Don't Listen to Your Heart

5th Floor's Madness

My breath becomes heavy as I suddenly wake up in tears. I've had one of those weird scary visions of mine, flashbacks maybe, of things and places I've never seen before. This whole situation is making me mad, I feel like I'm totally losing it.

I quickly put my shoes on and start working, on a floor I've never been to. It's 5am. Liz won't be up till 8am, so I have all the time I want. I slowly walk through the dark empty corridor, cleaning the dirty floor a little. It almost looks like this floor is not really used though. Good new for me, less work.

I hear suffocate scream coming from one of the rooms, I quietly push the door and let myself in.

"Hello?" I call out, no answer.

"Hello?" I insist, still no answer.

A bloody man suddenly runs out the bathroom, passing by me, quickly reaching the corridor. I just stand there in shock, as a girl soon walks out the bathroom as well. I just stare at her, she does the same.

"Won't you go get him?" I ask, sounding like a fool.

"The matress guy will kill him anyway" she just says sitting on the king-sized bed.

"Right, uhm, I need to go now" I quickly say holding the room's handle.

"Wait! Stay a little more" she desperatedly says with a small smile, I stare at her a little while more and quietly, slowly, sit next to her.

"What's your name?"

"Uhm, Sasha"

"I'm Kira" she smiles.

"Are you a guest here?" I ask, sounding fool again. Why am I so awkward.

"I used to be, for one night. I killed myself in that bathroom, in the bathtube. I used to be a teacher, you know, I loved my job. And, of course, my kids"

"So why did you kill yourself?" I ask, raising an eyebrow.

"Love, mostly. I had so much love to give, but no one to give it to" she weakly frowns.

"You must feel pretty alone up here"

"I am. No one ever comes on this floor. It's deadly depressing" she sighs,

"You look nice. Why do you kill?"

"Why do you?"

"Fair enough" I smile.

"I'm so glad I found someone like me. Sad, killer, and dead" she says, sending cold shivers down my spine.

"I'm not dead" I weakly smile, she stares at me with a dead serious expression.

"Yes you are. They didn't tell you?"

"Okay, you're scaring me. I really need to get going" I quickly say standing up, as I soon reach the corridor and start walking towards the elevator.

"Don't you wanna know what happened that night?" she yells, slowly chasing after me. I quickly turn to her, just to see a huge matress standing in the corridor, a man trying to get out of it. I shiver once again, as my vision becomes blurry and inexistent.

***

"You pass out way too often" a familiar voice says,

"Liz? Where am I?"

"At Hotel Cortez silly" he giggles. Black humor, what a waste. I stare at him with a sassy expression, causing him to sigh.

"I've found you in the elevator. March said you left the room early this morning"

"Is he stalking me?" I ask kinda upset.

"He just wants to protect you" he smiles.

"Yeah, cool. I have a really important thing to do, if you don't mind. I cleaned up a couple of floors, you don't need to worry about that" I quickly say, reaching out the elevator again.

A few moments later I reach the 5th floor, again. I know I probably shouldn't be here but that girl, Kira, she knows something I need to know. And, since no one else seems like wanting to tell me, she could be really helpful to me. I quietly reach her room and softly knock.

"Kira? It's Sasha" I call out, the door soons open.

"Oh, you came back! No one ever comes back" she says with a big smile.

I follow her through the room, passing by the bloody mess of earlier this morning. If Mrs.Evers worked on this floor, it would've been super clean by now. I slowly sit on one of the little red armchairs, she does the same, sitting in front of me.

"What do you know about this place?" I start, she quietly looks at me before speaking.

"I've been wandering around for so long. I know everything" she says, whispering the last part.

"Really?" I raise an eyebrow. She quickly nods, taking a sip from her mug filled up with hot chocolate, handing one to me too.

"Vampires. They thing they're smarter than everyone else, but that woman, Elizabeth Johnson March, she can't even imagine who can watch her and when" she smiles, I almost drop my mug on the floor, breathing heavily.

"Elizabeth Johnson March?" I ask in shock with a suffocate whisper.

"The Vampire Goddess. The builder's wife"

"Wait. Elizabeth, the Countess?" I ask again, with another whisper, she nods.

"She's Mr.March's wife" she innocently says.

I feel a strong pain in my chest at those words. My mind soon plays a flashback of a couple of weeks ago. Iris, Liz and I talking about March's wife. I asked how she died, and, right when they were about to answer, March walked in so we had to switch the topic. The only thought of Elizabeth being March's wife makes me sick. I suddenly feel a strong sense of dizziness.

"Can I use your bathroom please?" I weakly ask, holding my hands against my stomach.

I slowly walk in, stare at the bloody water in the bathtube and soon throw up in the tube. The coughing won't leave my throat, I see my pale reflection in the broken mirror and strongly hold my head in my hands.

"You okay?" Kira quietly asks, I weakly nod, sitting back down on the armchair.

"They also have a son, locked up in Room 33" she suddenly says, causing me to throw up all over the floor.

"I'm so sorry" I weakly say, holding my stomach.

"Oh, poor thing. Don't worry, I'll clean it up. You really should go"

"No" I force the words to come out from my mouth, my strenght is slowly leaving my body.

"What happened that night?" I ask, blinking a couple of times. My vision becomes blurry again, as I start seeing double.

"You died, Sasha" I hear her voice echoing.

"How" I whisper,

"You stopped breathing"

"And how-", it's the only thing I managed to say, feeling all my energies slowly leaving my body.

"They brought you back. But still, you're dead" I hear echoing again, as everything soon disappears.