𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒈𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒆| 𝒗𝒔𝒐𝒐

Part VIII

There was this one time inbetween these months. I was called to warden's office and it would've have sufficed as I did something wrong and I was totally misguided by the thought.

I genuinely thought I had done something wrong and i had no way out of punishment that was to be given, but then the warden spoke "We got a statement from your husband." She said with a blank face as if she wouldn't have cared if it weren't for her job. Obviously, that's true.

"What is it?" My voice is devoid of anything but emotionless. Maybe all these events messed me up so bad that I can barely muster up a proper response or don't care at all of whatever's occuring.

"He says you've been purposely missing his calls and refuse to meet him. Why is that?" She asks.

I sigh. The guard behind me stiffens. She looks up at me through her glasses with a glare as if the one I'm ignoring is her. I roll my eyes and lean back on my chair.

My eyes go to window. I watch as birds chirp and wind blows but it doesn't get inside because it's closed. I watch as sunsets and moon appears as if it's just another normal day for them. Not for me...

"I just don't want to." I short reply. I don't intend to give her any explanations, I'm too tired for that.

She waits for me to say more. I bit my cheek inwardly "and besides it doesn't matter to you, it shouldn't. All you want is the patients to be out of contact as much as possible and I'm willingly giving it to you. Don't question me." And then i swiftly stand and walk away without a second look.

The guard bows and follows me behind. I just keep fast walking until I reach my room. My breath escalarates. I hold my hand to my chest.

Francesca would love to kill me. She would love to chop off my body organs and sell them for the treatment and harsh insults I throw at her but I know for sure she wouldn't be able to do that until i willingly allow myself to be her prey. She couldn't even touch strand of my hair.

Now as I sit watching the birds chirp again by the window, a nurse walks in "you're asked to attend for lunch" and then she leaves.

I put my book down and grab my scarf putting it around my neck and walking out of my room after the nurse. She's nowhere to be seen but I know my way to cafeteria.

I walk along the hallway and open the door of cafeteria. As soon as I walk I see emilyn stuffing her mouth with muffins. She doesn't see me yet.

I walk in as the door behind me closes, everyone is chattering, bickering and laughing. No one's paying attention.

That's when her eyes meet mine and she stops munching, gulping everything down. She takes a swig of her juice and then walks up to me, I'm a distance away from her when she jumps so high and comes crashing down. It happens so fast.

She then crashes down on me with fork and stabs my hand.

I yell.

Silence....

Everyone stops. They watch us, they look at us going off at each other again. I have a sigh. I've had enough of her bullshit.

And then i lift my hand and slap her on face, she stumbles and falls on floor holding her cheek. Her head then collides with floor and she just lays there as if she's dead for a moment.

Even if she did, i wouldn't care.

I wait for her to react, to do anything but before she could get on her feet, the door opens and warden emerges inside the cafeteria.

"What happened?" She screeches. Her voice is so high pitched I move backwards to decrease her screams.

I don't speak, no one does.

Francesca looks at me. Her eyes travel to the fork in Emilyn's hand and then back up at my bleeding hand. Then she looks at me in eyes and sighs. She knows it was Emilyn's fault.

"You." She points at emilyn, "will pay!" She says before stomping out.

Just like that, two guards enter and grab emilyn by arms and swiftly carry her away from cafeteria. I gulp down bile in my throat and walk back to my table i usually sit on.

Everyone goes back to eat.

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We all gather at hollow hall. Again.

But this time instead of patients and staff, there are a lot of other stuff. I see a huge table with a lot of stuff put here and there in glass bottles.

We all stay silent.

The door emerges open and inside arrives Francesca and her favourite, emilyn. Emilyn staggers and looks at us from stage. She's been getting worked up at backstage.

As much as I want to feel bad for her, I don't.

The mic starts and Francesca stands in all her glory with a red cloak over her shoulders and a black dress like a wizard. "Hello everyone. Welcome to our daily lesson. Today is #12." She says "This will be the most cruelest of all." If you ask me all of them are equally cruel. "Today we'll give her a taste of her own downfall, we've given her one chance with her hand and to make wise use of it and now she has deemed me wrong and unwisly used her advantage, therefore i intend to punish, it'll relish for longer period." She then puts the mic away into the guard's hand and walks away.

Emilyn sits in a bench. Her face is looking down at her hands in horror.

Francesca grabs emilyn and pulls her to the table filled with glass jars and liquids. "These aren't just liquids, mind you" Francesca chuckles lightly in her small mic. "These are chemicals." She winks at us with a grin.

She holds out and empty glass vessel and grabs another jar full of some liquid. H²SO⁴, is written.

I gasp. Everyone does, we all stare at it in horror.

"To another lesson for today." Francesca grins as if she's watching a happy child receive a chocolate. She unwraps the bandaids from Emilyn's hands and with one grab she puts the hand in the jar.

Emilyn screams at top of her lungs, we watch as her skin slowly deforms and burns and then melts down the solution like a piece of cloth dipped in water. Her hand turns red and blood sprouts out filling the jar, her hand flies out of the jar and she falls on ground.

But Francesca isn't done and she won't stop until she decides it's over, she holds the bloody solution in her hand and pours it over Emilyn's other free hand, burning it the same.

Emilyn whimpers and lays, yelling and whimpering in pain, screaming for help. The walls are closed, people are here but no help arrives like always. It never reached anyone's ears.

No one ever cares and if these screams go out Francesca could suffer serious losses. Everything that happens between these four walls stays in it.

And then the screams stop, emilyn lays on floor limp and numb. "Take her away!" Francesca says and takes off her gloves walking back to podium with mic on.

"And that's it for today's lesson!"