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Opening A Door
Of Memories
the hospital and helped the girl rush an injured, unconscious young boy to the
hospital. As the boy got admitted, the girl couldn’t do any-thing but stare
anxiously at the hospital door.
I rip the tape off and pick at the rough end of the wooden stub.
This is the very place he fell. I break the whole stub off the banister
at the memory of what happened afterwards.
After a few days, the boy was allowed visitors in the hospital. The girl was
the first one to rush into his ward. But the response was one she was not
expecting at all.
‘Who are you?’
The girl was frozen at this answer. A nurse came in and smiled apologetically
at the girl. ‘Due to severe head injuries, he appears to have amnesia’.
‘Amnesia?’
‘It’s when you lose your memory,’ the nurse confirmed. The young girl
widened her eyes and looked frantically at the nurse. ‘He does not remember
anyone, including his family, friends, and you.’ At the next meeting, the boy
didn’t come, not that she had been expecting him to come. After all, he was
leaving the town because of what happened.
I turn around and decide to leave, this place is getting a little
overwhelming. I accidentally bump into a small table and a crinkled
white note flies off. It has been gathering a bit of dust. The date is
today’s date exactly five years ago.
I open the note and read from it:
Hello friend,
By the time you read this I am probably already gone. I wish I had more
time to remember everyone around me. I’ll probably learn something from the
letters you told me to collect. Chances are, you might not ever see this note. But
it’s ok to hope, isn’t it?
P.S I will visit this place annually on this day, look forward to seeing
you again.
I hear the sound of clashing metal outside and also someone
yelling as they most likely crashed into a certain someone’s bike.
I walk outside and see a boy who is currently attempting to get up
from underneath his bicycle. ‘Keep doing that and you’ll go to
hospital again.’ The boy notices me and mutters under his breath,
‘As bossy as ever I see’.
Even so, but the both of us can’t stop grinning.
I flip the
open/closed sign
to the
Open
sign as we walk in.
‘Welcome back’.
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