Connections Between Her and Her
The year is 2049, february 14, medical science has improved drastically with curing HIV, Covid-19, Cancer, and many more but nonetheless all diseases that are psychological seem impossible to cure. Anything involving the brain is outside of the reasoning of medical science.
A single mom with the name Kamila Valieva is giving birth to a baby. Labor has been going on for 14 hours and Kamila is on the brink of death due to the intensity and longing-inducing labor but thankfully she pulls through with a beautiful baby girl.
Something is wrong, the baby keeps twitching and shaking. Kamila starts to freak out and yells at the doctors to do something and then….. she passes out due to extreme exhaustion and the messed up view of seeing her newborn shaking vigorously.
* 8 hours passed by * Kamila finally wakes up and starts to question where her baby is . The doctors tell her everything and why she was shaking.
The baby made it out alive, the baby almost died cause she wouldn’t stop having seizures. The doctors had two choices. They would either let the baby die or do a rare surgery called hemispherectomy.
Hemispherectomy is when half of the brain is surgically removed, becoming fully disconnected from half of the attached brain in order to stop the seizures.*
But Kamila was asleep and wouldn’t wake up, almost in a coma. There was no way the doctors would let the baby die. Kamila doesn’t know how to feel. The doctors tell her there is nothing to worry, the newborn baby will live a normal healthy life. A baby has a brain with zero knowledge of anything so that half is basically nothing as well with the other attached half. But the other half will be donated to another baby who desperately needs the brain. *Kamila pauses* and just says the name of the newborn baby.
“Her name is Kalaysia Valieva.”
Kalaysia is now 25 years old.
Unfortunately her mom passed away from suicide. At one point both of them were dirt poor. Kalaysia was 9 at the time, Kamila (her mom) was struggling on the streets. Selling her body just so her baby girl can have something to eat. Kamila was feeling terrible at one point and went to a community hospital. She was diagnosed with HIV but there is nothing to worry, it’s curable. Remember, she was dirt poor and the only way she would get money was selling her body. She had two choices, sell her body and transmit HIV to people or find another way to get money. ( applying for a job was impossible, you needed emails, the internet, etc. which she had none of.) She would beg for money but humanity has somewhat progressed and almost all the population is rich and people seeing a person like Kamila made them feel angry and upset. “LAZY” “JUST GET UP AND GET MONEY.” It has been 18 days since the last time they ate. Kamila couldn’t bear to watch her daughter being weak and skinny and knew she was in her last days. So she did the unthinkable.
*Present*
Kalaysia is visiting her step parents who adopted her from the streets after both of them see her dead mom laying pale. Kalaysia just graduated university and got a phd in psychology so she’s celebrating with her parents. She wants to help people and hopefully one she day discover a cure and find the source of all mental illnesses. In all of human history not a single step was taken to find a cure due to the complexity of it.
Throughout her teenage years she was a smart independent young lady who was completely different from others. She didn’t want friends because she thought it was a waste of time, she didn’t go to parties cause she thought it was a waste of time. Anything that was temporary she dismissed. But her love life was somewhat different, she had some inner monolog inside her head that was uncontrollable. Everytime she would start getting attached to someone her monolog would start criticizing and pointing out every flaw the partner has. Everytime and only when she starts to get attached to someone but the feelings were not one hundred percent there thanks to her dreadful monolog. She kinda hoped becoming a psychiatrist and helping people would give her answers but it wasn’t in her mind that much. After realizing that being in a relationship was a no go she just never thought about being in one ever again.
Kalaysia has been a psychiatrist for 3 years now and has helped countless people overcome their mental issues, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, and many more. She felt accomplished but her dream of finding a formula to cure all mental illness hasn’t got any closer to reality. She kinda gives up on it but doesn’t forget about it.
She goes to a science conference involving mental illnesses. Maybe if she talked to people who studied in the same path she can make friends which she didn’t have.
Kalaysia notices a stand where a young lady is speaking to a group of people on how she’s also trying to find a formula to cure mental illness. She’s very intrigued on how she’s trying to combat mental illness, by using the opposite of it. Should be some emotion that is correlated to some type of happy feeling but is still trying to find that specific emotion.
Kalaysia goes up to that lady after her speech to tell everything she knows and see where it goes. She asks for her name, her name is Kalaya Valentine. Kalaysia tells Kalaya that her idea is brilliant and on how she’s also trying to find the cure too but uses emotional thoughts rather than logical thoughts and maybe if you bring emotional and logical ideas to the table maybe they can get somewhere. Kalaya is stunned on how Kalaysia is stalking with such passion and totally agrees with everything Kalaysia is said. Both exchange phone numbers and agree to go to a meeting to get into it more.
Both meet up at a coffee shop and start brainstorming thinking logical rather than emotional. Kayla brings blueprints, articles,equations, while Kalaysia brings her articles of patients and their experiences and how similar their behavior patterns and speech patterns are alike depending on how the emotions are. Twenty minutes pass by and Kalaysia starts to feel different and weird talking to Kalaya. She won’t stop smiling and thinking how intelligent Kayla is. Her stomach feels weird too and tells herself, “ are these butterflies in my stomach?” Kalayisa then invites Kayla to her work so she can get to know more of her emotional ways so she can “study” her and get a better understanding of people who are more logical than emotional so Kayla agrees.
It’s the next day and Kalya shows up to Kayalsia’s workplace for a therapy session at her work. Kayla is a little uncomfortable cause she’s new to all of this. Kalaysia tells Kayla to relax and take a deep breath and all she’s gonna ask is about her life story. Kayla proceeds :
“ Well, I’m kind of a miracle. I shouldn’t be alive, I was born premature. I was born 4 months too early and most of my brain wasn’t processed. The doctors were gonna let me die but thankfully for me butttttt unfortunately there was another baby having non stop seizures which resulted in the baby needing a hemispherectomy on the same moment I was born. There was a one percent chance of me making it out alive but the doctors wanted to try this new procedure to see how it goes. And well I’m here talking to you, thanks to the other baby. Hopefully I get to meet him or her one day but I don’t think I am HAHAHA. Let me think of any more significant moments of my life…..hmmmmmm… oh, well I had a single mom but she’s not alive anymo…..
“ Why isn’t she alive anymore???” Kayalsia says interrupting Kayla.
“ She committed suicide, I was around nine or ten I think, I dont know its a long time ago. We were homeless and lived next to a sewer. My step-parents told me they saw my mom jump into the sewer. It was a rainy day so the sewer was full of flowing water. And oh yea there is one more interesting thing about me too. I’m a boring person…. I never made friends in my childhood. We all know friends are temporary unless you try to make it endless. And I see any type of relationship as temporary so I never thought about making friends. And about intimate relationships….. You might think I’m lying or a freak but this weird inner monolog inside my head that only appears when I would start feeling attached to someone. It starts pointing out every flaw they had and it would make sense to me so you know it was kinda impossible to start a relationship.” Kayla says.
“What is your birthday?” Kayalsia asks.
“2049, January 14” Kayla says.
“Hello? Why aren’t you saying anything and why are you looking at me like that” Kayla asks to Kayalsia.
Kayalsia realizes that Kayla has half of her brain. But what she can’t figure out is why they have the same life. All of this information is taking a while to process through Kayasia’s head. Leaving her in a state of mind of perplexity. She’s not saying anything or moving for about 2 minutes.
Kayla starts to poke Kayalsia trying to make her react but she’s not budging. And then yells “HELLO!” Kayalsia then snaps out of it and begins to cry.
Kayalsia starts to tell her her life story as well and how they basically share the same life along with the same brain.
“But you know what’s funny, I think I have feelings for you. That’s why I invited you here in the first place, so I can talk to you more. I can definitely tell because my inner monolog is nowhere to be heard. I’m sorry if I’m making you feel uncomfortable but I’m too emotional.” Kayalsia tells Kayla.
“ I think I have feelings for you too after that coffee meeting we had. I just thought how emotional you would get talking about the things we do for a living and how pretty you looked while at it. To be quite honest I wasn’t even paying attention to what you were saying but how you were saying it. I like you Kayalsia, I can’t explain any of this either, how we have the same life and the same brain but what I’m thinking right now is maybe it was supposed to happen. All I can say is life brought two half-person to make one person. Let’s not try to explain this coincidence but rather live in it.” Kayla tells Kayalsia.
It’s been many years now, the pair have an intense unbreakable bond of affection. Somehow both of their consciousness were able to rekindle conquering all the obstacles they both shared making one person/feeling that was destined to happen. Emotional and logical feelings intertwine to make the feeling called Love. Something both never felt but now as one, they can lust in all of the love they both share together.
The year is 2089, Kayalsia and Kayla are still together and will probably be forever until death. They are having a picnic together late at night. As they are leaving they see a boy along with their dad being homeless. It kinda reminds them of them. They go to give them some food they had leftover just to see that the dad is dead but the boy is still barely breathing.
They adopt the boy, that boy would find the cure to all mental illnesses.
A fiction story
