Cherry Knots

Chapter 1: Nights in white satin

  

   Eyes. Those pair of cruel, dangerous eyes that have haunted Ellie Smith's dreams, or rather nightmares, for the past several days. The catastrophe happened on August 10th, 11 days ago.

Ellie had been walking back from her friend's, who lived a street away, when she heard the piercing sirens. As she rounded a corner to get onto her block, the police cars came into view.

Two policemen were escorting a wild looking man out of her house. Tagged clothes, a crazed look in eyes, hands cuffed tightly behind his back; Ellie knew he was threatening.

They locked eyes and he smiled evilly, starting to laugh hysterically like a madman. Ellie stopped dead in her tracks. Her ear shattering scream was the only thing that could be heard for miles. All she could see was black.
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Beep. Beep. Beep.
Ellie awoke to blinding lights and too clean, pure white sheets.

"Nights in white satin, I guess." She mumbled to herself. People rushed by the window by the door of her room as it dawned on her, Ellie was in a hospital! Last time she had been to one was to say goodbye to her Grandma for the last time.

'Oh great job Ellie, bring up the sad stuff and start sobbing while your at it!' She mentally cursed. She wiped away a rogue year and sighed.

How she got here? No idea. Why she was here? Only faint memories.
It was only then did a nurse, clad in blue scrubs, come in. Walking next to her was a too perky woman who seemed to be very familiar.

The nurse decided to break the awkward tension that was forming in the room by clearing her throat.

"Hello! I'm Nurse Procter, but you can call me Rose."

  Ellie debated on what to say without sounding rude.

"Um, what am I doing here?"
That probably wasn't the best the best thing to say because suddenly, the two women's faces paled.

  "Well," Rose started sounding quite a bit uneasy.
"You fainted and have been asleep for about 12 hours. You arrived here at 3:30 pm and it is almost 4 o'clock in the morning. You are fine now, though. Nothing is bruised or broken."

  "And you are...?" Ellie questioned looking at the woman who was just standing there, looking at her.

"Oh right. Sorry, sweetie. I'm Mary Adams."
"I knew you looked familiar!" It was her brother's best friend's mom, it wasn't that weird that she had no immediate reaction to Mary; the Adams' moved to Texas three years ago.

"You can see Joey in a half hour, after we give you one last exam." Mary exclaimed excitedly.
"Are my mom and dad here yet?"

And they weren't. They would never be back because just yesterday, they were found dead in their house; murdered by the man Ellie saw get escorted out of her house.