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Lily's POV

I have spent 5 weeks of my life in hospital and finally the doctors said that I can be discharged. I hate being in the hospital. The corridors are stuffy and the air has an undertone of bleach. The walls are magnolia and are scraped in places from the hundreds of trolleys that have bumped into them. The pictures on the walls are cheap benign prints of uplifting scenes and above each and every door are large plastic signs with the areas of the hospital that lie ahead. I follow the sign that says Exit. I walk the abandoned corridors of the hospital, walking alone down every twist and turn, I felt like I was in a mental asylum and there was no way to escape. I turn a corner and I am blinded by the sun shining through the double door of the entrance my chest tightens and my breath quickens as I am faced with the reality that I wont have the safe sanctuary of my hospital room with nurses just outside. I place me hand on the handle and pause taking a deep breath in. I can do this Teabag will no longer hurt you he is locked up and I am safe from his touch forever, just breath. I push open the door and I am greeted by a pair of arms wrapping tightly around me and embracing me into a hug.

"Michael I am so glad to see you, I have missed you so much" I say my voice being muffled by his body. We pull apart and Michael flashes me a smile "What are you talking about Lily I saw you just yesterday"  "I know but I love you and yesterday was a long time ago" Michael chuckles and he gives me another hug "I love you to Lily"

~2 hours later~

We pulled up the stone driveway and the sun is setting behind the house. The shadows were now twice as long as themselves, the air was damp and cool smelling faintly of a car's exhaust fumes, the sun dipped lower in the sky until the trees that line the lane stood as black statues silhouetted against the darkening sky, slowly their shadows melted away into the blackness of night. I unlock the door and step into my house. A sense of familiarity washes over me as I am finally home, I feel Michael place his hand on my shoulder and I turn around to face him and smile. "You look tired you should go and get some sleep" Michael whispers even thought there is no one else around, he leans in and gently presses a kiss on my lips. "I will be down stairs if you need anything just shout" "Okay I love you Michael" "I love you to Lily." I walk upstairs and change in my pyjamas, I pull back the cold crisp duvet and crawl into bed. To me falling asleep was like being drugged, my body dragged me into that shadowy world of dreams in less than a minute from my head hitting the pillow. But I knew if I was woken in the night I would never get back to sleep.

I woke up screaming before he could kill me. But I could still feel the presence of the chilling knife around my throat, digging deeper into me. it's sharp edges running around my smooth skin ready to pierce. I could hear my heavy breathing and the sweat from my forehead was enough to fill an entire bottle. It was only a nightmare, but it left me with the worst memories.

I hear footsteps slamming into the floor in the distance but my mind just blocks them out. Michael runs into the room and jumps onto the bed rocking back and forth "Lily, Lily are you okay, please answer me?" I stare into emptiness and ignore the world around me. "LILY!" Michael shouts grabbing hold of my shoulders. "It was him" I say starting to shake. "Who?" Michael asks. I start to panic again and I cant breath it feels like someone has hold of my throat. "Lily, Lily just breath, now who is it?" "Tea-bag" I just about manage to say. "He was holding a knife to my throat and he was going to kill me" I say hysterical tears pouring down my face. Michael pulls me into a tight hug and I nuzzle into him "Its okay Lily it was just a dream he can never hurt you again, I will always be here to protect you okay" Michael whispers while stroking my I nod in response. "Michael will you stay here tonight?" "of course" Michael pulls back the duvet covers and crawls in bed next to me and he puts his arm around my body and i rest my head onto his chest, my head falling and rising in time with his chest. After that i couldn't get back to sleep. I knew all the techniques for falling asleep, i tried all of them. But now im convinced that doing them was only keeping me up longer. Every half an hour or so i would roll over and look at the time. Then i would roll back over to see Michael sleeping softly next to me. It was somewhere in the early hours before my thoughts became disorganised enough to release my mind into sleep.

Authors notes

wow i am so so so sorry for this long overdue update, things have been really busy and i lost all my motivation to write because i felt like all my work was really crappy and i also had really bad writes block so i apologise for this crappy chapter but as i said i had really bad writers block but i have some great ideas for the next few parts and there is going to be something really big happening in a few chapter so stay around for that. Great news this story has over 700 reads WTF, i never thought i would reach that many reads i was surprized when i got 100 i just want to thank everyone who has like or voted on this story it makes me so happy to see that people actually like to read it. I was hoping to try and get over 1000 reads for my birthday ( June 13th) that would be a great birthday present.

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