Beware of the Neighborhood.

27 - Rest and Recuperation

It was once again the smell of lilies which brought me back to my senses. I inhaled deeply, waiting for consciousness to return, but somehow my eyes refused to open. I could hear rustling sounds around me, "We got movement!" someone said.

"Help..." I tried to say but my lips refused to move. Meanwhile the smell of lilies grew stronger and stronger. 'Where was i? What was happening?' I thought. I heard someone calling my name but the voice was unfamiliar and so far away. I tried to turn, to detect the source of the sound, but I was plunged into darkness once again.

I could hear my own breathing; rugged and cold...

"Come on in" I heard someone say.

By this time the only thing I wanted to know was where I was.

Slowly I opened my eyes, getting the feeling which one gets right after coming out of the water after taking a head first dive. The world swam around me, everything was blurred and hazy. I waited for my vision to focus.

"Hey you" someone said suddenly, right next to me.

I turned my head to my side and gasped. Lohan was sitting right next to me, on the chair beside my bed.

That brought in the realization that I was lying on a bed. My hands and legs tied up with ropes so tight that they cut into my skin. I gulped.

"Did you think that you could escape?" he asked with a chuckle.

"Escaping the doc isn't that easy honey" he continued with a grim smile...leaning forward. He had his head cocked to one side, and the creepy smile on his face broadened, making him look like more of a psychopath than he already was.

"It took a while to get you back...we had to rescue you and bring you away from the cops first...and then we had to kill those cops too...they had seen too much...but then, here you are! So I guess all that was worth it, wasn't it?" he was saying.

Each word he said filled me with new sense of horror. Just then when I thought things couldn't get any worse I heard a horribly familiar voice say "oh how nice, our sleeping beauty awakes!"

Dr. Dexter was there, standing at the foot of my bed.

"No" I whispered.

"Shh...it's okay now...it gonna be over very soon" he was saying. He had a scalpel in one hand, a needle in the other.

He started coming towards me.

"No" I managed to say a little louder and started to thrash

"Ashley...I tried to stop them" I heard Kevin say. Kevin? I thought. I turned my head to my side again. Right where Lohan sat just a second ago, now sat Kevin! He was wearing a denim shirt, his hair ruffled and his face covered with blood. His one eye was swollen shut. There was a huge cut on his neck. "I am so sorry." He was muttering.

"We should be quick". Jacob said who had someone walked into the room without making a slightest sound.

My head was swimming, this cannot be happening!

"Let me go" I groaned through gritted teeth, struggling to get up.

"You can join Kevin now" Dexter said as he came forward, his scalpel raised. And I screamed...

My eyes snapped open. For real.

I was lying on my back on a flat bed, the mattress soft against my body. Just to be sure that I still had control over my body, and I wasn't tied up, I tried to move my hands. I breathed a sigh of relief as my fingers moved. I felt weak but at least I wasn't tied up!