Chapter 3: Why?

After helping Kath Montalvo, I couldn't sleep properly. I am wondering if what else I could do. I still feel the pain of the knife too. I sighed.

I pack my things and go to the hospital where Kath stayed. I passed through the nurses'desk and heard them "After two years, she's awake!" their voice is full of happiness and they run to the room of Kath where she stayed. No wonder why I couldn't see her after what happened. I smiled. Timing! I bring her favorite snacks with me.

I see the doctor and the nurses inside. He said the same thing as what my doctor said to me after I wake up.

She looks at me when I caught her attention. "Uhmm.. Who are you?" she asked. I enter the room. "A friend. It sounds like you don't remember me but that's fine as long as you're fine now" I said with a smile to her. She smiles back at me. I give to her the cellophane bag with the snacks she likes. "For you. Enjoy it!" I said then I walk away.

It's fine that she didn't remember me. I'm very glad that she's alive.

As I walk by the hallway, a man in my age look straightly in my eyes. He's tall, has manly features and looks scary because of her fierce eyes.

As we passedby each other. I suddenly feel dizzy. I feel something strange from him. It's not a ghost energy and he doesn't look like a ghost at all.

I look back at him. As I look at his back, I suddenly feel an energy that I couldn't bear until I passed out.

I found myself in a room, the ICU room. I look at the patient and a machine that helps him to go this far. He looks so pity. I sighed. What kind of situation I am in again right now?

Suddenly, a man caught my attention. He was the man in the hallway. He looks at me. Wait! He can see me? We look at each other.

The machine produces noise which tells us that something goes wrong with the patient which makes me worry too. A nurse came in. They tried to revive him as the machine gives the line signal.

The doctor gives up when he realized that he couldn't help the patient anymore. It makes me tears more out of my eyes. Is he dead? Then, I see the doctor shakes his head.

Now, my tears couldn't stop falling down my cheeks. This is me. I can easily feel the pain of others even though I am not related to them. But as long as I see them sad. I feel sad too. I don't know why I can feel what the others feel too.

Suddenly, the man came in and hold my hand. "You shouldn't be here" he said. What the--! How can he touch me?! I am in a state which a normal human could not see. Can he see it that a normal human couldn't? I'm speechless.

He brought me to a place where my body is, an empty room. I see my body lying down on bed. "Go back now" he said but it sounds like an order. "I... don't know how" I replied.

"What? You couldn't? Huh! Do you want a ghost to possess your empty body?" he asked.

"Empty?" I asked. I thought my body is sleeping. "Your body didn't recover yet from a long time sleep. If you don't go back within 1 day, you will be in coma again or maybe, you couldn't go back anymore" he explained.

I couldn't go back? No way! But how can I go back then?

"You have to find a way to go back to your body before dawn" he said as he looks on to his wrist watch. "You only have 20 hours left. You go out at 9 o'clock in the morning. So, you should come back tomorrow before 9 o'clock in the morning. That makes it 24 hours" he added.

We think of a way. I recall all the events that happened to me. Then, an idea came in to my mind. "Ah! Now I know!" I said loudly which makes him look at me with curiosity. "I have to help a ghost or soul so that I could go back" I said. "Just like what I did to Kath" I added.

He thinks of it. "I guess that's the only way for you to go back to your body" he agreed.

"So, is there any ghost who needs help?" he asked. I shake my head. "No idea" I replied.

Then, I see the ghost of the dead man earlier. He looks at his family who cries and cries in front of his dead body.

"I guess, someone needs me right now" I said.

I walk near to the ghost of the dead man. "What's your name?" I asked. He looks at me. "So, you're dead as well?" he asked.

I don't know if I should answer it or not. I look to the guy with me. He shakes his head. "Uhmm... Yeah" I replied. I don't know why I should lie to this ghost.

"I am Alejandro Nemesis, 30 years old and married" he answered. "What makes you bedridden?" I asked. His facial expression changes after I asked. From calm to sadness.

"I was brain dead two days ago because of a surgery that doesn't go well" he answered.

"Does your family know about it?" I asked. He shakes his head. "The doctor who does the surgery said to them that there's something that went wrong in my brain that makes me brain dead. But that's not true at all! He's the one who makes me brain dead because he is an incompetent doctor!" he answered with anger.

" There are two reasons in this matter" the man with me started to say something. "Who are you?" Mr. Nemesis asked. "I am Gian Anastacio" he introduced himself to us.

Oh yeah, i still don't know his name. What an idiot am I.

"First, he didn't notice that he cut some nerve in your brain that makes you brain dead. That makes him incompetent.Second, he intentionally cut a nerve in your brain to make you brain dead. He knows it and he's an expert of it. And the way he said that there's something wrong in your brain that made you brain dead is suspicious" he explained to us.

When I heard that explanation,it gives me headache. I pouted. "Can you explain in simplest way?" I asked. He chuckled. "You're slow minded" he said.

Tsk. He's so full of himself.

"So, what do you want us to do?" I asked to Mr. Nemesis. He sighed.

"I know that the doctor couldn't make me come back alive again even though I want a revenge on him. So, what I want you to do is to give my letter to them. The letter will be found underneath my pillow" he said.

"How could I enter the room? They are still inside it" Gian said. I rolled my eyes.

I enter the room and slowly pull the letter from underneath the pillow. I couldn't make them read it but I see Mr. Nemesis' daughter looking at the letter as it falls down.

She picks up the letter and read it. "Mom" she called to her mom. They read the letter and again, they cry more.

"There's no message about the cause of my death but the letter is all about how thankful I am to have a family like them" Mr. Nemesis said. Then, he smiles as he is disappearing slowly in front of us.

He looks at us and waves his right hand. "Goodbye and Thank you" as his last words.

I smile.

Then, a black out knocks me out.