Love Will Kill

Caught

I wake up on the floor, the sun too bright along with the pounding in my head, looking around I realized i'm still here, we are still here, in the abandoned hospital. I look over and see Ben leaning on the piano sleeping. I get up and rub my temples until the realization hits me, we never left, never went back up to our rooms. I try to check my phone for the time but it's dead. Looking around trying to find the time I see Ben, I see his phone in his left pocket and go to grab it but as I was trying to grab it he jerked his head up. "Woah without my consent my guy, you could've just asked." he said with a seductive smirk.

"gross, I just need to know the time." he looked down at my hand holding my phone.

"Fine. Grab it." he said putting his head back down into his arms and pushing out his hip for a better reach. I rolled my eyes and snatched the phone "Hey, gentle." he spoke with a stern tone. "It's 11:37, morning medicine was almost 2 hours ago, which means they went into our rooms which means they know we are gone, which means-" Ben lifted his head up back up. "Noah!"

"Ben! we have to go, like now!" I screamed. He covered his ears and squeezed his eyes shut. He got up and rested his hand on my shoulder, "look we are gonna be fine, I do this all the time".

I stared into his eyes, "that's it? that's your speech of reassurance?" he shrugged his shoulders.

I sighed " look I don't care what you do, I don't care that you don't care, I don't even care that your dragging yourself to death, but you're sure as hell not gonna drag me down with you."

We stood there for what felt like minutes and were taken out of trance by the overhead speaker which now had our full gaze and attention.

"Attention all staff and patience. Can I please have Noah Galvin, patient CF012 and Ben Platt, patient CF034 to report to the main office. I repeat can I please have Noah Galvin, patient CF012 and Ben platt, patient CF034 to report to the main office."

We looked at each other not knowing what to do next.

"Relax Noah we'll  just go up to our rooms and act like we went to the bathroom or something-"

I stared at him in disbelief  "we were in the bathroom for two hours?!"

He shrugged, not knowing what to say. The emergency bell went off, this notified that there were patients deemed missing. I didn't know what to do so I made a run for it. I heard Ben far behind me trying to catch up, "Noah!" "Noah wait" "Noah relax".

I couldn't believe I was deemed missing. I'm a good patient, I take all my meds, I follow all the rules, I do everything I'm supposed to with no argument. I kept repeating in my head.

I came through the final double doors and made an abrupt stop. There were cops  and nurses everywhere in the room.

They all turned and stared at me, the nurses faces filled with worry. Ben came up from behind me and all of their faces changed from worry to anger. "You" one nurse said to Ben.

 "Mr. Platt, you're coming with us," one nurse said. I've never recognized her before. She was definitely not from this hospital. "Yeah right I'm going to my room" he said while walking away. Two nurses came and grabbed him on both sides, holding his arms. "HEY, LET GO!"

Ben yelled, kicking and pulling trying to escape their grasp. The three of them went through the double doors that were being held open by the rest of the same kind of nurses. I watched as he went out of my view. "Noah?" I turned to the voice. It was Amy, one of my favorite nurses, she held out 4 pills in one hand and a cup of water on the other hand. I turned back to where Ben once was hoping he would reappear. I went into her little office so she could watch me take my medication.