Several days had passed since Sam's placement in the mental ward, and she was getting used to life here. She had to stay strapped to the bed for three days after her initial 'outburst', and another small incident including the psychiatrist and a ballpoint pen, but other than that, it wasn't so bad.
She couldn't get around much, due to the fact that she couldn't walk, and couldn't wheel herself around with bandaged hands, but she got to have someone wheel her around wherever she wanted to go. That got a touch annoying at times, as the white suits were always goading her to get up and do something, but she stayed with Mandi when she could. Mandi didn't make her do much, but listened to Sam when she wanted to do something.
Mandi was hard to get however, as Sam insisted that she take care of Rose as much as she could.
Sam was sitting in her room, attempting to figure out how to write with a pencil, when three short knocks rang out into the small room.
"Come in." Sam said carelessly. She slipped the pencil under her pillow, as half of the staff still didn't trust her with any writing utensils. I don't know why, she thought with a smirk, it was only a small scratch.
The door swung open, and in stepped Tanya. Sam made no effort to disguise her distaste at this nurse, and let out a loud groan accompanied by the most sarcastic eye roll she could muster.
"Glad to see you too," Tanya said, approaching her wheelchair, "I've been instructed to tell you that you have been acting well, and you now have to attend group."
Sam let out another groan, louder than the last, as Tanya smirked. She took pleasure in others discomfort.
Tanya began to ramble about the rules and expectations of group, and Sam's mind wandered. So the old boy still doesn't trust me after that pen incident. Wow, that must've done quite a bit of damage then. She smirked.
Tanya gasped. "Prodding at the patients with bipolar disorder is a serious matter. You must never ever do that! You could get put in solitary confinement for that!" Sam detected a touch of a threat in that last phrase, so she shut up. She refrained from pulling any more odd faces during the rest of the rules, and nodded occasionally to make it seem like she was actually listening to Tanya's precious words. When Sam detected the end of her speech, she snapped out of la-la land, and perked up with a sugar sweet nurse's smile. Mandi would be proud, I've perfected this look. I'll have to show her when she gets back from lunch break. She thought, and smiled a real grin.
"I gotcha Tanya. I promise I'll be on my very, very best behavior in group." She said, offering another sweet smile. Tanya gave her equally fake smile, and strode out of the room, attempting to look professional and busy. Sam snorted, knowing the busiest she's ever been in her life was when she- woah there Sammy. Get rid of those X rated thoughts in your head. Sam shook her head, and tried to think of anything but what she had just been thinking of.
She sighed, and her thoughts wandered back to Rose.
Mandi had been giving regular reports on her condition to Sam, and for that she was grateful, but she wished something would happen. Every day had been the regular, 'Stable condition, with no change in pressure.'
Sam tried to think of something else to think of. Rose, although wonderful to think of when heathy, had become something of a bittersweet subject.
She searched her mind to find something else to think of, but the same old things kept on popping up in her head. Rose, her feet, Mandi, Tori, Emily, School, Malinda, Rose, her feet, her dad. Sam stopped trying to think of things as her dad came to mind. She preferred to spare herself from the pain of her memories that included her father. Her hands started shaking, and she pulled out the pencil so she could figure out how to write again. She had made a promise to herself not to think of her father. Not here.
She was still struggling with the pencil, when Mandi walked in. Sam perked up, and Mandi gave the usual report of Rose. Sam ignored the shadow that the news brought, and instead turned the conversation to the hilarious conversation that happened between her and Tanya. Mandi also brightened at the welcome change of topic, and the two exchanged sickly sweet smiles, while reenacting the scene in the most obscene ways possible.
Sam smiled as Mandi went down to check on Rose again, she could get used to these kinds of days in her life.
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