After Death

Part 3

Meanwhile, far away from the Sharon family residence. A well-known hospital in the city center. In one of the VVIP rooms.

A young man opened his eyes wide. Staring at the ceiling full of emptiness. His head was spinning, picking up the pieces of the events he had recently experienced.

"Where am I? What is this?" He finally regained his full consciousness.

He looked at his hand, which was attached to an IV drip. What exactly had happened? Where was he now? A hospital?

The young man pulled out the IV roughly. He didn't care about the pain in the area.

He looked at his deserted surroundings. "What room is this? Is this a hotel?" Question after question continued to break through his head relentlessly. Until he winced in pain, because suddenly his head was throbbing so hard, as if it wanted to burst.

"Brian! Are you awake?" A woman stood still, just a few metres away from where the young man was.

"Brian? Who's Brian?" The young man wondered. Just like the woman, he was surprised too.

Whose name was it?

"Your condition has not stabilized. Calm yourself down. I'll call a doctor." The woman ran away leaving the young man still in a confused state.

Brian?

The young man remembered the woman's call. He cast a quick glance around. Looking for something, which could make him get answers to all the questions that went back and forth in his brain.

He looked for the bathroom. Ah, he was almost frustrated, because this room was so big and where the bathroom was, he had no idea.

Finally, she entered one room, which might contain the thing she wanted.

That's right! A mirror was installed there.

"Why am I inside this man's body? What is going on? I should still be in my room with Amanda." was the sentence that came out of her mouth.

"Au, this hurts!" She winced as she pinched her cheek. That was not the only thing. She also bit her hand, to prove that all this might be a dream, but it was true. She wasn't dreaming.

"That Brian, who? Is the owner of this body?”

The young man got to thinking. Is this called borrowing a body?

"Ah, what exactly happened to me? How can I be in someone else's body? I'm not, Brian! I'm Jeff! I want out of this world!"

He grabbed his hair as hard as he could. Instead of waking up from the nightmare, he became even more frustrated. His head was hurting more and more.

Jeff took a deep breath, then let it out slowly. Trying to regain control of his mind. After regaining his composure, Jeff walked out of the bathroom. However, his steps were immediately halted when the woman was already there with a Doctor.

"Mr Brian, are you awake? It's a miracle," said the doctor who had been treating him.

"Brian? I'm not Brian, I'm Jeff!" he said loudly.

"It looks like Mr Brian's condition is still unstable. Or maybe he has amnesia after the coma?" Anna asked the doctor.

Anna was the secretary and the woman who had been faithfully accompanying Brian's body when he was unconscious.

"Maybe he's still in shock, Miss Ana. I'll give him a sedative," said the doctor.

Before he could take the medicine, Jeff had already left with his new body. Let others call it what they will, but he wanted to leave and return to his wife.

"Why am I in the hospital? Didn't I sleep next to Amanda last night? Where is she now?" Jeff tried to recall the events he might have missed.

Jeff reached into his trouser pocket for his mobile phone, but found nothing in it.

At that time, Jeff intended to go home to his wife's family. Unfortunately, just as he was about to get out of the hospital fence, several well-built men confronted him and took him back to the room where he was previously treated.

The doctor injected fluid into his body with the help of a syringe.

Jeff, who had been rebelling, slowly began to feel calm.

The news of Brian's consciousness was heard by his extended family. They decided to take him home under the intensive supervision of his personal doctor.

Apparently, Jeff's body was destroyed along with his favourite car. But, his spirit was still held in the world.

***

"Where am I again?" Jeff woke up again in a different place.

"What's going on here? What happened?" The question came back to Jeff's mind.

"You're in my room, Jeff," said a man who had been sitting on a sofa.

"Who are you? Why does your face look like this body?"

"I'm the spirit that owns the body you're in now."

Jeff was stunned. Who was the crazy one here, him or the person claiming to be Brian's spirit? Was he in a stage play, so people were acting in front of his eyes?

"What, are you crazy? Don't joke sir!" Jeff's grin.

Brian's explanation sounded impossible, but that was the reality of what was happening.

"I don't have much time to explain all this. Help me get revenge on Ronald and the person who helped him to kill me. Everything about me is in the diary in the drawer. Ask Anna for help to become me."

Brian's figure suddenly disappeared and entered a hole of light. The hole disappeared with Brian's spirit.

"Hey... where are you going," Jeff shouted.

The voice was apparently heard in several rooms in the mansion.

"Mr Brian, why are you shouting?"

"I told you, I'm Jeff. How can you convince you if I'm not Brian." Jeff rebelled again.

"Calm down, sir. Maybe the hostage takers' bad behaviour has traumatised you?"

"Hostages? I've never been taken hostage, miss."

Anna was increasingly convinced that her master had amnesia. "Is it possible that you've lost your memory?"

"Miss, believe me I'm Jeff Albern. Please explain to everyone I'm not Brian."

"Sir, please stop saying you're someone else. You are Brian Collins, the only son of the Charles Collins family," Anna said.

"How can my body turn into someone else?"

"Sir, you have been in a coma for too long. Maybe your memory hasn't stabilised yet."

Jeff tried to calm himself down and tried to find a way out. Suddenly he remembered the spirit of Brian who had spoken to him.

'It's better for the time being that I pretend to be Brian. I'll try to find out who Brian is. And I'm also going to find out what really happened, so that I can be in this man's body.'

Jeff's decision seemed to be the right one. Despite a thousand times explaining his true self, everyone only recognised him as Brian, not Jeff.

The man, who had lowered his head, raised his chin again. "Anna, please come out. I want to rest."

"Yes, sir."

After Anna's body was out of sight, Jeff searched for the diary that Brian had told him about.

From this, he learnt to be Brian.

"So Anna is a confidant, Brian? I think I know what to do now."

Amanda's husband shouted for Anna.

Who knows what the man who is now losing his body will do.