Lydia's heart - Episode 17

 

Okay,  the bonus episode is here.....  Lol

Vicky parked his car at the car park at St. Williams’s hospital. It is a private hospital he goggled up that focuses on helping people regain their memories. The testimonies of people in the site made him contact the doctor and booked an appointment.

“Good morning Sir, how may I help you” the receptionist asks him as he stepped inside the hospital

He looked around and liked what he saw; the hospital looks very neat and quiet. The landscape looks very attractive and makes you feel comfortable immediately you stepped inside.

“Please I need to see Dr . Williams” he answers the question that was thrown to him some seconds ago.

“Do you have an appointment with him?”

“Yes”

“Your name please”

“Vicky”

“Vicky who”

Vicky scratches his hair but can’t remember anything “just Vicky” he replies

The receptionist smiled at him to ease his tension, this is not the first time she is encountering this kind of patient. Some don’t even remember their first name which Dr. Williams instructs to be refereed to as special one or two but this guy standing in front of her tried.

She scrolled through the system on the desk and indeed his name is there

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. She pressed on the small telecom on her desk

“Dr. Williams, Vicky is here on his 12.00 appointment”

“Okay, send him in; the last patient just left now”

“Come with me” the receptionist and Vicky walking behind her heads to the doctor’s office.

She gave a slight knock on the door before motioning Vicky to enter inside.

“Ahhhh, Mr. Vicky it’s good to see you” Dr. Williams say and hug Vicky like his old time friend.

He is in his mid fifties; his curiosity and passion for helping people with amnesia started when his very best friend had an accident and forgot totally about him. It took him about a year under a close watch of a doctor for him to be able to know little of people around him.

“Thank you doctor” Vicky replied humbly

“Please sit down” they settled down and the doctor adjusts his glasses

“So what do you have to tell me” he asks

Vicky confused, blinked his eyes and kept quiet

“Okay. Tell me how you know your name”

“That is what everybody calls me”

Dr. Williams wrote down something on his notebook before raising his head.

“What else do you remember?”

Vicky thoughts for a while

“Relax yourself, don’t push too hard and they will come naturally to you” Dr. Williams advised

“Yes. I remember”

“Okay tell me”

“I had a dream”

“What was it about?”

“was in my room when a lady texted me; I prepared quickly and left but the funny thing was that I couldn’t see the name of the sender but one thing is sure, I was very happy receiving the message”

“Okay” Dr. Williams replies and writes down some points

“I can see you were blushing when telling the story” he asks

Vicky smiled rubbing his hands together “yes the dream was a happy one”

“So is there any name or something that always linger in your mind”

“Yes” he answers as his face brighten up

“What’s the name?”

“Lydia”

“Okay” he jots it down “any other thing consigning her”

His face drops “nothing else but I gave the name to my daughter”

“Oh, you have a daughter”

“Not necessarily my daughter but she is like my daughter now”

“How old is she”

“In her early teens”

“Wow but why name her Lydia”

“I thought that by calling her that name every time, I might remember something about Lydia”
Dr. Williams wrote down some notes again

“This will be my last question for this section today”

“After that dream did you have another one and are you taking any drugs”

“No; I never dreamt again and yes my girlfriend gives me my medicine saying it will help me be on my feet”

Dr. Williams wrote “induced amnesia”

“Okay, can you get me the samples of the drugs?”

“Yes I will”

Dr. Williams stands up and walks to a seat like bed with an electric lamp standing over it

“Come and sit here let’s know the extent your brain can go”

Vicky laid on the seat

“What would you like to remember?”

“Something about my parents” Vicky replies after so much thinking

“Alright; now close your eyes”

Vicky closed his eyes; Dr. Williams puts on the electric lamp.

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. He held a pendulum tied with a long rope

“Now I want you to forget everything about the earth and focus on getting something”

At the snap of my finger I will release the pendulum, focus your mind on the pendulum swinging.

Vicky just nods and closed his eyes tight, Dr. Williams snapped his fingers and released the pendulum; sat down to watch Vicky’s progress.

Vicky continues hearing the pendulum swing, as it swing he felt himself being dragged into something deep. As a point he couldn’t hear the pendulum any more and soon enough he slips out of the world.
 

“Momma, Pappa, I am home” Vicky shouts from the entrance as the guards brings in his luggage’s.

He ran to where they were seated, hugged his mom and bowed for his father to touch his back with the offor of Ubala kingdom.

“you are welcome my son’ the mother says all smiles

“my son, it is high time you start behaving like the crown prince you will be and refer to us as His Royal Majesty and my queen Her Royal Highness. People are watching and I wouldn’t want you to misbehave”

Vicky twitched his face “Okay pops… sorry His Royal Majesty”

“your father said he saw you working in a bar as a bar tender; what a great insult it is for the royal family; you have not visited the site for once and you are working in a bar”

“Somebody would have seen you there”

“Nobody knows me; I am a man of my own” his face brightened “I met a girl I want to marry”

“What” they ask same time

“Yes Dad, she is good”

“How old is she”

“29 to be 30”

“And you are”

“33”

“It will never work” his mom blurts out

“What the hell mom; you have not even met her and you are condemning her already”

“I don’t need to meet her before knowing what is good for my son, you are royal and must marry royal”

“Woman calm down” he faced his son

“What is her name?”

Vicky’s face twitched in anger, why would he want to know her name when they just finished murdering her?

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Dr. Williams stood up alarmed at the change in Vicky’s countenance, in his years of service anytime his patients face changes; they are always in their difficult part of memory.

He moved swiftly to his side, he has no option instead of allowing him go deep in his memories that will make it difficult for him to come back he has to wake him up.

He snapped his finger twice and switched off the light, the light serves as a light that light up their part of brain and make it possible for them to recall something, with it gone and finger snapped they tend to come back quickly

Vicky blinked his eyes open immediately the light went off and the doctor snapped his hand. Dr. Williams watched him closely but his expression was blank with strands of heat sprinkling down his face.

“He must have discovered something hard” he thought

He helped him stand up “come and tell me everything you saw”

Vicky nods and walks with him to his table. He told him everything he saw as Dr. Williams jots down the important points

“But why couldn’t he still remember their name” he wondered “but one thing is sure; he can remember their faces anywhere he sees them”

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OH Okay; our Vicky seems to be remembering or recurring his memories

Is he stirring too deep or Nah?