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It was dark, and very silent. The air felt eerie. There was nothing to be seen. Something isn’t right.
“What is going on…?” The gremlin asks herself.
She felt wrong and unfamiliar. She couldn’t seem to wrap her head around it. This feeling was unnatural for her to experience.
“What is my name?” She had to remember that. Her mind went blank when she was thinking. Why is it so difficult to remember my own name?
“Think. Think hard…My name is… My name… Gi… Gigi…? My name… is… Gigi?…” It felt weird to call herself this name since it was a vague name she remembered hearing before.
Then, a faint voice could be heard, Gigi thought. Someone calling a name. Her name.
Steadily, Gigi opened her eyes, and had a flash of light hit her in the face. She used her gremlin tail that was bandaged to block the bright light. She wondered why her tail was wrapped up. Gigi looked around her body and followed a piece of line on her arm, and quickly realized that it was connected to an IV bag to her right. Gigi lifted the white blanket on her to discover that her right leg was in a cast. She immediately checked her head. It was bandaged up. Why am I bandaged up? Her mind swirled.
She looked up from underneath her blanket and saw a window of the outside world. Sunny and bright. Her eyes sparkled looking at the world that waited upon her. Gigi wanted to look closer outside, but as she tried moving, she felt a jarring sensation throughout her body. The pain hurt so badly that she thought she’d faint. She tried to relax back on the bed she was on.
Gigi explored the room, slowly moving her eyes as her aching head followed; it had felt like she had been laying on a rock for a long time.
Isn’t this place a hospital? Why was she in the hospital? Gigi tried remembering what happened before this unknown incident that caused her to end up in this situation. Nothing seemed to click in the gremlin’s mind.
Gigi looked at a table nearby and noticed many gifts saying “Get well soon!” along with a cute little sticker at the end of the words.
She then remembered the voices that she heard in her head. No one was seen in the room with her, but who was calling her? Was it just her imagination? She ponders whether or not she was paranoid or something.
As Gigi turned to the left, she could see a door. The knob of the door was twisted and then opened.
There came a nurse.
The nurse looked over to Gigi, her eyes widening, then dropped her clipboard she was holding and ran to the other nurses.
After 5 minutes, someone frantically came into the room, ran over to Gigi, and hugged her tightly while crying hysterically.
“I’m so sorry. I should’ve been more careful. I should have known better than that.” The crying woman mumbled over and over again.
The gremlin was baffled by the sudden action. Something horrible must’ve happened to her before she was in the hospital. But what happened?
“Please, don't do that stupid shit again.” The woman pulled away from the hug and wiped her tears.
She looked into Gigi’s pink eyes. They looked bedazzled and full of confusion.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know what’s going on. Who… are you?”
“What are you talking about Gigi? You know who I am, right?”
“Sorry ma’am, I don’t recognize your face or… anything of you…..”
The teary woman paused for a moment. She thought of introducing herself again.
“I’m Cecilia Immergreen. You usually always call me Ceci.”
“Ceci… Are you like a friend of mine or something?”
“Girlfriend, actually.” Ceci corrects Gigi. She still felt a bit embarrassed calling herself that even though they’ve been dating for around 8 months — Excluding the time when Gigi was in a coma.
Gigi’s eyes widened. Girlfriend? She looks so beautiful... There was no way she could be dating her. The way her pale white-green colored hair flowed out smoothly and shined beautifully when the light hit her hair. Upon looking at her furthermore, she saw her eyes, glistening, probably because of the tears. Then she looked at her cheeks. It looked soft with a slight pink. Gigi looked over at Ceci’s hands, which were at her sides. It looked quite like a marionette, but the difference between them was that Ceci was automated, hence, called an automaton.
“Wh-what happened to me? Why am I here?” Gigi wanted to know everything.
“You were in a coma for almost 3 weeks. Before the incident, you were doing your usual parkour routine, until you switched your route. I wasn’t at the exact moment of when you fell off the building, but I saw you laying there with blood from your head. I was so, so scared. I didn’t think you’d make it, and neither did the doctors.” The gremlin could see tears rolling down the automaton’s eyes again. Ceci hugged Gigi tighter while vividly remembering the scene.
A nurse finally came into the room both Ceci and Gigi were in. The nurse was dressed in green, which was also the color that Ceci was wearing as well.
“Hello, pardon me, I am just here to check on Miss Murin to see if she is OK. I’ll have to run some tests on her before anything else happens.” The nurse walks over to Gigi with her stethoscope and puts it over Gigi's heart. “It seems like you’re doing well, but you’ll have to stay in the hospital for a few days for good measures.”
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Three days passed, and Gigi was discharged from the hospital. Her caretaker/girlfriend, Cecilia, called for an uber to go back home.
During the car ride home, everything was silent. Only the sound of the car could be heard in the slightest. Gigi felt awkward in the car with someone who allegedly was her girlfriend, and her big tail taking most of the seats. Gigi tried putting her tail in between her legs to make a bit more room.
As they got home, Ceci told Gigi to go take a shower and gave her some clothes to put on.
Gigi couldn’t help but feel like a burden to Ceci who tried pampering her a lot because of her injury. But it was her duty to help Gigi since the fall could've ended way worse.
Gigi was guided to her room, which basically looked like a hazard zone. Plushies everywhere, her desk looked like it had lots of energy drinks. What did she do for a living…?
Ceci guided Gigi to her bed and laid her head gently onto the pillow. Ceci told Gigi to stay put while she went to get the necessities.
“Okay! I’ve got an ice pack for your head, and I’ve also got your medicine. Tell me if you feel any discomfort at all and I'll help.”
“Uh, thanks. I’m alright for now.” Gigi was handed the ice pack for her aching head which soothed the pain.
“Rest easy now. It’s important to get a lot of sleep.”
“I know, I heard what the doctor said.” Gigi looked up to the ceiling. It was blank and boring. She closed her eyes and tried to sleep.
“You know,” Ceci spoke suddenly. “The Gigi I knew before was always up to something. She carried a camera with her all the time and took videos whenever she could. Maybe I could show you some of the footage she took. That’ll probably give you some idea of who you were back then.”
“Hm, yeah, I’d like that.” Gigi’s drowsiness started to take over and proceeded to fall asleep.
The next day, Gigi sat in her gaming chair at her desk and was shown a video from her PC that was in a file. She noticed how happy she was when jumping and doing acrobatics on top of buildings. She even got yelled at by others, saying they were going to call the cops to make her stop doing such crazy stunts, but she always got away before the police arrived. It was so amusing.
“I actually never seen Gigi’s videos since she keeps them to herself mostly,” Gigi got startled; she forgot Ceci was behind her. “If she didn’t fall from that building, gosh, I would’ve blabbed my mouth to her how dangerous that really was.”
Gigi really wondered why she does stunts like these. Did she really do this for fun? Gigi asked about her childhood to seek some information about herself.
“What was my childhood like?”
“Rambunctious; chaotic, even. I’ve heard so many stories about you from your childhood friends.”
“I have childhood friends?” Gigi asked.
“Pfft! Yeah, of course! they visited you in the hospital when you were unconscious. Man, they were crying, especially Kiara. Calli stood there, but I could see the pain in her eyes when she saw you.”
Kiara. Calli. It sounded like names Gigi should’ve known for many years — especially Calli — but it doesn’t click in her mind. But in her heart, she could feel a sense of familiarity.
“Calli… Could I maybe go see them?” Gigi asked.
“Gigi, you really aren’t in the condition of meeting anyone yet, you still need to recover! You’re lucky you’re even on the computer right now.”
“But, I don’t know, I feel like I have to see them. I can feel it in my heart.” Gigi gave Ceci the puppy eyes.
Ceci felt a load of pity that landed on her, seeing the condition she was in, but all she wanted to do was to meet her childhood friends.
In the end, Ceci gave up and gave Calli a call to meet each other near the park.
“She should be there in about 10 minutes. We can go over there right now.”
Gigi smiled, she couldn’t wait to see her childhood friends, even if she couldn’t remember what they looked like, or who they were. She knew she had to meet Calli though.
Gigi piggy-backed on Ceci as they walked to the park to meet Calli. They arrived early, so they waited on a bench.
“Gigi…? A voice could be heard in the distance as a car door was shut.
Ceci immediately turned to the voice while Gigi followed to look in the same direction.
“Calli!” Ceci stood while holding Gigi’s hand for her to stand up slowly.
Gigi was then rushed with a hug from Calli. Gigi hugged her back, feeling a sense of relief.
“Don’t hug her too tightly,” Ceci sighed. “She’s still recovering from her injury.”
“Oh I’m sorry! I just feel so overwhelmed with joy seeing you here and, and, I-I didn’t think you’d be here!” Calli sniffled slightly.
“I’m fine now, right? You don’t have to worry about me!” Gigi tried comforting Calli as she wiped her watery eyes.
After the hug, someone also came out of the car. They looked snotty from all the tears they’ve cried.
“Gigiiii!!!!!!!” Kiara said (with a hard G sound) as she ran towards Gigi with a huge hug along with snot and tears.
“Woah!” Gigi tripped but Ceci caught her.
“Kiara! Don’t do that! Gigi is still recovering! Can’t you see that?!”
“I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE ALIVE GIGI!! I CRIED AND PRAYED SO MUCH JUST FOR YOU!!!” Kiara ignored Ceci and had to be physically pulled away from the hug by Calli who had tears swelling in her eyes, knowing how much Kiara really loved Gigi.
“Wow… Is this really how my childhood friends are like?” Gigi mumbled.
The four of them chatted while Kiara occasionally blew her nose with the tissues Calli had brought just in case.
“Wait, so my childhood friends are dating EACH OTHER?” Gigi's eyes widened.
Kiara and Calli turned to look at each other before looking away and nodded. It was strange to know that both of her childhood friends were dating each other but mostly accepted them as a pair. In fact, Gigi kept teasing them every time she noticed them doing something intimate together.
“Well, it’s been really great to be talking again to you, Gigi, but me and Kiara’s gotta get going somewhere.” Calli said as she stood up and dragged Kiara who wanted to talk more.
Gigi and Ceci said their farewells and turned the other way.
“Carry me.” Gigi huffed.
“So demanding.” Ceci tittered.
“You are my girlfriend after all. Plus, I can’t walk by myself!” Gigi climbed on Ceci’s back as they walked home. It felt weird but nice to call Ceci her girlfriend.