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“Excuse Me, can you tell me where I can find a patient named Simba Garcia?”
With a hopeful tone, I asked her.
“Let me check,”
She took a few seconds before shifting her gaze back at me.
“Sorry, there is no one by that name,”
“How is that possible, he should be here, he must be here, he too got in the accident with me,”
I didn’t know what I was muttering about until the receptionist spoke again.
“Accident?”
“Yes, we got into a car accident,”
“I thought that might help,”
“Let me check again, “
She looked at the screen again.
“There was a case of a car accident, and two patients were brought here, One was Eryna Serena And an unidentified kid, Are you looking for the kid?”
She asked.
“No! A man, a grown up- how is that possible.”
“Wait let me check it in the-”
The receptionist didn't complete her sentence but she got up and walked into the room behind her. It took her a few minutes before she came out with a file in her hand,
“Simba Garcia? “ She asked me in an assuring voice.
“Yes, where is he?”
“That- I am sorry. “ Her sorry filled gaze stared at me.
“Ha, what do you mean by sorry, please tell me where my husband is!”
“He was already dead when he was brought here,”
She spoke lightly.
The fierce thunder of that night was nothing compared to the bolt that had struck me at that moment. My heart gave out a sharp sting which caused my breath to shorten.
The girl who felt like she had the world in her grasp a few days ago was left alone in a dark space. The pain was too much to handle which caused her to faint right on the spot.
It was midnight when Eryna’s eyes opened, she was in the hospital bed, lying before an open window through which one could see the starry night, Like a soulless body Eryna got up and walked out of the door, her blank eyes that once had the light of the sun were as dark as the shades of night.
She dragged her body up to the building top through which the sky was visible, She stepped closer to the parapet, and stepped on it,
From the tall hospital building the world below looked too small, Everything looked meaningless. Eryna lifted her head to glance at the stars one last time, her eyes were determined, she had decided to end her life.
“I like them too, they are small and - and shiny,”
A cute voice spoke from beside Eryna that made her look at the source.
A small kid about 3 years old was staring at the starry sky with his cute round eyes. He mumbled to himself.
“What are you doing up here?” Eryna spoke to him with caution.
“What are you doing here?”
“Are you looking for your Mommy too?”
Eryna knitted her eyebrows at his odd question and looked at him strangely.
His cute pink lips uttered those soft and harmless words, Eryna didn’t know how to answer him so she turned around.
“Ah- Huff,”
Eryna heard weird sounds from beside her which caused her to took at the kid again, She saw him trying to climb the parapet that Eryna stood on, She reflexively stopped him,
“Don’t! you will fall off.”
“Then why are you standing there?”
He asked with a pouting face,
“I-I was looking at the stars,” Eryna didn’t want to pollute the kid's minds so she made up a lie.
“Then, I too want to see the stars from up there,”
“No go back, Go back to your Mom, She misses you,” Eryna wanted him to go away but he stood there with his round eyes staring at Eryna.
“I know, I miss her too. That is why I want to look at her from up there so I will be more close to her,”
His clueless words struck Eryna’s heart,
‘What was the meaning behind those words?’
Her suicidal thoughts were replaced by this question.
“What do you mean?”
“The lady downstairs told me that my mommy became a star so I came here to see her.”
Eryna, whose heart was blank a few moments ago, stung in pain when she saw the little kid, looking for his mother.
Eryna stepped down and cautiously approached the kid and touched his face.
“What is your name, little one?”
“My name is Simba,”
“Wha-”
Eryna lost her words, she didn’t believe her ears.
“Are you telling the truth? Is that your name?”
“Uhmm,”
He gave an energetic nod,
Eryna’s fingers caressed his chubby face where there was a small scratch.
“So you never lied to me,- You came back to me,” Eryna whispered to herself.
Her lovely eyes stared into the pair of innocent eyes, and then averted her gaze back to the sky.
“Which one do you think is your mother?” Eryna asked,
“Mmm…”
He made a sound with his lips and finally pointed at a star far away from others. It was bright and beautiful.
“Haha, your mommy sure is beautiful,”
“Who were you looking at? Did you find him?”
Eryna was caught off guard at the kid’s words and she looked at him with a blank gaze for a few moments.
“Mine? I have it right here,”
She finally smiled and pointed at his small nose that was pink because of the cold.
He giggled at her words.
“Another person died in that accident, It was his mother,” Eryna replied to Renya.
“I adopted him,”
…………………………………….
The sun sank below the horizon and the sky was painted in many shades of red. The birds were flying back to their nests.
The night was approaching and the air was growing colder yet everything was calm.
The hushed scene was disrupted by the unexpected ringing of a cell phone.
Renya swiftly picked up the call before disturbing Simba’s sleep. He was lying on Eryna’s lap sleeping soundly without any worries of the world.
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