The EMT Book 6 [Sample]

Chapter Eight: [Edited]

Chapter Eight

While sitting on his bed, Jace was texting his father while alone in his bedroom, and while writing a text to his father explaining to him that Jace hasn't been feeling like his normal self since one of his patients had passed away. His parents live south of Baltimore. Jace moved to Baltimore when he decided to become an EMT. His father Kyle was telling Jace how much he and his mother really miss him and they'd hoped to see him soon for the holidays. Jace wrote back to his father and told him that he missed him as much as they'd missed him, and hoped to see him and his mother for the upcoming holidays. Jace took a deep breath and let out a sigh.

      Until Jace puts down his iPhone onto his nightstand and he runs his eyes with his fingers and is beginning to get tired. It was thundering outside and raining. Jace then began to hear screaming in his ears.

        Helppp!! helpppp!!

       That was exactly what Jace was hearing. Jace doesn't know what is going on with him. First he starts hearing and seeing a girl who is a ghost, as well as getting lightheaded, low blood pressure, feeling sick and weak and as well as something may be causing his symptoms. 

       The screaming stopped. Then Jace also had another flashback of this building that looked like a psychiatric hospital and then the flashback immediately afterwards had stopped. Jace opened his eyes as he had them close during the flashback and he had to think for a moment. The very next day, Jace and Alex were together again this time treating a broken arm of a young boy named Lee Hunts who is a ten year old boy who fell off a swing and broke his arm. His mother called for the paramedics and Jace had put Lee in an ambulance and he and Alex were treating Lee's broken arm.

      "Okay buddy, try to hold your arm very still. I know it hurts, but just hang tight," says Jace, taking out an ice pack and telling Lee that the ice pack is cold and he gently puts it on Lee's broken and swollen arm. Sirens were ringing, and Lee was being taken to the hospital.

     Jace takes a deep breath and leans forward while sitting down and he lets out a big sigh. Jace squeezed his eyes shut and rubbed them with his fingers. "I think I'm going to throw up this time," says Jace.

      Alex was worried about his partner and he took out a disposable vomit bag and then handed the bag over to Jace. Jace grabs it from Alex and he was feeling even more nauseous.

     "Dude, something is obviously wrong with you. I mean you're having all these symptoms, but I think something more serious is making you sick constantly. I mean first you're lightheaded, then your blood pressure is low and stuff," says Alex.

     "I don't know. Ever since I started seeing that girl, I'd just been feeling unwell," says Jace.

     Alex rolled his eyes and looked at Jace. "Jace, it's just hallucinations. She's not really there," says Alex.

     "No Alex. She's been making me sick. I don't know why. I mean ever since she started following me around, watching my every move, I seemed like I was just getting sicker and sicker," says Jace.

     "How can a ghost make you sick?" says Alex.

     "I don't know. I mean, and I also have been having these flashbacks of this psychiatric hospital and hearing these girls screaming for help. Like they were being tortured," says Jace.

     "Oh my gosh, Jace," says Alex.

    "You're just seeing and hearing things that don't make any sense to me," says Alex, once again.

    "Alex, I'm not making this stuff up. I swear," says Jace.

    "Okay. Your words, not mine. But I'm telling you you're just being paranoid," says Alex.

      Jace then felt even more nauseous and he put it closer to his mouth. Jace squeezed his eyes shut as he was trying so hard not to puke.

      After another day of work, Jace decided to take out his laptop and begin searching for clues. He was looking for answers on why he had been having flashbacks of a psychiatric hospital and experiencing symptoms, as well as seeing a dead girl. Jace was looking for answers on Google.

     Jace (as he was scrolling through the internet) was searching for every possible reason why he may be hallucinating and other things. But Jace could not find a single answer. Jace gave up searching the internet after about fifteen minutes of scrolling through every possible article for an answer. Nothing! Jace sighed. He closed his laptop and stood up from his office chair and left the office.

     Until Jace was back to sleep that one night, he was having a nightmare. A horrible nightmare. In his dream, he was seeing children being tortured and killed in this psychiatric hospital and he saw the name of the hospital. The name of the psychiatric hospital is called New Eden. Children were screaming, and he saw Aleix being tortured in the hospital. Jace then woke up with a gasp as he opened his eyes and he just lay there in his bed panting, trying to catch his breath.

     Jace was also sweating.

     Jace takes a deep breath and slowly exhales his breath. He leaned up from his bed and rubbed his eyes with his hands. Jace got out of bed and he walked to the bathroom after leaving his bedroom once again.