Announcement of new Project Head

Brian woke up and doctors came to check on him. Brian was too weak and he could not understand much what was going on around him but he knew he was in hospital considering the environment and everybody's uniform. He looked around but his vision gain went hazy and he fainted again.

After few hours,

Brian woke up but this time he was in much better state. He tried to stand but he felt his leg to be very heavy. He removed the blanket from him and realized that there was a fracture in his left leg. He was also having pain in his back. There was no one in the hospital room. He needed answers and he could not move at all. He decided to wait for a little bit more so that a nurse or doctor or any visitor can come and to provide him with some answers. Brian realized his head was too hazy and it was too aching. He was worried that he will again lose consciousness and his questions will again remain unanswered. He could not bear that. Brian stood up with great difficulty wincing in pain. He dragged his body outside the hospital room. He was walking while taking support of furniture or wall. He was lucky that his room was not too much away from the reception. There were few more people standing on reception for inquiry with the receptionist and the receptionist seems like amateur. She was not able to properly handle the public in front of her and it made her frustrated.

Brian walked to the reception area while limping.

"Hello!!! Hello!!!" Brian called the receptionist but the receptionist was busy with other person.

"Madam!!! I received a call from this hospital and they said my wife was hurt. Can you tell me in which room she is?" the man asked.

"Are you sure the call came from this hospital only?" the receptionist asked the man in front of her.

"Of course!!!" the man replied annoyingly.

"Sir Can you give me her name?" the receptionist asked the man who was asking for his wife.

"Wait!!! I need help" Brian cried while wincing in pain. He was about to take a fall but he took a support of the receptionist table to keep standing and in response to it, other stuff like some files and a frame fell on the floor which helped Brian in getting attention from the receptionist.

"Oh my God!!! What are you doing here? You should not have come out of the bed. Go back!!!" the receptionist yelled at Brian.

No... Please Listen!!!!

Brian tried to say something to the nurse when he felt a strong blow over his head like someone hit him. He tried to turn around but his injuries made him trip and fall on the floor. All Brian could see was the person's shoes. Brian recognized those shoes very well as he himself was big fan of shoes. It was 1950s Monk Black Vintage shoes. Brian's consciousness again gave in and he fell unconscious again.

The man say X carried Brian in his arms and took him back to his room. The man put the Brian's body on the hospital bed and went away.

Brian on the other hand once again fell into the land of dreams.

Brian dream...

Brian was waiting on the garden bench for someone. He had a book he was reading but that was strange. He does not like reading the books. He was more like a movie person but that book was special. It was her wife's favorite book, Nebulous (Evil within) but where was his wife, Brian wondered. Brian looked around but found no one. He was getting worried now. He closed the book and stood to do a patrol of surroundings. He went close to the beautiful Lilies. He remembered buying them frequently for his wife. His wife loved lilies. But something was different about these lilies. Something was wrong. There were stains of blood in its petals and coming down the stem, there was a blood trail, filling and soaking the soil in blood but where was it coming from. He looked for the source and realized he was the one bleeding and the blood was coming out of him. He looked at himself in confusion and closed his eyes with a belief that he might wake up from his dream. Will he?

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Jerika was nervous as there was going to be an announcement regarding the project head. She had worked too hard so she deserved to be the one with the title. No matter what it will take only few more minutes to know the decision of board.

"Ma'am, should we go now?" Martin, Jerika's assistant asked.

"Sure!!!" Jerika said.

"Are you sure?" Martin asked Jerika when latter was looking too nervous then she needed to be.

"Of course I am Martin... I have been waiting for this moment for so long. Let's go" Jerika said to Martin. Martin knew her boss very well. He knew that she was worried because of the change I management and that could affect the overall decision although why were there so many changes, that were unknown and it does not matter if it does not affect them.

Jerika went to the meeting room with her assistant Martin and took her place at the meeting table. The round table had most of their members present but they were still waiting for the vital people to make crucial decision.

Soon the deciding board arrived with a familiar face to Jerika. That face was the one Jerika despised the most. She hated everything about him and it was no mystery to others. Why was he here? He had different station to work so what made him come all the way down here? Jerika did not have good feeling about it and especially the man handshaking with the members of deciding body committee, Dr. Antoine Mark. One of the officials stand to made the announcement everybody was waiting for. Jerika could only hope for good things to happen now but something told her that the things will not go according to her plan and everything will be ruined after this announcement.

The announcement was made very formal. A lot of blah... blah... was there and when finally the important thing came, Jerika closed her eyes to be prepared for the thing she had been waiting for so long.

"I happily announced Dr. Antoine Mark to be our new Project Head" the announcer said.

Everything was finished for Jerika. She did everything she was suppose to do for this job but still she failed in the thing which was the need of her life. All the hard work was ruined. Everybody clapped for the new Project head and Antoine smiled looking around. His gaze stopped when his eyes fall on Jerika. Jerika was already looking at him and the duo stared at each other for some moment and then Antoine lowered his gaze and then smiled to himself.