It was like I gained senses back or what, my head was hurting like maniac when I very slowly opened my eyes. It took me some time to finally open them as wherever I was, it was filled with immense sharp light and brightness which caused enough time for my pupils to adjust. I finally opened them up and a gasp slipped out of my mouth as I could clearly remember the place I was in. It was the same room I was in when I woke up after my suicidal accident.
I turned around and looked here and there, it was exactly same. Same completely white room with same stainless steel bed with white bedsheet and duvet, same steel and white chair placed on the corner, same no furniture...I mean still no furniture. Why was I here again? What was happening? Wasn't I dead again?
It was all so confusing and complex that I couldn't even mourn for my death, my whole mind and attention were consumed by these questions only that why the hell was I here again? Was I supposed to be here only after death? Was it going to be my afterlife or something?

Suddenly I heard a little yelp of a baby, not a cry but neither a laugh. My senses got alert so fastly that I immediately turned towards the door to listen carefully. A pang of happiness and hope travelled my whole nervous system within fraction of nanosecond thinking that it might be my child and I would be meeting it. I stared at the door for like two seconds and gave up already on patience.
I decided to walk past the door and look out if I was right or not. I held the railing of the bed and tried to uplift myself which seemed more than a task for me. That was the moment when I felt so drained of energy and strength in myself that I couldn't raise myself up without difficulties. People loose their strength and power after death and live a weak life???
I had no idea what was happening with me.

I refocused on uplifting myself again and this time I did it. I stood holding the wall and took deep breathes for a moment. Had to catch life before going further, oh! Irony! I was dead!

Anyways, I walked slowly towards the door holding the wall like a ninty year old. My legs were trembling while I tried to walk and I felt like my knees would fall apart any minute now. I still walked out of the door slowly and stopped suddenly. First step out of the door and I almost got brushed away by the strong gush of air coming right on me and never stopping. I held the doorframe with both hands now hiding my face sideways to avoid the air. I couldn't see anything clearly and clearly couldn't step forward for I had no idea what's further. Yet, somehow, I decided to move further as I had to see through what's beyond that room and I had to know who's baby I heard just now because if anything I wanted now....was not life but my child.
Techincally, it's pathetic for a mother to know that she is dead and be impatient to have her child with her. But who cares!

Holding the doorframe as tightly as I could, I lifted my right leg and the moment I put it down along with my body, I almost fell in my front and it felt like I would hit my face on the ground any second now but then I was halted in between by a pair of strong arms. I breathed heavily while hanging in the arms, whoever's they were. Those arms then lifted me up and kind of like pushed me back that I faltered in my steps entering the room and before I would have fallen,on my back this time, I held the door immediately to save my ass.

I caught the breath looking downwards like I was sucking up air from the ground. I panted like a dog for one minute straight and looked up to see who was my savior this time. I couldn't see anything as it was all foggy and windy, like I felt. It was so strange that it didn't seem anything like foggy and windy from the room, especially from the bed if I look at the door, but just when you step on the threshold, there's whole another world outside which you clearly can't see.

I stepped backwards and held the bed waiting for the person to enter inside.

"Hello?" I yelled, no response.

"Who are you? I gotta say thanks for saving me...can you come in please??" I yelled again waiting for the reply but for that moment, nothing.

Next second, I saw someone stepping in and it would be a complete understatement to say that I WAS SHOCKED. I was beyond shocked, it was like everything I knew.... everything I understood till now...was all gone. Everything jeopardized the moment I recognised the man standing in front of me. It was Jaden.

My mouth kept open while I stared him with utter amusement. He stood there with his hands in his pocket like I found Lucifer when we met for the first time here only. He wasn't smiling but wasn't frowning either. He kept neutral and looked at me.

"Wha...what are you.....I don't understand...where am I.. exactly...and you .... Jaden..? If....if I'm not wrong....."
Words came out of my mouth as puzzled as my mind was. He nodded at me positively and eyed me to sit down.

"Even I don't know everything but let's wait, they will be here soon." He said and oh his voice, it was definitely Jaden. I loved his voice the first and last time we met......until he screwed up and left saying he has a wife. Anyways, still the sexy voice.

I was still very much disturbed with all the happenings around. I took a seat on the bed and asked him "who....who are coming?"

He stepped forward and stood right in front of me behind the bed.
"Angelina......I suppose"

And I gasped again. Did he mean Angela?

"My wife's name is Angela, you ruin it next time imma beat up your ass" and breathes came rushing in me the moment I heard his voice. I almost sighed out loud when I saw him entering the room in his own style, hands in pocket....same black leather jacket intact with zipper open, giving a cool sexy vibe, typical Lucifer Christ.

I was staring him only with my relaxed-yet-confused face when he waved at me "how you doin now Stevens"

I just nodded blankly and said "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING HERE LUCIFER??"

"Woah...relax...you will find out soon, let Ang come she is very excited to talk to you about it" he said in his typical cool and casual way while I was on the verge of peeling my head off and screaming my throat out to know and understand what was happening while the cool and calm Lucifer took the chair from the corner and placing it right in front of me, he sat there folding his one leg up on the other and hands on the handstand of the chair.

"Yeah even I want to know everything in detail" Jaden said and I was getting too strong instincts that he knew some things already. I gaped at Lucifer while he just shrugged me away.

"Your girl is magnificent Ire" and everybody turned around to see Angela entering the room with a little baby wrapped in white clothes. She entered the room looking at the baby only. It was.......it was way different to see the baby in her hands. I started getting jitters and jolts in my belly again. I was excited as well as nervous at the same time. I had a girl!! I had a GIRLLLLLLLL like a real GIRL!!!

Before I could say something, Jaden already went to Angela and forwarding his hand out he said "can I have my girl, for once please" and my mind flushed. I knew he knew something but does he know more than I know?

Angela carefully shifted the baby from her hands to his. He took the baby and very slowly rocking her a little up and down in his arms and smiling at her, he came up to me. I was dieing to have my baby to myself that it eradicated all the questions and confusions I was having till now from my mind away. All I could think about was, let me just have my baby I wanna see her, it's a GIRL!

Jaden finally came to me and sitting beside me he finally showed me the face of my baby. Tears trickled down my eyes as my happiness knew no bounds. All I craved, all I cared was right in front of me sucking her little thumb like, it's a chocolate bar, with closed eyes and a little pink nose. It was such a treat to watch my daughter.
I forwarded my hand to take her in mine, Jaden carefully shifted her to me and the moment I took her in my arms, a strong rush of weird current ran through my entire body. I was holding a life, a human, that I created inside of me. It was alive...so much alive. There was no way she was dead. She was so alive....so full of life.

"Oh my child.." I said as I put her closer to my chest and kissed her. Once I kissed her, I started prepping kisses to all over her face. She was fast asleep but when I really annoyed her with my desperate kisses she frowned her face, twitched her nose and brows and next second...the whole room is echoing with sharp shrilling cries of her. I got a vibration of fear in my body the moment she started crying.

"Lord I'm the most terrible mother in the entire world" I said as I panicked  she was crying and just yelling in my arms. I looked up at Angela and Lucifer and they were just laughing. I rocked her a little and tried to talk gibberish.

"Don't cry.... I'm sorry.....I'm so so sorry. I'm terrible mother baby I'm so sorry....hushhhhushhh hushhhh oh baby....sshhhuushhh" I tried and tried but it wasn't working. She kept screaming so loud that I felt her lungs will be out thrown at my face any minute by now.
I looked with pathetically helpless eyes to Angela as she came to my rescue.

"Baby stops crying.... (She took her from me and I felt so bad that I wanted to hit Angela but she was helping me of course) you gotta put her in a........ comfy position..." She said as she almost hid the baby in her chest so as her face was above Angela's left breast and she cupped her with her both arms so perfectly and rocked her slowly sideways while rested her head on my girl's little one lightly and hummed.

Surprisingly, and offending-ly of course, she stopped crying and resumed nibbling her thumb once again.

"OUR daughter by the way" and my attention was drawn back by Jaden when he said so. I looked at him and he was already looking at me with a smile pasted on his face. No lies but I totally thought, was I going to have a afterlife family here now??

Lucifer laughed suddenly and I looked at him with a deadly glare and he just shrugged and laughed while Jaden was exchanging his stares between me and Lucifer.

"Now will anyone tell me what's going on exactly?" I demanded as it was too much now.

"You are dead again" Lucifer said blatantly and I gaped at him although I knew it was true. I mean, what else than that right. It was supposed to happen.

"But not for a long time" Angela said and  I looked at her with another shocking face. She was still busy with humming to my baby.

"But I'm forever dead right?" Jaden spoke suddenly out of blue and my shocks got another layer. I looked at him now.

"Hold on, everybody. One shock at a time please." I yelled as it was getting too much for my brain.

"Yeah it's a short one anyway" snapped Lucifer under his breath and I shot him another glare now to which he shrugged in his can't-help-it look.

"Angela......you will be talking" I said to her to which she stopped rocking my baby and came to hand it over to me. I took my darling little cupcake looking daughter back in my arms and tried not to wake her up from her sleep again.

Angela came and sat beside me while Jaden shifted his place.
We all were set to know everything.

"Alright Iris, it's a long story........

Flashbacks (third person narrative)

It was a fine morning for Jaden when he decided to take a walk to the supermarket as he had to buy household stuffs his wife sent him for after his jog. It was a silent morning for the roads as well, he was enjoying his walk. His home was two blocks away from the turnover road, he looked his sideways and stepped up to cross the road when suddenly a big SUV car came zooming at lightning speed and before he could even process it, it rammed into him so hard that he flew up on the air and within seconds, bam! On the windshield of the car. His senses were intact but loosing slowly. His eyes were open when he got stuck on the windshield and fortunately he even saw people sitting inside who were looking at him with shocked faces, there was a face familiar to him but he wasn't sure about it. Blood oozed out of everywhere around his face and head as it jammed very hardly on the car.

He felt so helpless and paralysed, his mind wasn't working but still working. He was later put off the car by two men and then he lost it completely. 

Next thing he knew, he was in a hospital when he opened his eyes. There was no one around him but he could hear doctors talking outside his room. He didn't protest to wake or something as he was still very weak on his bones, but he tried to focus and listen what they were talking.

"I cannot believe she survived all these weeks and now she is dead"

"Yeah right, she is more of a miracle case, except that the miracle didn't last much longer.......even the baby is dead."

"Yeah man, I heard Dr.Montgomery did everything she could but she still lost it. In fact the reason of her death is not even clear yet."

"Whats her name again?"

"Iris.....Iris Stevens"

And that's when Jaden's mind hit him hard and rock when he heard the name. Iris Stevens, the girl he met months ago for a one night stand. She was alive yet? Wasn't she dead the day he saw her stepping in front of the car one and half month ago?
It was also a fine evening when clouds took place in the sky and he was hoping for it to rain as he was bringing a fine wine from the old celler to home for his wife and the rain would have made the day just beautiful and romantic so that for at least one day he could survive without fighting with his wife. Randomly his eyes fell on the road across where he saw a face really familiar. He looked at her for a few seconds and till the time he recognised who she was, she did something so terrible and shocking that Jaden couldn't process what happened. He saw her literally looking at the upcoming car and then stepping in front of it. He saw her commiting suicide and he didn't do anything. When she fell down, that's when he noticed she was pregnant as her protruding belly was visible when she was lieing raw and ruptured on the ground. He saw her chagrin bleeding.
He breathed sharply and moved away from there.

That Iris Stevens, was alive till now and now she was dead? Jaden felt guilt in his gut so hard that he didn't even went to see her or tried to stop her when she committed that heinous act.
He cheated on his wife that day and dumped Iris but even later, he continued cheating his wife with other women as certainly he wasn't happy in his marriage. He felt so guilty out of blue after listening about Iris' death that he felt it was him who killed her.

He was thinking all this when suddenly sharp light rays came through and he squeezed his eyes shut immediately and put his hands forward as a shield to stop his eyes from burning. Gradually the light went off and he tried to open his eyes. The moment he opened, he gasped in a quick shock as he found a handsome man in leather jacket sitting right in front of him looking at him with an unusual smirk. He gulped looking at him as he was getting creep vibes from him. He looked in his right and found a beautiful innocent looking lady in white dress, epitome of neatness and calmness standing in his sides with her hands folded on her chest, looking straight at him.

He stared at both the strangers with quizzical eyes and waited for them to introduce themselves.
When no one spoke, he said "I'm sorry do I know you guys?"

"Nope, and it doesn't matter.....what matters is......how do you know Iris Stevens" said the man in leather jackets narrowing his sexy sharp eyes to Jaden which scared him even more because there was an intense capability in those eyes.

"I....I just...... I've just known her for one night....... that's....that's all....are you...are you police though?" He said with his dried throat and quivering lips. He was scared because somehow he was blaming himself for her death.

"Hmm...and did she ever tell you that she was pregnent with your child after that... One night?" Said the man now looking here and there in the room.

"What?? My child?? How......how can you......how can you say that....?" Jaden was shocked and even more scared now.

"You can ask for DNA but you know you can believe in me." The man said boring his eyes in Jaden's again. Jaden looked away from him as his mind started freezing now. It was his child? And they were dead now? And he did see her committing suicide, perhaps that's why they are dead now ?

"Exactly, you are absolutely right. Because she committed suicide that day, that's why she is dead today....and so is your poor little baby." Said the man and Jaden looked at him with another shocked face.

Tears rolled down his eyes to his cheeks. He wasn't that bad as he had been in all these months and now regret and guilt was eating him alive. Two innocent people lost their lives, and one of them was much of his. He couldn't understand all the facts.

"But you know what, you can still save them if you want..!" Said the lady this time, sitting on his bed in front of him and putting a hand on his shoulder.
He looked up at her with his wet shot eyes and face.

"What?" He asked and she nodded positively.

"You can save them, but it will cost you your life. Just think Jaden, think of all the sins you have committed so far. You know why she committed suicide that day, because she was depressed by all the stress and loads of her loneliness and pregnancy and it's upcoming responsibilities et cetera et cetera....you know if you haven't dumped her... She would have been safe and sound today...and so would have been your baby, your little child. Jaden....you are anyways going in COMA later this evening as the wound in your head is deep and now you are going to have all the stress. Why not free yourself from all the guilt and stress and also leave your family at good fortune rather than sucking up all their money and life while you stay in COMA for years. Think about it Jaden."

It was all too much for Jaden to process that his head started hurting.
He held his head tightly which was bandaged completely.

"Aahhhh....stop it.....who are you people.?" He yelled in annoyance while clutching his head.
The woman put her hand on his and his pain started to lessen magically. He looked upwards at her and she blinked at him in assurance and asked him to come with her.

He slowly raised from his bed while she took his hand and led him to the  next door where he saw Iris laid arid and lifeless on the table with a sky blue cloth covered  up till her neck. His eyes fell on the next little table where there was a baby laid, he could only see it's face which seemed bloodless.

"It's a GIRL" the lady beside him whispered.

"You can save them Jaden. Free yourself from this sinful life and give them a chance" she said as he kept staring at them.

Moments later he turned to her and said "what do I have to do?"

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Longest chapter till now.😂🤷🏻‍♂️
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Shruti!