Crimson

Mirrors and loop holes

Eventually I drift off to sleep as the soft beating of my heart calms me down enough to get a few hours in. I wake feeling like I'm being watched as I peak my eyes open and see a figure standing at the end of my bed, their piercing flaming orange eyes looking through me, I go to scream as he puts a finger to his mouth telling me to be quiet. Scared out of my mind I do as I'm told as they walk to my side and look at the machine, the moon shines through the gap of the window giving me a glimpse of the figure. His body looks male as they look at me.

"I'm sorry about what's happened to you, but you'll be okay, stay strong kid" he says to me as he smiles showing small fangs, a vampire maybe I think to myself.

"W-ho are you?" I stutter out picking up as much courage as I can, his smile shows again.

"A friend" he says before vanishing into a thick smoke beside me, I look around the room and see nothing as I blink and rub my eyes thinking that I am just imagining whatever I just saw.

I wake up days later the doctors telling me that the pain that I am feeling is my body swelling in my stomach from the force that the man used.

"The good thing is that you're not infected considering the fact that you where in the woods" the nurse says to me as she pours me a hot cup of tea and hands it to me, I've been in the hospital for almost two weeks just sitting here and attempting to move around though I fail from the pain.

"Thanks" I say to her as she sits on the end of the bed as I sip on the drink feeling the liquid drip down my throat. I lean back my stomach in pain as I wince at it.

"Don't worry darling, you'll be out soon enough, the doctors are still running some tests," she says to me, I nod my head and open my eyes the haunting orange eyes looking at me.

"Someone came into my room last night" I tell her as she looks at me her smile drops as her eyes widen.

"Who?"

"I don't know, he said to me that he was my friend, his eyes where . . ."

"Where what?"

"Orange, they looked like they where smoking out of his sockets"

"Oh, it could have been a hallucination"

"I thought about that but it seemed too real" I say to her, she thought about it then shrugs her shoulders.

"Oh by the way, that boy came by this morning when you where still asleep, he told me to tell you that once you're out you'll be staying at his for a while"

"What for?"

"Not too sure, I need to check on my other patients I'll see you later" she says as she stands up and brushes the pretend dust off of her pristine uniform and leaves the room, I put the tea on the side and move to the side of the bed and sit on the edge of it my feet dangling just off of the floor.

"Come on" I say to myself as I push myself as my feet just hit the cold hard ground, I attempt to get up but my body falls back onto the bed as I groan, the pain in my stomach intensifies as I grab my gown and put it on, I needed to be able to stand up, I try again and I fall forwards catching myself against the wall as I puff, I manage to turn myself around and I look around the room leaning against the wall. I move myself one step forwards as I still have a hand on the wall supporting me, I take another step and smile at my sudden achievement. I slowly make my way to the door leaning against anything that I can as I try to see how far I can get. I walk down the hallway grabbing a snack from a plate that is on a tray unoccupied as I walk a little faster down the hallway, a soft voice talking to themselves from one of the rooms catches my attention as I look in through the doorway, a little girl sits alone in her bed, her arm is bandaged and her left leg is hanging in a cast, I smile and walk in.

"Hi there" I say to her as she looks at me, she had a black serum streaming through her veins as she smiles at me.

"What's your name?" I ask her walking a little closer.

"Vicki Francis, what about you?" she says to me, I smile and sit in the bed beside her.

"Chloe" I say to her as she smiles, her eyes are clouded as she seems to be blind but she doesn't seem to care.

"Why are you in hospital?" she asks me sweetly.

"I was attacked, what about you?" I say to her trying to choose my words carefully.

"My brother and I where in a car accident along wolf's tail road, then my brother died on the way here" she says to me as I look down remembering what happened to me, though she doesn't see it I smile at her simpathetically and fiddle with the bar in my hands the rapper cracking a little as I do so.