The Life of Lilac Hill

Chapter Three: The Release

A nurse is standing over me when I open my eyes. "Krystal," she says," it's time for your surgery." I nod and she has two guy nurses roll me down towards the operating room. They shave my head. Not just one side or a little piece, but my entire scalp! Every bit of my hair, gone! Tears start rushing down my face, my emotions become uncontrollable, I hear someone counting. 3, 2, 1.... Drowsiness takes over and I'm wrapped in darkness again.

When I wake back up, I'm in my room. My dad, Chris, and Adrianne are standing around talking quietly.

"How long was I in the OR?" I say slowly. My vision crosses, I feel something wrapped around my head, where my hair used to be...

"6 hours." Chris says turning to look at me.

"They cut all my hair off!" I whisper, alarmed. My hands run across my head which is now fuzzy.

"It looks good though." Adrianne says pulling my hands back onto the bed. " don't touch."

"Why not thoughhhh I wanna touch ittttt!" I whine, wow these drugs make me feel weird.

"Because it'll get infected! Go back to sleep now...." My dad says pushing the morphine button.

~~~~three days later~~~~

I have all of my things packed, the very few they let me have anyway, and stand up for the first time in days. They're letting me go home. I still haven't seen mom, and dad keeps changing the subject every time I bring her up...

I step inside my house and the familiar smell attacks me, flowers and cinnamon. My cat, lily, purrs at my feet as she swishes in and out of my ankles. I walk slowly upstairs, barely hearing what dad's saying to me. I open my door, and there sits my room. Exactly as it was a week ago. My laptop sits on my bed, still on because I was expecting to be home earlier. I tap a few keys and the screen lights up, revealing the comforting blue home screen of Tumblr.

"Oh wifi, I missed you..." I mumble as I sit down on my bed and write a new post. I scroll through my dash and see that I missed the release of Fall Out Boy's new album. I groan and fall back into my soft bed sheets and run my hands across my fuzzy head. Someone knocks at the door and I jump.

"Who is it?!" I say to the ceiling.

"Friends!" I hear Adrianne's voice say.

"Why is it plural??"

"Well then.." Chris says walking in. "Am I not wanted?"

"You're wanted, I just don't like people and you're people." I say rolling my head towards them. Adrianne sits at the foot of my bed while Chris claims my tye dye beanbag. We stay silent for a bit, listening to each other breathe.

"You came over to be social and you're sitting there like antisocial people at a party...y'all aren't very good at this!"

Adrianne laughs. " well, what do you want to do?"

"......Divergent came out yesterday....and the theatre is down the street....." I whisper.

Chris jumps up, "Let's go then!" He runs down the stairs to tell my dad.

"Dork." Adrianne and I say at the same time.

"You can't go in pajamas!!!" Chris yells from downstairs.

I moan and shuffle over to my closet. I stare into the mirror for the first time since the accident. There's dark circles under my eyes-from oversleeping?- my long brown hair is now just a little more than peach fuzz on my head, and honestly I look like sh-

"Hey, watch it!" Adrianne says from behind me.

"Calm down, I was gonna say shiz." I say, guessing that I was talking out loud. She sends me a look. I pull on a pair of jeans, and my Supernatural shirt, and hastily do my makeup so that I look partway normal.

I gradually make it down the stairs to the living room. "Why is it dark outside...? Didn't I just get home?"

"You probably fell asleep knucklehead!" My dad says laughing. "Go have fun at the movies."

He almost pushes us out of the house.

And so, we're walking down the street in complete darkness, all except for the street lamps and car headlights.

~~~~~~~~~~~end of chapter three~~~