Paramedics and Gabe, go find somewhere to hide! I just saw Maria and something tells me she isn't in a good mood...

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Adjustment Series;

Book Two; Adjusting My Behaviour

By Maria Torres

Prologue:

Early Warning Signs

*sigh* Hello, Rose. Yes, I can see you reading over my shoulder as I write this. Wha- H-Hey! No, no! Rose! Don't start crying! Please! Huh? What are you trying to say?

...Beginning...

Don't tell me...It's starting again! I thought we finally ended it? Wait! Rose! Don't go!

*sigh* Heh, sorry if I've confused some of you. It's normal for me to talk to myself nowadays. The other paramedics and Gabe have found a new hiding place to hide from my wrath, Tomoe and Hank are always busy and the kid is sat in his cell reading up on some diseases. So that leaves me alone, bored outta my mind, so I decided to keep a journal. Naomi told me that it's a good way to "express one's emotions and inner thoughts".

There's just one problem with that though...I don't have any paper on me, so I'm writing this up on RONI, during Gabe's break and then transferring the files to my USB Stick that is always hanging around my neck. I don't want to take the risk and leave a folder on RONI, only to have Gabe nose around it and learn about my secrets...

You wanna know about Rose? Well, uh...She would always cry a lot, when we were living in the orphanage and she wouldn't eat. But things like the common cold and the stomach bug would put her in critical condition apparently and she wouldn't be able to stand up or move. She'd lay there...Like a rock, for sometimes an hour or up to a week. I saved Rose from a fire in the orphanage, which I had accidently started, but I was the only one who heard Rose screaming from where she was hidden in the orphanage...She kept thanking me over and over. Now she watches over me like a guardian angel! When Rose's ghost approached me for the first time, I didn't recognise her at first. She was only able to say "...Beginning..." Unfortunately I didn't have a clue what she had meant by that until the Rosalia Virus had broken out around Portland. But by then it was kinda too late...

I can also remember talking to Naomi about Rose's ghost, around last week-ish (I'm not very good at remembering specific dates...). Naomi had told me that some ghosts stay to watch over their loved ones or they come back until a specific wish of theirs was carried out, whereas others feel so empty and detached that they move on immediately. She also told me that I had a similar gift to her after that I had shivered and left the room. I remember her telling me about her phone that lets her hear the last words of the dead (What contract does she have anyways? There must be some pretty interesting business calls, when they ask her about all these unknown numbers and she turns round and tells them that they're the voices of the dead that Naomi's had...) Me on the other hand can see ghosts.

Rosalia's first word was "...Beginning..." and she was telling me this until Naomi had uncovered the truth about Rose's death and why she was saying "...Beginning..." The reason for the first time she said it was to try to warn me about the Rosalia Virus that was flying in from Mexico to Portland. After we had delivered the vaccine to most of the families that were suffering with it, I forced Hank to remove the Asclepias Tuberosa immediately!

I don't understand why she's saying it again...Is that the only word she's allowed to say? Or is there something bigger than the Rosalia Virus that's "Beginning"?

I know, I know, I should be working on my other stories, but I really wanted to start up another story, that way once I have completed Our Memories, then I can move straight onto working on my "Adjustment Series" which will be like each individual characters aftermath of the Rosalia Virus, as well as displaying my thoughts on the plotholes left behind.