Deja Vu [ Lilian Ashley ]
9. The Second Life's

WHY can I still feel the presence of the world? Am I in the afterlife?

I opened my eyes slowly and began to focus the light of the gaze around. The sound of a digital clock ticking near my ears and as my eyes glanced towards him, was shown at 18:00 and the twenty of July. As expected, I was in the hospital again. I realized that time had gone backwards. As for the same date and time as when I rose from the first nightmare. This is not a dream, it is real.

So, in fact, I have died and now rise in a state of time that runs backwards to live the same life as before. This is like pressing the replay button when the game has declared defeat on the character played by the lady.

"Yahoo! Ashley's awake!" I turned to the origin of the voice and found Sherly standing in the doorway and walking quickly towards me with a gleeful face. "What a hell I'm cooling you when you wake up!"

When I was human, the first person in front of me was Kai. And this time it's different. Surprisingly, why did Sherly change her speaking style to me? He always used the word lo-gue but now it is you.

"Sher, can you call a doctor?" ask me to Sherly who suddenly put on a look of confusion.

"What's wrong? Is anyone sick? Need food? Drink?" Well, at least Sherly hasn't changed about her disappointment. "Would it be replaced?"

"No, I want a report to go home" I said. "By the way, who paid me in this hospital?"

"Basic, we just want to go home. When it comes to pay, there's the painter guy whose regular customer caffe you, you know! I saw him a lot and it turns out he's coming with us to the top too. Uh, no, she saved you right in the ravine" Sherly said, moving her hand. Who is this rescue guy? I'd really like to thank him. "If you want to go home, I'll call River first."

Why should River? "No need, just Kai."

Suddenly Sherly's forehead shriveled and looked at me confusedly. "Kok Kai?"

"Yes, she's my boyfriend" I replied with the best looks possible.

Sherly looked at me in surprise. "Well, your girlfriend's River! It must have been because of falling in the ravine and having your head bumped and now being forgetful."

Suddenly my mouth was flabbergasted after listening to this. It's unbelievable. Not only did time turn into retreat, now my boyfriend changed that started Kai into River. I believe my brain is still functioning and remember very well that yesterday was neither a dream nor a hallucination. Even now I have not lost my memory from a while ago. Sherly said I had fallen into the abyss, but it was July 23 and not July 20. Why does time rotate backwards to the date on which I rise for the first time in starting a new memory?

Sherly shook her head in no wonder while looking at her phone. "So soon, it's been raised with River. Hello, Uh cuy. Your girl is human. Huh? .., I'm not kidding, yeah! .., yeah-yeah the most snacking. Yaudah hunted here." They look so familiar. I know Sherly never spoke to River yesterday.

A few minutes later, River entered my room with his usual flat face. "Let's go home, I've called the doctor."

So short, solid and clear. It was as if being present only needed to see me without asking me anything about my condition. We're taking care of my return, and Sherly left me alone with River. Instead of going home in a car like Kai back then, we took an online taxi and the trip was filled with silence. So empty, I felt lonely and no one accompanied me. When I got to my apartment, River helped me carry my bag to my apartment room.

"Thank you" I said briefly.

"Thank you doang?" asked River in a sharp tone to make me flinch for a moment. "It's not usually like this."

"Ah, come on, I'll unplug it, then" said River, turning around and leaving me indifferently, as if disappointed by my reply.

I could only stare at his back in confusion and enter my apartment without any difficulty finding the key. While on tour, I carried my apartment key in a sling bag. Oh yeah, where's my suitcase? I thought the suitcase was left in the villa. When I turned on the apartment light, my suitcase had been placed on the side of the sofa. I thought of Kai who had the spare key to my apartment, maybe this time it was River who had it and returned my suitcase when I was in the hospital.

My eyes widened when I saw the washbasin in the kitchen containing dirty dishes and drawers that were empty without the slightest food stock. Did anyone enter my apartment without permission to finish all my food and litter the furniture?

TLING'S!

The notification sound of my phone had rang in my bag and I quickly opened it. It turns out there was a text message from a foreign number that once sent me a message while in the hospital.

Inbox || [Unknown Number] : don't tell anyone about memory loss. This message again.

Before this mysterious number continued the message that I knew it contained, I responded quickly.

Sent: You again, who are you?

Within seconds my message was answered.

Inbox || [Unknown Number] : Again? You remember yesterday?

Sent: yes, I did not lose my memory as much as the day I woke up for the first time.

No more replies. I did not care who he was and immediately kept the number with the name "Mysterious One". From his message, I can conclude that he can answer my question about time that repeats itself and the local situation becomes slightly changed.

I was shocked again when I saw the state of my bedroom was so messy. I'll leave this room to go to the tour in a neat state. Why is it like a ship breaking? I don't even remember a picture of a figura on the nightstand near my bed. The photo of me wearing a big smile and peace style with River in a sour face while standing in front of the cafe clair de lune without wearing a uniform. It's really hard to believe.

An accident that felt like death and was exactly like the nightmare I had seen and rose up in a world-changing state of life. I can conclude that when I got up from a road accident, I found a world as normal and unchanging as I had originally known. Or maybe at that point, I didn't die. One more thing, exactly the accident was not written on my nightmare. Then now the dream becomes real and then the effect of changing the world that I am exploring. Changing the identities of those around me and changing the situation. But only I felt no change.

Take River for example. The one that started out as just a co-worker, is now a lover of mine.

So, what's up with Kai?

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