Fading Boundaries

Chapter 3

Clara's POV

"She's awake, Doctor, she's awake." I heard an unfamiliar voice close to me scream.

Doctor?

I was at the hospital, the light blinded me, the smell almost made me throw up, it was one of the thousand reasons why I hated hospitals.

My sight was still blurry but I could see a figure or a shadow approaching me, I felt something on my chest, my body wasn't numb after all.

"She opened her eyes, she hasn't shut them since then, Doctor." The woman continued.

The shadow moved away from me.

"She's awake but I think the effect of the drugs hasn't worn out, it might take her a while adjusting to everything around her but make sure you watch her closely, if there's anything, you can call the nurses." I heard someone I assumed was the doctor say.

So I was in the hospital and not dead, but why did I feel like I was rammed into by seven buses? I couldn't raise any part of my body and my eyes that had been opened were threatening to close again.

"Okay Doctor."

I succumbed to sleep.

~•~

"Where am I?" I said the moment my eyes flew open again, this time clearer.

"Sweetheart." A voice called at my corner, dragging my attention. I recognized the voice, it was the same one I heard in heaven or did I hear wrong?

"What happened? Why am I here?" I asked looking round the room.

"You were wheeled in here last night, you were involved in an accident, if that's a more subtle way to say you were hit by my car." She said pulling her seat closer to me.

"Okay, so who are you?" She didn't look like someone I recognized.

"Oh sweetie, I brought you in here, you were drunk last night and unconscious,you would have easily been mistaken for dead."

The realization hit me like a brick, I had left that bar drunk, what if I had really died?

"Thank you very much ma, I'm really grateful."

"But do you have any friend I could call or family member to reach out to? What's your name?"

"None." I lied.

It was better to get used to my new life than to pretend everything was fine.

"Oh, she's awake." A man said, he was accompanied by another man and some women in blue."Hi, I'm your doctor,how are you feeling now?"

"A bit sore." I replied.

"Okay, that's normal, can you move your hands and legs?" He asked as the nurses wrote down my response.

I lifted my hands and my legs, there were still bandages, it hurt and I told the doctor.

"You should be grateful to Mrs. Fiona, she brought you here and donated blood when you needed it."

I looked at the woman close to me, she looked nothing like someone I knew, I was not only grateful that she didn't abandon me but she had stayed back and made great efforts in saving my life.

"Thank you very much Ma, I really appreciate."

"It's nothing, I'm glad I was able to help without that, I wouldn't have found out the truth."

"What truth?" I asked confused, looking from her to the doctor.

"The doctor would be in a better place to explain, I don't understand their terminologies." She said smiling.

My eyes immediately moved to the doctor who was also smiling.

"Well, during the process of reviving you, we found out your blood matched with hers, after everything, we decided to test the blood and found out that there's a high possibility that you both might be related."

Related? By what? Through who? The more I tried to understand the doctor's words, the more confused I became.

"They indeed carried out a test and I'm not sure that's enough to prove that you're my daughter, my long lost daughter."

"What are you even saying? Who told you I don't have a mother?" I asked weakly.

She held my arm, the part that didn't have any bandage.

"Child, this is fate. I've been looking for my daughter for years now, this is a perfect timing by God."

"I have a mother and a family at home waiting for me, I don't know what you're talking about." I said trying to convince her and myself that she was making a mistake.

"Sweetheart, I was stunned as much as you are but I believe in divine programming, I believe our encounter wasn't a mere coincidence, I know it's hard to accept because I'm also finding it hard but can we question fate? I know it's hard but I'll give you time. I'm always available to answer your questions and I won't leave your side until I'm sure you're perfectly fine, my child."

"Your child? I am not your child, why do you guys keep doing this? Why do you want to upturn my life? I am not your child, you can't just call a stranger your child because she looks homeless." I yelled, trying to stand up.

I was alive anyways, so there was no point staying here any more. Everyone was deliberately trying to drive me mad, the universe hates me because why pick a random day to remind me how unlucky my life could get?

"Take these things off me, I want to go home, I'm perfectly fine now." I yelled at the doctor.

"Sweetheart, please be calm, you're not perfectly fine, you can't leave just yet." The woman said pleadingly.

"I'm not your sweetheart, I need to go home, I have to go home. There's a family waiting for me, you must be mistaken."

I tried standing up but I was held back by the nurses and the doctor came with a syringe.

"Miss, please, you have to calm down. You're not perfectly fine. Your pregnancy might be safe but you'll endanger it if you continue like this."

I paused.

Did I hear right? Pregnancy? Was I?

A sting on my arm, silence and everything went dark again.