Dr. Sarah Junes.
I gasped as I read the name printed on the paper.
What?
Dr. Sarah Junes. Award ceremony. Outstanding doctor.
I remembered the day the ceremony was held for me, after I had handled a case, the case that doctors with more experience than me couldn't handle.
A month before the explosion.
What is happening?
I looked around the whole place, it was as if my mind had stopped working, there was a pair of slippers right infront of the door, as I wore it and quickly exited the place.
It was an apartment...and as soon as I exited the place...my eyes were shocked to see the view before me.
The convenience store... The same where I had been when the blast took place.
No! This is impossible! How can it be?
It was the street, where my house had been.
What...is...this?
Taking the stairs, I got down on the road, I was still dressed in the same clothes, I was wearing when Katherine had punched the needle in my neck, so... this...is probably a nightmare.
Side effects of the sedatives.
Probably.
Walking on the road, I walked inside the convenience store, that even though looked totally fine from outside...
Was black from inside, the strong smell of paints hit my nostrils, as a middle aged man walked to me.
"Miss, there is work going on in here, so It's out of order."
"Mr. Oliver?"
I whispered, that man, lived under my rented apartment, had a paralysed son, and a wife who had passed away in January.
He furrowed.
"Sorry? But do I know you"
Shaking my head, I stared at him bewildered. I myself was confused what was I supposed to answer that man.
"N- no, I...just heard some people talking about the owner, getting the sotre fixed."
I replied hesitantly, as he gave me a suspicious glance and as he should, I was dressed in a wealthiest lookimg set of clothing, with a pair of diamons bracelet, and the pendant gifted by Cassian to me.
"E- excuse me!"
I excused and quickly walked away and without even realising, I was walking in the direction of my home.
"Everything, here is as if...the time had stopped... I could have called it a mere nightmare of mine, the waking up in the novel...but only if I was in my original body, only if I had been in a hospital instead of a strange apartment."
I murmured to myself, and when I looked up, only to see my apartment building there.
It was it... I was standing there, when I saw myself standing at the balcony, dusting of some laundry clothes before hanging on the drying wire.
No way!
It's me...me? Sarah...
Marching upstairs, I rang the bell of the apartment...of my apartment without even wasting a second, as if my hand was glued on it...and just within five seconds was the door opened, revealing my angry self.
"Have you gone cr-"
She stopped mid way, eyeing me with a smug grin.
"Oh! Look who decided to pay me a grand visit, come in please, come in!"
Stepping aside from the door, she gave me space to walk in, and I did.
The whole apartment was same as I had last left it like, the couch, with beige silk covers, olive green cushions, beige walls with Paintings hung on them.
"Oh please, take a seat, no need to be so tense, it's your own home either way, Laurel- oh I mean, Doctor Sarah!"
The way she said doctor was the same way, Laurel had called me Doctor in that recording.
Snickering at my shocked face, she stretched her hand out to me, for a hand shake...
"And myself, Sarah Junes or maybe you know me with a name even better than this..."
"Laurel Miller, the only daughter of Logan and Ariel Miller... Well it was originally Katherine, but it wasn't going to be fun, if I hadn't changed family along with the whole remaining novel and it's plot."
"W- what?"
"Oh come on! Don't pretend as if you are tha naïve, you fought everything that was thrown onto you, infact you were even successful at changing the plot, it's not possible that you don't even know the person behind everything."
I stumbled on my feet, not able to believe, what I had just heard.
"What? You...you are joking right?"
I questioned her, not able to believe, that the person, for whom I had originally decided to stay, decided to fight, lost the first person aho made me fall in love with my fate and myself, was just because I was stupid enough to trust this woman?
She laughed at my words.
"Me, joking? Not me Sarah, I think you are joking! What relationship do we have to be joking like this?"
"It's just a mere coincidence, I don't know if you remember, but there was a girl you saved one day, when you were coming back here from your work, her hand was injured and you treated it, do you remember? And then I saw the condition you were living in."
"That was the day I had decided, that you were the one going to fight my battles for me, and Voila! I bad you transmigrated in the novel and got you here."
I still couldn't understand anything, everything that was being given to me was getting tangled with all the things that were still stuck in my mind.
I stared at her tearfully, I felt used... betrayed.
"You...knew about everything? You were the one behind everything from the start?"
My voice broke in middle.
"Why? Why did you...do that to me? What did I do wrong to you?"
Rage, anger, fury had filled me completely.
What was I? Some piece of trash? That anyone could play me, use me the way they want and then throw me away after they were done with me?
"Listen to me Sarah, I know I shouldn't have done that, but you tell me, what should I have done?"
"How are you feeling after knowing that it was me who had plotted everything against you, that everytime you got hurt, every time you felt lost it was me who had written everything against you?"
"I felt the same way, when I found out I was pregnant, and then Cassian killed me, he shot me...he shot three bullets in my stomach...he killed our baby, and then me, I didn't even know that it was a novel written by someone, I had no idea...what was my fault? What was my baby's fault?"
"More than I loved Cassian, I had fallen in love with my baby, who was murdered, and then I time travelled, woke up, just a few weeks before Kalix's opening ceremony, where I had originally saw and fell in love with Cassian."
"And then, I don't know how, but I came here. It was pure accident of me coming here, and then I met you and found out that everything that had happened with me was because someone chose to make me the bad Character, because they needed a villain?"
"My baby died and and Cassian killed it, so I did what I had to...and nothings scarier than a mother avenging her dead baby! And I used ebery single person I wanted to and did it... I changed the novel..."
"Then... Franklin? Katherine?, they both...were with you?"
"Oh and don't forget Elodie! I died because of her...so I made sure to change her character that would kill her, she must've been a pain in the ass right?"
This woman, she wasn't just a book character, she was a crazy woman, thirsty for blood, thirsty for revenge!
"Now go back, me and my boyfriend are enjoying the life we are living, and I think you should go now, he'd be home any second by now!"
Pushing me out of the apartment, she closed the door shut on my face, as I lifelessly got down the stairs.
I felt lost, like a complete failure, a stupid person.
The person, I thought was okay to trust was not trustable even a little.
As I got down the road, I bumped in someone and slipped backwards, a yelped escaped my lips andwas about to fall on the ground before I felt warm, and familiar hand on my arm, holding me from falling.
Opening my eyes slowly, I stared at the pair of blueish grey eyes, and brown hair...
The sharp jaw, and pointy nose...
The same face that was there for me when no one else was,
Luca Black.
He quickly helped me stamd straight, and back away from me, he was wearing an office attire, with a bouquet in his hands,
Blush pink roses.
"I'm sorry, I-"
He apologised quickly, his head lowered with shame, before he slowly raises his head.
"It's you!"
He remembers me!