Rest In Peace (sequel to After They Died)

22- Ellie

Spasms of pain surge through me and I don't have the strength to continue. A boy is staring down at me, calling someone, he sounds scared. Is he ok?

Dull, incessant throbbing pulses of pain circuit my body. My eyelids are heavy and they start to droop, giving in to the pain. A voice is ringing insistently in my ear. I try to block it out but can't. I struggle to make out what the boy is saying, everything is fading around the edges, my senses fuzzy.

I fade in and out of consciousness, finding myself inside what seems like an ambulance. The boy is still there, he looks guilty but he saved me. He's my hero! He saved my life! I must find out who he is, was he my boyfriend before I got kidnapped? That would make sense, but surely he'd be more affectionate if that were the case.

As my eyes shut again, my mind is filled with horrific flashbacks. A lady kicking me square in the stomach, that same lady stabbing me, a man laughing at me. The boy who saved me. I wonder what his name is...

Lifting my weary eyelids once more, I can't work out where I am. A fluorescent light shines over my head, blinding me. I squint up at it. I'm in a bed with thick quilts holding me down. I can't move. Panic and adrenaline floods through my veins as my right arm struggles against the sheets and tugs at the wires on me. I try to get up and out of bed but I can't move. What's going on? My mind is telling my legs to move, to get up, but my legs will not budge. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" I scream. I slap my legs, begging them to help me be free of this prison. Nurses hurry into the room and try to calm me. They lean over me, holding syringes, ready to inject me with their venom. They're going to kill me! Where's the boy? I don't know his name, I should have asked. Stupid, stupid, stupid! No, no, no. Someone hel-

A deep blackness engulfs me and I willingly fade into a trance.