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After I Died, My Family Lost Their Minds
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I've been born ten times, and every one of those lives ended badly, because nobody ever noticed I was there. So this life, I decided to stop struggling and just wait to die. At five I was kidnapped. I lay down where I was, held my breath, and dusted a layer of white lime over myself for good measure. The kidnappers thought they'd killed me and turned themselves in on the spot. When the police found me, I was lying on a gurney outside the morgue doors, waving at the attendant. "Could you push a little faster? I've got a reincarnation to catch." At seventeen, my birth parents found me. On the drive back to the estate, I refused the seat and climbed into the trunk instead, like I'd done it a hundred times. My mother sobbed through the gap. "That poor child. She must have been through so much. How could she lie in a place like that?" I closed my eyes. My voice came out flat. "It's fine. This life's nearly over anyway. It's cramped in here. Perfect for waiting to die." My father slammed his palm against the wheel. "That's nonsense! Once you're home with the Ashfords, the sky could fall in and we'd be the ones holding it up. How could you possibly die?" But we'd barely reached the second floor when the adopted daughter pretended to slip and came straight at me, trying to send me tumbling downstairs.
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Chapter 1
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Sloane "Percy" Persephone Rivera
Nasa loob ako nang dressing room habang paikot-ikot na naglalakad. Nangangatal at kinakagat ang kuko sa aking kanang daliri. I was anxious.
I am wearing my twin's wedding dress dahil hanggang ngayon hindi pa rin siya bumabalik sa oras na ipinangako niya sa akin. We switched. She convinced me na makipagpalit sa kanya kahit isang oras lang sa mismong araw nang kasal niya. I don't know why I did say yes to her. I thought she was just joking pero ngayong umalis siya at hindi ko alam kung saan siya nagpunta, hindi ko na alam.
Tinawagan ko ang telepono niya. Tumunog iyon at sa wakas ay sinagot niya rin ako.
"Blaire! Where the hell are you? The ceremony is going to start! Hindi mo naman—"I'm sorry, Percy. Just give me one hour. I promise, I'll be there."
"Blai—"Hindi pa ako nakakapagsalita nang babaan niya ako nang tawag.
Huminga ako nang malalim at napapikit.
"Where the hell is she?" si Ava, iyong best friend ko.Siya lang ang nakakaalam nang nangyari. I can't tell our parents that my twin sister, Blair asked me to switch with her on her own wedding day. Hindi ko naman kasi alam kung ano ang totoo niyang dahilan kung bakit niya iyon ginawa.
I had no choice but to say yes because I know her. She won't stop convincing me and ayoko magpaka-stress kaya pumayag ako.
"I don't know! I asked my bodyguard to follow her pero nawala ito sa paningin niya!"
"I can't marry Luciel, Ava. He's my brother-in-law."
Umiling si Ava. "Wala tayong choice, Percy. J-Just pretend that you're Blair for now."
Sht!
Kumatok ang wedding coordinator sa pinto. Nagkatinginan kaming dalawa ni Ava sa isa't isa."Miss, it's time."
Lumabas ako katulad nang ipinangako ko sa kapatid ko. I will be her just for one day at pagkatapos no'n ay magiging maayos din ang lahat katulad noon. She will come back and act like nothing happened... Blaire and Luciel... they deserve each other so much.
But it didn't happen.
Blaire didn't come back.
Hinarap ko si Luciel sa dulo nang altar. Inabot niya ang kamay ko na nanginginig sa sobrang kaba.
"You look pale. Nervous?"
Ngumiti ako nang pilit at tumango. "It's just...a big day."
"Don't be afraid. After today, everything changes."
I kissed Luciel and made a promise that I will stay with him no matter what happens... that I will stay true to him... Alam kong kasinungalingan iyon pero wala akong choice. The ceremony ended without my sister in it. Ava kept on calling her pero walang sumasagot.
"Pa, si Percy, hindi pa bumabalik..." wika ko nang pinuntahan ako ni papa sa upuan. Nasa reception na kami dahil tapos na ang kasal. Nakaupo kaming dalawa ni Luciel sa harap habang kitang-kita ang mga taong dumalo sa kasal. I am the one who prepared the program for Blaire's wedding because that's what I have promise her.
"Si Percy? Hindi ba siya nandito? Baka may pinuntahan lang."
May sasabihin pa dapat ako nang biglang nahulog ang hawak na baso ni Mama habang kitang-kita ang pamumutla nito. Dumagdag lalo ang kaba na nararamdaman ko sa dibdib. Luciel notice that. Hinawakan niya ang kamay ko para mapigilan sa panginginig.
Pinuntahan naming siyang dalawa ni Luciel. Mabilis din siya na pinuntahan ni papa at inalalayan sa pagtayo. Nakita ko ang telepono at nandoon ang pangalan ni Ava. Maingat kong inabot iyon at inilagay sa tenga ko para kausapin ito.
"M-Ma?" kinakabahang wika ko.
Mas lalo pang nadagdagan iyon nang marinig ko si Ava na umiiyak sa kabilang linya. Lumabas siya kanina at hindi na nakaattend nang kasal ni Blaire dahil nagdesisyon siyang sumunod at sunduin ang kapatid ko.
"H-Hello..."
"B-Blaire... I'm sorry..." hagulgol na iyak ni Ava.
"W-What happened?"
"Ava, answer me. What happened to my sister?"
"B-Blaire...:" tawag ni mama sa akin. Kinuha niya ang kamay ko at hinawakan iyon habang umiiyak.
"A-Ang kapatid mo... wala na siya."
"I followed her... b-but when I went to her... s-she's already dead... s-she died in a car accident, Blaire. Percy is dead... your sister is dead... I-I'm sorry."
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After I Died, My Family Lost Their Minds Chapter 11
From that day on, Mom wasn't entirely there.She carried my ashes with her wherever she went.She slept with the urn in her arms.At meals she set a bowl and a fork across the table from herself.One night she lifted a thick piece of braised pork and laid it carefully in the bowl in front of my ashes."Claire, Mom made this herself. Try it. I don't know whether you'll like it."My soul hung in the air above the table. I looked at the glistening piece of meat and murmured, "My stomach's always been bad. I can't eat anything that rich."Mom's body went still for a second.Then, as though she'd heard something, she picked the pork back out with her fork and dropped it in the trash.And then, weeping, she began nudging the plainest vegetable dishes on the table toward my ashes, a little at a time."All right. All right. No rich food. Your mother will change it..."Dad stood off to the side and watched his wife move around the house like a walking corpse, and covered his face in
After I Died, My Family Lost Their Minds Chapter 10
It occurred to me, watching from above, that I'd started to admire Tessa a little.She was vicious, but clear-eyed.And she understood me better than any of them.Her words left the whole family with nothing to say.Mom crawled to the gurney and pushed the hair back from my face with shaking hands.She looked at what the collapse had done to it, and the expression slowly faded from her face."Yes. All of it was my fault."Dad sat slumped on the floor with his face in his hands, weeping."When she said something was going to happen, I thought she was just talking..."I never wanted her to die. How did this happen?"Ryan's last excuse had been stripped away.Shame turned to rage. He roared, threw himself across the hall, knocked Tessa to the floor with one punch, sat on her, and started slapping her like a man out of his mind."It's you! It's you, you vicious little—"The two of them tangled together in the middle of the hospital corridor."And you aren't vicious? What you
After I Died, My Family Lost Their Minds Chapter 9
Tessa's face went crimson under his grip, her feet off the floor, kicking.She had never once imagined that the brother who adored her most would expose all of it in front of everyone."You... what are you talking about...""You knew?"Dad got to his feet, his voice trembling."What did you just say? Say it again. You knew about all of it?"Mom braced herself against the wall and stared at the gurney while the tears came down.Home was supposed to be the safest refuge in the world.She had promised. The sky could fall in and they would be the ones holding it up.Then why had I preferred sleeping in a ventilation duct, a planter box, or under a bed?"Everything Claire said was true."Mom turned to look at Tessa and bit her lip so hard it nearly bled.She wanted to cross the corridor and tear her apart.But her hand stopped halfway up — and she brought it down across her own face instead.Then a second crack.Dad's palm caught Tessa full across the face."How could you be
After I Died, My Family Lost Their Minds Chapter 8
My soul drifted into the air above them and watched the corridor below.My body was covered with a white sheet and wheeled toward the morgue.The surgeon's words went into Mom like a knife.She fainted and collapsed to the floor.Dad caught her in a panic and ended up sitting on the tile himself.He stared at his own hands. Then he started swinging his arms like a lunatic, slapping himself across the face over and over."I should have knocked on that door! Why didn't I knock on that door?"Ryan's legs gave out and he went down on his knees, his head buzzing."It's not possible. How could she be dead?"He rushed the gurney and yanked the sheet back.Underneath it was my face, drained of everything.He'd spent weeks telling me I wore a dead woman's face.Now that he was actually looking at one, he couldn't stop shaking."Dead? Just like that?"Into the dead silence came Tessa, tears on her cheeks, sniffling softly.She crouched down and reached out to help Dad and Ryan up
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