Chapter 29

Zara's POV
After Doctor Leo said goodbye, now I'm left alone in this room. Earlier I just let him go. Especially if the reason was related to finishing work. That was a good and reasonable reason, I like that. However, now I feel cold and lonely after he left this room. It felt so empty suddenly. For some reason, Doctor Leo's departure from this room left an unusual feeling.
Not long after, my father came back to this room. Finding him still alone, my Father didn't respond too much. However, when he saw the luggage was already there. Only then did my father question my mother's whereabouts.
"Is your mother here? Where is she now?"
"No, mother doesn't come here anymore."
"Not coming to the arts anymore? Why? Then this luggage?"
"Earlier Doctor Leo brought it here."
"Oh." That was the father's only response.
"Mother said Zena stopped her from coming back here to accompany us."
"Why? What's the problem?"
"Zena is menstruating for the first time."
My father was stunned speechless. Without any response, he showed other than silence and thought.
Then there was no conversation between the two of us. Everything seemed quiet, and my father was busy looking at what things my mother had prepared for us.
"See, there's something she missed." Starting to chatter to himself as usual, my Father likes to complain and chatter like that.
Meanwhile, I just kept quiet, not responding to him. Going back to rest because everything seemed boring. Until I really felt sleepy and it seemed like I had drifted off to sleep. Wait! Aaaaaaaa…
"Who are you?"
"Don't ask me who!"
"What do you want to do here?"
"What business do you have asking me that?"
"Stupid!" I felt annoyed with the creature that was now in front of me.
"Wait! Do I know you?" I started to remember the expression on this creature's face. It seemed familiar and I... Huh?
"Do I know you?" I asked again in a serious tone to make sure that I really knew this figure.
"Hahaha.. stop asking too many questions! Stop talking and I will take all the ovum in you."
I was shocked.
"No!" I shouted in a very loud tone while running turning around and trying and trying to get away from him.
He really chased me very fast. I don't know why I can also run fast. This creature is a creature that I have seen twice before. This is the third time I have seen his figure appear in front of me. I feel like I have lost my chance to survive now. Really trapped in a situation that is suffocating me.
Huh, dead end? I don't know what else to do to escape from this creature's pursuit.
"Go away!"
"Hahahaha..."
He got closer to me and I screamed repeatedly.
"Go away! Let's go away!"
Suddenly I began to realize that what had just happened was a nightmare. Hmmm.. luckily it was just a dream. Dad seemed surprised by my scream and immediately jumped from his position. It seemed like Dad was also sleeping in a sitting position next to the bed I was occupying.
"Zara, what's wrong?" He asked in surprise.
My sweat was pouring and wetting my skin like I had run a marathon for quite a long time and a very long distance.
My father wiped away the sweat on my right temple.
"Are you okay?"
"No." I shook my head.
The dream felt so real. I felt like I was going to be taken to another world that I didn't recognize. The dream was really strange and why was it related to the phenomenon that was happening now? Am I being targeted too? Huh targeted? I mean? Wait! That creature...
"Zara, drink it!" My father handed me a glass of warm water.
I was about to refuse it but my father insisted on telling me to drink it. He said it was to ease my anxiety so that I would calm down again.
"Come on, drink it, even if it's just a little!"
I glanced at my father and then accepted his suggestion to drink this water. I felt a little relieved now. My thoughts that had been thinking about bad things suddenly started to fade. I could breathe a little easier.
"What happened to you?" Dad asked again curiously while frowning.
"No Dad, I'm fine."
"Did you dream or did something hurt?"
"Umm, no, I don't feel any pain. Just had a bad dream."
"Umm, I thought you felt pain in a certain part of your body."
I was lost in my reverie again. Trying to remember the face of the creature. It was very familiar and not foreign to me. I felt like that face was always around me. But who was it and what kind of creature? Its shape and appearance were very strange. Like it wasn't an earthling, my mind began to wander thinking about strange things.
Suddenly I was surprised by the arrival of a nurse giving me breakfast. I was fed by this nurse. Then, as usual, I was given medicine to consume immediately. I followed the procedures that were in effect for me. So that I would not lose my energy to continue my next life.
This is my second day being treated in this hospital. Everything seemed boring and I wanted to be free from this situation.
When the nurse was taking care of me, my father left me there again because he said he wanted to go out to find food for breakfast. I was just with the nurse here and we chatted a little.
A moment later, my mother came with Zena.
"Zena, you're not going to school today? Is it a holiday?"
"No." She answered so innocently.
"So?"
"She's just being spoiled because she's menstruating." In fact, it was my mother who answered her.
"Oh you, just menstruating becomes an alibi for not going to school. You're lazy!" I grumbled.
"Not lazy, but sometimes my stomach hurts."
"Hmm, that's a common thing for women who are menstruating. Don't be spoiled!"
Zena was silent and didn't reply to me.
The nurse excused herself from the room after finishing her job. Now there were only the three of us left in the room.
"Excuse me?"
"What?"
"Hehehe..."
"What the heck?"
"Do you choose Doctor Leo or Orion?"
"What are you doing so unclearly?"
"Dad chooses Orion, Mom chooses Doctor Leo."
I was silent, not responding to Zena's nonsense. Besides feeling embarrassed, I also felt embarrassed because my mother was here. Being held up like that felt like being humiliated in public. I ignored Zena's joke. Although I actually thought about it that way. Although Orion was not included in my list of choice criteria. My thoughts had started to get a little disturbed since Zena asked that question earlier. It seemed like Zena had been able to see the signs from both of my parents. I started to feel restless because of this. I felt that my peace in being single was now starting to be disturbed.