REBORN AS A HOBO

Rebirth

SELENA'S POV

"Wait… Aren't i dead yet? Didn't I just fall from a fifteen storey building not long ago?" I thought to myself struggling to open my eyes. My head was hurting and the noise was so loud with horns honking and screams of disbelief filling the air. I slowly flustered my heavy lashes opening them to the blinding sunlight.

Looking around, I realized I was in the middle of the busy commercial road and the center of attraction too. I was surrounded by worried faces of commercial users and traders. But how? Aren't I suppose to be dead or if really still alive be at the award ceremony?

"Hey young devil! Next time don't jump into my way. If you are looking for someone to kill you, let it not be me. Now get out of my way!" An angry looking man yelled. Panicked, I jumped up on my feet with a surprise agility I never knew I had and ran to the walk way. On seeing myself on the glass door of an eatery, I frozed in surprise.

I wasn't myself anymore! I was someone else a young girl of about nineteen years old with a small oval face, pointed nose and perfect set of teeth. She was very slender and athletic but with injuries of varying degrees and colors all over her body. I touched my hair, it wasn't tinted purple anymore. Its now black and long falling all over my face with sand and leaves sticking out on it. I was putting on a dirty, stinky, raggedy pink jumper that showed all the beauty of this beautiful body.

Still wondering who I was, I was drawn to the conversation of two teenagers passing by. "I still can't believe singer Selena is dead. Nicole said she fell off. A lot of people don't believe her including me! I mean… How can a full grown human, still in her prime want to kill herself?" The first guy said shaking his head in pity.

"Tsk tsk stop talking about it! Somethings are better not said aloud. But I heard the award was later Nicole's. Poor Selena, all her hardwork was given to a common backup singer with no voice. What a pity, it has been two days now. Sigh." The second said.

Two days since her death? But it seemed like just seconds to me. As i tried asking about my fiancee Song from the boys, i felt a tug on her hair that i felt it coming off from my scalp. I screamed in agony swiftly turning back to see a fat and bulky woman with a staggering man holding a bottle of beer under his armpits.

"You evil demon! You ran away making Mr Gabriel collect all the five thousand dollars! I make sure you die today and I will sell your body parts to make back that money..!" The woman screamed dragging me by my hair down a dusty lane. "Mr Gabriel? Who the f**k is that?" I unknowingly screamed out of the pain of my hair that was being pulled.

"Yo..yo..u f...ool ta...ta..lking to…to your… Mother that wa...way! Sham….shame...less harlot" the drunken man cursed kicking my ribs and making me wince in pain. My body had peeled in several places while being dragged on the floor and it was as if i was on fire!

After what seemed like an eternal torture, we arrived at an abandoned car park that smelled like a refuse dump. I felt like throwing up but ended up retching till my tummy and ribs hurt. There were many other homeless people there including children. Some were sleeping, playing cards or chatting loudly.

I was thrown on the ground by the bulky woman and given the thrashing of my life. I thought I was going to die from hearing all the unprintable names I was called by the woman. "Who is this person I am inhabiting? Why is her life filled with miserable violence?" I thought to myself in pity. Suddenly, there were excited squeals from the other homeless people and wands of cash floating in the air.

The thrashing stopped, and I slowly looked up to see who was throwing money about. It was a huge, muscular familiar silhouette. He was putting on dark sunshades and a hat for disguise but he still looked familiar to me. "Song….?" The chubby woman called out in disbelief with tears of joy rolling down her face. I scoffed to myself. Maybe it isn't the song I know which is my fiancee because his parents can't be living in this dump.

The woman tried hugging him, but he pushed her away emotionlessly and threw a wad of cash at them. He then took of his sunshades. It was actually song! My song, my fiancee. How could it be? How can his parents be living in a dump? And this beautiful girl whose body i am inhabiting must be his sister right? How can he let them suffer this way while he is in affluence?

Anger rose in my heart making it beat faster and ache badly. I roared and charged at him, catching him unaware and knocking him to the ground. "Song how can you do this? Are you crazy? Are you such a monster? How could you do this to your family?" I shouted tearing at his expensive texudo. "Are you out of your mind Aria? Have you gone coconuts? Why are you speaking in a different voice and babbling nonsense?" He asked flinging me away like a leaf.

Her parents looked at me in shock and astonishment. Simultaneously, they pounded on me giving me the beating of my life that I lost count of how many times I coughed out blood. My left eye was blouchy and swollen. By the time I regained my senses after the beating, it was dark already and Song was gone. I need to get out of here quickly before I get killed by this bunch of mad animals. I wonder how the former inhabitant of this body had survived to this age with all this beatings and blows.

I waited patiently and painfully, until everyone was asleep before sneaking out of the car park and gathering all of my last strength to run. After running for what seemed like enternity, I found myself in my residential villa. "Hello I am Selena. Please let me in" I begged the guards at the gate.

There was a loud and long resounding laughter from them that they were almost rolling on the floor. "Selena? Are you her ghost or spirit? Miss Selena died two days ago and don't think because you speak like her we will let you in. Hahahaha you must be sick. Selena? Hahaha" the guard replied laughing till his tummy hurt.

I sighed heavily, my brain working fast on what to do next. Without thinking, I pinned the guard to the wall and punched him twice in the face, tore his clothes and tied him up with it. I walked quickly into the villa and was about barging into whatever party they were having in my living room. But what I heard next made me stop dead at the door.