Everything is a lie

chapter three

Everything hurts so bad, my body feels like its on fire.

A light shines on my eyelids making me see red, I open my eyes and shut them just as fast.

"He's awake, doctor." I hear a voice call.

I hear feet moving and clothes swishing. I feel a hand on my arm, and its painful I want to flinch away but I can't move, I feel frozen, stuck like I'm glued to the bed.

I attempt to open my eyes again, I flick them open and my eyes slowly adjust to the room, I sit up suddenly and when I do everything in the room goes still

"Honey, calm down you're in the hospital." My foster mother says running to my side.

I flinch away from her.

"Don't let her touch you." The demon hisses.

"Honey, did you take your medicine today?" My mother asks with a worried brow.

Something about that expression on her face seems unnatural, disgusting.

But my empathy for her stops quickly my body rises suddenly, "Get away from me, you would know your almost broke my fucking back!" I yell

I look at her and her face turns empathetic.

"He does this all the time." She says looking at the doctor.

The doctor looks at me with concern and moves closer to me, she places her hand on my shoulder and softly pushes me back down.

"Calm down, everything will be fine, your safe now." She says, her voice soothing, and soft her long eyelashes catch my eye. And those lips, so pink.

"Emory?" I ask, I know it's her. My heart starts to pound in my throat.

She looks at me with worry in her eyes, and a tear on her cheek.

"Oh Emory don't leave me, don't leave me again, I promise not to take the pills anymore." I say jumping from the bed and embracing her.

"Thank you." She says her face buried in my shoulder.

"she is looking at us." She says after a moment.

I look at my mom, the doctor has disappeared.

"I don't care, I just want you, you make me happy, you make me feel real, you make me feel alive."

She smiles at me.

They think I don't exist." She says simply with no emotion

"what, how, they can't see you?"

"No only you can, because I'm special to you, you're the love of my life, but they're going to try to give you pills and medication, they think you're crazy and you need help, they think you are imagining these things that happen and you do Erik, this is real life with me, if you see your mom or a doctor or anything else other than me then its not real and if you ever cant see me look for me do anything to get me everybody knows who I am so assume they are lying if they don't, this is real life Erik you and me, the beach, they aren't real so don't take anything they say serious."

"What about earlier, why did you leave?"

"I was going to get help your mother kept hurting you and I was scared, I panicked and went to get help but I saw you get hit by the car and I called the ambulance, I was there, your mother actually was hurting you."

My heart feels empty with this new information, I feel like I've been stabbed in my chest.

"why would she hurt me."