Birthday Bunkum!

The Big Day: Twisted

Xuli's POV:

I woke up in my room, feeling dazed. I looked around me hoping for any signs for what happened before I blacked out. Then it all came to me: I went to have a flight in the Vroomster, and Alex, who was polishing the worktop, said it wasn't there. I was so upset, and a short while after Bailey walked in, I wobbled and toppled over, falling unconscious in seconds.

I figured Bailey must've put me to bed. I got out of my room and quietly walked down the hall. There was nobody. No Kyan, no Lars, no Foz, and no Ubercorn. I picked up my phone and tried to ring Ubercorn, but the battery soon died. Great.

I decided to walk around and get some air, considering that's just what I needed at the moment. I walked around mindlessly, so mindlessly my senses were turning numb and I was so clueless of what was happening around me. I think I might've crashed into a couple of trees on the way, but it didn't hurt, surprisingly.

My vision was fading, and I didn't see anything clearly. My stomach churned so badly, I desperately tried to find a toilet or paper bag, but couldn't. I eventually ended up getting my sick all over my uniform as I stumbled along the island.

A large, white building appeared in the distance, between the trees. I couldn't remember what it was, but I thought it might have someone who could help me. So I walked there, crashing into a few trees in the process.

I looked into the sun, but it wasn't a ball of fire, it was a monstrous snowball, a swarm of flies flew up into my face and made me fall over. However, I quickly regained my balance and stood up, but then was the urge to lie down and sleep, I ignored it and kept ongoing.

I eventually reached the building...did I hear voices whispering? I looked into the faint entrance.

The whispers gradually grew into talking and then into screams...

I closed my eyes tightly and closed my ears so I wouldn't hear those voices, but they kept on coming back...

"Failure!!!"

"Stupid!!!"

"Useless!!!"

"Just die already!!!"

These voices spun around my head so fast they became a blur and made me dizzier than I already was.

"Xuli?! Xuli?! Can you hear me?!"

That didn't sound like those internal voices in my head...probably something or someone else?

I looked up and opened my eyes, someone was running my way. It wasn't focused, but I could just make out the outline of a person. They had blondish-brown hair, tanned skin, turquoise eyes, and glasses. They also had a long, white coat which billowed behind them as they ran.

"Xuli Vila! Can you hear me?!"

It was Abigail. She bent down and waved her hand in front of my face, obviously trying to grab my attention.

Sure, I could see her, yet I was stuck...in my head...I was a prisoner in my own mind! I was incapable of replying or doing anything else instead of reluctantly listening to those terrible voices in my head.

"You suck!!"

"You failed!!"

"You let the world down!!"

I screamed internally, wanting to break out of that heck house that was my own mind! Let it stop!! Please!! Make it stop!!! Can anyone hear me?!

I was so focused on my thoughts, I didn't notice myself feeling weak on my legs, and falling over on my own knees.

Another thing I didn't notice, was Abigail's millions of calls for me.

"Xuli, whatever trance you're in, snap out of it!! You're pale as a ghost!!!"

I felt like a ghost. Cold, unliving, undead, unfeeling, un...un...un...

...wanting to live in this life...

Where was Ubercorn? Where was Kyan? The Academy Ace. I'll be up in a minute, Ubercorn. Just let me sleep.

Then, blackness.

*An hour later...*

I woke up again, this time, I wasn't in my room. I was in a room in the hospital. All around me were beeping machines, all of them had wires attached to every part of my body.

A million questions ran through my head like crazy: Why was I here? When did I get here? What's wrong with me? Seconds later, Abigail walked into the room, or ran into it, and saw me.

"Xuli! Thank goodness! You okay?" She asked me.

"Wh-what happened..? Wh-where am I..?" I replied weakly.

"You're in the hospital. I found you outside an hour ago, looking like the whole ran you over...and it still looks like that." She paused, "Xuli, can you tell me what's going on?"

I said nothing but looked down and the white, crisp bedsheets of the hospital bed. Everything ran through my head...the voices, feeling lifeless, not seeing my friends or my Vroomster for a whole day...

I felt like I was forgetting something. But no matter how many times  I tried to recall it, it seemed to have slipped my mind.

I don't know what came over me, but I started screaming, slapping myself, and pulling my hair so hard some of it even got loose from my scalp. Abigail ran next to me, pulling my hands away from me while I thrashed like a stolen lizard. The voices swarmed through my head like bees and my head ached again, I suddenly felt too weak to thrash around and landed on Abigail's shoulder, crying into it. I was so focused on the annoying voices I didn't feel Abigail's embraces or hear her comforting me while I made a waterfall of tears fall down her shoulder and down her arm. The sides of my vision darkened and I fell unconscious again.

I was still on the bed when I woke up. Abigail was still next to me, looking worried. I started hearing those voices again, and this time along with what seemed like scary backward carousel music. Faces seemed to surround me as I looked around, trying to make out where I was. They were faces of the people I dreaded: Glitch, the older cadets who bullied me, all those jerks who gave me online hate...they spun around and around like carousel horses to top off the music that spun around my head just as fast as the music rotated. I started doing the same thing I did before I passed out; pulling my hair and screaming at the top of my lungs, I lost six strands of hair before I collapsed onto Abigail's shoulder again, sobbing onto it and making Niagra Falls down her arm. The world darkened around me once again and I blacked out.

I woke up a third time, still on the bed. This time Abigail was running to the side table and picking up her phone.

"W-what are you doing..?" I asked.

"I have to report this to Ubercorn," She said, "He could be worried sick by now."

"N O."  I said in a voice that wasn't mine.

"Why not?!" Said a shocked Abigail.

"DON'T TELL HIM!!!"  I yelled like a kleptomaniac.

"Xuli! I need to!!" She said.

I don't remember what I did next, but I was told that I picked up a syringe and aimed it at my heart.

"I'M GONNA STAB MYSELF IF YOU CALL HIM!!" I snapped at her. In fear, she put her phone back down and looked at me, concerned.

Then the mania started all over again.

Pulls.

Screams.

Kicks.

Then, flopping.

Weeping.

Crying.

Blackout.