Organization

Quianna's POV The three of us were still here sitting at Aina's living room, I just finished checking and inspecting her whole apartment and I just said to her that everything looks like she's not staying here alone. I start collecting each thing I spotted and laying it all on the table for them to see those. "Why are you messing with my apartment?" I heard Aina said while sitting at the couch, and while me still roaming her place again. "I am not messing with it, just look at the things I bring out." I answered and opened her closet to check every crook and nook she may hide things. "There, can you notice that if you're living alone, you only need one of each kind?" I said upon finishing my second inspection. "She can have them as a reserve or something, though." Austin said to me. "That can be the case, but I know where Aina stores her extra things." I said and approached the huge cabinet near her bathroom and opened it. It stores many towels, cups, soaps and even kitchen utensils that she may use when there were a lot of visitors. Yes, the real Aina that I know never uses two things at the same time. "Whoa, what do you have there? A mini supermarket?" Austing exclaimed and he walked towards the cabinet checking what things are stored in it. "I guess this should be the first thing we should talk about, what kind of people we are facing to, how would we solve this case and who should we trust." I firmly said to them, and I saw Aina staring blankly like she's trying to collect all her memories into clear thoughts. I looked at Austin who's still checking out the large cabinet and being amaze by what kinds of things stores there, until I felt my phone vibrated in my pocket. At first, I don't have the confidence to peek in it, but I remembered that maybe another strange message popped up again. I reached for my phone and scanned my fingerprint to open it, then I saw another message asking me to become the witness once more. "Guys, we need to go." I simply said to them, and I saw them staring at me. I showed the screen of my phone and they approached it to read the message clearly. "Someone asking you to meet them? How could you trust that person who just sent you an address without introducing themselves first?" Austin said to me as his express of forbidding me to meet the sender. "You should meet them." We both looked at Aina who's now looking at me very determined, this is the first time I saw her eyes stared like this, she's very serious and at the same time eager to know everything. "Even if you won't say anything, I would still meet them." I said to them, and Austin just let out a deep sigh like he's given up saying anything further. "I would meet them alone." I said to them, and Austin just sat on the couch. "Do whatever you wanted." He plainly said to me, and I just nod at him. I start fixing myself and grabbed my bag to leave the apartment. I looked at Aina who's now making dinner and Austin who's watching television all of a sudden. I can't get why they were acting like this; they first gave their statements and now they are acting very indifferent like I am just meeting someone I used to know. However, this time is different as I did not anything about their identities. What if they were from the future and they were about to kidnap me for more benefits they wanted? I know, that was very stupid of me, how could I assume on something that is not yet proven by anyone? I get in the car and start driving towards the address that was sent to me. The sender is unknown, but the address is somewhat familiar to me, I am not going there always but I think I heard it from dad sometimes whenever he is talking someone on the phone. After minutes of driving, I arrived at some building behind the Imperial Hospital. I did not think that there's still a building here as the place looks like a vacant forest for me. I get off the car and start walking through the path in the middle of old trees and other bushes. At the end of the path, I saw a figure of a man standing facing his back from me so I cannot see who he is. I immediately approached him, and I was surprised by who is waiting for me and probably the one who messaged me. "Mr. Lee, why are you here?" I just asked him like I am not sure what to expect and believe. "I was waiting for this day to come." He suddenly said to me and held my hands. "What are you talking about?" I answered looking at him very skeptical and confused. "You will know, let's go inside." He said and offered me to enter the building while he's holding the door for me. I looked inside the building and the inside looks very different on how it looks like on the outside. The external view would make you think if it's abandoned or not but as soon as you entered the building, you will see traces of existence like materials of science, sounds of nature and the smell of living things. Yep, I haven't seen anything like this, this is my first time entering a biological laboratory where people wearing lab gowns are silently experimenting on something that even themselves are not sure of how it results. "What is this place?" I exclaimed as I cannot stop staring in it, still amused. "Your father's legacy." He answered in which I looked at him immediately. He guided me towards a room at the end of the hallway, I read the label and it says the president's office. I entered the office and sat on the couch, Mr. Lee starting to make coffee and put the mug on the table in front of me. I reached out for it and sipped from it. "This is the reason why your father pushes you to study medicine and to inherit the hospital. He wants you to preserve and protect the organization he's building since early of his age." Mr. Lee started. "What do you do in here?" I asked and started roaming around the office. "We are studying about the parallel universe, how people live and if we can live together with our copies." He answered which makes me stopped walking and looked at him. "This is insane. So, what result did you have?" I asked and sat in front of him. "Everything is still uncertain, but that is why you should fully inherit the hospital. This organization is now failing to have more sponsors compared to when your father is still alive." He said to me with desperation in his eyes. "But I cannot say that all of them would support me, I have no knowledge to any of it as Mr. Grand explained." I answered and looked on the ground. "They will support you just be yourself and show your passion on building this company to success." He said to me. "Alright, I would do that, but I need your support and the support of other doctors who originally supported my father." I said to him, and he just smiled. The door suddenly opened, and it shows a few doctors who are entering the office one by one. I looked at them and I think there were 10 of them. They lined up in front of me and bowed as greetings. I also stood up and gave them my greet and one by one shook their hands for politeness. "These are the colleagues that your father supported all through the years this organization is built. They will support you fully and to everything you need to learn." Mr. Lee said, and I smiled to all of them. "I don't know how I can show my gratitude to all of you, you are with my father for years, but this is the first time we met. I would do my very best to serve all of you the same way as my father's. Thank you very much." I said to them, and they all smiled to me like they are looking at me the same way as they look on dad. "You looked like your father, and I am guessing that your heart is as gold as his." One of the doctors said to me. "You're saying very kind words to me, thank you." I answered. "I would take you on a tour as how this place operates for the long run." Mr. Lee said, and the doctors went out. We also left the office after some time and start walking through the hallway of laboratories. I see people looking through microscope, testing something and even getting samples from animals. I know it may look cruel, but this is how science works, I see this to my dad always. But I cannot have myself peek at the last laboratory we are about to go. I can hear screams of people like they have been tortured and people kept going in and out of the room. "What is that place?" I just asked to him. "That place is for testing if 2 persons with the same identity can live together at the same time and at the same place." He answered and I saw how the person looks very hurt during the experiment. They were forced to live together but in fact they cannot do it as their existence overlapped to each other. Is this the reason why she's only messaging me? ---