Identity in Shambles

The quiet room greeted Aileen as she regain her conscious, still closing her eyes, she senses her surroundings with her hearing. Where am I? She naturally thought as she can neither hear footsteps nor wind passing by, instead a sound of monitors whirring quietly reached her ears a second later. She finally chooses to open her eyes, recognizing the white ceiling and a conspicuous pole carrying an IV bag. She looks down to see wires on her chest, stuck by a tape or something.

"Why do I have this?" She softly mumbles and tried to see her chest to see any injuries.

The door suddenly opened and Aileen just expected it to be her mom, "What happened to me, mom--" she stopped her voice as the silhouette was clearly not her mother's.

Rachel appeared from the curtain and smiled, "Aunt has yet to come back, sorry for raising your expectations" she said with a sorry voice and raise a plastic bag.

"I at least, bought us some food" she said and gave me a gelatin and sandwich.

They first ate in silence till Aileen notice her staring, "Are you going to ask me if I remember what happened before?" she asks, dropping her cup of orange gelatin.

Rachel look down then sigh, "Not exactly, I can simply tell that you have yet to regain your memories" she said and Aileen happen to agree with it.

"Anything that happened 8 years ago and everything before that, I can barely remember it except what happened to me and Allen" Aileen explained while looking down on her hands, feeling odd.

"I see, well, I'm here to say a good news and sorta a bad news" Rachel stood up close to Aileen and sat on her bed.

"Well, the news is actually just one and it is a good news for us but a sorta bad news for you" did something happened to my body? What can be a good news to her but not to me? Aileen thought in a hesitant manner.

"Last night, a core generated in you, causing a major energy explosion in the area" Aileen grabbed Rachel's arm in surprise and looks at her with eyes trembling with fear and confusion.

"A core?" she ask in case her ears played a prank on her. Aileen had cold sweat running behind her and the flashes from last night returns.

The flames engulfing the house. I passed out in pain and Alex saved me from that. I suddenly felt pain on my leg as if someone is peeling my skin. Aileen turned pale as she recognizes the events slowly.

"Aileen, don't worry, the core is dormant, so calm down" Rachel said, but this just made her friend become much more unease.

"But Rachel! I who does not have a Guide to begin with, to have a core is just..." she stops her words as pessimistic thoughts had block her rationality. Saying that the heaven and earth collapse around her was not enough to describe what Aileen feels, and Rachel understands that but she also knows that she can't do anything that will ease her friend's mentality.

After not knowing where your parents is, of course you'll be shock to know something that's supposed to have grown in you 18 years ago, just appeared now. Rachel thought and sigh, returning to the sofa and waited for her friend to calm down.

"Where's Alex?" Aileen asks as she regain her composure after 2 minutes of overthinking.

Rachel grabs her phone from her pocket and shows her the screen, "He's being interrogated by the agents for now" she nonchalantly says as if it wasn't a big deal.

Aileen's eyes widen, "Why is that?" she wanted to make sure that her friend is not being framed for certain events that she may have caused.

"He's there in lieu of you, the cause of this energy explosion, and I, who is a fellow witness" she puts her phone back inside her pocket and looks at Aileen once again.

"When agents hear about you regaining conscious, they'll storm in here for your interrogation as well" she waits for Aileen's reaction. Her mind is still full of pessimistic thoughts that her eyes are too unfocused, Rachel notices this and sighs.

"I can contact them that about your health" she returns to her seat and eats what's left of her food.

Aileen glances at her, sees the small bandages from her legs and slowly drowns to guilt, "Say, it's not me who cause that, right?"

She glances over her own injuries and shakes her head no, "I don't know if you can clearly remember, but last night, it seems that gates opened everywhere, it happens to be that our location had one and we needed to fought to survive" she explains. Rachel wanted to talk about how they survived it but bite her lips.

She smiles, "the agents came and terminated it" I don't think Aileen can take the shock.

Alex sat on a metal chair, inside an interrogation room. A second later, outside the window, a man approaches the door and opens it. He looks at Alex and smiles.

"I'm Agent Ramir, anything that goes out of your mouth should be the truth or punishments shall be granted" he said those words while grabbing the seat and sat, putting down the metal clipboard on the metal small desk.

"Now, state your name, age, guide, and relations to Aileen Victor" what a straightforward person. Alex though and sigh in surrender.

"Alexander McCarthy, 19 years old, Tabaldak, and I'm an old friend of the said person" the agent simply nods and jot down all the information.

"Then, base on our records, it seems like Aileen Victor had also caused the same happening 8 years ago, is she a reincarnated one?"

"I may be obligated to tell the truth, but I am currently tied and can't say anything regarding that to authorities" Alex knew he just dug his own grave, but after all, a 'hex' may have been applied on him when he agreed to Aileen's uncle.

"Is this person in higher position?" The Agent pressed. If ever the person is in higher position, they may even have the choice of dispersing the interrogating schedule for Aileen Victor and also the suspicion due to insufficient information.

"You may say that, after all, the Lu family has quite a huge influence on the Government" the agent sigh. The family was listed as a member so I didn't thought that one of the parents would be a member of Lu family. He press his pen down and looks at Alex.

"You should have said something about that, man" Ramir said and stood up.

"Tell to your friends that there is a higher possibility that the interrogation for Aileen Victor is cancel" The agent left the room and Alex stood up.

"Lu family is just as powerful as before, really" he murmurs and heads out as well.

Agent Ramir sighed as he returned, looking at his paper, it's nearly blank, he thought and opened the surveillance room.

"Excuse me, I would like---"

"Marcus!! Is it true that Aileen Victor is a member of the Lu family??!!" A man who sprang on his seat as soon as the agent entered, yelled and was nearly on the verge of tears.

"As what you may have heard, one of the parents may have been a member of the Lu---"

"They can bulldoze the quarters for all they care you know!!" He pulls his hair in frustration and grab a USB from his drawer and plug it in his CPU right away.

"I'll give the copy to you immediately so that I can delete this right away" he murmurs and looks at his screen intently as if its going to speed the process.

While waiting, the door swung open again and revealed a guy that they recognize.

"Excuse for my rudeness but I would like--"

"AHHH!" The man yelled while pointing franticly to the person who entered.

"Allen Victor is your name, right?!" He yells again.

"Yes sir...what may have happened?" Allen ask confusingly and Ramir just look at the ceiling, why the hell did they put a frantic guy on the surveillance room?

Chapter 15 end.

To be continue