A murder in the mountains

Poisoned again.

I woke up in a blinding white room, with a hanging light swinging above me.
I retraced what I could remember of (what I assumed to be) last night. I remember waking up, getting a très bad headache rushing to the bathroom,vomiting my guts out, my throat burning but after that nothing.
What happened? How did I get here?
I heard a faint beeping of the heart monitor get faster and than a door being bounded open and through it coming two women and three men, plus a doctor in all white, I think they're a she.

One of the men came over to my bed rambling on about its all his fault, and hugging my body. I winced at the sudden contact. I looked at the man hugging me, it was Matt.
How is this his fault?
Beth, Amber, Jamie and drake came rushing toward my bed. With short embraces from each of them I have them I puzzled look.
"What's the date?" I heard my self say. It didn't sound like me though, it did come from my mouth and I meant to say it but it came out croaky, as if I hadn't spoken for months or I had a chesty cough.

"It's been six days, mind you it feels like it's been longer" said my aunt.
SIX DAYS!!
Like I get that I was unconscious but six days!

That means it's Sunday, I think.
Looking over at Matt and the others I ask,
"What happened?"
The doctor comes over and replies for them.
"You were poisoned, we are lead to believe it was food poisoning or a plant scratched you and poisoned your blood stream or of coarse there is the possibility of an allergic reaction but I haven't ever seen a reaction to allergies like this." Said the women, her hair was brown and tied back into a tight low bun. She was pretty, with her tanned skin and green eyes.
Why is every one here tan?  I mean it's England there is like no sun ever!
The women took all of the needles and heart monitor thingies out and then left with a smile.
Jamie stopped the women and asked
"Is she free to go?" The women shook her head and replied "no she will have to stay here for further tests" she smiled back at me and left.
Matt held my hand in his, he had a faint smile on his lips but made sure not to look to happy, which I couldn't understand why.

Drake came over and squeezed me in a bone crushing hug. I hit him softly and told him he was hurting me which he apologised profusely for. Beth came up and offered me a smile, we spoke about how things have changed at school and how things will have to change with me if this keeps up.
The boys left after Jamie and I had hugged, but Beth and Amber stayed. The look on their faces was...contorted. I couldn't figure out what they were saying to each other through their eyes but it was important.
Eventually Beth turned to me with a worried and excited expression, but excited was definitely winning.
"Zar," she took a long breath and prepared herself for what she was about to say"do you want to good or bad news first?" She asked, I replied with a simple "bad." She took another deep breath and began." you know how you were poisoned back in Russia,?" I nodded." Well the boys said that your reaction was basically the same, meaning that some one is trying to poison you, the last two times you've been lucky because you've been around other people who knew what to do... but next time we can't assure that you will, so what I'm saying is basically you need to have protection, some one who will stay with you all the time, I offered but every one, including myself, thought it best to get some one who knows defence and basic first aid too take care of you" I nodded to show I was keeping up. "So now for the good news," she looked overwhelmed with joy right now "drake revealed why he took a liking to you when you first met ..." gawd this women was taking forever just say it, " Drake revealed that, drum roll please," she was now hitting the bed and squealed " HE'S  YOUR  MATE!!" She yelled. Well that one took me by surprise.
Did I even like drake that way, I mean yeh he's a nice guy but am I ready for that kind of commitment.
Then it hit me.
I did like drake,  usually it would take me a while to grow a liking to a guy but with drake the second time I met him we kinda just clicked.
One question still lingered,
Why didn't I feel it?
Normally you would feel a certain buzz or an electric shock go through you, but noooooope nothing I didn't feel a thing,
I looked down at what I was wearing, I was still in my pjs, which I was thankful for, it consisted of black leggings, an oversized grey t shirt and socks.
Looking in the relflection of a window I saw my hair, it was miraculously in perfect wavy curls, how odd.
Stepping out of bed I bolted for the door and threw it open running straight to a shocked drake coming round the corner.
I ran up to him and jumped into his arms, by this time he was a cheeky faced monkey with a grin big enough to impersonate the Cheshire Cat from Alice in wonderland.
Resting my forehead on his I grinned. Wrapping my arms around him I squeezed him till practical death. Letting go of him and letting him breath was not on my to do list for the day, or the week for that matter.
He placed me on the ground and whispered,
" I take it they told you."
In my mind I was doing the salsa dance shouting
YES YES THEY TOLD ME!! I LOVE YOU,!
The I realised
I loved drake.
I smashed my lips onto his, it felt so good, this time tingles did run through my spine, heat was radiating from every part of skin he was touching.
I pulled away and grinned like an idiot.
I heard a noise that sounded like a door closing and whipped around to see Beth and Amber smiling and walking towards us,
"I thought I told you I was going to tell her" he said wrapping his arms around my waist to pull me closer to him. He rested his head on my shoulder and whispered
"I love you" into my ear.

"You did but I couldn't help it, I was to excited." Beth suddenly gasped with a wicked grin on her face."oooohhh now your going to have to deal with the big party mums going to through you," she bounced up and down like a basket ball. My face was in shock mode.
I have to meet his parents?
Beth tried to comfort me by saying "don't worry zar, it's nothing to worry about."
Great, now all I have to do is act calm, some thing which I CANT do.
I spun back to reality and noticed I had been silent for like yonks.
Beth was leading me back to the infirmary against my will.
"Look, I get it you want to stay with my brother now, but... unfortunately you do need to stay and get checked." She said and practically throwing me on the bed.
"Now stay here until some one comes and gets you!" She orders me.
I look out one of the few windows, the sun is setting. The sky was a mix of oranges, pinks yellows, greens and blues, I don't know why but I instantly imagined a sun set but made out of oranges, mandarines, lemons,  salmons, grape fruit, limes and blueberries.
Well I'm hungry
I looked around to look for food. There's a bowl of fruit, a plate with cold buttered bred and some soup. Leaning towards it, the smell... it smells like, pea and ham soup.
Heaven
I sculled the soup down along with the bread and soon I was lying in bed with a food induced coma.

I was in and office, it looked like army officers were lining the walls. A man in black was looking straight into my eyes,
"So you know what you need to do?" I looked around but saw no one who was planning on supplying him with an answer.
"Yes, I need to separate all the men from their mates." A voice from behind me answers. It was a deep voice. It belonged to a man in casual clothing, I couldn't make out his face in the darkness but his voice sounded familiar.

Squinting I could make out some of his features, he had a long but flat nose, snake like slits for eyes and dirty skin, not tan but covered in dirt.
I stepped closer but before my foot hit the ground.

I gasped, it was obviously a dream, but did it mean anything?

That man, who was that man?