The Boxer's Girl {COMPLETED}

Chapter 36• To Wake Up

Chapter 36• To Wake Up

•Ella's POV•

Can't talk. Can't see. Can't hear. Can't feel anything. Can it all just go away?

Over and over I repeated the same words in my head. It numbed me. I couldn't feel anything. I was in another world, as another person where everything was black. Black walls. Black floors. Just an absence of light. Darkness.

And then, like a switch was flipped, a light appeared, far ahead. It grew bigger, as if coming towards me. Slowly but surely, eventually all I was able to see was white. A white light that glowed so ominously I wondered if I was far away in space where the stars are located.

A constant ringing sound grew louder in my head. Turn it off. I tried to say, but it wasn't working.

The ground beneath me was shaking. Distant voices sounded in the background. I couldn't focus on anything but the shaking. Then I realised, the ground wasn't shaking, it was me. Almost as if I was being shook purposefully.

A surprised and frightened gasp left my mouth on its own accord, desperate for air to fill my lungs. My body was flung forwards and my eyelids opened wide, not that I could see anything. My vision was blurred, I couldn't make out anything. I felt my own hands clawing at my face and neck, making sure I was in one piece and trying to get my airways to open up further.

"Miss Kage, calm-"

"She's awake-"

"Didn't think that-"

"Help her-"

Voices all around me kept bantering and I covered my ears with my hands. Just stop. Just stop. Just stop.

"What was that, Miss Kage?" An unfamiliar voice sounded very close to me and I spun my head and blinked heavily. "Almost there, Ella, stay awake for me, please." I was able to pick up on the caring, feminine tone even in my drunken-like state. A lady, dressed in white with black hair, was in front of me. I wanted to agree with her but I couldn't move. She pushed me back so I was lying down on my back again.

What happened?

As I raked my memory for answers, my vision was slowly clearing. Now I was looking up at white ceilings, blinding lights zooming past causing my head to pick up an unrelenting throb. I was lying on a soft surface and I was moving. My vision blurred again and gradually the images I was seeing turned into a hazy dark colour scheme. My eyes closed on their own, and soon enough every sound I heard became a distant whisper in the back of my head.

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The whispers are back. I can't make out what they're saying. Who are they? Am I going crazy and hearing things?

They grew louder. I'm not crazy, I concluded, I'm just waking up. Waking up from a deep slumber...

"She's awake!" I heard a girl, no, my best friend say. Was she talking about me? After a minute or two of blinking, I was finally feeling slightly more involved. I noticed a few wires connecting into my arms but I ignored them.

A soreness in many places took over. My head was throbbing unlike anything I've felt before. There was a tightness in my chest that felt like it constricted my heart to beat properly. My stomach... Well, I was very hungry.