1- In which the Universe hates me

It was just your normal, normal day.

You see, the new Star Wars movie had just come out. The second one in the trilogy, The Last Jedi. Yeah, that one. I wasn't really a Star Wars fan myself, but my dad was. It was his childhood, he always says to me. And sometimes, he'll rewatch the old films, and I'll catch a glimpse or two of Luke Skywalker's face when I come out to the living room to get a cup of water or something. And my dad - being a hardcore fan - would of course bring the whole family to watch the newest Star Wars movie.

Before the movie, during the movie, everything was fine. And then after the movie, everything went to hell. Literally.

You see, the movie was really long. About two hours, and that's really long to me. So after the movie, I told my mum I was really thirsty, took ten dollars from her, and raced out the cinema and across the street to the bubble tea shop to buy a drink.

Well, my aim was to buy a drink.

It didn't really work out.

There was a drunk driver on the road that day, and I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A screech, a scream, and then everything went black.

I didn't have any time to react. Didn't have the time to wish my family, my friends goodbye. Didn't have any time to think, to run. The only thought running through my mind, was oh shit...


The next time I opened my eyes, I did what any normal person would do if they were me - I screamed.

I... something wasn't right here. My soul felt as if it had been constricted into a smaller space, as if I had changed bodies. My hands, my legs, they felt wrong. For a second, joy spread through me as the thought that maybe, just maybe, I had survived through the incident and only suffered a serious injury ran through me. Maybe that's why my legs felt weird. Maybe that's why -

Oh.

A woman was staring at me. Her facing merely inches from mine. Did my scream made her come here?

But, she wasn't my mother. She... I've never seen her before in my entire life.

"Who are you?" I attempted to say, but all that came out was some nonsensical noise. I struggled to move my hands again, and this time, I realised that I was in some sort of blanket...

Oh my god, this is one hell of a high-tech maternity ward.

From experience, because I have a younger brother and I know what these wards would look like, I'll say that this is really one of the most high-tech wards I've ever seen in my life. And oh my god is that a droid cleaning one of the beds in the corner?!

Cold realisation washed over me.

I... I was a baby? WHAT?

Just then, the door banged open, and the woman winced before she turned around. A man walked in, and the woman immediately started scolding him about making such a loud noise and that there was "no need to bang a door for goodness sake". I drowned out their conversation after a while, because I suddenly spotted something trailing behind that man.

Another droid.

Just like that one from Star Wars. Just like that droid I saw in the film. Except that, it had green rings around it instead of orange ones.

Oh my god.

And with that, I started to cry.