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“Jinny!”

“Jinny!!”

A voice echoed, was it my mum…crying? It was difficult keeping up as I faded in and out of consciousness

“Miss, you have to keep your eyes open,” an unfamiliar voice said, “Miss, miss! We need Dr Higgins now!” The voice said with urgency

I hadn’t registered it before, but I was moving, not on my own two feet, but moving nonetheless. Where was I? What was happening? What happened? I wanted to ask, but it was like my voice was broken. I couldn’t speak, and it was like my head was being drilled in.

“Jinny,” the voice came again. Was it my mum…crying? It was difficult keeping up as I faded in and out of consciousness

“Ma, am you have to wait here”

“My daughter, she-“ everything went black from there

Beep, Beep, beep, that irritating sound constantly gnawed at my head. I tossed and turned for a while because whatever shitty thing was making that sound didn’t want me to sleep in peace, so I just opened my damn eyes. Rubbing all the exhaustion out of my eyes, I took in my surroundings. Where was I? Oh, a hospital. Why was I in a hospital?

“Hello?” I called out. Since there was no reply, I was about to stand up to go outside when, suddenly, a woman, followed by four men and a girl, came running into my room

“Jinny! Are you alright dear?”

“yeah I am fine, thank you, umm, but may I ask, who are you people?”

The woman’s face fell

“Jinny, it’s me, your mother, Jinny?”

“What’s going on? Why is she … why would she ask me that ?” she said to the men behind her

“I-I don’t know…” the older man said, speechless, her husband? Yeah, because the other three looked younger than him

The woman trembled, “Doctor! Doctor!, We need a doctor. James, go get a doctor, now!” One of the boys ran out, not too long after he came back again with a nurse, who looked at each of them sternly

“Ma, am you’re not meant to be here? None of you is. You need to leave pls, so we can get a proper examination done.” The nurse started ushering them out

“No, no wait,” my “mother” struggled with the nurse to come meet me again. “I need to speak to her.”

“Ma, am you need to leave?” The nurse kept struggling with her

“I…need… “ the woman said, gritting her teeth, trying to combat the nurse's strength

Three of the boys stepped up to help the woman

“Ma, am…Can I get some help in here?”

Suddenly, other nurses burst in through the door, and everywhere, a commotion within minutes

What kind of drama was going on in here?

My pupils burned as the flashlight stared into my eyes. He moved on to the next eye, which still peppered me some more. He went out and came back with some papers, presumably my test results

“Ok, so she’s fine, we’ve been able to stabilize her. The bleeding’s stopped.”

Bleeding?!?! “umm…sorry” I said, “what bleeding?

“oh umm.. it was nothing major, just a minor cut.” I nodded, “but you're fine now,” he smiled warmly, “we’ll leave you now to get some rest,” and they all filed out.

Finally! Some peace and quiet, I bounced on the bed as I lay back and snuggled up with my plush pillow.

“What’s wrong with our daughter?” Justin Carlile asked. I stared at him, this pompous dick coming here acting worried for her, after all they put her through, it took everything in me not to punch him and knock some sense into him.

“Well?” he demanded

“Your daughter is fine physically, but her mental state has taken a turn for the worse. She went into shock, and we were only barely able to save her. It was a miracle, actually, considering all the blood she lost.”

“Wait, what are you saying?” James, the oldest son, asked

“I’m saying that she barely survived, and you should thank whoever it is you worship, cause that’s why she’s in that room breathing.” I took in a deep breath. “For now, all she needs is rest and to stay away from all types of stress, which means, no yelling, fighting, arguments of any kind, or anything that’ll trigger her; if not, she could go into shock once more, and if she does, I’m afraid that we won’t be able to help her. So please, for now, just shower her with love and affection. He turned and walked away.

“What did he just say? That Jinny could die?” Julie Carlile’s legs buckled, then gave out as she collapsed to the floor. Her Son ran to her, but all that was going through her head was that her daughter could die.

I was finally discharged the following week. Was it nice getting out of there and going home with people I didn’t? Didn’t remember rather. I feel like this is how a horror movie starts. Oh well, it was better than nothing. Throughout my stay in the hospital, no one came to claim me except them, so…they were the next best thing, I guess.

The estate was… it was amazingly large. It had these winding down roads you drive down from the gate. Flowers and beautiful bush shrubs lined the sides, and at the end was a majestic fountain. I absolutely didn’t know how I hadn’t noticed the gigantic house in front of us. It was glorious, the house had a futuristic feel, with its grey walls and grey panelled windows, and the outside of the house was practically grey.

The inside, though, was beautiful, straight out of a fairy tale sort of way. There was a room divided by an arch, and both had chandeliers hanging from the ceilings. Two staircases connected at the top. Pictures and murals on the walls, made the beauty of the house even more breathtaking.

"Wow, this is where I'm going to live, this is where ya'll live?"

"It’s where you've always lived dear" my mother said

Just then my stomach growled and everyone turned to look at me, while I hung my head low in embarrassment

"Oh, you must be hungry. I told them to have something prepared for you. It should be almost done. You can go wait in the living room. I'll go check on it", smiled and headed off.

"Which way to the living pls?"

"This way" one of her sons, by brothers said

We walked off to the opposite end and he led me through a door

"What're your name?" I asked

"Jake. The one in the red suit is James and the other in the leather jacket is Jack"

I laughed, "So James, Jake and Jack, what's so is dad's name like Justin or something?"

They gave me a timid look

"You're joking. Wait so don't tell me mom's name's like what Juliet"

"Close Julie"

" What? So all J's?"

"All J's" he chuckled

"So what about...?"

"Oh Jemma, she's adopted but we love her nonetheless"

"That's cool. So who's the oldest?"

"James, then me, the Jack, you then Jemma"

"You guys are a big family, I like that"

"We're a big family and I'm glad you do" he smiled warmly

"So this is the living room. You can wait here"

The place that we entered was... wow. I was starting to notice that everything in this house was large. The ceiling itself was about 20 feet high, I wasn't sure if it was 20 feet, but it was significantly high. Light lined the ceilings, with gold trims around them. The chairs looked luxurious as well as the pillows, carpet and paintings.

As I sat on the chair, I started to understand why the chairs looked luxurious, they were so plush and soft, as well as the pillows and carpet.

"Yeah I don't think I’m going anywhere"

"OK, so I have some work to do but I'll be back." He left, these people's wealth was something else.