Chapter 1
I heard voices.
It felt strange, I had been locked in silence for so long.
"It's too early."
"There is nothing more we can do, we've kept her untainted from the world long enough." A voice argued. "It's time."
"How do we know she will make the right choice?" A different one asked.
"We don't, the rest is up to her." Another chimed in. "We can only hope."
Light.
It was the first thing I saw when I oppened my eyes before blurring into a white ceiling.
I sat up slowly, surrounded by white walls and the strong smell of bleach. I looked down at the hands that couldn't have been mine.
My feet numb and unsteady, walked along the tiled hallway to a pair of double doors. The first thing that came to my mind when I opened them was that I was taller. I could have never reached the handle before.
I stopped lifting my hand to the block out the sun's rays and blinked adjusting to the brightness. My head turned to see my reflection in the window. Looking back at me was girl about 12 with long light brown hair in a hospital gown, but that wasn't possible. My mom had just taken me to get my hair cut.
I reached my hand out to touch the glass and recoiled as if it had burned me.
Suddenly I was grabbed, doctors in lab coats lifted my body taking me back inside. I tried to scream but my voice only came out as a squeak.
"Aiya please calm down." One of them soothed. "You need to be back in bed."
I did what he asked but as I did a needle was inserted in my arm and just like that my world went black again.
"Now Aiya, I want you to answer a few questions for me." The Doctor whose name tag read Dr. Bennett shined a flashlight in my eyes moving his finger. "Can you follow my finger?"
I did as he asked and he muttered 'good' and jotted some things down on his clip board.
"Then will you tell me what's going on." I pleaded.
"Yes, yes all in good time." He nodded. "Can you tell me the last thing you remember?"
I closed my eyes, straining to remember. "A field of flowers, I was with someone and suddenly there was a loud boom from the sky. They screamed telling me to move and then everything went dark."
"Anything else?" He urged.
I shook my head.
He nodded jotting a few more notes before looking me in the eye. "Aiya Kuso do you know where you are?"
"In a hospital?" I guessed.
"Yes five years ago you and you're family were near when an unidentified meteorite crashed into earth, and you the only one caught in the collision slipped into a coma as a result and haven't woken since…until now." He explained.
"I was asleep for five years?" I breathed.
"What we don't know is why." He rubbed his chin. "There was nothing physical that caused the comma just a few scratches and bruises and we don't know why it took this long for you to wake up but were looking into it. For now though we'll release you to your family."
My family. They were so clear in my head yesterday but today I could hardly remember what they even looked like.
The nurses were running a few more tests when a woman with shoulder length brown hair burst in.
"Aiya!" She cried throwing her arms around me.
I stiffened until she pulled back looking at me with tears in her eyes. She looked older and had cut her hair but she was still the same mom. My lip trembled and I hugged her waist. "Mommy!" I wailed.
She rubbed my hair while I sobbed while my dad stood dumbfounded at the door.