Lovesick

Chapter 1

Present Day-

Beep...beep...beep

A steady high pitched alarm seemed to be going off but it sounded as if it were far away. I shook my head, confused, and fought to keep my eyes closed. My body felt heavy and fatigued. I could hear small bits of my surroundings but I was falling in between consciousness and unconsciousness. I couldn't decipher what was real. 

Beep...beep...beep

The noise continued, closer now. I tried to will my hand to move and turn off the alarm but I couldn't get my arm to move, I was just too tired. I gave up and tried to fall back asleep. It was difficult to breathe, it felt like someone was sitting on top of my chest while another was pumping air into my brain. Why does my head hurt so much? Why does everything hurt so much?

Beep...beep...beep

I slowly started to regain some consciousness and realized I wasn't at home. The beeping sound that had woken me up couldn't be my alarm clock. The bustling and shuffling in the background seemed too loud and close to be my family walking around the house. Scared and reluctant to open my eyes, I found myself in a hospital bed.

I had a heart rate monitor connected to my chest which caused the annoying beeping. Around my ears and nose was tubing that connected to an oxygen tank which was trying, unsuccessfully, to help me breathe better. My left arm was covered in IV wires and when I followed the lines, I found I also had a feeding tube. I was surrounded by medical machinery, all of which seemed to be working hard at keeping me alive.

What is going on? I started to panic, my breathing quickened. What happened? I can't remember what day it is or why I am in the hospital in the first place. My thoughts raced as I thought of all the possibilities. My imagination went to work creating various improbable scenarios. Wait, how long have I been here? I searched my brain for the last memory I had but none of them seemed right. They were all jumbled out of order. Birthdays. Christmases. They all seemed so far away. I couldn't remember anything that happened recently. My stomach dropped as I kept coming up empty, with no answers and more questions. My heart raced and I began to hyperventilate.

Beep beep beep beep beep.

All of my fears were projected to anyone nearby through the machines I was hooked up to. Everything started to work harder, and the harder they worked, the more I panicked.

Suddenly, four people burst into the room. They were all speaking too quickly and too loudly for me to truly comprehend what was happening and who they were. Complete chaos. A nurse dressed in light blue scrubs began to adjust the monitors and machines. More and more people in various colored scrubs came in and contributed their part in keeping me alive and stable.

Blackness slowly clouded parts of my vision. The medication they gave me must be beginning to work. I knew I was going to pass out but part of me said to fight it and stay awake. I looked up at the faces of the doctors and nurses working on me. I couldn't see them very well because my vision was fading but I caught short phrases of their communication to one another.

"Hand me 30 ccs..."

"...check the O2 readings..."

"BP is falling!"

The panic that I felt earlier felt farther away. But it faded reluctantly. I still knew there were plenty of reasons to panic and quite frankly, I wanted to. All of the drugs they gave me were trying to take over and calm me. It was a very strange feeling that I couldn't fight. I could understand why I should be panicking yet I was almost prohibited from feeling that emotion. Part of me wished they would stop for one minute and explain to me why I was here and who I was.

At this point, my vision was useless. Everyone was a fuzzy blur. Doctors and nurses exchanged materials across my body but I wasn't able to tell what. It all happened so fast that I felt as though I were in slow motion.

I surrendered over to the medication and felt myself drifting into unconscious bliss, but before I was completely gone I heard a different man's voice utter, "What's happened to her?" and I couldn't help but wonder the same.

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