The Happy Project

Scans

In the early hours of the morning Silas was woken up by Dr. Mattews and a ginger haired nurse in navy scrubs. She looked vaguely familiar to Silas, yet she didn't at the same time. She was of average height and she was a bit heavy side with a curvy figure, but it complemented her well. Her face was covered in light brown freckles and her eyes were a bright jade green that looked friendly and inviting. She helped Silas out of bed, then onto a gurney and wheeled him out into the hallway where the lights were very dim until they turned to a new hallway where the bright fluorescent lights quickly blinded Silas, causing him to cover his eyes with his arm. They pushed him into an elevator then clicked the button for the fourth floor and rode in complete silence. Silas wanted to be scared or concerned but he was too exhausted to care. Once they arrived at the first room the nurse helped Silas off the bed and onto the small moving table on the CT machine.
"Silas, can you hear me okay?" Dr. Matthews' voice rang in from a speaker inside the scanner.
"Yeah." He yawned.
"Try your best to stay completely still, we're taking a few pictures of your brain so it'll only be a few minutes."
"Okay." Silas sleepily laid awake as they scanned his head and his brain; he was too tired to even care to fight them. Once the first scan was over, they took him to another room for another type of scan of his brain. As he laid there in the machine, he had a memory come back to him.

Silas looked down at himself, carefully, watching his hands before hearing a familiar, sweet voice. A woman around his height, with long dark brown hair and hazel green eyes, appeared beside him in his bedroom.
"Let's go honey, you know Heather doesn't like to be kept waiting." The woman called, and he soon remembered her as his mother. Silas followed her downstairs and outside to a silver car where Heather sat there in the passenger seat. She had sickly blonde hair in the Karen hairstyle and avocado green eyes that looked awkward with her pale skin. As soon as he laid eyes on her, Silas remembered all the hate he had for her, but he couldn't quite understand why he felt this way. He just knew the feeling. Silas climbed into the backseat, just behind Heather and put his headphones on. He knew that if he didn't, he would have to hear her bickering on and on about anything and everything that she hated about him. They drove for a few minutes before stopping at a small house. A little girl emerged from the front door, and he soon remembered her sweet face and her long blonde hair that looked just like her mother's. It was his step sister, Juliet. She was Heather's biological daughter from her ex-husband, Silas didn't really mind having her as a sister but Heather certainly did.
"Silas look what Becky made me!" Juliet said happily, showing the poorly made bracelet on her wrist.
"Don't talk to him." Heather hissed at her, her voice could make anyone's ears bleed if they heard it long enough.
"Just leave the kids alone." Veronica groaned.
"Why are you always yelling at me?" Heather whined in a fake sad tone. Silas wanted nothing more than to punch her stupid face.

Silas snaps out of it as they're sending him to another room. Dr. Matthews confirmed that this would be his last scan of the day. The whole scan took about 10 minutes and Silas sleepily laid awake trying to figure out what the memory was. Once the scan was finally over, they rolled him back to the elevator and back down to the third floor. They got to the darkly lit hallway, then wheeled him down to his room and switched him back to his bed.