Bonnie and Clyde (ON HOLD! Writer's Block.)

3. The Asylum

I can't sleep. The bed is to hard, the pillow is to flat, and I could hear people whispering. I don't know how long I've been hear, it felt like days but it probably has been only an hour or two. I've been laying on the bed facing the wall closest to the bed the whole time. When they locked me in here I changed into the clothes they gave me and sat on the bed for a bit. I stared at the walls for a bit then lied down. Now I'm just waiting, I don't know for what though. Maybe to fall asleep? But I'm not tired. Maybe someone to burst through those doors and save me? I'd doubt that. Or maybe I'm waiting for the sun to come up? Yeah that's it. The window in my room is small and all I can see is trees and bushes and, from far away, a giant field. I finally stand up, it's dark but the light of the full moon makes it just a tad bit bright. I walk up to the door and twist the knob. Locked. It was worth the try. I look out the window and notice a small red bird on a tree brand that's close to the window. I open the window and whistle at it. It looks at me and gets a little closer. I continue to whistle as it gets closer. All of a sudden it flies into the room. "I did not think that would work." I mumble. Out of nowhere I hear someone screaming the bird flies around the room then out the window. The screaming doesn't stop. I cover my ears but I could still hear it. I look out the window and it gets louder. "It's from outside?" I whisper. I quickly close the window and the screaming disappears. "What the hell?" I feel something pointy stab my neck and I instantly blackout.

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I feel the sun burning through my eyelids. I try to the open them but they feel heavy. After a couple of minutes I finally open them. I sit up on the bed and rub my head, it hurts a bit. I ignore it and stand up. I slip on my moccasins and attempt to open the door. Fortunately the door is unlocked. I open the door and see patients walking around. A lady in a uniform walks up to me. "Good morning Victoria." she smiles. "How do you feel?" "Please call me Tori." I say, sternly. "Okay, well here's a bar of soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, and a comb." she says handing me the bag full of stuff. "I'll show you to the bathroom." she smiles. She begins to walk and I follow her. As I do, I notice how crazy some of these people are, I thought these kind of people exist only in movies but they are real. This is insane. The lady stops in front of a door. "Here it is." she announces. "When you're done, the cafeteria is down the hall and to the left." she says before walking away. I go into the bathroom and open the bag. There is everything she said, even a couple of pairs of under wears. Yes, I can take a shower, I feel disgusting.

I go into a stall with a shower and strip off my clothes. I take a warm shower then slip on my clothes. I go back to the sinks and brush my teeth. After that I brush my hair then put everything back in the bag. I take the bag into my room and leave it there. I close the door then go into the cafeteria. Once I walk in all I hear is chatter. There's people that are talking to themselves, some rocking in their chair, some eating their hair, and some snapping on each other. I look at what food they got and it looks disgusting, like dry throw up. I decide on grabbing a light red apple and banana. I turn around and search the room for somewhere to sit. "Tori!" I hear someone call. I turn to the direction of the voice and see Jace with a bald headed guy and a girl with light blue hair. He motions for me to sit with him and I do. "How are you liking the place so far?" Jace asks. "I want to go home." I say, sounding like a kid. "I know." he smiles. "This is Rylie" he says pointing to the girl. She gives me a warm smile and I smile back. "And this is Mike." Mike looks up at me and smiles. "How are you?" he asks. "Hungry." I say before biting the apple. He laughs at me as shuffles a deck of cards. "So why are you two in here?" I ask. "I crushed a guy's skull with my bare hands." Mike says. "I stabbed a guy with thousands of small knives until he died." Rylie said. I looked at both of them with wide eyes. "Relax, mine was self defense, he raped me." she continued. I looked at Mike. "He gave me a dirty look." he says as he shrugs his shoulders. I look away from him and notice a guy walking into the cafeteria. He's tall around 5'11/5'12, he's wearing a black t-shirt that shows his tattoos all over his arms and his neck, he has piercings on his left eyebrow and on the left side of his nose. He's gorgeous. He walks up to where the food is and grabs an apple and a banana.

"Who is he?" I ask. All three of them look at him. "Oh, he's new too. He arrived this morning." Rylie says. "Supposedly he skinned three women, then tortured them with a lighter." Mike says. Instantly fear took over. "That's what I heard though." Mike says. "His name is Dylan O'Brien." Rylie says. I watch as Dylan walks past our table and sits at an empty one behind us. I sneak a peek at him again and his eyes connected with mine. I quickly turn my head. I can still feel his eyes on me; his beautiful, golden brown eyes. It's amazing. I want to look back but I'm afraid. "Dude" Rylie says. "He's staring at you, checking you out." she continues. "Yeah, right." I chuckle in disbelief, even though I could feel his eyes on me. "If you don't believe me then look." she says. I hesitate then slightly turn my head. Our eyes connect and this time he looks away. I notice his little smirk and I look away. "He's got the hits for you." Rylie says. I laugh and say "Who even says that anymore?" Jace laughs with me and soon after Rylie does too.

I walk back to my room and dig through the bag. I find a hair tie in their and I put my hair in a messy bun. I turn around and see Dylan in the room across the hall from me, his door half way open but I can see him. He takes off his shirt and I see all of his tattoos. I bite my lip as I watch him. His body is gorgeous, perfect abs, nice muscle. He's the whole package. Except for the fact that he skinned three women! Dammit! My eyes travel up his body and to his face. He's caught me staring. He's smirking at me. I quickly close door as I feel my cheeks burn. "Nice one Tori." I mumble.

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They let us go outside into the big field that I can see from my room, but only for an hour. It's beautiful. They have a garden. As I walk through it I find a bush full of my favorite flower, white roses. I pull one out and smell it. I stick it in my hair and continue to walk. So far this is the only thing I like about this place. Silent walk through a garden is what I needed to erase my worries and my sadness. Suddenly I hear screaming. I look around me and finally I see a guy on top of a girl, scratching her face as she screams. Security runs to pull him off of her, then they take both of them in side. Then I am filled with fear again. I turn to my left and see Dylan leaning against the wall of the building. He's still watching the security guards take them away. He turns his head and our eyes connect again. Suddenly all of my fear disappeared. I catch my breath as his eyes trail down my body then back up to my eyes. He looks a bit higher, I guess at the rose in my hair. He smiles a little then walks away.

We go back inside to eat dinner. It's chicken soup. It looks good and surprisingly it tastes good. "Did you guys see what happened between that guy and girl?" I ask. "Yeah, supposedly the girl was flirting with him and he told her to back off but she didn't listen so he attacked her." Rylie explained. "That's crazy." I say. "Well this is an asylum." she says. "True." I sigh. "Do you think Dylan really skinned those three women?" I ask. "Yup." Mike says. "Of course, I mean look at him, he has psycho written all over him." Rylie says. "Says the girl who stabbed a guy thousands of times." I say. "He raped me." she says and I laugh. "I know."

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After dinner I took a quick shower. As I walk out of the bathroom I bump into something hard, really hard. I almost fell to my ass but someone wrapped their arms around my waist. I look up and see it's Dylan holding me. "I-I'm sorry." I stutter, my voice sounding smaller than usual. He smirks at me before saying "You should really watch where you're going." "I will." I say mesmerized by his eyes. He holds me up, making sure I'm standing straight then he lets me go. Suddenly I feel cold without his touch. I look up at him, gosh he's so tall. I'm 5'4 so he has to be at least 5'11 because my head barely reaches his chest and he has to look down at me. "What's your name?" he asks. "Uhh Victor... Tori." I say. "Victoria." he says. "Please call me Tori." I say. "But I like Victoria." he smirks before walking past me. I stand there shocked. What the hell just happened? I shake before walking back to my room.

That night I only slept for a couple of hours, then stood up until the sun was up. After that my body was week and I was very sleepy so I went back to sleep.