Escaping Our Sanity

Chapter 4: Emotionless

When the drugs finally wore off, I felt a stabbing, sharp pain in my cranium. I was now in a white room with a barred window, and a small bed in the corner. I tried standing up, but immediately fell back down because of the pain. I slowly raised my hand to my head and felt gauze upon my fingers. But right then and there I felt a feeling I've never felt before. I was emotionless. I no longer felt sadness, happiness, or nervousness. The only things I could feel was physical pain and anger.

I walked over to the door, ignoring the pain, and tried the doorknob. Of course it was locked. I began to beat my fists on the door. There was a small, round window on the door. I kept banging on the door until a nurse scurried over. She opened the latch on the food serving box that they used to slide food into the room without having to actually open the door. "What is the matter?" She said sweetly. "Can you please explain to me what is going on? What is this gauze on my head?" I questioned softly. "Oh you are Eliza Fern right?" I nodded. "You recently came out of the operation room. I overheard that you underwent a partial lobotomy. You've been asleep for hours." She explained.

"What the heck is a lobotomy???" I said with a raised voice. "Here, i'll get the other psychologist. He can explain it better than I could." She walked away and minutes later a tall, gray-headed man came to my room. "Hello....." he paused and looked down at some papers "Eliza Fern! You seem like a pretty decent girl. Can I trust that you won't try any funny businesses if I come in, eh?" "Oh please do. I promise I won't hurt you, sir....?" I said. "Earnest Hoffrey." He concluded.

He slowly unlocked each deadbolt lock and popped the door open. "Okay miss Fern. I'm just going to tell you a few things about what happened while you were asleep. Well, you received a partial lobotomy. And all that means, is that you got a piece of your brain removed to make you emotionally stable. You most likely will not feel any emotions, but physical pain and anger will still be present. Tomorrow, we will run some tests and see how you're doing. Okay?" I nodded. He walked out and his shadow faded out of sight.

I realized that he forgot to lock the door behind him. My heart started pounding. I looked out the window several times and slowly turned the door knob. Once I knew that the coast was clear, I ran. Faster that I've even ran. I ran with all of the strength I had left. My head started to throb, but I managed to keep going. I zoomed down the wooden staircase, and ran for the entrance doors. They flung open when I pushed them. I ran down the walkway, and down the hillside. I got to the metal fence. "Shoot!" I thought to myself. The fence was wrapped in barbed wire. I had no way of escaping and I could already hear the alarms going off back at the building.