Chapter 2 : The thing

I woke up on my bed. The first thing I felt was pain. Damn this headaches. I looked around and just remembered that I'm in my room.

How the hell?

I closed my eyes and recalled what happened yesterday.

I played you are my sunshine but i wasn't able to finish the song because Joshua came. We had a little fight because I kept telling him that his voice is awful. Then I got up because my head hurts.

"Aiyah"

That was it. Then it went black.

It's Wednesday. 9:12 am. It was 2 am when I left my room to go to the playground and rest. I held my pain when all the memories of me waking up late came to my mind.

"Are you okay?"

I jumped put of bed when I heard that voice. "What the heck are you still doing here? You have a freaking meeting!" I screamed at my brother. This guy has a very important meeting today with his band, Lovelost and he chose to stay here with me. Other people will probably feel flattered or touched about what he did but I didn't. I don't like Carlo sacrificing things because of me.

"I cancelled it. Do you think I can attend that if you're in that condition? For God's sake, Aiyah! Can you think of yourself even once?"

I want to answer but I chose not to. In my 24 years of existence, I never won an argument with Carlo the great. So instead, I just rolled my eyes to show him that I know what I'm doing. He sighed heavily and was ready to lecture me when we heard a knock followed with Doctor Salazar entering the room. He's accompanied with the nurse that is still looking at my brother but I tried to ignore it.

"How are you?"

"I'm on a deathbed, so I think I'm fine, thank you for asking." Carlo smiled at my doctor before walking towards the side of my bed. I hissed when I felt him pinch me. "What?" I mouthed. He glared his eyes at me to make me shut up. It's not my fault the question is stupid. Come on, this bed is owned by a hospital. Tell me, is there anyone who lay down here who's completely fine? I don't think so.

"I mean I'm still dizzy. That's normal." I just said. I asked Carlo to hand me the glass of water located on the side table which he handed immediately.

"What do you think is the reason behind this, doc?" Carlo said after giving me water. " My sister is not the type of person to just black out without any reason. Besides, this is the first time this happened.

"That's why were here. We will run some tests on her."

Fear crawled my body after hearing doc's words. It's not like I'm scared of blood or injections, I just really don't like it when someone is doing shits on my body. Carlo must've felt me shivering because he held my hand and nodded at me which only made it worse. I know what he meant was, "It's gonna be okay. I'm here." but for me, it felt like, "This is gonna be quick so don't say no you brat".

They left after explaining what'll happen later. They gave me an hour to relax because they said I needed to be calm during the process. Carlo also left but he handed me the ukulele and whispered, "Just in case". I punched him in the arm for teasing me so much but he just chuckled.

Since it was too late and it was hot outside, I can't hang out at the playground. After minutes of thinking if I should go outside or just stay in my room, I decided to go down and stay at the canteen since I was craving for lemonades.

"Lemonade please."

My order was given to me after a few minutes. I sat down of my usual seat, by that I mean where I sat yesterday, with Carlo's ukulele in my arm.

I looked around then closed my eyes. My right hand were already on the neck of the ukulele, forming a chord and the other was strumming. A few more up and downs and I started singing.

"Wise men say

Only fools rush in.

But I can't help falling in love with you."

While singing, an image pop out of my mind. I didn't even knew why. I just saw a picture of a thin man with a pale skin, then those blue eyes.

"Joshua"

"Miss me already?" I closed my eyes firm, making it water a little. I sighed before opening them and looked at the guy in front of me. Damn it, I think I said it out loud.

I rolled my eyes and ignored him. I continued strumming the instrumental verse and was about to sing when he sang along. This time, I didn't stop.

"Shall I stay

Would it be a sin?

If I can't help falling in love with you."

That voice. I've heard it somewhere. I just can't tell where. This is weird. I should remember him if I knew him right? Why can't I freaking remember where?

"Like a river flow, surely to the sea.." He was shocked when I sang along with him. Our voices were strangely beautiful in it's own way. He looked at me while I continued singing and playing. I looked down and focused on my chords. But I can't seem to focus whenever he's here. I can't and I don't know if I'm doing whatever right because I know he's looking.

"Darling so it goes, somethings are meant to be.." I stopped. I looked at my watch and got up when I saw it's already an hour since I doc left. It's time. I fixed the ukulele on its case and looked at Joshua. He doesn't seem confused at all.

"I need to go." The last words I said before I went to my room. What was that? I really know that voice somewhere. But why am I not seeing images of it like it should be? What did I forget, exactly?

Is it because of that? Is it because of the thing that made me forget..?