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Chapter 25 Aftermath

KEHLANI

I woke up to my whole body aching, even with my eyes closed the whole room seemed too bright. My head felt too heavy for my body, almost like I couldn't lift it at first. The ringing in my ears was loud enough for me to wish I was deaf so I didn't have to ear it. I forced my eyes open, a groan leaving my lips making my throat scratch and burn. I sat up slowly, pain shot from my neck up to my head. I groaned once again touching my head. My eyes adjusted and I seen a room I didn't recognize only pushing my confusion. A door opened and I seen Kyle walk out only in a towel. He looked at me with wide eyes, rushing over to me. Kyle? Where am I? I thought he was in Los Angeles for his game today?

"Baby you're awake. How do you feel?" He asked rushing over to me. My wrist ached and I looked down to see it was covered in a bandage. I looked at him confused, my head was foggy and I just wanted to go back to sleep. I looked around the room still trying to figure out where I was, when I seen the black case of doom sitting on the dresser. Why did he have my tranquilizers? Why did my neck hurt so bad? I reached up touching it cringing at pain that shot up my head and down my back.

"Baby do you know where you are?" He asked me. I shook my head slowly my eyes focusing on him but clouding over. I blinked a couple times, my ears began to ring again and I could only see his lips moving. I looked down at my bandage as my wrist began to sting again. I reached down trying to rip it off but I was too weak. Kyle grabbed my good wrist stopping me.

"Leave it on" He told me but I needed to see what was wrong with my wrist. I pulled at it again making him pull my hand away from the bandage.

"Kehlani, you need to leave it on" He told me. I looked at him touching my forehead again. I was confused on where I was, how Kyle got here, why I was here, what happened, how he found that case of nightmares.

"Water" I croaked out my throat tightening up causing more pain to shoot through it. Kyle moved to the in table grabbing a cup of water handing it to me. I looked at him still confused but put the glass up to my lips. I downed the room temperature water in seconds, some of it drooling down my cheeks and throat. It only increased my thirst, some how through my cloudy sedated state I picked up on the signs. Confusion, cloudiness, loss of hearing and vision, missing time, the thirst. I was tranquilized at some point but I remembered leaving Kyle in California and he didn't know about those so it couldn't have been him. I handed him back the now empty glass but I just wanted more water.

"Do you want more?" He asked me and I nodded my head. He stood walking back into the room he had just come out of. When he returned he had a full glass of water, I snatched it eagerly from his grasp. I downed it just as I had downed the first glass he had given me. Once I finished I whipped my mouth with the back of my hand, handing him back the empty glass.

"How are you feeling?" He asked me as I looked around the room once again still confused. I wanted to go back to sleep, I wanted the fogginess to go away.

"Can you talk?" He asked me and that was a good question because I didn't know if I could either. I stared at him for a moment trying to figure out how to answer his question but everything was just so cloudy.

"Yes" I heard myself say but I didn't remember moving my lips to talk. He let out a sigh grabbing my hands. His face showed nothing but concern and fear for me. I wanted to ask him what happened but I couldn't seem to find the words or figure out how to move my lips.

"Does anything hurt?" He asked pushing back my hair slightly. I looked back at the bed thinking about laying down and going back to sleep but I didn't know where I was or who's bed this was. I looked back at Kyle and then in the room that seemed to only hold me and him. I moved laying back down on the bed and in seconds the familiar darkness took me over again.