Chapter 2 A Rebirth

• Lucy’s POV
• I could not believe that at the age of 40 I had not fallen in love yet. Of course I have been married before, I must admit that it was the biggest mistake of my life and though the divorce was horrible and must I say I don’t even wish it upon my worst enemy.
• I thank God that after years of feeling broken I finally saw light as to why I had to divorce. We didn’t have kids yet and I was thankful for that.
• It took forever for me to finally get it. When freedom finally washed over me I had pushed away every male who showed interest in me. I had made them know I didn’t want anything to do with them.
• Some so politely while others in a somewhat harsh way. I have had my fair share of breaking hearts but I wouldn’t say mine had ever been broken because I never fell in love.
• I was beginning to think of myself as some kind of a monster; heartless maybe. Why couldn’t I fall in love? Was my heart that much damaged? Is it even repairable? Will I have to spend the rest of my life alone and miserable?
• All these thoughts made my already restless heart even more restless. I pondered over this and realized the cry of my heart was simply just to fall in love before I grew old alone.
• Though I was actually 40 years of age my physical appearance was that of a 30 year old even less. Many people had always wondered if I was telling the truth when I said I was 40.
• As I was walking down the road, absent-minded while pondering over why I never fell in love, I suddenly saw myself flying over the road. Excruciating pains engulfed my body as darkness creeped in.
• I fought hard not to close my eyes. I saw a face of a woman I didn’t know, tears streaming down her face. “Please let’s take her to the hospital, she is bleeding to death!” another voice sounded.
• ‘Death? Am I dying? No no no! I cannot die yet. I want to experience love. God, gods or goddesses, moon goddess, whatever powerful being out there, please if you can hear me, don’t let me die like this please!’
• I screamed with all my might as I felt more darkness engulfing me. ‘I guess that’s it, this is my end!’ I sighed as I breathed my last.
• Have you ever believed in taking back the hands of time? Yes it happened to me. I guess my desire to finally fall in love was so strong that the unthinkable happened. I guess some higher power out there finally heard my prayers.
• The surprise that nearly choked me to death again was that the following day, or was it years? I woke up having gone back in years. I was a sassy, loudmouth, very outgoing, pale in complexion girl with extreme brown curls and brown eyes, who had just been accepted into the University to study Sciences, preparing me to be a Pharmacist.
• Now with this weirdly odd situation at hand, I had been reincarnated into a 19 year old. I was back at the University and still had my old life memories.
• Oh boy! It was like I had just been handed a clear navigation map to start afresh and steer my life up in a totally different course of life from what it had been before.
• Nelly was my current girlfriend. She was nagging me to get ready quickly in order to avoid getting late for our lectures. I groaned.
• “Nelly what the heck? Let me get ready at my pace, we still have an hour. Besides, it's not like we’re traveling miles to the class, geez!” I said, rolling my eyes. She sneered at me as I responded. “Well, I know you want time to go and make out with Jack in the bathrooms like you did yesterday!” I told her. She sneered again. “Like you don’t want to be all over that Kenneth of yours yourself!” She retorted. “Giirrl you have no idea how much I missed him last night. I wish you weren’t my roomie I would have sneaked him in here I swear.” I responded. “Haha! Preach it my honey” she said.
• I cringed, though not intentional, that line kind of reminded me of my past life as a religious fanatic and a total opposite of what I was now but I brushed it off because she didn’t know that life of mine.
• We both burst out laughing at our naughty thoughts. Don’t get me wrong we are not rebellious children or something we’re just both fun loving people, two peas in a pod kind of a thing.
• You could swear that we were deliberately paired by fate or God. We both got out of our room and trotted down the stairs to the students mall. I knew that I was going to see him there. Oh how I missed him. My Kenneth.
• I looked everywhere but I could not find him. I sighed frustratedly. Just as I was about to make a short left going inside the auditorium room 201 to finish my math assignment, I heard him call out from behind. “Omalicha!”