Memories

"Li Na!..Li Na?" A gentle and worrisome voice beside the girl's ear made her awareness return to her senses.

She felt like she was imagining voices inside the head but she precieved it as call ringing from outer source. Distant yet clear, slowly becoming more prominent her head began to hurt and the earlier pain was coming back.

Elder Li called out to her granddaughter again and again.

'What the hell? Who's Li Na? Somebody bring her, please.' The girl lying on the bed was disturbed as if someone was pestering her deliberately.

Elder Li called out again.

The girl hissed in pain. "Li Na?"

Again. But this time the name buzzed in her head with an urgent familarity and she felt like it's her name being called out.

Reluctant yet forced, Li Na slowly opened her eyes as an old lady called her again: "Li Na!" She stared at the old face with teary eyes affectionately looking back at her.

What's happening? Why...?

Then Li Na saw her lying body on the bed and realized she wasn't dreaming or hallucinating at all.

Holy cow! Am I alive? Is this a miracle?

But Wait! Who's is this old lady and why is she calling me Li Na?

Seeing Li Na wide awake, Elder Li began to sympathize with her.

Bewildered, the girl on the bed observed the old lady she was caressing her hair like a mother, tears rolling down the old lady's face but she wiped them off before giving her a wrinkled smile full of hope and love in her eyes.

Dazed, Li Na felt like she was seeing her mother cry for her. In childhood, her mother always scolded her for little things pointing this and that but she cries her eyes out whenever her children gets a single scratch or cut. Li Na sensed the same care and concern yet this lady is neither her mother nor does she know her.

'And why the hell is she crying so much?'

Li Na stared at her in mystified trance. Until her attention went to other people in the room fussing around her. Doctors began to ask her questions, how she feels, or if any pain bothers, the girl began to notice something unusual. It was strange how they address her like a spoilt kid. All of them were extremely cautious and alert it's not the way how they must talk to normal patients.

In the effect, a Doctor said to comfort her, " Don't stress too much. You'll be fine, Li Na!"

Confused and bothered, her eyebrows furrowed in doubt. Who and what is this Li Na?

Unconsciously, she blurted out. "Who's Li Na? and Why are you people keep calling me that? It's you after that old lady. Do I look like her? Or Am I…" she tried to get up while supporting her upper body on one arm and her eyes lowered on the hands. Her hands were slim and skeletal even her skin tone varied. She was so pale and scrawny that her swollen blood vessels were visible to naked eyes. She stares at her palm and hands like this part doesn't belong to her body.

"Li Na! It is your name. Have you forgotten it?" the Doctor looked wide eye as he asked her tensely.

Did she lose her memories?

'Huh! It's Mei Xing. It's impossible to forget...'

" I-I'm...who!?" the girl looked confused and went into deep thoughts when she mechanically raised her hand and touched the space between her brows. Her eyes went wide and a strange panic started to creep in. Suddenly, the whole awareness of the body started to link in her mind.

Regulating the conscious self, Li Na worked hard to stop herself from panicking. An unknown fear gripping her heart, crushing it badly. She looked horrified like there were ghosts all around her.

The Doctor was attempting to communicate with her but she was so engrossed in adapting herself to the unexpected reality as if she was a misplaced piece of life.

With a muddled head, Li Na look around she couldn't think straight nor able to digest the reality. She stared at people when there faces began to twist and turn in a void space as if she was surrounded by some sort of the barbarians.

Whereas everyone watched her astonishingly. Li Na looked like she didn't recover from a shock instead encountered a major one.

'Has she forgotten her memories?' she heard several murmurs from around.

"Ah..." Li Na winced dumbly sensing a needling pain on her arm. Shortly, the injection worked as Li Na fell into a state of dormancy. Following that she was taken for a full-body scan and some specific testing.

...

The next time she opened her eyes she was still trying to grasp the reality. Whereas Doctors' were consoling her saying she lost her memories. Little did they know she has her memories which does not belong to the body and identity of Li Na.

For a realistic like Mei Xing, it is totally beyond her wildest believes, beyond the realm of reasons. Even if she would dream something like rebirth or reincarnation she would obviously think it had nothing to do with her. And now at present, that's becoming an unspeakable truth of her existence.

How is it possible?

It's Impossible! It's Crazy!

"How do you feel now? Better?" Head Dr. Zhao asked her while examining the data in the report.

Li Na slightly turned her head to see an experienced old man reading a few thick sheets in his hand. Although she was curious like hell and was ready to bombard all the swirling questions in her head about this medical enigma yet she restrained herself not trusting herself or anyone of sort before nodding once.

One question leads to another growing like a chain reaction. If she asked one then she also had to answer the numbers of them and right now, she doesn't want to be discovered or to come under a state of suspicion.

After thoroughly checking up, Dr. Zhao said, "Good, let me know if you feel dizzy, heavy-headed, or in any kind of confusion. Okay!?"

Kind of confusion? Well, I'm a huge mess of confusion!

Unconsciously Li Na raised her left hand to touch the area between her brows just to feel the skin where the bullet entered, she sighed and replied. " I will. Thank you, Doctor!"

Dr. Zhao felt relieved he smiled at Li Na, previously they were terrified by her shocked expressions they immediately gave her anesthesia. It would not be suitable for her recovery if she underwent a shock the moment she woke up. Her mental condition could become unstable. Firstly they did her brain scanning to look for damage but she endured it. She wasn't that weak as they thought she might be from her medical history, in fact, she appeared more alert and calmer now.

A Nurse entered to call the Doctor, informing the arrival of Second Master Lu specifying that the guest wants to talk about something urgent. Taking the reports Dr.Zhao left shortly.

Li Na felt her smooth skin intact there, nothing harmed but she couldn't sustain the fact that she was shot there. She rubbed her forehead before her gaze fell on the half bandaged wrist.