Chapter 1:

“I need it by next week, understand?”

the boss said once again the torture of being embarrassed in front of my colleagues as he waved his hand away towards me. His gesture commenced the unspeakable truth behind his dissatisfaction with the business proposal she's been working on day and night for the upcoming conference. Getting sluggish as I went back to my desk, a loud thump broke in the silence where she sits.

” You got scolded again didn't you?”

one of her office mates said, tapping the folder on top of her head to cheer her up while she replied with a sluggish smile on her lips.  Soon, she was determined to finish the task given to her and made it in time before the boss scolded her another time. The incident was like every other normal day inside the office which didn’t faze everyone one bit as they are used to it. The long tiring day has reached an end, thankfully for Samira, she managed to finish all the necessary documents needed for tomorrow’s upcoming presentation for the newly hired employees’ orientation. A long and fulfilling sigh escaped the young woman’s lips as it signifies the freedom she beholds after all the hard work she has given for the main task of the day.

**“Cheers!!” **

Upon the clashing of the glasses, they cheered happily. She and her colleagues thought of drinking after work on the assumption that tomorrow will be another day as slaves to their company. After having a few drinks with them, the feelings that weigh in her chest from earlier fade as the night goes on, and soon will have to end drunk away with her sorrows for tomorrow’s beginning.

“Well, it was such a nice time as always hanging out with you guys. See you all tomorrow again”

were her last words before blacking out. It was a bit hazy in her memories, but the clear stagnant darkness was visible in her last breath.

The warmth she fell to her back was her bloodbath covered with a crimson red silhouette. There was a faint wailing of the siren and also people around her surrounding the stretcher as if she was badly hurt. Little does she know, there was an incident that took place near the building where she currently works. It was in a split second, but she managed to remember everything vividly with the few moments of her unconsciousness. It began when she was walking home just after the drinking party with her colleagues. They were happy and cheerful, singing and dancing as soon as they got inside the karaoke room, each of which had their turn into selecting a song and singing it. While taking her time to spend it with the others, she received a phone call from her relatives asking the date she will visit them again during the weekends. Looking at her wristwatch, she answered reluctantly as if never wanting to go the next day as she scheduled.

**“Alright\, I will try to get there tomorrow. I’m with friends right now\, I’ll call you back again. Okay\, bye” **

She hung up after the phone call and went back inside to resume singing as it was her turn. Thus, after a long night spent wasting themselves, she went over to pick up something she left at the reception. Just as she was in a hurry, a shining bright light surrounded her that shunned the surface. It was incredible how it managed to get closer to her in a blink of an eye, after which she cannot remember what happened in that one incident. Now in the present, she is lying down on the stretcher where the doctors and nurses were frantically stressing out themselves. She was slowly fading from her conscious thought as the time she had when she was living a peaceful life as a child loved by her parents flashed through her very eyes, a small teardrop began to take surface at the sides of her eyes dripping down continuously down her cheeks as the sheets were drenched.

***‘I don’t wanna die yet\, please oh god I still have much to accomplish at least let me have my peaceful days as a housewife with a loving man’ ***

At that moment she had her final wishes as she blacked out. A little shimmer shone upon the darkness where she resides, like the milky way into space that has never-ending hollowness into the pitch darkness. There are string-like lights that surround her in a form that resembles a ball of light as the other lights flickered until they faded into existence. A soft voice surfaced echoing from a distance not too far for the ball of light, it was talking to it as if it had known its origin.

‘Fear not your physical body is only at a state of unconsciousness, if you help me and complete this mission I will take you back from where you belong’

That is what the voice said which left it into utter confusion and speechless little green orb. Meanwhile, as the orb continues to flow into the distance the reality and the dimension that connects both slowly close themselves. The doorway is becoming thin by the moment the little shining orb swims its way towards the milky way.

“Wake up please...come back to us”

a faint voice that seems familiar comes from a man who was worried about her. She was still unconscious like she was in a certain coma, it has been a few days and no progress has been reported. On certain occasions, fingertips will start twitching, unable to make a full movement of their entire arms. Once again, the subconscious mind wanders off around the surface now filled with lights in different colors each.

“Mom, I am here, can't you hear me? I could hear you all!”

whatever it takes her to reach out to them is no use and just a waste of energy if she ever has one which is left here in the dark crying.

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