and not some petty thieves or thugs but real bad guys'
What's with his tone it seems to carry the feeling of dread which was not there before.
'Now that you understand the danger involved with me allow me to introduce myself again I'm Sars, a five star potential who just awakened yesterday and has the potential to become one of the few dozen five stars in the world'