My beginning and the end (Completed)

Muddled existence

I spent the night in the hospital and turned out I had been drugged. They told me I had some sort of sleeping drug in my system. I had no recollection of ever taking any sleeping pills. I don't use sleeping pills or anything like that. Strange how little it affected me, they said. Usually, people would be out for a few more hours, they claimed.

How is Ethan doing? Is he alright? I asked them, but I always got the same answer that they couldn't tell yet. Finally one nurse told me that he was in critical care and that he had suffered blunt force trauma and if he would have been left out there for longer he would have had been pronounced dead at the scene.
Blunt force trauma, that would mean someone attacked him. I tried to ask further questions to no avail of an answer.

The next morning, I was discharged from the hospital. I asked if I could visit Ethan, claiming he was my boyfriend. They said there weren't any visitors allowed, so I just called an Uber home. My roommate had just gotten the news, apparently. She was shocked to see me. I was still covered in some of his blood.
She asked me frantically what had happened, and I just ignored her and took a shower.

After I finished showering.
I sat her down and told her everything that had happened last night. She looked so scared when I finished talking. She had stayed silent the whole time just looking at me in shock. She asked me if the police had talked to me. Strange to say they haven't visited me. I didn't really think about that, so I suggested she would drive me to the police station. She agreed, and we immediately left.

I asked an officer at the front desk if there had been opened a case about that night. She asked me who I was and if I had any information regarding the case. I got interrogated and told them everything and also that I was told at the hospital that I had been drugged. I asked if there was something they had found out. Nothing she claimed, so I left.

Sophia had been waiting outside in the car. I told her to drive to the hospital. I needed to see Ethan they couldn't be so discreet I needed to see him. When I hot to the hospital, I demanded to see him, and they threatened to call security when a nurse I recognized had helped me when I was in the hospital yesterday came over.
She pulled me aside and told me I wasn't allowed to visit him yet, but that he was in critical care. He was in a coma. I held back tears, not sure if I was relieved that he was alive or afraid that he was suffering even more because he was alive.

Sophia had been waiting again and asked if I had any news of him. I looked at her blankly and told her what the nurse had told me. After a long and silent ride.

We finally got home. I walked straight into my room and just laid in bed staring at the ceiling. I felt like crying and screaming. Something was stopping me.

I noticed in the corner of my eye that there was something on my nightstand.
It was the rose from the night before. I had left it there and forgot about it, not knowing what would happen later that night.

That was my breaking point. I burst out laughing, all this because of a single red rose with a black ribbon tied into a bow on the stem. I laughed till I cried, and then I cried till I passed out.

I woke up. It was already close to midnight. I felt like I had done something to cause all of this. If I hadn't been so paranoid and texted him, he wouldn't be in the hospital right now. It wasn't supposed to be him in the hospital.

I hadn't eaten for almost the whole day, so I went into the kitchen and made myself a sandwich. As I was walking out of the kitchen, I glanced at the living room window.
I wasn't alone. I ran to my room and thought about my next move. I thought this was all this stupid shadow's fault. I should confront it and scare him away.

I walked into the living room, not expecting the shadow to still be there. There it was. Someone was standing outside in the darkness, looking at me through the window. I ran towards the front door, opened it quickly, and shouted out towards the living room window.
No movement, nothing. There was no one there. I went back inside, disappointed that I had not been sneaky enough to chatch whatever it was. Sophia was woken up by my shenanigans. She looked at me dumbfounded. I then had to explain to her that I saw the same shadow in the window again. She looked at the window and then looked back at me, puzzled to what was going on. I walked back into my room shamefully.

My sandwich had been waiting on my bed where I left it. Next to it, however, was the rose. I did not put it there. I hadn't even touched the rose since that other night. I decided to ignore it and just eat my sandwich in a silent cry. My eyes were hurting so much from crying, and I could feel how puffy my face was. I could barely breathe through my nostrils.

I couldn't bother to clean up my bed, so I just left everything as it was and fell asleep. I had a massive headache when I woke up. I stumbled to the kitchen for some painkiller. I looked at the time, and it was 10 a.m. The first class started at 8 a.m. I had forgotten that I was in college. Why didn't Sophia warn me or something.

I ran into my room and grabbed whatever books I could find into my bag and ran out to the bus stop. Took the bus and ran to campus where everything was closed. What day was it. It's monday. I don't get it. Why is everything locked. It's summer break, which means that I have work. work, that sounds familiar, doesn't it. Where's that again? I sat down on the curb, confused and dazed. The pain Killers hadn't yet started working, so my head was still pounding.

Some guy had been exiting one of the school buildings, who noticed me. He walked over and introduced himself as Kevin. He sat next to me and started small talk. I told him I was having a bad start to the day. He just smiled and said I can tell." I asked him why he was trying to make small talk anyway, to just leave me alone. He claimed that he couldn't leave a girl like me out here looking so sad. A girl like me can handle anything I rejected him. He just smirked when I said that like I had to prove it to him.

I got up, intending to walk away. He also stood up and hugged me. He just embraced his arms around me for a minute. He then gave away and apologized. He just thought I needed it. I ignored him and walked away. I didn't even look back to see if he had left. I was past the parking lot when he had walked over to his car and drove by me and offered me a ride. I told him he had done enough and to leave me alone. He then gave up and sped away. I walked all the way home again, embarrassed and shamed.

Sophia looked at me confused and asked where I had been. School, I answered and went into my room. I hadn't noticed before, but the rose on the nightstand was still there, but the rose on the bed was also there on the bed. There were now two roses that were in my room, and one of them I did not place inside my room.

I looked at the one on my nightstand, then on the rose on my bed confused. I decided to just leave. I can't be around this town anymore. Something is following me around, and it's already tried to claim a body count.
I better leave before it gets worse. I don't want this to become one of those slasher movies. Let me stop it before it's too late.

I started looking online for bookings and found a remote motel an hour and a half outside of town. I then got a train ticket and started packing. I told Sophia I would be gone for a while and that she shouldn't be concerned if I wasn't home. I did warn her to call me if she heard someone else inside because it wouldn't be me and that I was afraid someone might be after me.