My Emo Prince

Chapter Eleven

Galaxy

Three months later...

Pain. Torture. Death. That is what people expected to happen in the next few months of my life. But really it was bliss. We'll when I was in consciousness it was. I'm only awake for about an hour or two a day now. The rest is just darkness... an endless black cloud. I know the end is near... As does everyone else. I haven't seen anyone for almost a month. Doctors aren't allowing anyone in to see me. Which I think is unfair, I mean I know I'm going to die any day now, so why can't I see my loved ones? I know my Dad is probably dieing inside, his baby girl is about to slip out of his caring grip forever. And all he can do is sit and watch.

           It kills me to think that others are suffering from my own pain. Well the pain that others think I have. Really it's just like a constant high, a buzz that never leaves. I can't feel anything, I'm like this motionless thing that lays there, completely numb... Just watching the world go by. Five days ago, I was moved to a room that I was sharing with two other girls.

           They both looked my age, maybe a year or two older. One of them was diagnosed with Leukemia like me, the other had a brain tumor. On the second night, the girl who had leukemia silently passed away in her sleep. I hope my death comes as quickly and swiftly as her's had. But last night was probably one of the scariest nights in my whole life. The girl who had a brain tumor, her name was Vienna, kept constantly screaming out in pain.

         Doctors and nurses were in and out all night long. Those antagonising screams rang throughout the hallway. Finally they rolled her out of the room, a trail of dripping blood following her out the room. I stared at the blood for almost half an hour until a nurse came in and gave me my next dose of medicine, which knocked me out cold.

         I woke up in the morning to a completely pristine room. But I was all alone... I was told only a few minutes ago that Vienna's tumor had grown big enough that it put to much pressure on her her skull that it split it, which sent a splinter into her brain... And ultimately she had lost to much blood, and she passed away. In only the matter of Five days, not even a week, both of my roommates had died. It terrified me! 

         A nurse slowly wheels in my lunch. But she know's a won't eat it... I can't, not until someone comes and feeds me. My life is horrible, I can't do anything on my own because of the damn medication the have me on! I just wish that I could do something on my own, at least sit up, but no... I can't even blink! My eyes are half closed, just staring in one spot. It probably looks like I'm already dead, the only thing telling people that I'm still breathing is that constant beep, beep, beep, that the machine behind my head makes, telling people that my heart is still beating. Other than that... I'm dead.

          The nurse leaves my room with a sad smile, and I'm once again stuck staring at the floor. But she left the door open at least, so now I can kind of see what's going on in the hallway... Which usually isn't very much. Suddenly a herd of doctors and nurses go rushing by my door and within seconds they run by the door in the other direction, pulling a stretcher behind them that's carrying the gory, bloody, pulverised body of a girl.

           The only thing slightly recognisable is her face. I think... I think I've seen her somewhere before. She has the same lifeless expression I do, her eyes holding a blank stare. And that's when my slow, drugged brain finally puts a name to her face. I command my mouth to open and let out a strangled yell, man did it hurt my unused throat.

"Nikki!" I shout as the bloody heap of limbs gets towed past my door.

Nikki

Three Days Earlier...