The Golden Week of The Kirkstoic's II

Day 2 of our family's Golden Week... I feel even colder than yesterday and breakfast has never been this quiet than 3 years ago... What's different this year? Is it about something or someone? Is it about the impending outbreak that might occur? Is Dad mad? Or is it Mom? I don't know to be honest. Our family is turning different each day during this week and my research isn't done yet I still have a lot of experiments left to finish I don't know if I'm gonna make it by the end of the week or by the time that this plague returns well I'll have to prepare everything for the inevitable. I returned to my lab after breakfast and it seems that Tom had already visited the lab and placed all of his reports on my table. He's always neat and organized when giving out reports but something is off with him today... A letter was placed on one of the reports and I can't seem to read it... It's like encrypted or something, I don't understand the words in it. What happened to Tom? I placed the letter on my important papers board to be reminded to decode this when I'm available.

I scoured the archives but the thought of what happened to Tom is just weird... Remember Hailey, you're doing this to protect him from yourself. I have to push through or else I won't find my version of the cure. It's really hard when the Laboratory is quiet, too quiet if I honestly say to myself. But the heavy feeling in my heart started to gain effect. The Golden Week is kicking in now. I can feel the heaviness of my body, my body temperature cooled down a bit and my thoughts are becoming stale... I began to fade from my vision. It's blurry, I can't see out, where should I be now? I began carrying this responsibility that costs my youth. It's weird, it feels weird when you're at the receiving end of responsibility. I hold billions of lives in the palm of my hands. I scream in my head but it felt nothing. I cried in my head and it felt nothing. I began to break down while working but the cold stare that I make doesn't seem to see what's happening now. Tom has disappeared, the world is at stake, my bet with Alex is still stuck in my head. "What do I need to do?" I said to myself as I fell tired from that and started to nod off into a nap...

I saw a bright white light, a woman in white... What's happening? "Hailey... Come... See... The... Light... You... Don't... Have... Much... Time... Left..." I can't hear the woman but from what she said I tried to go to her but as I step forward she distances herself and said. "No Hailey, you can't come near me it's not yet time. For I will disrupt your mind and make it worse for you. Stay there and be safe. Don't look back on your choice. A sacrifice shouldn't be your reason to fail... I may not help you amid today but my advice is to call for heaven if you need your wings will open up and it will guide you to your success... Goodbye Hailey for the time being." She disappeared... And everything became dark and I can't see anything. What's with the warning? Why am I receiving it? What sacrifice? The reason to fail? Call for heaven if I need it? I can't think straight then a sudden

sound of my cellphone wakes me up from my nap that became sleep since I slept for 4 hours. I was surprised, confused, hurt, and curious about what that woman told me while I was asleep... She was tall with a white coat, I can't recognize her face she also had long hair... With a smile that cuts deep like I saw that smile before. But I feel like I've seen that but not today but ages ago. It's confusing and it hurts to think about it. That woman I think I've seen her before but I don't seem to remember quite well. Her reminiscence looked like a person from our family. As I feel light, my head feels like it's floating yet cold. Awake but not yet controlled. I looked at the time and it was three hours past and that nap became more like sleep now, after that, I fixed myself and began to research mindlessly and soldiered on towards the end of the day where I figured that the patient was irregularly taking her vitamins... I'll return to that later on but for now, how can the patient got a hold of that sickness that's the question now...