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All I could see, hear and feel was darkness. My whole body felt numb as fuck and I couldn't move a darn limb. I felt insensible. I tried to fight the numbness and move my body but a sharp pain coming from a random unidentifiable part of my body held me down.
Pain; unbearable, unbeatable, inexplicable, unexplainable pain. I tried to scream but I couldn't feel my throat; I tried to scream but my head was under wateršš. I tried a second time but I still couldn't access or feel my throat so I just laid pretty in my beautiful beautiful darkness.
This felt like sleep paralysis except for the difference; I couldn't hear or feel anything around me. I was totally unaware of what was happening outside my body and I wasn't terrified of anything so I couldn't exactly class this state as sleep paralysis. Or was this a new stage nobody else had discovered?
Hold on, was I dead? I couldn't even tell. Even if
Random POVThe night was pretty bright when she moved into her new apartment on 3rd avenue. She dragged her boxes into the rooms based on their description. The rodents had taken over nearly half her properties back in Sun street.She tried to ignore them but they kept eating more of her stuff up so she had to move. She had tried extermination and patching up even the tiniest holes in the apartment but they kept coming in. The landlady didn't even attend to her pleas or anything.She was angry at the world for everything that's been going on in her life. First, rodents take over her living space, the firm she works for transferred ownership to someone else and they might let go of some staff (which may or may not include her) or even end the business and she just used half her savings to get a new place in the middle of the month.She felt like raising a middle finger in the middle of the street just to spite whoeve
37You're probably all wondering, who the fuck is Belle? And why was she introduced like that? And you're probably judging me again like you always do but this time, you're judging me for interrupting and introducing Belle like that forgetting I am not the author of this shit show. I know exactly what's going on in your head, I told you earlier.And now you're judging the author because you now realize you were dumb and she's the one who introduced Belle so unnaturally. Now you're probably smiling in your head and dismissing it because you know I'm right.But then who are you to judge others? Why are you so judgy? Riiiiiight, you're not. Just becaus
38I was still uncomfortably in the painful abyss but the pain seemed to be decreasing slowly.Meanwhile, Belle had no idea why she was reacting that way to a simple business meeting invitation with the new owner of the business, Andrew Williams; just to refresh your memory because I almost always never remember that guy exists.Andrew: You know that guy is right here, right?Haha. Funny.She carried on with what she was typing until she felt and saw a shadow looming over her and whoever it was, they smelt delic
39"Yes Rita, I already had something to eat and I'm full." Belle told her and watched as she smiled a lovely smile through the video call. She smiled back at her and continued her office tale. "That's all that happened and it's all pretty weird and clichƩ especially the date part." She ended with a chuckle."And you feel this is the part where you and your boss start to get to know each other before you hit it off, right?" Rita laughed making Skylar laugh and appear behind Belle"That's the same thing I said, Rita." She piped in. Belle groaned pushing her off as she was putting her entire body weight on her.
40Belle thought of possible reasons why she behaved the way she did. He's her lecturer and they can't do that. She took off my shoes immediately and headed straight to her room. She took off her clothes and underwear and ducked straight into bed, falling asleep immediately.She groaned as the alarm blared for the fourth time today. She turned to hit snooze again but when she saw the time, she paled. 9:24. She was supposed to be at work before 8am.She quickly got up, brushed her teeth, took a quick shower and wore a rose gold off-the-shoulder dress that stopped just above the knee. The top part was fitted while from the waist down was flay. She paired it up with a pair of black sandals because honestly, she wasn't in the mood for heels.She heard barking, followed by little excited whimpers and it either meant Baby was up to something mischievous or he was eating. She chuckled and fixed her hair b
41Wait, I remembered something. It wasn't much but it was still something. I remembered carrying a baby, that was it. I tried so hard to at least remember something else but nothing was forthcoming, absolutely nothing.However, the pain had significantly reduced and now it was just mild, more bearable than before. I still had random aches from unidentifiable parts of my body though. Very weird.The one thing that made me comfortable with being in my abyss was the peace that it came with. It was awfully peaceful in a weird sick way. I actually enjoyed it, even though I hadn't seen the dark lord or beelzebub yet; hell is lame.Or maybe he'll isn't a place with fire, demons and whatnots. Maybe hell is sort of like a timeout or something in a black unending hole, an abyss where you find yourself after death. Maybe the abyss is for you to remember yourself and reflect upon your past mistakes.Then
42Belle could manage to wait for five minutes to see the doctor, it's not like she had a choice anyways. It's either this or wait three days, she couldn't afford to wait three days."What do you think their emergency is?" Belle projected towards Rita who had already zoned out a long time ago. Belle rolled her eyes and pinched her cousin."What the hell?!" Rita exclaimed as she zoned back in."I said what do you think their emergency is?" She repeated."Who?""The couple that bumped into us.""I don't know, maybe a dying grandma?""I don't think so.""Why are you so interested anyways?""I don't know, I guess their hurry just piqued my interest.""None of their problems matter to us, we just have to get you back to normal so you can eat well at least.""Right."
Chapter 43It was just two days into the medication and Belle was already feeling good, great even. She successfully got a one week leave from her job because of her illness; well, they didnāt know if it was contagious so they had to give her the leave so as not to infect anyone else.Meanwhile, her assistant, Tiana worked her job in the meantime. Belle was the new chief editor and there was no way she would let Tiana remain in the same old position as before. The girl works really hard and sheād been in that position way before Belle started working with the institution so it felt right to give her the promotion. She could pick anyone to become her assistant chief editor; perks of being the chief editor and she picked Tiana. She promoted the zealous girl from being the assistant to