Chapter 3: Balance

Chapter 1 ( Balance)

Twenty years have passed since the death of Chen. I and Kegan recently relocated to a bright and lively city near that wasteland.

I, Trish, am now 46, according to earth’s calendar and a foster mother of Kegan. Kegan is all grown up and now attends a fair school near our apartment. 

I have grown used to and learnt all the cultures and nature of this country and this entire world, so you might call me the smartest person here. 

I work at a pharmacy nearby to pay for rent, electricity bills and tuition. It’s not that easy a job, but I have to do so if I’m to keep my promise to Chen. 

Right now, Kegan is in the hospital. He was not always what you would call an healthy child since he was young. He would always have weak bones that could break even when touched or a weak immune system and could get sick very easily. 

If I had known that being a parent was so tiring, then I wouldn’t have flown here in the first place.

_ _ _ _

A local hospital is sighted and the scene focuses on the inside. Doctors and nurses are seen moving about the whole hospital. 

Room 36-D.

The room that Kegan is in. He has just been diagnosed with a broken leg and could takes weeks heal. So his left leg was hung in a caste unable to move. 

“Argh, man I hate this.” He yelled loudly and threw his phone to the ground. The constant illnesses and broken bones had finally made him lose his temper. 

He grit his teeth and cursed all long. The door opened and two students came in, both being girls. 

One of them, the quiet, cold looking one, saw the damaged phone on the tiled floor and picked it up. She began to play with the phone and put it in her bag.

“I’ll fix it later.” She said coldly but sincerely.

The other girl went closer to Kegan and sat down next to him. She touched his forehead and put down a hot bowl of soup on the table beside him.

“It’s just a broken leg, not a cold.” Kegan assured her. 

“I just want to prevent any illnesses that’ll try to affect you, Kegan.” She replied.

“Sure Marie.”  

He said her name. He turned his gaze to the other girl who stood by the door. She saw him looking at her and waved. Hee expression is like that of a remote controlled doll. 

“What are you doing there Sinclair?”

Kegan calls out to her.

“I’m listening to a song.”

She pulls out a piece of her AirPods and shows him.

“Oh”

“Yep.”

Awkward silence fills the air. Karin breaks the silence by asking Kegan when he would be discharged from the hospital.

“I don’t really know, the doctor said it would take about three more weeks for it to heal completely.” 

“That’s a bust, and our exams are in three weeks.”

“Fuck, so I don’t have notes to read before then.”

Sinclair interrupts him with her head in between Kegan and Karin.

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“I wrote notes for you.” She tells Kegan and slides back underneath.

“Weird being.”

For the first time since she’s been mentioned, Sinclair smiles at Kegan’s words and hands him the notes gently. Gently, Kegan collects it. Everything is done gently so that he won’t break another limb. It’s almost as if they pity him.

The sun begins to set and Kegan is left alone in his ward. Someone knocks and the dood is opened slowly. 

It was Trish.

_ _ _ _

“Mom!” Kegan called out happily.

Of course I was happy about the fact that Kegan took me as his mother and I tried my best to be the best mother out there. But seeing him in so much pain made me sad, thinking that I could not be a good mother. 

I walked in with a bag full of fruits and sat down on a stool next to Kegan.  I kept the bag on the table and saw an empty bowl on the table next to Kegan and realized that his two and only friends had visited. 

These two girls were really people that I could trust, even in the afterlife. Since we moved to the big city, and Kegan started a new middle school, these two have been with him since, especially when he got his condition, weak bones syndrome.

“How are you now?” 

“I’m strong, the doctors have said that I’ll be out in three weeks or even less than that.” 

Kegan was a 17-year old teenager. Since he was ten, he began to have this condition where every part part of his body became weak and fragile. So much that a simple fall could result to a broken arm.

“That’s very good.” I let out a smile.

“Don’t worry, after this, I’ll make sure to be strong, as strong as you even.” Kegan assures me.

When we began to stay with each other as guardian and child, I started to train Kegan in the activities of what they call here, martial arts. Even after he had weak bones, he continued to train even though it was too dangerous for him, but i never discouraged him. As a matter of fact, I don’t we proud of him and encouraged him to do more.

“So my exams are fast approaching.” Kegan reminded me.

“Oh is that so?” I answered but I did not know where this was going to.

“I don’t know if I’ll be able to write it.”

“And why is that?”

“Look at me, I’m a complete mess. I can’t even stand on my own two feet and you want me to write an exam?”

We were both silent for a long time. It was obvious that Kegan was annoyed and tired with his own body and I did not even know. 

“Look, we all have our flaws in life. What matters the most is how we surpass our limits and push forward. You might be weak now but if you strive forward, you’ll get stronger, even stronger than I am.”

I said this to clear every negative thought in his head. And it looks like it worked extremely well. 

Kegan smiled at me. This smile of his always compelled me to work harder in raising him.

We talked for a bit before I took my leave. I closed the door and was heading out the main exit.

Just then I felt something. A tingly sensation coming from behind my palm. I hoped that this was not what I thought it was to be, but my wishes were everything but granted.

Navègat began to flash. Three times, each second. It stopped and began to flash again, for one minute before it stopped completely. 

This could only mean one thing. 

Either the Spunio Graila or the Rashivans were close.

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