More Evil Than Before

Chapter 13: Insanity

Lilly's eyes burned as her eyes adjusted to the bright fluorescent light. Jasmine was no longer in the room, and the blanket was back on Lilly's legs. She didn't feel anymore pain in her legs, so with bated breath, she slowly lifted up the blanket to reveal her legs. The breath she was holding in escaped her mouth when she saw her legs. They were perfectly fine, not even one scratch. 

"Come on let's go," Jasmine said, standing in the doorway with a pair of clothes in her arms. 

Lilly jumped at the sound of her voice. 

"We can leave?" Lilly asked.

"Just get changed, we're leaving," Jasmine replied, before tossing the clothes to Lilly. 

Lilly gathered her clothes in her arms, before saying, "Is there a changing room or something?" 

"Why? Are you afraid to change in front of me?" Jasmine says, squinting her eyes and the space between her eyebrows wrinkle as her eyebrows come closer together.  

Lilly, looks at the floor, before quietly replying, " Of course not." 

"You liar!" Jasmine screamed. 

Lilly's attention instantly snapped to her mother, her eyes grew wide, as she stared at Jasmine's face. Her eyes were gone, replaced with black holes in the shape of an eye, and her face grew red and blotchy like it was having an allergic reaction. 

"What's wrong, Lilly?"Jasmine said, as she voice mixed in with another voice that was more masculine and scratchy. 

Lilly screamed, as she grabbed the covers and threw them over her whole body. 

Tears flooded down her face as she screamed, "This is just a dream, this is just a dream!" over and over again, trying desperately to convince herself that it was indeed, just a dream.

Suddenly, the covers flung off her body and Ethan's face was perfectly placed on Jasmine's body. "It's not nice to hide from your mother!" Ethan yelled, using Jasmine's voice.  

Lilly's hands flung up to her ears, her hands locked to her head, trying to force the sound of Ethan's words from entering her ears. 

"What's wrong?" Ethan repeated, still using Jasmine's voice, while leaning his face close to Lilly's. 

"Go away! This isn't real! This isn't real!" Lilly screamed, as she tightly pinched her eyes closed.  

Suddenly, a loud pop, sounds in Lilly's ears. She slowly opens her eyes, the bright lights of the hospital once again burning her eyes as they adjust to the light. Ethan is no longer standing in front of her, and Jasmine isn't in the room either. Lilly sat up, and stared out the window into the hallway. Nurses and doctors scrambled up and down the halls, but there was no sign of Jasmine. The blanket that was pulled off of her was once again still covering Lilly's body, as if nothing ever happened. Lilly's body quaked as she tried to steady her breath. Ethan was tearing her up inside, there is no way for Lilly to tell apart fiction and reality. She knows that Ethan isn't really there and the horrible things she sees is just him messing with her vision, but everything feels and looks so real. She had felt the cold wind rip against her skin as Ethan ripped the blanket away from her, she even felt Ethan's hot breath against her skin when he had asked her "what's wrong" for the second time. Lilly's tears dried up as she sat there staring out the window at the busy hallway filled with normal people, doing normal things. 

Suddenly, the door opened and Jasmine steps in, a simple yellow and white dress is flipped over Jasmine's arm. 

"I bought you a dress, in case the burns on your arms and legs would get irritated from the clothing," Jasmine said, grabbing the dress from her arm and displaying it in front of Lilly. 

"Thank you," Lilly said, still staring out the window. 

"A nurse told me that there's a room, right down the hall that you can use to change into your dress," Jasmine said, placing the dress on the bed.  

Lilly looked at the dress that was laid carefully on the bed. The dress looked like it was long enough to reach her knees but short enough to not completely cover them. Lilly picked up the dress, moved the blankets, and got out of bed. 

"It's the third door on the right," Jasmine said, opening the door for Lilly. 

Lilly headed down the hall, trying not to bump into anyone, as she counted the doors. They were all far apart, but it didn't take long for Lilly to find the room.  She grabbed the cold handle and pulled open the door. The room looked just like the girls gym locker room in school. There were tall lockers that had master locks on almost all the lockers and a long wooden bench sat in the middle of each row of lockers. Lilly made her way to the back of the room and quietly dressed into her new outfit. The scars from the fire stretched painfully as she slipped the dress on over her head. After she was done changing into her new dress, she gathered the hospital gown in her arms and headed back to her mother.  

When she stepped into the hallway, there was no one there. Not one person was in the hallway. Suddenly, the lights flickered off, and a loud thud sounded somewhere down the hallway. Lilly walked back into the room and slammed the door shut. She couldn't see anything, not even her own hands. 

Lilly jumped when the hospital's sirens blared to life, and a man's voice echoed over the loud speaker. 

"We're not playing hide and seek, so why don't you come out and play my game," The man's voice boomed. 

Lilly knew the man was talking about her, because this had to be another vision, but why does it feel so real? 

The man chuckled over the speaker. "I know where you are Lilly!" said the man viciously. 

 Suddenly, a loud nerve shaking scratch glides itself across the hospital walls closer and closer to Lilly, but with a sudden loud bang on Lilly's door, the scratching stops. 

"Hello, Lilly." Said the man from the speaker, now hunched over with his face pushed up against the door. 

Lilly takes a deep breath, "this can't be real," Lilly reminds herself. 

"Oh, but it is!" said the man, now standing in front of Lilly. His face is covered with a hockey mask, that is illuminated in the dark, making it seem like he doesn't have a body at all. 

Lilly screams at the sight of the masked man, when suddenly the lights turn back on. The man is gone. 

Lilly quickly opened the door, the hall was filled with people once again, but when she looked closer at the people walking by they all seemed familiar like she's seen them before. Suddenly, it clicks in Lilly's mind that they are more than familiar. They are the same person. Every single person in the hallway looks the same. They all look like Ethan. 

The nightmare isn't over.