Darkness Has Fallen

Chapter 2

Chapter two:

            “Jackie, it’s time to wake up now.” My eyes flutter open again, this time, all the way. I blink away the blurriness and see my mom standing over me. “Hi sweetie.” She leans forward and kisses my forehead. I feel her wet tears. A pang of guilt rushes through me.

            “Mom, I…” My throat tenses up and I cough. The pain that rushes through my chest in indescribable. I cry out in pain. She puts her hands on my shoulders and gently holds me down.

            “Shh, don’t move. I’ll go tell the nurse you’re awake.” She squeezes my hand and walks away. Without her in here, I finally realize what’s happened. I tried to kill myself, I failed. Some guy came in here; I have no idea who he was. And now I’m sitting here in the worst pain I’ve ever been in. I hear voices outside my door and then a nurse bursts in.

            “Jacqueline Morris?” I look at her and nod slightly. “On a scale from one to ten, how much pain are you in?”

            “Seven.” I croak out. She holds a straw to my lips. I take a sip and feel cool water run down my throat. “Thank you.” That time, my voice sounds more normal.

            “Only seven?” I nod. I’m pretty resistant to pain. Plus, I don’t want people to freak about me being in pain. So I tend to under exaggerate. She scribbles down something onto her clipboard. She walks over and injects something into my IV. “This is just a pain medication. It’ll make you feel drowsy. And this,” She injects another serum into the IV. “This little baby is what we like to call ‘happy juice’. It’ll sedate you and numb any and all negative emotions you may experience.” She sees my confused look. “We can’t have you wanting to kill yourself while you’re here, now can we?” My eyes shoot to my mom.

            “Mom, I am so sorry. I didn’t mean to hur…” My voice stops in my throat. My head starts feeling fuzzy. No, not fuzzy, but airy. I feel a smile stretch across my face. Maybe this stuff isn’t so bad. I feel warm inside. I let out a small giggle. It sounds strange. I can’t remember the last time I’ve laughed. I let my eyes float over to my mom.

            “I gotta say, this stuff is pretty nice.” My fingers start to tingle. I hold them up in front of my face and wiggle them around. “Woah. Look at these!” I laugh and keep watching my fingers. I hear my mom start laughing which only makes me laugh more. All of a sudden, I start to feel extremely tired. “Wow, I just got suuuuper duuuuuper sleepy!” I smile stupidly at the nurse. She pats my head and I giggle some more.

            “That should do the trick.” She whispers some stuff to my mom and then leaves. I feel my eyes get heavy.

            “Good night mom.” I say sloppily.

            “Good night Jackie.” She kisses my head and my eyes start to close. The door opens again, but I’m asleep before I can see who walks in.