The Dead Circus

Chapter Three: They wanted to test on me

My mind was suddenly awake before my body. The questions flowed and I wanted to ask, but my eyes were too heavy to open. Someone shakes my shoulders, but my eyes are still closed. I hear a heart monitor, but its not normal. Then someone shakes my shoulders harder and harder as if I died or if they're panicking that I'm never gonna wake up. Someone had obviously hospitalized me for some sort of treatment for the bullet wound in my shoulder, but I thought it was all a dream. "Melaina." A male voice said. "Melaina, Melaina, please... please, wake up," it said again and the voice was familiar. I struggled to open my eyes, or at least, I thought my eyes were closed. "Why can't I open my eyes??" I asked and he simply said, "The doctor put some sort of eye drop in your eyes to numb your eyes from seeing. It should wear off in a couple of minutes." "Second question. W-who are you?" I asked, I thought it was Ash, "I'm Ash's brother.  Older brother, my name is Nate. Ash is busy, so he'll come later." "Oh? I never knew he had a older brother, or is my memory just blurry?" "Haha, I guess you'll remember sooner or later." He chuckled. My vision started to waver and gain colors and blurry shapes. It must be wearing off. "I can see a little now." "Oh? Really? Well, how blurry is your vision from one to ten?" "five." He sighed, "Guess you'll need these glasses that beside you." "Glasses?" "The doctor predicted that you would say "Five", so he put glasses beside you." "Ohh..." I looked beside me and saw black, thick glasses that looked like cool glasses. I put them on and my vision was 100% better. Or at least 95% better. 

"Those suit you." He said with a bright smile. I smiled gently back and pushed myself to sit up right as he helped put the pillow in a more comfortable position. I touched the right side of my head, but realized it was shaved off, so then I touched the left side and my hair was still there, but scruffy and longer. "How long have I been here?" I asked and he frowned. "Seven months or more." "What?! How?!" I asked in shock, I swear I was shot and sent here last night. "I know what you're thinking; "I was shot last night and I swear I was put into hospital!" Well, you're wrong. I know you were shot, but the doctors noticed something wrong in your blood." "Oh?!" I kinda exclaimed, but then realized that I have to get out of here. "I want to go home. I need to go ho-" "Melaina! You're awake!" Ash exclaimed as he walked in. I smiled and waved him over into a hug, but realized there was a needle in my hip. I winced, but Ash didn't move until he noticed. "Oops, sorry," He told me and I shrugged. "Where is the mary-monster?" I asked and he let out a high-pitched laugh, but then stopped as he realized how pitched it was. I looked around and turned my head to the pale, white walls that were so crystal and clean. After a while, the glasses I was wearing went blurry so I took them off and saw everything new again and my heart skipped a beat as I was relieved. Nate smiled at Ash and nodded as he got up and said, "I better get some lunch," he looked to Ash then to me, "I guess I'll leave you with this douche bag." I laughed and he pretended to have a clown noise and honked. He walked out the door like a clown, too. But, that's okay, he has a sense of humor.

"So," He starts, "Your mother, Mary, she-" Then suddenly the door was swung opened with a woman angry as hell as she stormed through the room and glared at me. "MELIANA KORRTZ." She said my full name as I sunk down slowly into the cozy bed. She noticed. She grabbed me. She sat me back up. I looked and stared into her fire-like eyes. "WHAT HAPPENED??!!" I looked to Ash with confusion and he shrugged and said, "Mary, calm down." She spun her head to him at like 50 miles per hour and looked as if she just twitched or glitched. "CALM DOWN??!!" She practically screamed her head off, but she calmed and steadied her breathing and spoke gently this time. I spoke one second before she was able to choke out a word. "When do I go home?" At this question, her gaze faltered. "You're not. You're stuck here since they need to run tests on your blood, etc." She surprisingly said calmly. My eyes just felt like I got shot right in the eyes, but no, just had to get shot in the freaking shoulder. "What?!" This time, I was yelling, but not as loud. "When they cleaned up your wound, the found dark, red streaks in your blood and also found green stripes in your blood also." I couldn't believe my ears, but then my memory came. The day of the circus and the day I lost my mum. Tears welled up in my eyes, but I never freed them onto my cheeks. "Ashtar?" The doctor said, "Your dad is here." Ash got up and whispered, "I'll be back." and left with the doctor. The day I became a monster. The thought came to my head. I sighed and rested my eyes before opening them back open and seeing Nate walk through the door with lunch.

"Where's my bro?" He asked and I shrugged before saying, "Probably with his dad." He sighed and whispered, "Inte igen." "What?" I asked and he just realized what he said in another language. "Sorry, our nationality is Swedish or whatever." I nod and realize that I may never know what he said. "Melaina, är du okej?" His dad asked something in Swedish, probably can't speak English. 'Melaina, you okay?' I translated in my head. The only words I know how to say in that language is yes and no, etc. "ja." I answer and he smiled, "Good." He says heavily accented. He speaks to his son, "Varför är hon här?" then he replied, "Hon blev skjuten, visste du inte?" and then I just drifted off into my own world before hearing his dad's reply, "Ja, men jag pratar inte om det." "jag vet." Ash's voice was the last thing I heard.

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I wake up and asked, "What happened?" "The doctor drugged you." Ash replied. Then I wondered what he and his dad were talking about. He must've saw right through me, "Don't worry, okay? Me and my dad were just talking about-" He carefully considered his words as he knew I hate swearing, "Skit." "You said shit." I told him and he sighed, "Yeah, sorry. I can't handle myself sometimes." "Yeah, that's why you have a big brother." Nate told him with a laugh. "Knulla du." "Jag skulle knulla mig också." And they both laughed, leaving me clueless. For the first time in my life, I felt like an actual, happy girl... who is in Hospital. Then a Spanish doctor came in and spoke, "Miss Melaina, tenemos que ponerte a prueba ahora." "What?" I asked in confusion and she sighed before repeating in English, "We have to test on you now." My eyes widened and this silenced the boys. "No way, you're never going to test on her." "Oh, really?" She held up a needle and squirt a little to prove she wasn't joking. I tried to calm myself by slowing down my breaths, but these two are just not going to let it go. She spoke in Spanish, "Entonces, los drogaré a ambos." She walked out the room and came back in with three needles and stabbed Ash and Nate with it and they thudded to the ground. I started to panic. "What did you do?" "Don't worry about your boy friends, they're just sleeping." Her accent came out thick and strong, and that made me shiver. "Oh? Well, I doubt you would be able to drug me." She smirked, "You sound stupider than I thought you would be." I took the needle out of my arm and took off the wires before hopping onto the floor without seeming pain. Her mouth dropped in shock and she whispered, "H-cómo??"

My head twitched and my eyes turned fully black as my skin turned light grey and showed sickly veins that seemed lifeless. She wanted to scream, but no scream came out and I grabbed her by the neck and ripped off her head where blood spilled everywhere and her eyeballs were ripped out by my free hand which sharp, pointed, black nails. I let out an evil laughter and said, "I told you so."