3 hours and a bottle of bleach later, Dr. Harrison's lab coat was rid of blood and the ravioli sauce. Aaron held up the coat like it was an award.
"Ha! I knew it would work!" Dr. Harrison sniffed the coat. It no longer smelt like lavender and rain. It smelt like chemicals.
"Who taught you this, exactly?" Dr. Harrison asked.
"My mom..." Aaron looked at his feet.
"Are you...going to go to sleep?" Dr. Harrison asked.
"Yeah..."
"Sure. Uh, where's my room again?" Aaron asked.
Dr. Harrison led him to his cold room. He picked up a blanket and placed it on top of Aaron. "It gets really cold around here." Aaron snuggled under the two big blankets. Dr. Harrison was staring at him awkwardly.
"Uh... so..." Aaron shifted uncomfortably under the sheets. Dr. Harrison was sitting on his legs.
"Oh! I'm sorry, Aaron." Dr. Harrison sat closer to Aaron, avoiding his legs. Aaron noticed that Harrison's eyes were two different shades of green. Unnatural shades of green.
"Um, can I ask about your eyes?" Aaron asked.
"Well, this one," Dr. Harrison pointed to an eye that was a dark, hazel green, "Is natural. This one," He pointed to the other eye, "is from when I was storing a brain in my biology class back in highschool. I didn't wear my goggles because I didn't think that I could get hurt. Apparently around formaldehyde, I'm not the smartest." Dr. Harrison laughed. "Now I have one pretty eye! Oh! Do you want to know something else cool?" Aaron nodded. "Give me your hand." Aaron extended his hand. Dr. Harrison held the hand to his chest where his heart should have been. There was nothing.
"Are you dead?!" Aaron shouted.
"I would expect you to be smarter than that!" Dr. Harrison moved Aaron's hand to the right side of his upper torso, where Aaron felt a steady thumping.
"W-what?!" Aaron gasped.
"It's a condition. My organs are all backwards. I guess there's a bunch of stuff that makes me weird! Also, I'm a lefty." Harrison wiggled his fingers in Aaron's face.
"Hey! Me, too!" Aaron said.
"What are the odds?" Dr. Harrison and Aaron laughed for a while and Dr. Harrison threw the blanket over Aaron's head. He got up to turn off the light.
"Goodnight, Aaron."
"Goodnight." Dr. Harrison turned around and frowned.
"Out of all the times that we've met, you've never called me by my name." He said.
"Goodnight, Dr. Harrison." Harrison smiled and switched off the light, bathing Aaron in sleepy darkness.
Maybe I can trust him after all... Aaron thought before drifting off to sleep. In the other room, Harrison did the same.
YOU ARE READING
Watch Your Back
HorrorEveryone in the eerily small town of Roseburk knows what used to go on in the old asylum on the hill. Thankfully, to the town's relief, it was shut down decades ago. But when people begin disappearing one by one, with their mutilated and dead bodies...
