Chapter 3: Blood
Blood. So much blood. When Dove woke up, she found herself drenched in her own blood. This nightmare never ends. It will never end. The blood won't go away. No matter how many times she attempts to wash or scrub it away, it never goes away. It will stay with her until her last breath.
"Birdie!"
"Birdie!"
Dove woke up in a panic as someone yanked the blanket off her body. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the man with a frown etched on her face.
'Dad…'
It had been more than a month, but still, she was not able to believe or come to terms with the fact that she had turned back in time.
Indeed, her wish had been granted. She was back to the time when she was eighteen years old. When it happened, she couldn't believe it. However, according to the timeline, she had just turned eighteen and passed high school. Her father was still alive and happy. He was now working as a professor at a university in the Capital. Her father had changed many jobs and it was the only time when he was working as a professor.
She was staring at him in a daze just like every day whenever he would come to wake up. She still couldn't believe that this thing was happening to her. Each day she would go to sleep with the thought that she would wake up in her miserable and sad world.
"Run to the washroom, quick!" The man said and Dove glanced at her light-coloured satin pyjamas that were stained red. Blood rushed to her cheeks and she got down from the bed and ran to the bathroom. At this moment, she forgot what she was thinking about in the beginning as all she cared about was the cause of her blood-stained pyjamas.
She ran back to her room to get a sanitary napkin from her closet. When she returned from the bathroom, she saw her father changing the bed covers and her blanket. She didn't move or make a noise and her eyes turned glossy on their own as she watched the man she loved more than anything else caring for her.
She was the result of an affair that her father had with a woman in college. Both her father nor her mother were not in a position to raise their daughter together. She didn't mind that her mother left her with her father and he raised a single kid. She didn't know much about her mother, only that she was a good woman but just not someone cut for motherhood. Of course, Dove didn't blame her mother. She was glad that her mother left her with her father and he raised her single-handedly with all the love in the world.
She never felt the need for a mother as he was enough for her. He was the best father in the world. She didn't love anyone more than him and she could say that he also loved her a lot. She hurt him a lot in her last life by choosing that company over herself. All he ever wanted was for her to live well and she could not even do such an easy thing.
However, if this time she was really given a second chance, she was neither going to disappoint him nor herself.
As if he could feel her eyes on him, he veered around only to sigh. "What's wrong, Birdie? I have been asking you for so many weeks but you don't tell me anything. Has anything changed? Why do you look sad?"
Andrew Harrison could feel that something had changed in her. He didn't know what it was. He knew that his daughter was always a very serene child but there was this hidden sadness in her eyes that he couldn't understand why it was there. She looked as if she had aged a lot this month. Every day he would ask her if she was facing any problems in life, and she would just shake her head and smile at him. What could he make of this gesture? He was scared for some reason.
Dove hugged him and whispered, "I'm sad because you are sending me far from home. I only wish to stay with you."
She knew that he could catch every emotion that she was facing. He always had this magical ability that she loved but presently she was finding it unnerving.
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A/N: You know life changes so unexpectedly and swiftly that you don't even understand it sometimes. Just last year, I was reading Rebirth and Reincarnation themes stories and saying I wouldn't write something like this as it's not intelligent to think to go back in time and try to take different approach to life. I was of the view that why can't we stand by the decision in present that we made in past? But today, I'm here thinking what if there is a restart button and all of it could happen again and if I have the power to change everything. Humans are weird. They are never happy with what they have. I pray we all find happiness and peace in what we have and what we will get.
My best wishes to all of you! I pray that all of us have a great and productive weekend.
PS: For me, there is no fun on the weekend as I have to think about my kind readers. *Wink* But we will have fun together, won't we?
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