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2024-10-29 19:42:56But you see, it’s not me
It’s not my family
In your head, in your head, they are fighting
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their bombs, and their guns
In your head, in your head, they are crying
In your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
What’s in your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie, oh
Sophia Blanc sang into the mic, her voice booming from the speakers in the club. Behind her Mike, Stella, Rosa and Nate played the instruments.
The crowd in the blue and red-lit club sang along with her as they danced on the cleared dancefloor.
Rosa and Nate strum the electric guitars. They called themselves the Copycats, it was a befitting name since they never performed original songs, she as the lead singer was comfortable with singing her favorite songs while the rest of the band played along. They had formed the band in med school, Rosa had heard her singing after one of their lab works and had immediately told Mike and Nate about her voice and they had invited her to join their band. Stella joined them when they got their jobs as nurses at St. Peter’s hospital. Soon they became nurses by day and musicians whenever they were free. The band kept their friendship strong and since neither of them had much free time in their busy schedules to write original songs, they were content with her covering popular songs. Ricky and Luis, the owners of the club in which they performed every Friday night, also appreciated their performance. They allowed them play every Friday night since the clubgoers enjoyed their performances too.
Sophia, shook her head as she gripped the microphone tight in her hand and the pink wig in a bob cut moved around her face with her movements.
In your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
What’s in your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, ay, oh, ya ya…
The crowd echoed her singing. Soon the song came to an end and the entire room exploded in a deafening round of applause. She bowed and removed stray pink hair from her face. Behind her Stella, Rosa, Nate and Mike yelled, raised their hands and cheered with the crowd. Rosa came up behind her and patted her back.
“Wow, girl, that was another good one.” She hugged her. “Does your throat hurt?”
Sophia laughed. “A little. I’m going to sit the next song out.”
“Alright girl, take a break. You really went all out with that one,” Rosa patted her back again.
She fixed the mic back on the stand and climbed down the stage as the rest of the band started playing another song. As she passed through the dancefloor some of the clubbers complimented her voice like they always did. And like always some offered to buy drinks for her.
“Sophia, let me buy you a drink. Anything you order is on me.”
She chuckled as she glanced at the middle-aged man who held her arm as she passed. His head was covered with grey hairs and he was missing two teeth.
“Pappy, I’ve told you one thousand times I’m not spending your money,” she said affectionately.
“You can’t blame an old man for trying,” he said.
It was almost routine for them to have this conversation after every performance.
She gently withdrew her hand from his and made her way to the seat Ricky always reserved for the Copycats every Friday night. It was hidden in the shadows away from the crowd which she liked. Pulling out her phone she turned it horizontally and searched for a game to play to keep herself busy while Mike, Stella Rosa and Nate finished performing. They didn’t join her at the table, instead, they joined the dancers on the floor and danced to the music blasting from speakers set up on the walls of the club.
This was how they spent their Friday and Saturday nights, unwinding at Ricky and Luis’s club. While the rest of the Copycats excelled at partying, she was satisfied with just singing and waiting to go home. It wasn’t for lack of a dance partner that she secluded herself, if she wanted one all she had to do was step into the dancefloor and hands would be reaching out to grab her.
Stella, like always, was already hooking up with a guy right on the dancefloor. Sophia kept an eye on her as she played her game. Stella was the wildest of them all when it came to partying and it was up to the other members of their group to keep an eye on her- actually it was her job to keep an eye on everyone.
By Monday however, they were back to being professionals.
At twenty-four she was working her way up to Clinical nurse specialist, working on a master’s degree to earn it. Nate was actually the only doctor among them. Stella, Rosa and Mike were also working on their masters.
Her wig discarded on Monday, she pulled her thick black unruly hair into a ponytail and folded it in to form a small puffball. She, Stella and Rosa quickly discarded their casual clothes and changed into their scrubs. Throwing her stethoscope around her neck she left them in the changing room and stepped into the halls that had the lingering smell of disinfectant. There were folders already waiting for her on the table by the time she arrived in the office she shared with Rosa. She quickly glanced through them and then selected the one at the top to begin with.
The patient’s name was Freddie, age 7.
She suppressed a groan as she took his folder and read through his reports.
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She read through the folder. The symptoms were vague. Chest pain, cold, fatigue. Could be anything from a simple cold to something complicated. She put the folder under her arm and picked a steel tray from the shelf and went out of the to the supply room. The medical supply room was just after the reception area. Interns arriving late hurried past her murmuring greetings as they rushed to get out of their casual clothes. She met Stella in front of the supply room with a tray of her own. The woman in charge of supplies, Sheila smiled at her.“Morning Sophia.”“Morning, Sheila.” She pushed the tray through the window, the only accessible space for anyone restricted from entering the supply room. “I need some syringes, swabs and scissors, please.”Stella’s tray was already full of supplies. She leaned against the glass wall of the supply room, glanced at Sophia and sighed. “I miss the weekend already.” Her red h
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The rest of the week went so fast. St. Peter’s hospital was as busy as always. Accident victims, minor accidents and the regular checkups kept Sophia on her heels as she went about the job she absolutely loved. But when the weekend came she welcomed it with open arms, ready to sit back and rest her feet. Mike, Nate, Stella and Rosa used what little free time they had to practice the beats to the songs they were to perform on Friday and Saturday nights.The band was an escape for them all from all the hustle and bustle of their working days. Days filled with dying patients and tears of loved ones, of recovering patients and the tears of joy, of bad news after test results came from the lab and of the good ones. The Copycats loved their jobs at the hospital but they collectively breathed a sigh of relief when they came together to sing. In singing, they could let go of the tension of work and just pretend that the lives of people weren’t in their hands for two days.
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Both sisters sat in the back of Matt’s car. It has taken some time and a long story cut short to fill Alfie in on the important details of why Sophia was now with a lookalike who was heavily pregnant and why she would be going with her to Matt’s condominium. Abigail had insisted that she “meets this Matt Wolffe who has stolen my baby sister away from me.”Too excited to say no Sophia had agreed. While both sisters hugged and cried Stella and Ms. Hart had walked in innocently holding each other. Sophia raised a brow at Stella and she shrugged innocently. When Stella put her arms around Sophia though a warm feeling enveloped her. Of all the members of the Copy Cats, Stella was the one she wasn’t closest with but these few months with her brought them closer and in Stella, she saw a friend she could trust.Abigail’s phone beeped. She retrieved it from her purse and peered at the screen. With a sound that was a cross between a groan and a chuckle, she put her phone away. “My husband is wo
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By afternoon that day, Sophia got into the car with Alfie who for the first time was talkative to her. He talked about the traffic and Marie and everything else he could think about. After realizing she didn’t even have to make inputs in the conversation she sat back and let him talk to his heart’s content.A long drive later and they were standing in front of her apartment. She got out and made the stair trip to her part of the apartment. Ms. Hart’s door was closed and so was hers. But when she reached for her doorknob she was surprised to find it locked even after turning the key in the lock. Frowning she knocked. The sound of laughter rose inside and the sound of footsteps followed. The door was open and Stella was standing there with a wide smile on her face and tears streaming down her face. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail and her nails were freshly painted.“Hey you, welcome back.”Relieved that it was just Stella Sophia stepped in. “I didn’t think you’ll come back afte
