Amnesia

Chapter Twenty Two - 'On what? A shredder?'

Lily didn't return to our friendship group after what I had said. The words weren't offensive, tone of voice was.

I felt guilty all day, especially when she didn't turn up to our last lesson. I began to sweat, wondering what I had caused. So many things were wrong right now, that I'd forgotten other humans had feelings too. It was almost as if I had the brain of a toddler.

I raised my shaky hand, until our ignorant calculus teacher noticed me. "Miss Dawn?" Her judgmental voice sounded.
"Can I go to the toilet?" I wrinkled my nose at the sound of her voice.
"Quickly," she snarled.

I raced through the corridors, checking each bathroom I passed. Struggling to remember where they all were. At one point I almost entered a health class.

I pushed open the last bathroom's door and I had almost given up on hope. "Had she ditched school altogether?" I asked myself and guilt pounded through me.

A sob echoed through the toilets and I checked very single cubicle until I reached the locked one. Gently I knocked the door, "Lily?" I asked.

"Vienna, it's you..." The voice trailed off.
It wasn't Lily's voice, but goodness knows who.
"It's Maddy." The voice sniffled as the cubicle door unlocked.
"What are you doing in here?" I furrowed my eyebrows.

She shakily brand her left arm forward, where she displayed a long, open wound from below her shoulder to her wrist. I gagged inside my mouth as blood fell to the tiled floor.
"What?-" I couldn't even continue.

"I- um fell," she her voice was becoming fainter.
"On what? A shredder?" Sarcasm would not help this situation.

I rubbed my face with my hand and my brain stopped working. How did she do this? "Maddy." I continuously tapped her, desperately hoping that if I did she would be physically able to explain, "it's very important that you tell me what has happened to you."

I sat her down on the floor and pressed down the tap, water gushed out and into my cupped hands. I threw the water onto her head. She opened her eyes a little more, so I did it again. "What happened Maddy, please tell me, time is running out." I begged.

"They lead me to the thing teachers cut lots of paper at the same time with." Her description was extremely vague, but I understood, "they told me to close my eyes, I don't know why I did. They shoved my arm under it and-"

Maddy began sliding, until she was lying on the floor, her eyes closed and her body was limp and heavy. I tried, I tried my hardest to pull her back up. Tears flowed from my eyes.

"Somebody!" I screamed, "somebody help me!.."

I wanted to save her, but I was helpless.

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It's Liv,
I bet Vienna kind of wishes she never went to the toilet now...
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