Razor

[PART TEN]; Cigarettes and Banter

I woke up the next morning to the sound of a shrill and high pitched voice screaming in what sounded like agony

"GIVE ME MY FUCKING CIGARETTES YOU FUCKING FAGGOT!" I heard the voice wail in what sounded like pain. I lay still- where was I? Oh right, the mental health unit. I'd gotten in late the night before at around four in the morning. As the voice continued to yell and cry out in pain I heard the sound of an alarm go off and the voice scream even louder. I sat up in bed and glanced around. There was a large curtain in front of my bed and next to it there was a bunch of shelves where all my stuff was. I got out bed and pulled the curtain across and walked out the door of my room. I looked around- I was standing in the middle of some sort of common room. On the wall, there was a tv with a clear plastic casing over it. I'd assume it was there to stop people from smashing the TV. 

As I looked around I noticed a few people in the room. There were multiple nurses scattered around the room likes pawns on a chess board. They walked around holding their clipboards and pens like they fucking owned the place and I already knew I wouldn't get along with them. I decided I'd continue to walk down the hallways towards the entry and dining room I'd seen the night before. When I entered the patients were all sitting together eating their breakfast and chatting. Immediately they all looked up at me like I'd walked in the room yelling or something.

"Oh I'm sorry! I must have woken you, I'm just having withdrawals hahaha! Anyway, what your name? I'm Anastasia!" said one of the girls as she pounced out of her seat and stretched her arm out in front of me to shake hands. I stretched my arm out, causing my sleeves to ride up, she looked down and my arm and noticed the bloody cuts that lined my wrists. 

"Oh I'm sorry, you really shouldn't do that! You're so pretty and tall you could be a model! I used to do that shit to..." Anastasia continued, pulling her sleeves up to show me an array of old scars. I looked down at the scars and immediately felt a sense of relief.

"I'm Evelyn, but you can call me Eva," I responded. 

"Nice to meet you Eva, err- has anyone told you that you're tall?" Anastasia stammered as she looked me up and down. Ana was quite attractive, she had dyed her hair a stunning red and had long eyelashes and beautiful light eyes. 

"Oh for fucks sake, let the poor girl gather where she is before you hound her like that!" I looked over my shoulder and there was a boy standing at the pool table. He was wearing a light blue pair of skinny jeans a green and black jacket and he had a backwards cap on that read "MONSTER" in bold electric green. Anastasia sighed and rolled her eyes

"Well, come sit down then. You must be hungry," She beconded to an empty seat and the table and I quietly sat down. I looked across the table, opposite to me there were two girls both with tubes running out of their nose and back behind their ears, they were both skinny brunette girls who looked as though they hadn't slept in weeks. To my right, there was another girl with long brown hair and very full lips.

Anastasia didn't seem to shut up, she was talking a million miles an hour about all the rules in the ward and the nurses to avoid. It felt good to be apart of a community for once.