Amidst The Chaos - In Delusion...?

Chapter 18: Cure Then Getaway

12PM - CAFETERIA
Everyone was seated, as always, by now. I was quite used to the flow of how this place worked as well. It was like a boarding school you'd never wanna go to. Good thing I was getting out on Sunday. We were separated from everyone else, who were still brainwashed. They were ordered to clean around the asylum  before the arrests happened. We haven't seen them clean since.

The food was relatively nice today. Good thing Doctor Bob made it for us, just for today. If I had another one of these 'hospital' meals I swear I would have died from food poisoning and my journey would end here, in this godforsaken mess of an asylum. I see that Olivia and I eliminated the problems once and for all.

I noticed mine and Olivia's drinks were served first... fifteen minutes later everyone else's were served. This might be Nurse Charlie's doing. Doctor Bob signals us to start eating and I can already see the others gobbling down their meals, one by one as if they were starved animals. Olivia and I decided to eat slowly.

"Wow, I've not had such good food in years!" Olivia says, slowly eating her soup. The tomato was rich tasting and the basil seasoning was just right. It felt like a restaurant.

"Hey don't lie, we got porridge a few months ago." I joke, she's still eating, looking unbothered by what I said. As we were both eating, we hear a loud thud.

"Why that's weird.." Olivia glances up and sees Peter, who seemingly fell off his chair and was on the floor. Not that roach again. The others carrying on eating.... at least that's what I thought. Olivia and I gear another thud, followed by another and another, until the whole room was just echoing with everyone falling on the floor. Olivia glanced at the empty cups and grinned.

"Ah.. the antidote. I forgot about that. Nurse Charlie's sneaky all right." She says, now drinking her drink.

"Isn't that also-"

"No, we aren't the affected ones, they are. I heard that we got separate ones." She explains. My mouth forms an o shape as I nod, showing my understanding.

"It's best you girls go back to your room." Doctor Bob says. We both nod and try not to walk over the amount of bodies that just collapsed on the floor simultaneously. I guess they'll be there for a long long time, by that I mean about 14 hours.

2PM
We were given boxes by Doctor Bob who said it was passed to him by Nurse Charlie. My mother was still at the CCTV camera spot and I heard my father was in custody. My mouth was itching to tell my mother I was escaping from here, but I still wasn't ready to trust her. Olivia and I packed our boxes which turned out to be really light, since.. well.. we came here with nothing. Olivia also placed the other box in the far corner into her bigger one, so hers was a bit heavier than mine. Doctor Bob then came into the room and took our boxes away. There we were again, doing nothing. The rest of the time was spent doing nothing.