Sweet Sweet Slumber: A Jeff the Killer love story

Chapter 10: Cielito Lindo (Heavenly One)

There was a long narrow corridor. It was dark and the air was stagnant. I could only see maybe a foot in front of myself and that was probably even more than I could really see. I walked down it hoping to reach a door or an open space. It just kept on going and going. Finally, after some time, I came to a door. It was old and the paint was peeling. I put my hand on the knob. It felt ice cold and the chill enveloped my entire body. I opened the door and was suddenly standing in an icy wasteland. I looked around and suddenly found that I was naked. I wrapped my arms around my body in an attempt to keep warmth and decency. I was suddenly approached by a woman in a white dress. She had white hair, white eyes and the most pale skin. I turned my face away to hide the blush that had formed on my cheeks. She touched my shoulders and gave me a smile. I felt at peace. “This is the true you. You are pure and beautiful, but you are lost in this place. You are being given a second chance but you must forgive yourself. Only then can you find what it is that will give you serenity.” Suddenly the world around me began to fade into an inky blackness.

             *beep beep beep beep* I could hear what sounded like a heart monitor. It was at a slow pace, but not alarmingly slow. My eyes shifted underneath my eyelids. Slowly opening my eyes, I found myself in a white room with pink papers attached to the walls, an excessive amount of pink papers. As the glaze on my eyes went away, I noticed that every paper had writing on it. The penmanship was familiar and I soon came to recognize it as my own. On the walls, were the ninety-two letters I had sent to Jeff. I stared at them in awe, wondering how they got there or even why they were there at all. I noticed that I was in what appeared to be a hospital and was hooked up to the heart monitor and an IV. There was an oxygen tube in my nose and I realized that my arms had been completely bandaged. It felt like almost my entire body had been bandaged up. I reached my arms under the blanket to feel the rest of my body and confirmed that most of my body had been bandaged. My legs, my forearms and my chest were covered in white bandages. The only piece of clothing I was really wearing were a pair of spandex boy shorts.

            I tried to sit up but the moment I did my entire body began to throb with pain. I let out a cry of pain and gasped for air. Still determined to sit up, I bit down on my lip and forced myself up. I finally managed it but there were two puncture wounds in my lip from where I had bitten down. I bowed my head down and just panted for a while. I wanted to leave and find out what was going on. I knew it was going to hurt but I had to get up. I pulled the IV out of my arm and painfully scooted to the end of the bed. After bracing myself for the pain, I forced myself on my feet. The moment my full wait was on my feet, immeasurable pain shot its way up my body. I let out a howl of pain and stabilized myself on the bed frame. I felt sick and wanted to throw up.

            I was about to fall when someone caught me. It was BEN and he had a sleepy but concerned look on his face. He picked me up and set me back in the bed. He replaced the IV in my arm and pulled the sheets back on me. “What do you think you’re doing” he yawned. I couldn’t even speak. I was in too much pain. “I was over there behind the curtain, sleeping in a chair. I heard you scream. You can’t get up, doctor’s orders” he explained. I laid back and closed my eyes. I felt BEN dabbing at the blood on my lip with a wash cloth. One of my tears fell onto his hand and he looked up at me. He sighed and kissed my forehead. “Why are you being so nice to me?” I asked, my voice quiet and hoarse. “Because you never deserved the treatment you got. We were wrong and we should have listened to your side of the story. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but were not very trusting of normal people, so we just took what Alice had to say and didn’t even think that she was lying” he explained.

            He went on to explain that when Alice had returned from the bathroom, that she said that I despised being here and that I couldn’t live my life with a freak. That’s when I climbed out the window and left. She had also taken all my letters and hidden them. “She had always been jealous of how much Jeff loved you, even before we even knew if we could find you. I don’t think Alice really loved Jeff, but because she was attracted to him and she couldn’t have him, she despised you. The moment Teri told us about what you had said, everything made sense. What’s so fucking incredible though, is that once you realized that you could lose Jeff forever, you were more than willing to let him take your life, and I heard you even tried to do it yourself. You were willing to die to preserve your love. That speaks wonders for you, Cruzi. Jeff is one lucky ass bastard!” I felt a heat rise inside me and I fought to control the urge to hurt myself. I sat up and punched the wall behind me. The sudden movement coupled with the impact of hitting the wall forced me to cry. I wish I could say that I was crying just from physical pain.