I can feel someone touching my body and yelling. I feel hands pick me up. I want to swat them away. I can't move. My eyes open a sliver and I see the hallways as I move down them. I enter a white based room. The nurse's office. I made it? I'm plopped onto a blue leather cot. And a women tries to talk to me asking me my name. I try to say Cora but my eyes close. It's blurry and cold.
• • •
My eyes open. Fast. Wide. Where am I? I hear machines beeping. Steady. I'm in a gown. Hospital. Why am I here?
You really are slow aren't you
There's a tube in my arm. Saline is flowing into my body. My arms are bare. Wait. Sleeves. Secret. No.
Fuck.
Before I could completely panic my mom enters the room. She realizes I am awake and yells for the doctor.
Great.
She quickly enters the room again and sits next to the hospital bed I'm laying in. Her eyes are slightly puffy and there is no trace of make up on her slowly aging face. Was she crying?
You are making your own mother cry Cora. Tisk tisk.
I want to say mom but only a sharp breath comes out. She holds my cold hand and stares into my guilty eyes. My sleeves are gone. She knows.
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Secrets Sleeves Sheltered
Teen FictionYour mind is not safe. Boys are not safe. You are not safe. Cora Downer is not safe. She's a small girl with her own secret. Anxiety is a walk in the park for her. Until she passes out. Cora must now face herself. Her parents. Her entire school. Him...
