anathema :: joshler

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so won't you say goodnight

the screams. they were deafening, terrifying.

"the doors. soundproof. doors. doors." one patient kept repeating as he rocked back and forth. his eyes were empty and emotionless; dead. it really freaked josh out, and he was trying to eat whatever medication-filled slop that was on his plate. it was making him drowsy, but he couldn't sleep, not with all that noise.

it carried on for a good ten minutes, constant crying and screaming from a couple of rooms away. it was so, so loud.

"I think it's fake." a boy leaned over and said quietly. "they're trying to see how we'd react, headasses." he had such a pale face, and red hair. he looked frail for such a young boy.

"you don't talk? cool. atleast you don't need to worry about being put in iso, like I do."

"why are you here?" josh barely whispered.

"wow, you do talk! tried to kill myself five times. failed every fuckin time. been here for two months now, utter shit. i hate it here."

"don't we all." josh said it quieter than before.

"make it stop. make it stop." the cowering boy covered his ears as the screams got louder. everyone in the room was being driven crazy. "won't you say goodnight, goodnight!" suddenly, josh's prayers were answered, and in an even louder shriek, it quietened to a softer hush and then stopped completely. it sounded like something out of a horror movie, like someone was being murdered.

what the fuck is up with this place?

"what just happened? excuse me, is he ok?"

"i'm going to need you to step ba-"

"what just happened?"

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one minute he was crying, screaming even, and the next minute a needle was being stabbed into his neck and he was on the floor.

"get me out. now."

"im afraid that won't be happening for a long time."

"now." he snarled.

"i can't. you've been knocked out for seven hours and I wouldn't be allowed to regardless. you're in no fit state."

they both paused, frustration clear in tyler's face. josh was just across the room, half thinking, half eavesdropping, when out of absolutely nowhere, tyler raises a hand and the man goes flying across the room, smacking into the door. blood began leaking from the back of his head. josh's head shot up in disbelief, mouth wide open.

"run."

399 words.