Mad House|l.h(Book 1-)

Day 5|| Voices

I open my eyes and all I see are bright lights. Was me being in an asylum all a dream? Am I actually just now waking up in the hospital?

I turn my head and see the nurse standing near her desk with a big sign next to it saying "Rules". That's when I realize it wasn't a dream. That it was all real.

Looking through the window in the little room, I see Luke sitting on a bench across the hall. Tears streaming down his face.

"Oh good! You're up!" The chirpy nurse says from across the room. I look over at her while she makes her way over to me with some meds. "You should take these. They'll help your head feel better."

I sit up and down my pills. She hands me a granola bar so I won't throw my meds back up.

"Would you like Luke to come in now?" she asks slowly.

"Excuse me?"

"He hasn't left since he found you in the hallway roaming around, hitting yourself in the head, mumbling things." I think really hard and remember us going out last night and then the voices coming back. I nod my head and she walks outside to bring him in.

He walks in wiping his face with his jacket and sits next to me. The nurse leaves us alone so we could talk.

"You scared the shit out of me Ronnie. What the hell were you talking about?" Tears start rolling down my face and Luke tries to wipe them away.

"They came back." I whisper.

"Who came back?" I sniff and cross my arms.

Last night I was trying to tell you I started having voices in my head. They would tell me what to do. They would tell me to tell at my mom or to drown myself in alcohol. Take this drug. Don't take your pills. Eventually they told me to kill myself. That no one would care anyway. So I tried to. I had slit my wrists Really deep." I rolled up my sleeves of my sweatshirt and show him the vertical scars running down my arms. "My mom walked in on me laying on the bathroom floor waiting to bleed out. She called 911 and an ambulance came and picked me up. They tried to stop the bleeding in the ambulance but it didn't work. I smiled and told my mom goodbye thinking that that was it. I was going to die. I guess I passed out in the ambulance and they stitched me up at the hospital." I paused. "If my mom had come in only a minute later, I would have died. I was so close."

Luke was holding both of my hands by then. "I'm glad she didn't come in a minute later. If she had I wouldn't have met you." he then paused him self. "I wouldn't be getting better." I furrowed my brows and he ran a hand through his hair. "My doctor said I was getting better. There use to be almost no shot in me getting out of here. And she said that I might be able to now.

I smile at him and wrap my arms around his neck. I could feel his tears on my neck.

The nurse then walked in and separated us. She told us she wouldn't report us touching this time. But that next time it would be reported. We thanked her and walked out silently only until we reached the end of the hall where we both bursted out laughing.

I know this chapter isn't very long but I didn't feel like it need to be.