Chapter 9: Am I going crazy?

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That night when I went to my hotel looking room again, I couldn’t sleep once again. What I heard today was not even remotely close to my perception of the place back then. When I closed my eyes to go to sleep for about the hundredth time this evening, I had a lab nightmare. It felt way too real, with the needles and the handcuffs again. The last time I remember that I had this type of nightmare was when I was about six years old. Are these-

Hallucinations! Oh my god! Is this facility not evil? Was Inazuma right? Am I going crazy? The questions in my head went on for what seemed like hours, until I heard a sound. It sounded like a little girl who seems to be crying? First the sound seemed to come from outside of my room, so I checked in the hall, but no one was there. Then the sound came from inside my room. There was nobody there either. The sound kept moving. I realised: ‘This was not just some girl; this was me crying from 8 years ago’

I heard the same questions I was just asking in between the sobbing. I heard a very strong sense of panic: her voice was raspy, and she was regularly gasping for air. I didn’t remember this. Did I suffer this before? What happened?

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