Eyes open

He felt as if his eyelids were made of stone. They were so heavy he could hardly open them. After a few minutes trying, he was finally able to open them. A small ray of light blinded him as he looked around.

He saw a woman with short brown hair sleeping on a sofa. She had her mouth opened and snored like the a cat's purr. A small kid was running around the room playing with a little toy spaceship.

 He looked at the room’s walls and analyzed the type of bed he was in. He noticed he was in a hospital room.

His mind was foggy and he couldn’t move his body. He felt as if he was underwater and all the weight of the ocean pressed him down into the bed. The kid then landed his little spaceship on his foot as if it was a new planet he had just conquered. Being able to feel the little toy made him happy as he understood that his nervous system was intact. The little boy saw him looking around the room and called his mother.

-Mom, mom. The man woke up, he is looking at me-, the boy screamed as he pushed her mother in order to wake her up. The woman stopped snoring and complained about the pain in her neck.

-What do you want no… ahhhh-hhaaaaaa-, the woman yawned. -...now. What do you want? Can’t you see your mother is tired of taking care of you and your bottomless pit of energy? Give me five more minutes…-, she begged. But the boy only gave her 5 milliseconds and pushed her again to finally wake her up. -What Whaaat?!

-The man. He is awake-, the boy said pointing at him.

The woman’s expression changed completely. She jumped out of the sofa and rushed to his side.

-Nyco! You are finally awake!. Oh, thank the heavens-. The mother then hugged him. -How are you? How are you feeling?-, she asked.

Nyco tried talking but all he let out was a weak sigh.

-It’s ok, it’s ok. Don’t force yourself. Oh, I’m so happy-, the mother said, hugging him again. Wait! Let me call Emma! Oh, she’ll be thrilled!

The mother called Emma on her E-C. She was so close that Nyco was able to hear the conversation.

-What is it, Yve? I’m in the middle of an important meeting. I have to go back!-, Emma scolded her.

-Screw that lame-ass meeting of yours. Nyco has just woken up!! Get here quick!!

-What?! Nyco… woke up?!-, Emma could not believe it.

-Yes. He is right here. Look!-, Yve then opened the back screen of the E-C and showed Nyco’s face with his eyes opened.

-Wait there. I’m on my way!-, she said with excitement. -Don’t hang up!-, she pleaded, feeling as if she stopped looking at his opened eyes he would close them again.

Not even 4 minutes passed when Emma appeared on the room’s private portal she had installed.

-Ny… Nyco!-, the blonde woman screamed as she ran to Nyco and hugged him.

Nyco felt the warm embrace of the woman with beautiful green eyes and freckles. She then kissed him in the cheek with tears in her eyes.

-Oh, Nyco. Thank you for coming back! I love you so much!-, the blonde girl hugged him again tightly, scared that he would slip away from her embrace again.

Nyco felt it was a shame that such a beautiful woman was crying because of him. He smelled her hair as she hugged him. She smelled like vanilla. He knew right then and there that her perfume would become his favorite from that day forward.

He tried talking again. Emma stopped hugging him in order to try and decipher what he was trying to say.

-W… Wh…-, Nyco tried saying.

-What is it? What are you trying to say?, Emma asked him.

-Yeah, Nyco. you can do it-, Yve cheered.

-... Wh… Why am… I… h… here?...-, Nyco managed to say. Emma and Yve’s faces darkened just remembering what had happened.

-That… that scumbag… Lasson-, Emma said, spitting out his name. -He put you in an altered 5-S for too long… Your brain… -, Emma started crying just remembering the face Nyco had when she found him in Nane Sarma.

-I'm so glad that he is now rotting in jail along with his mother. As soon as AI-juliet caught Amanda and exposed her. The rats that worked for her started stabbing her in the back, revealing all the information needed to lock them up. Lasson will never bother you again, Nyco-, declared Yve.

-L… Lasson? Who…?-, Nyco asked.

-What…? You don’t… You don’t remember?-, Emma asked in disbelief.

-... No…-, he said.

-Wait… do… Do you remember… me?-, asked the terrified blonde girl. Nyco didn’t want to answer. Those women obviously cared about him. He tried to remember who they were. But… he failed.

-...No… Sorry…-, he admitted as he saw the beautiful girls face cry in anguish.

Emma hugged Nyco and felt his weak body. The once muscular boy was now skinny and weak. She damned the world for hurting the man she loved. The doctor’s had warned her that this was a possibility. After all the trauma he had endured for what he lived as 9 consecutive days, it was possible that another side effect would be memory loss. She had forgotten about that possibility with all the excitement of him waking up.

Nyco finally woke up on the friday 20th of January 3026. He had spent 5 years in a coma. Nyco was accompanied the whole way through. In those 5 years he was not let alone in the room for one second. Every person he had loved had taken turns in order to accompany him every step of his battle.

Emma, Yve, Gyanna, AI-Juliet, Silvy and even Mr. Litdawn. They all took turns in order for him to always have someone beside him. When the nurses told him that, Nyco felt a huge wave of gratitude towards them all. He felt happy knowing he had all their love, but he also felt sadness for not being able to remember them.

He had lost his memories of his past life, put he was determined in making new ones with his wonderful family.