22 years of Singleness

Chapter 5

I grabbed his hand  tight and squeezed it really hard.

My desperation was growing by every second passing. I knew I needed to calm down but the feeling of being locked in this small space without fresh air was not helping me at all.

This has happened to me a couple of times, I have claustrophobia. Since I can't  remember I'm  afraid of closed and small places. I've been in therapy an I did a great job controlling it but when it comes to closed places I could not help it, the waves of panic always come and go  like a tsunami.

I looked at Dr. Bernard and I could see how worried he was. I felt a strong pain in my chest and my hand touched the place where it was hurting, this was out of control. I've never had an episode like this, maybe was all the tension mixed with the normal symptoms but this was different and I was scared. I was trying hard to send signals to my brain but it was not responding, tears started to fall down and I felt my throat closing a little bit more. My sight was blurred, for sure , I was losing consciousness.

My body was numb and I lost strength.

- Come on Dr. Hernández, stay with me. Don't faint...- I felt a little slap on my cheek.

I tried hard to follow but I was seeing dark dots in front of me. Suddenly a white thing appeared blocking the darkness, I did not know what it was. I saw the white thing coming closer to me and my cheek crashed against something hard.

- Focus on the white color, just focus on it.- his voice was soft and calmed.- come on just focus....

I made an effort and focused on the white, Little by Little I started to recover and I noticed that the white thing was a t-shirt, I slowly moved my gaze and I saw Dr. Bernard shirtless  just with t-shirt that I recognized as the white thing. I blushed furiously, this was not a normal situation but I did it anyways. He must noticed it because he immediately grabbed his shirt and put it on again. I laid my back on one of the walls, I was tired and the situation was still the same but I felt a little bit better than before.

- Thanks- I mumbled.

- What?- he asked me.

- Thank you for helping me- I said a little bit louder this time, my throat was still numb.

- Welcome... – he murmured- Does this happen to you very often?- he looked at my with a furrow.

- N...no ..... this was just an episode... I'm claustrophobic but this was. I don't know.- I said shyly.

He moved towards the door and tried to open it with his bare hands but it was worthless.

- Do you have any signal on your phone?

Not wanting to move in order to prevent another episode I pointed my purse giving him permission to look for my phone inside it. He did it but his face told me we were trapped here without any communication with the outside world.

- What are we going to do now? Its late and I guess everybody is home already.- I said with a husky voice.

He scratched his neck and I looked away trying to find a way out of this mess.

He sighed and sat down next to me.

I lost the  sense  of time and my eyelids were closing. I looked at him and he was sleeping with his head against the wall, his lips were slightly open and his hair was a mess but he looked handsome.

Come on Monse stop checking him out.

As I said this He opened his eyes and our eyes got locked, after a few seconds I looked away ashamed.

Why me¡?

I was about to apologize for being staring but he moved quickly towards the door without any reason.

-hey, hey¡- he shouted- we are trapped here, please¡¡

He hit the doors with his palm and after a few seconds a voice from the other side answered.

- Who is in there ?- the other voice said.

- I'm Dr. Bèrnard and we are trapped here since the lights went out .. like a 3 hours ago.

- We?- the voice asked.

- Yes, Dr. Hernández is with me.. Can you please call somebody to get us out of here... she is not feeling very well.- he said.

- Immediately Sir.

I felt relieved when I heard him, finally we could go out of this.

After a few minutes we heard the voice again.

- Hey guys, the firefighter are here they are about to open the door, please go to the back of the lift.

I tried to stand up but my legs were weak. I felt a hand around my waist and I looked up to see Dr. Bèrnard helping me to stand up. I thanked him and he moved with me to the back of the lift.

A loud sound broke the silence and we heard people talking in the other side.

5 minutes later the door was open and 5 men were standing outside, 2 with a blue uniform that I recognize as paramedics, the other two with yellow and red  uniforms and for sure they were firefighters and the last one was with a blue  one  and I guessed he was a janitor.

The paramedics walked towards us asking a lot of questions, they took real interest in me as my face was pale. I noticed the whole building was dark and outside the common lights were out too. The paramedic in front of me followed the direction of my look.

- There was a little explosion in the electric central, this zone was affected by it. That's why the lift stopped.

-Oh!- was the only thing that came out from my mouth, my throat burning as I tried to speak.

-  You're all set!  but I want you to go to the hospital with us to check your throat, it was really tight and I am afraid your vocal cords were affected by the episode you had before.

I sighed. I just wanted to go home and rest, not go to the hospital to spend more time out of my house.

- Let's go... Can you walk?

I nodded.

I looked around trying to find Dr. Bernard but he was  gone. I wanted to thank him  for  helping me out, I guess that act of gentleness was just that, an act of gentleness now he was the same guy I met yesterday.

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So this is chapter 5

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