One Mate and a Rejection

Chapter 33

Chapter 33

I saw black  shapes and figures. Some were a bit identifiable, shaped in a clear human form, others seemed to be physically deformed or disabled.

I saw things crawling around but they didn't seem to have legs. I couldn't see their faces or anything.

They were shadows brought to me by my haunted thoughts. 

I somehow knew that what I was seeing wasn't real life.

It didn't feel real. It felt just like you'd expect a nightmare to feel.

That didn't change the fact that it was utterly horrifying.

Every once and a while, red blobs splashed my vision and I forced myself to think of it as ketchup or some sort of red liquid.

Anything other then what I knew it really was.

I never felt myself screaming though. I saw myself, mentally. Mouth wide open, with my tuncles vibrating as I screamed bloody murder.

But I couldn't feel it.

I felt my lungs burning, turning into ashes as I struggled to find my breath.

I saw the clear fear in my eyes as I stared into the soul of these figures that seemed to crawl around me like snakes.

Every ounce of my body was telling me to get out of there. To leave this terrible place and to never come back.

But it was as if my feet were glued to the ground and even if they weren't, something told me I wouldn't have left anyway.

I felt as there was something inside of there, calling me and I couldn't leave without exploring what it was.

But I couldn't move towards its. I was held hostage by my own fears.

The thing that was calling me seemed to fade away slowly. The more time I took to get there, struggling hopelessly against these invisible bounds, the faster the thing seemed to fade away.

Slowly, I felt myself disappearing as the hope was sucked out of me. My knees shattered the ground beneath me as I sank deeper below the surface, the wet mud dissolving into my lungs and my vision until finally, I couldn't see anything.

"emerald! Emerald! Wake up! Emerald please!"

I felt myself being shaken awake violently. A loud screaming was coming from a distance. It sounded horrified and haunted.

I still couldn't see anything but I heard multiple people shouting and screaming. A loud beeping was coming out of a monitor and it took me a long time to realize that the distanced horrified screaming was actually  me.

I opened my eyes, finally quite and saw a teary eyed Jason and a couple of nurses with their hands on my shoulders.

"finally," I heard Jason sigh and dig his face into my neck.

"what happened?" I said, blinking a couple of times, trying to get the image of crawling shadows out of my vision. 

"You had a nightmare," said one of the nurses.

I nodded," I know, but why are you all here?"

"You were experiencing  sleep apnea."

"what's that?"

"it's when you stop breathing in your sleep, sometimes it's only for a couple of seconds, other times it can last for longer and if it goes on for long enough, you can die."

I tried to swallow the thick tension in the air as I prepared to ask the question they knew I'd ask. 

"how long was I going for?"