Under the cover

"Screw you Jewel!i curse the day i gave birth to you". "You should just die!life's been tough ever since you came into my life".Jewel , just barged out of the house after his mum leashed her anger out on him for not being able to foot their rent bill.Apparantly, hearing all those words wasn't new to him but this one hit him hard. His dad abandoned them just when he was born after he won a lottery and run with his lover. He's been blamed ever since .

Jewel put on his head set with a loud music just to clear his head. He was so lost in thoughts as he listened to the music. As he was crossing the road, he was knocked down by a truck which left him in a pool of blood. His last words were, " i hope you are happy now mama", as he blacked out.

He was rushed to a nearby hospital but he didn't make it unfortunately. His mum after hearing the news broke down in tears, and blamed herself for his death. Why not? How could she blame the poor thing for all her misfortune? Was it worth it now that he was gone?

Jewel was buried immediately, he didn't really have a lot of friends so just a few attended. His mum, Carrie, thought for once, his imbecile father would show up at the funeral but he did not, neither did he call.

Carrie, was traumatized after her son's death. All she could say was, "if only i had not said those mean words..."She kept having nightmares and her mental health began to deteriorate. One of her neighbours took her to a rehabilitation centre and she remained there for years.

Jewel's POV

My name is Jewel Antonie... I died 12 years ago in a car accident. I don't know how but i'm alive again, still in the clothes i wore on my death day. I never believed in magic but could i say this is magic? A second chance ? or a new life away from my past. It feels like a dream but i woke up in a garden, i saw an old lady watering flowers... she smiled and said"it's good to see you again" , but i didn't seem to know her. I asked her for further explanations and all she could say was , "you will find out soon".

There were two doors i had to choose from: a door to a new life and a door to my past where i could meet everyone from my past life. What choice would you make if you were in my place?What was there to go back to in my past life? To be brutally honest, i loved my mum despite everything and i really wanted to know how she was doing now that i was gone. Deep down , i knew she would be lonely because she didn't seem to have a lot of friends. I wasn't ready to go back to my past life... i needed to do all the things i couldnt do while i was alive:make a lot of friends, visit places and so on. I chose the door to a new life and the consequences were; i could hear people's thoughts and i automatically shed blood when it rains... my new life began after the choice i made... i hope i made a right choice?🙂

Jewel chose the door to a new life and was born into a rich family. His new name was Josh Smith . The Smith family was known for their riches, they had tons of companies,cars and owned most of the buildings in the city of Serenia. Josh was the only heir to all the properties but had an adopted sister and received much love from his parents. He attended the best schools in the city and now that his parents were aging , he was under management skills training to prepare him for the management of the company. His best friend, Simon, would always tease him about his lack of skills to run his parents' companies.

What Josh enjoyed most was taking a stroll and reading the thoughts of people. This side of him was hidden from everyone except simon. Well, Simon accepted that it was his special gift. That was how he became his best, Josh knew Simon's intentions towards him was pure because he read his thoughts countless times and that he wasnt friends with him because of his luxuries. Josh and Simon attended the same college and that was when they became very close.

Whenever it rained, Josh made sure to hide from the sight of anyone since it made him automatically shed blood from his eyes. He always had a pack of tissue on him in case it happened and puts on shades as well. It happened one time when he was a child. He was asleep and it was raining,the thunder was loud, his mum, for fear that he might be scared went to sleep by him she noticed blood draining from his eyes. She was so terrified and took him to the hospital. The blood flow stopped when it stopped raining and the doctors examined but found nothing. His terrified mum still requested for a medication for it. Since that day, he always had a device on him to signal him of the rain then he hides.

Josh had never dated before, he had a caramel skin, a pointed nose and a nice face. He was indeed handsome and he had girls all over him but anytime he read their thoughts,he realized they were all scumbags after his money. He had not yet found any girl with pure intentions but what scared him to death was the blood he shed when it rained. He always thought to himself that there was no lass ready to accept him for who he really was so dating was out of his league. His mum would even sometimes imtroduce him to her friends' daughters but he never gave in due to fear that his real identity would be revealed. A girl he crushed on when he was a kid once saw him shedding blood and she cried so hard that he run away from her. He had since had a phobia for dating anyone. He was scared that the monster behind his cute face would be revealed.

He hardly went out except hangouts with Simon or business meetings. If it would rain, his device signalled him and he ran off. Simon was a devout christian trying all possible means to convince Josh who was an atheist to believe in God.

Josh was prone to nightmares about his past life, specifically about how he died. He mostly dreamt about his mum living a miserable life and his mum wailing and apologising to him.It always made him worry and curious about what was going on in his past life. Going back to his past life was a choice he could make but that meant he would die again and might not be reincarnated again and people in his past life may not recognize him.

Josh was almost through with his manegerial skills training and was assigned the manager of one of his father's companies and was supposed to start work the following month.

He was about to go into the real world, he had been babied since birth by his parents and it was time to show his competency in inheriting the companies.

A life full of drama awaited him.