Do It for the Plot
Death bed
The rhythmic, mechanical click of an IV pump came first. Long before the light did.
Then came the smell — bleach masked by artificial pine, a scent that immediately trigger a primal urge to run, but she stayed still on the bed.
She tried to lift her right arm, but a sharp tug against her wrist and the cold bite of a plastic restraint snapped her fully awake. The ceiling above was an endless grid of white acoustic tiles, under the harsh fluorescent glare, lies her.
Pass 70, chest heaving with the monitor beeping, She lies on her deathbed.
It was funny, in bitter sort of way. I solely wanted to live my life without any dependency on anyone or anything.
I hate depending on people the most, more than that I despise the idea of losing myself in the role of my gender.
However I wasn't fortunate to escape my role and I live how my parents wanted at first then like how my in laws wanted then how my husband wants me to be.
Now my body crumbled and dismantle itself so quietly just like my will to bloom as I sacrificed my own times, happiness, gave my best efforts, give up on my youth for so called my own family.
I traded my youth, my desires and my true passions for relentless, exhausted routines, always promising myself that I would finally start living once the next milestone was reached.
Now, the tomorrow I waited for had narrowed down to a handful of hours.
There were no friends to hold my hand, no lover to share a quiet goodbye, and no children of mine to be my comfort in my last moments.
Only the suffocating weights of a life left unlived, and the devastating realization that I had starved my soul long before the cancer ever touched my stomach.
Lanchenbi(76 years old)
If only I could back
Lanchenbi(76 years old)
if only I could change my fate I won't be miserable
Tears roll slowly down her cheeks as she laments over the years of what she had slave away.
7 Minutes
Death didn't broke the darkness she had expected, instead it brought a cruel, impossible punch to her chest like universe spun backward, unraveling her choices until she was dumped unceremoniously into the past, like a cruel joke played with me for my tragedy.
Fourteen again, She was fourteen again
The moment she has always asked to be back again to make everything right.
As She stared in nothing she felt her body shaken by her arm, as she was been called
Lanchenbi slowly turns around to find her friend, Preeti. Young, youthful, different than she remembered seeing her few months ago before she died.
Lanchenbi
Preeti...? * muttered in dazed confusion*
Lanchenbi
"wasn't I suppose to be dead?! " *question inwardly*
In confusion and shock Lanchenbi stared at Preeti.
Preeti
Don't stop staring at me. The teacher is calling your name! * whispered yell in hurried manner her gaze laced with fear for the teacher's wrath on Lanchenbi*
Seeing the familiar look that she had shown and saw in her past make Lanchenbi in daze eventually stand up.
History Teacher
Lanchenbi where was your attention? What make you took so long you stand from your seat?!
The teacher started lecturing once Lanchenbi stood up. Lanchenbi meanwhile cringe at the lecture inside her mind however it was very nostalgic for her.
Seeing Lanchenbi standing still in silence The teacher gave a disappointed TSK and pointed at the one of the question on the white board
History Teacher
Tell me the answer of Q3 who sacked and plundered the City of Delhi in 1739?
Lanchenbi was in big trouble, even though she was basically die the memories of her teacher asking her question in front of whole class still haunts her. She doesn't the answer, how can she left books on her maiden house study table for years.
She was about to make a random guess when she felt her skirt tug by the hem by Preeti.
Lanchenbi slowly look at Preeti who was signalling on her notebook where the answer was written bold in capital letters.
That make Lanchenbi breathe a sigh of relief when
History Teacher
Eyes on the Board Lanchenbi
Lanchenbi
Ah Yes Miss *nervous*
Lanchenbi
The Answer is Nadir Shah
History Teacher
Correct. Pay attention to the lesson don't space out.
History Teacher
As Lanchenbi answered. Nadir shah was the one responsible for the....
The teacher continue to teach as Lanchenbi finally sat down
This whole situation reminded of her past, when she was free from any shackles just school, homework, plays with friends, fear of teachers. No role to maintain with your life on line.
Lanchenbi
"is this what they called 7 minutes before the death? i am glad to experience such all over again"
Fourteen again
Lanchenbi thought she was experiencing some memories' flashback before her death
But when she woke up in the same room she once slept when she was a young teen, nothing change
fear and question engulfed her completely.
Like as if she was on auto mode she dressed up for school, ate her breakfast and went.
Even after the first three periods was over and break started she was still daze and dizzy. Questioning her existence, the whole thing felt like a dream yet too real to be one of the dreams, she had even pinched herself multiple times during the classes, she still feels pain.
Thinking this will be different she reached out on her thigh and pinch herself once again.
Lanchenbi
oww — * she bit onto her lips to stay silent*
The uncertainty soon flew out of the window as the pain from the pinch shot through her brain once again.
Alexi who noticed her dazed and just picking her food for minutes without a word called out.
Everyone looks at Lanchenbi
Lanchenbi
oh yeah I am... just some thoughts
Nancy
Are you feeling fine? You haven't touch your food yet? * Worriedly asked*
Lanchenbi
I am alright just not hungry, nothing important thoughts. *smile*
Alexi
Girl, who are you trying to fool?
Alexi
I bet my left brain that you're thinking about Yash
Lanchenbi
*!! * what no— *interrupted*
Preeti
oh yeahh he didn't came to school today right
Nancy
dang Bii don't be so love struck
Alexi
Are you worried why he didn't came school from yesterday?
Alexi wiggle her eyebrows in a teasing manner Lanchenbi remember as he signature move when joking with people as a comforting and lighting up the mood, she nudge Lanchenbi with her elbow as she asked.
Lanchenbi
No, Alexi. I wasn't thinking about yash.
Lanchenbi
What were guys even talking about? * change the topic*
Alexi
Preeti likes Loiyum * she falls for the oldest trick in the book*
Preeti
*swat on Alexi's arm* don't talk nonsense
Nancy
Damn Preeti * tease*
Lanchenbi
wow amazing, preeti * gives a thumbs up*
Preeti
*done with them and continue eating*
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