C2 Chapter 2

REBIRTH

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ROSE POV

The place smelled like hospital and my brain confirmed it to be an hospital immediately I opened my eyes slowly because it felt so heavy, wincing in pain due to the banging in my head, I looked around and noticed the various machines and equipment connected to my weak body,

“What’s happening to me…? where am I!… What's…. Help me! Who’s there!” I found myself screaming in fear, not because I just woke up from a deep sleep but because I couldn't remember anything, I didn’t even know who I was.

Two female doctor and a male doctor rushed into my well designed and expensively constructed hospital room, one of the female doctor held me down and was cooling and singing to me like I was a baby, the male doctor injected something into my two arms, forcing my nerves and bones to relax but I was still very much awake.

“Easy ma… you will remember everything now!… Just allow your body to relax, and just like magic, it all started to come back to me. I didn’t know tears were cascading from my eye until the female doctor who was holding me, let go of my arms and offered me a napkin.

“I … I fell into the sea under the bridge last night… I remember now, I know who I’m… ohooo.. David… he hurt me so much, my husband … he stole all my money and properties … he..” I stopped talking as I couldn’t keep up combining the explanation of my delima and my tears, I was wailing hysterically like a child.

The male doctor moved closer to me with a huge mirror, “you will need to calm down for this, you have to see this before anything else… you didn’t come in here last night, you’ve been here for four months now…” the doctor informed me.

I paused my tears at once, “four months!… ohooo '' i choked on my tears and covered my mouth to control the scream that was threatening to rush out of my mouth, but it bursted out anyway, when the male doctor flashed the mirror unexpectedly in my face.

“That’s not me … what’s happening … ?..I’m Rose, who’s this .. what did you do to me… ?.. ahaaaaaaaaaa! Ahaaaaaaa!” Sedative or not, I felt like I was hallucinating or running insane, why is another woman staring at me when I oo in the mirror?.

“Good … she took it better than we feared” one of the female doctors told the other two, sighing in relief and hugging me tight, “you have to calm down and be grateful that Mr brown found you…”

“He brought you in on time and even allowed us to use his daughter's face structure and features for you, all your face was gone and terribly broken into unrecognisable icees, after the accident…" one of The female doctor spoke to me softly and calmly like she was talking to a child.

“Mr brown!… the same Billionaire and well known Mr brown?” I found myself asking, beginning to calm down to assimilate what they were saying, relieved that I was still me aside from the face, I was so scared that I was no longer me a few minutes ago.

Just then like magic Mr brown sauntered in with his numerous bodyguards and securities… the same Mr Brown that I have only seen on television, more important and influential than politicians, a friend to the president of England!

“You are awake … that’s good, I visit you almost everyday.. Although my bones are weak and old. Yet, I try to see you at least five times a week… thank you doctors… I will treat you well for bringing her back to us” he veered around to the Beaming doctors who bowed to him in respect.

He took my hand in his old and wrinkled hands, offered me the sweetest smile I have ever seen before speaking to me again, “I know you have so many questions concerning your new face and I will answer them all, just give me some time and get better first” he told me softly.

I couldn’t respond to him, the amazement that R Brien was sitting by you, smiling sweetly at me, the same man that was so unreachable to me. For seven years even before my parents died, our company tried doing business with him, submitted proposals and even visited his headquarters just so we could work with him but we kept getting cancelled because we were not up to his numerous companies' standards.

“I can’t… I can’t.. can’t” my voice suddenly lost its pitch and texture, it sounded crook like I was whispering, Mr Brown seemed to understand my shock and he smiled at me again, patting my hand gently.

“I can’t believe you saved me sir… I… I.. ohooo I’m so honoured to meet with you .. I’m rose… I..” bowing down to greet him as I became lost for words, instead he embraced me in a tight hug and I could swear that I heard him sob but when he faced me again his face was expressionless.

“Your face was all gone when you got here … I Gave you my only daughters’ face … don’t be scared to carry it with so much pride and confidence…my daughter would want that.. she had both” Mr brown told me.

“My husband… his name is David, four months ago on the night of our three year anniversary, he Brought in another woman and introduced her to me as his girlfriend who’s pregnant for him… so much happened that night and I heard so many things that broke me and my belief in love and humanity…

I started talking to Mr Brown without him asking me for the story of my life, he seemed to understand that I needed someone to express myself to, he gestured to his bodyguard and the medical personnels to leave us alone, only his secretary was left alone with us.

“This woman turned out to be the same person I paid all her tuition and education fee for six years becaUse David said they were family friends or something like that. I did everything to make that man happy.., but he had to go ahead to take my properties and life…

“You shouldn’t think about negativity now … you’ve been given another chance in life and I hope you use it well…David or whoever he is doesn’t deserve you, I’m here for you, to help and guide you… don’t worry” Mr brown promised me, looking up sadly at my teary face.

“They drove me out of the house … I had to run for my life when I mistakenly pushed Olivia and she lost her baby. My husband tried strangling me to death, if not for one of my very loyal workers who hit him on the head and helped me escape…” I kept talking like Mr Brown didn’t just say something entirely different from that topic I was discussing.

“So you had an accident when you left the house that night? That was how I saw you hanging onto your life in the deep sea, your car exploded and Everyone thinks you are dead… it will help you because David or whoever it is thinks You are dead too. It’s all over the news” Mr Brown informed me again.

I was too tired to respond to him and didn’t know when I slept off. A month later I was discharged and I could feel Mr Browns’ excitement when we were going home, all through the one month he kept treating me like his child, making sure I was okay and comfortable.

The fleet of cars filled with Mr Brown’s numerous body guards got to his white extravagant and elegant mansion and the workers and other security were waiting in the compound to welcome us, Me especially.

“Where did she go these last three months… ?.. she knows her father has no one aside from her and she just left him sad and depressed like that!” One male worker dressed in uniform like the numerous others whispered just as I walked past him.

“Keep your voice low… you know how madam Maya can be, she’s very rude and cruel.. just leave her to go on vacations and travel around while her old father looks for her everywhere” the other man responded, stealing glances at me from the corner of his eye.

I made a mental note to ask Mr Brown why he didn’t tell the public that his daughter had died, now they think she’s an irresponsible child. I felt pity for the dead woman and almost told the workers to stop saying what they didn't know.

“Why didn’t he tell people about Maya’s death..?… they all think I’m Maya now.. all these clothes here are my sizes … it fit so perfectly, it’s looking all weird to me, if I didn’t know myself to be rose, I would belief as well that I’m Maya'' I told his secretary while we both searched Maya’s wardrobe for what I would wear to dinner that night.

“ don’t worry about what anybody says, just follow Mr Browns’ instructions and I promise you that he will explain everything to you, just stay quiet during dinner tonight but I can assure you that even without trying you look and talk so much like Maya… it’s just so familiar and I’m almost convinced as well” the woman told me, at the same time throwing a white beautiful dinner gown for me to check if I would like.

Even as I tested the cloth, my mind kept wandering and wondering what life has for me now. Should I just stay here with Mr Brown and live my life as Maya or run back to my husband and beg him to take me back?.