𝙍.𝙀.𝙈. ❨ 𝘬𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳. ❩

2. 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

I woke to a dim, cramped room. It smelt unfamiliar and I soon realised I wasn't at home or even in the hospital as the bed was uncomfortable and made an obnoxiously loud creak as I sat up. When my eyes finally adjusted I made eye contact with two sets of eyes that were boring into me. They weren't my parents, nor doctors or nurses, but nuns.

And the scariest thing was that I recognised them. This was not happening...

"Sister Jude?" I asked in a confused state, voice husky. "Finally you've woken." the older lady replied.

The truth is I couldn't even think to say anything. This had to be a bad dream, it had to be.

I then scratched my head and proceeded to look down, finding myself wearing an old hospital gown.

"Am I in the hospital?" I asked, brows furrowed in utter confusion.

Jude let out a sarcastic chuckle, to my comment. "No dear." Another voice replied and I looked over to the woman beside her. "Sister Mary Eunice?" I questioned.

This. Was. Not. Happening.

"Oh good, she remembers us!" She exclaimed in relief...

Then it hit me. I'm pretty sure that I already knew but I had to ask. I then cleared my throat "am I in the asylum?...." I asked frantically, waiting for a reply.

"We prefer to use Briarcliff Manor here," Judy replied disapprovingly. "I'm sorry. I'm just so confused." I say scratching my head trying to justify how rude I was. I've seen the show and I know what their punishments were here.

"I'm going crazy!" I mumble to myself. My mum, my dad. Did they even know I was here? Was my mum here too, she was involved in the accident.

"Exactly," replied Sister Mary Eunice.

"Of course you're crazy. That's why you're here." Exclaims Jude. "Now let's get you out of this bed."

She continues.

Both sisters help me up from the bed and lead me out of the cramped room. The light outside was blinding and it took me a minute to adjust my eyesight. That's when I heard it. That french tune- the exact same one from American horror story asylum, which is where I appeared to be about now.

The tune began to get louder as I walk up to the common room, with the sisters beside me.

Almost everyone turned to look at me, well everyone apart from the dude wanking and the guy smashing his head against the wall. I felt slightly uncomfortable for a minute but everyone soon goes back to how they were after checking out the fresh meat, I relax slightly.

"Run along now." Jude scurries me in and shuts the door behind me, to which I stumble slightly forward as the gush of wind that came from the result of the door slamming was quite powerful. I spotted a familiar face across the room, it was Grace, I remembered her from the show.

"But I thought her, Kit and Lana escaped?" I whispered to myself, but I was clearly mistaken.

I head over to her, and she was also sat with someone else who I couldn't see.

Whilst walking over there I feel someone tug at my dirty gown and when I look down, I see pepper, the pinhead. "Hi," I say and smile at her. She gives me a small wave and then runs off, I then continue to make my way over to Grace.

"Hey, I'm Aiden," I say to her when I reach where she's sitting I then stretch out my arm for her to shake. "I'm Grace." she replies "and this is-" she gestures over to the person she's with.

A deep voice finished her sentence. I look over slowly just in case it's who I think it is, and it was "-I'm Kit." he says. I stare blankly at him for a minute as I couldn't believe my eyes. I then realised his arm was stretched out for a good few seconds now, I finally shook it and snapped myself back to reality, or what was a reality... for now.

"But I thought you guys got out of here?" I questioned. Although I soon realised how strange it must've sounded especially since I just got here. "I heard the sisters talking about it..." I said getting myself out of the situation. They couldn't know that I wasn't actually a medical patient here.

"We were close until-" grace began. Just then the door swung open. Grace sighs "she happened...." her face grows angrier as she begins to make her way over to Lana who has just walked in. Kit gets up and tries to stop her but he freezes in pain.

He hisses, so I wrap my arms around his upper back and help him sit down again. I remembered that he got punished for trying to escape, he must really be in pain right now.

"Thanks for that." he smiles. I was going to say something but didn't get a chance too as grace looked like she was going to rip Lana's ears off any minute now. I quickly followed her over just to ensure that no fights happen.