Reminiscence

Chapter 9

‘Bella’

‘Bella’

‘Wake up honey’

“ Go away! Leave me alone,”

     The darkness had collapsed me; my throat felt as if it was boiling. Liquid fire running down my throat, my body twisted and convulsed. My mind had warning bells constantly ringing at me, I had no even concentration with the sensations shoving through my body. I tried to pry open my eyes but they seemed to be nailed shut, barricaded like my escape. My barely felt fingers were numb; my feet clamped onto some invisible table with ropes so thick as the steel in skyscrapers. I suddenly felt my body drowning in sticky freezing water. Splashes of droplets burned like acid on my skin.

      My internal organs were screeching; my throat seemed clamped and no sound tried to claw out. Whispers taunted me and haunted my every thought; I remembered from class of such a disease where the hallucinations came alive as if they were real and vivid that destroys even the most imaginative thought. Could this be happening to me?

Was I really going crazy? Am I going to be plagued with this illness?

      Where the hell was my dad seemed to be the only thing rushing through my mind as I felt  I was lifted suddenly, but the slight motion only made it worse. I writhed around in my dark cocoon; my brain was splitting in two. I could hear chaos all around me, was it me or was it my mind?  Barely hearing what anyone was talking about; I heard a few loud shouts and yells and then I felt hands pulling me under.

 Oh God! Oh God!  Someone please help! 

I suddenly felt something cool against my forehead; my body felt as if I was being burned in an oven. I clawed at the rising pressure that was amassing, I screamed and I felt something wet fall onto my face; in the distance I could have thought that someone was calling out my name and someone was sniffling. My pain was growing as well as my confusion; why was this happening to me was the question that went through my mind at the same time as Holy hell what did the damn nurses gave me. I felt my mind go blank as something sharp pinched my body; sluggish with effort the last thing I remembered in my mind was the two golden eyes peering at me from the forests.

I wished I could have meet him in the future, finally went through my head as I entered into my oblivious darkness.  

       Through my conscious, I peered to see through my lidded eyes but when I opened my eyes everything were either blurred or doubled. I saw two desks and when I moved my faces to the murmured voices to my right, I saw two dark figures who had turned their backs from my hospital bed. With their hands swinging around through their animated conversation, They seemed to be glaring at each other. I could barely make out who the two were, but I had a familiar tingling when I saw the  dark-haired man, I somehow knew he was a male.

    They were whispering fervently; their voices should have been unable to be heard, but I swear from the bottom of my heart, I could hear every word, sentence, and phrase clearly as if I wasn’t just 10 feet away from them.     

I was brought to my current situation because when I sat up a little I felt something poking me in the arm, I turned around to see my left arm wrapped in this white gauze,  decorated by all kinds of miniscule little tubes running to the center of a bag filled with red liquid.

 Blood.

I was stringed to a blood bag, I deduced it couldn’t be anything else. I must have made some noise to alert the conversation to stop, because when I turned around, the two strangers were looking at me. One of them had a familiar face, dad.  Though the first thought that came to mind when I looked at him was God he was alright? He looked petrified, like he just saw a ghost rise from the dead, it was a pretty ugly sight, but at least this time he looked less of a homeless dirty street wreck but more of an insomniac clean shaven everyday work junkie.