Stranded

Chapter 47

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Beep

Beep

Beep

Beep...

What's that noise?

My eyes slowly flutter open and it takes me a while before I can focus enough to examine my surroundings.

Bare, white walls, the smell of...cleanliness, a television hooked up on the wall is showing an episode of some show with a blue dog and a grown man who dresses in way too much green.

I look down and find I'm wearing a hospital gown, my arms hooked up to various machines and medicines. An oxygen breathing thingamabob is hooked underneath my nose.

Well, I'm obviously in the hospital. But why?

I try to turn my head to the side and succeed, but not without some pain. It doesn't hurt,more like sore. Like waking up after a couple hours at the gym.

I turn my head to find some dude I don't know laid in a chair, his brown mop of curly locks hiding his closed eyes and most of his face from view, plump pink lips parted slightly.

I don't know him, so why is he in my room? Why am I in the hospital? What happened to me?

And that's when the most scary thought comes to me.

Who am I?

Just as I'm about to freak the crap out, the guy mumbles a name.

"Cass." he says.

Who is 'Cass' and why is he mumbling her name in his sleep? Maybe she's his girlfriend? Maybe he's my brother and that's why he's here!!

Wait, do I even have a brother?

He scares me as his eyes dart open and he gasps for air, pushing his hair back from his forehead.

"Hey, you okay there buddy?"

Who's voice was that?

There's no one else in the room with us so I suspect it's my voice. It sounds foreign to me, like I've never heard it before.

His face floods with relief and he immediately comes over to my bed, holding my face in his hands,tears streaming down his face.

"You're finally awake." he states.

"Duh I'm awake. This isn't freaking Sleeping Beauty. How long have I been asleep?"I ask him.

"You've been in and out of it for almost two weeks. We were beginning to get worried." he whispers.

"Who's we?" I ask, raising my eyebrow.

"Gemma and my mum and me of course." he says as of it's obvious.

"Okay, I don't recognise any of the names you just said. Speaking of, who the hell are you?" I ask him. His face shows confusion at first but then he laughs.

"Okay Cass, nice joke. The doctor still has to run some tests on you but you should be fine." he says. "I'm so sorry." he whispers before kissing me.

Slow down. Wait a minute.

I don't kiss him back. I have no reason to. I don't even know him...though he does look kinda familiar...

Wait! He's the guy that tried to kill me! He's the guy that raped me!

I push him off me, ignoring my bones and muscles screaming in pain.

"Don't you fucking touch me!!"I yell at him.