Pain shot through my entire body as I struggled to open my eyes. After falling asleep the night before, I had many dreams of the two lives I had lived. The first one was when my adopted mother found me, and I was forced to relieve all those memories in the blink of an eye as they attempted to merge with the current life I allowed myself to accept. One was more painful than the other, but I wouldn’t want to change it for the world. As I slowly opened my eyes, I could make out two people sitting next to me. “Lani,” I heard my mother say.
“Mom,” I asked, as my vision started to clear and I noticed that both my parents were in the room with me, neither looked like they had slept a wink.
“Lani are you ok?” my dad asked, as he gently rubbed my forehead. “Daddy was worried about you,” he added
