Hospital For Souls

Chapter 8

"Go away!!" I screamed. It went dead silent and the voices stopped. I slowly open my eyes and look around, there's light. I get up and try the door, it opens and I walk out. "O-Oliver?.." I look and see him, he walks over to me and says "It's too late for me, save yourself from this place" I shake my head and grab his ice cold hand, I start walking and I pull him, forcing him to follow me. "There's light at the end of the tunnel....I'm so close Oliver, I wont give up on you" I spotted the dot of white, I start to run and he joins in running with me, the dot gets bigger and bigger slowly, we almost reached the light when suddenly my legs give in under me and I fall forward. Something grabs onto my leg and pulls me back into the darkness behind me.

I wake up. I'm getting  closer and closer to saving him in every dream I have, I'm so close. My lungs begin to tighten up and I start coughing. "You okay?..." he asks. unable to speak I just nod and gasp for air. I stop and take a deep breath. I run downstairs into the kitchen and grab a glass. "Iris" my dad says sitting at the table. "What?.." I look at him then pour some water in my glass. "Me and your mother had a talk. All you do is stay in your room, you cut yourself and you are disrespectful. We want you to meet my boss's son, Jake. He's a nice guy and tonight you are going to have dinner with him and his friends...because their normal and normal is what you need, not that emo shit".

Wy eyes get wide and I feel anger boiling. "I'm not going, I don't need you making decisions like that for me, I'll change hell I'll do anything but that" he gets up. "It's either that or we send you to a fucking insane asylum, they'll put a fuck up like you in a straight jacket for hurting yourself. People who do that are insane and pathedic, either you go and clean up your god damn act or your getting sent there" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "Okay.." I swallow the words I wanted to shout at him, for all the hurtful things he's put into my brain, for making this way, for never really being a father, and for my mother never standing up for me, but for agreeing and going along with all the hurtful shit. "That's my girl, now get cleaned up and get ready, I want to see you dress like a normal young lady, not ripped up skinny jeans or band tees, most of all wear something not black". I just nod and walk past him and walk upstairs.

 I sit by the window once I get in my room. "What was that all about?.." Oliver asked. "Oh you heard that huh..." I sighed and covered my face. I feel cold, knowing he's attempting to put his arms around me for  once freezing my ass off is comforting. I smile at this thought, I laugh at myself in my thoughts. "I need to bring you back...and fast" I mutter. "I'll take you away from this place. I'll take you away from here and I wont let anything happen to you" as I hear his soft words a hot tear rolls down my cheek. "We're so close Oliver..."I whisper while searching for his cheek. "You almost done?!" we hear my dad yell from downstairs. "Yeah almost" I yell back. I put on a pair of skinny jeans they aren't ripped up or black, I put on a Beatles t-shirt and put on my hoodie.

"He's here" my dad calls. I sighed then said "I'll be back Oliver, alright?". I walked over to my door. "Alright I'll be here, love" I walked out the door to my bedroom then walked downstairs and walked outside to Josh er Jake whatever this douche bags name is. His hair is blonde and tousled and his eyes are a blue gray, he's kinda good looking but not my type, which is douche. I force a fake smile and say "Hi. I'm Iris" he smiles and says "I'm Jake, It's nice to meet you, I didn't know you would ever be this hot by what your dad said you were like". "Thanks" I mumble as he gets in his shiny expensive fake ass car, I get in and look out the window and I see Oliver standing by my window, looking down at me. I look at him as Jake drives away. 

"So, do you wear those bracelets cause you cut?" one of his friends ask me, we're sitting at a table and I look at the menu. "Nope, I just love bands and my bracelets, they are special cause they were given to me" I wanted to punch her in the face. "Oh, I knew someone who cut herself, she carved words like ugly, failure and fat into her skin. It was so gross" I nodded, I looked at Jake who just put his arm around me. "I need to use the restroom..." he moved his arm and I got up and walked off. I heard her say "She's weird". I shook my head and went outside. I pulled out a cigarette and started smoking. Ugh It's a horrible habit that I need to stop, It's bad. "So much for going to the restroom, I didn't know you smoke" I look at Jake as he walks over to me and sits down next to me. I don't say anything and of course this encourages him. "Sorry about Lisa. She's kind of a bitch". I just say "It's okay I'm used to it". I feel a pain in the back of the head as I fall to the ground, all I see is Jake grabbing me then everything went black.

I get up and look around. I see a dark corridor, I instantly realize where I am. The hospital where Oliver is, I quickly run into the room with a dim light, his room. I grab his hospital bed and I roll him out of the room and down the hallway, I run faster when I start to hear the darkness behind me, I see the green light that reads exit. "He must join us, give him to us. His soul is ours" I shake my head and yell "GO TO HELL!!!!" as I push through the exit doors. Everything went white and everything got bright making me squeeze my eyes shut.

"Wake up...Iris" I hear his voice and I open my eyes and wake up. I can see him. He's alive, is this really happening or am I just dreaming. "Oliver?.." I sit up and take his face in my hands. His eyes are so amazing. His eyes are hazel and he has dark flippy hair, I smiled and he muttered "You did it..now we can be together.." he started hugging me. Something didn't feel right but I ignored it because now I have someone who cares, who understands and the both of us could be together.

-Oliver'sPOV-

I didn't like the idea of her with that guy. But maybe I'm just jealous, one reason being that he's alive and could actually be with her, the other reason being that he is with her right now and might be making her happy. I'm just insecure, always have been. 

I went to the restaurant and I saw him knock her out. That's when I took matters into my hands, I used my energy and shoved him he got sent flying a few feet back and through the window of the restaurant, the glass shattered and people screamed and got out of their seats. Suddenly everyone looked at me, why were they looking in my direction, could they see me?..how was that possible. I walked towards him and I felt my feet connect with the ground as I walked, I looked down and saw my thin legs and my shoes, I smiled. I reached my hand up and looked at it, I clenched it into a fist and grinned as I realized. I must be alive. 

After kicking his ass, I took Iris and left. I spent a few minutes trying to wake her up. "Wake up...Iris" she opens her eyes and wakes up. "Oliver.." she sat up and puts her hands on my cheeks, she looks at me and I look back at her, meeting her eyes. The same eyes I've been admiring but this time she can see me. Hopefully she doesn't find me ugly. "You did it...now we can be together..." I pulled her close and started hugging her. 

She muttered my name and I stopped and looked at her, her eyes rolled back and closed then her body went lifeless in my arms, I said her name and shook her lightly. "Iris...." I shook her harder but she didn't wake up...she's..dead. My eyes stung as tears rolled down my cheeks.