Hospital for Souls

Chapter 3

Not a lot of people, but more were around than the last time. All the souls down here, so blue and broken. Most had cuts all the way up their arms. Others just had the look of full depression, and even some just look as if they're soul is officially dead. I looked around. The hallways were weird. They looked like Roman ruins with high vaulted ceilings and columns and even though there were turns on the floor, at the end a little distance after the turns there was a big archway that lets you look at the sky. Not to mention the floor was made of clouds and between the columns this place was full of pictures and statues. It even has the high desk at least eight feet high in the center of the floor with the giant elevator so Master Jester can work on each floor more quickly.

I look around the area. I'm in the center of the floor. I see two benches a good distance around Master Jesters desk area. There's two grand staircases by his desk area that lead up to it, and then about three feet away from them are two benches, and one has a lady sitting on it holding a sign that says Raven.

Instantly, I walk over to her. She sees me approaching and she smiles. "Raven." She says in a friendly voice. "My name is Jennifer and I am your personal therapist." I smile at her. I look down at the sign to see that it vanished. She just smiles at me. Her teeth a pearly white, and she's 5' 4 with brunette hair and brown eyes, and a somewhat pale skin color. She's in a human form. It's not fully adding up to me but I'll ask her why once I get the chance to.

"Hi." I say back in a quiet, friendly voice. I look at her and she only keeps her smile on.

"Well, shall we go to my office and talk?" I smile an nod my head. She grabs my hand and snaps her fingers, and we appear in an office.

The office doesn't even feel like an office. It's a decent sized room. The walls in here are a nice color that's between grey and blue. There's two fancy windows in here that are pointed at the top but as you go down they look like rectangles, and looking out them you can see a purple, pink, and orange sky with bright stars and beautiful clouds that look amazing with the colors of the sky. Inside the office on one side of the room she has a shelf full of games to play and fun arts and crafts to do. To the side she has a desk made of mahogany against the wall with a swirly chair, and in the center of the room she has a dark brown leather couch, love seat, and chair that all surround a mahogany table in the center that's empty. To the side between the chair and couch is a side table with a small tray that had sand, rocks and a really small rake used to move them both around. Under all the furniture is a carpet mixed with blue and grey swirls. On each wall, there's paintings that are simply breathtaking.

"Please Raven have a seat." She gestures for me to sit down, and I choose to sit on the couch. She sits across from me on the love seat.

"You have a wonderful office." I say to her. "I really like it."

"Thank you." She smiles politely at me. "Now, for future reference in case you need to get here, there are very simple ways of doing it. Every floor in this building is huge and they seem never ending. Now how we got here is I snapped my fingers and we appeared. Everyone here has that ability. Just close your eyes and think of the place in this building you wanna go to and snap your fingers and you'll appear there."

"Oh ok cool." I say back smiling. Suddenly, Jennifer frowns.

"Raven, you don't have to pretend here." She says in a quiet voice. "I know your sad and it's okay to be sad everyone gets sad, but here you don't have to pretend that you feel happy." I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I'm really not happy, but why is it I act like I do? I guess by now it's a second nature to me for the fact that I don't want people to see how weak I am.

"They beat me." The words blurted out of my mouth. I couldn't help it. "My mom beat me and my dad beat my mom and she came back for me and she almost killed me and they both almost killed each other!" Tears quickly began steaming down my face. Jennifer got up and sat next to me giving me a hug.

"Sweetie, I'm so sorry. It's okay though. Don't be sad. Don't worry. Everything is going to be alright." She keeps hugging me and rubs my back, trying to calm me down. "This is the place to release all that sorrow and sadness you have. This is the place where we make everything better. You don't have to be afraid here. We're going to help you no matter what happens. Well make you better and then you can leave. Just let it out sweetie."

I did exactly that. I kept crying, it was hard for me not to. I'm just an emotional person and it's hard for me not to let them out and it even hurts me. My whole life, my parents just ignored me, and I was able to accept that so well. But now, why would they even beat me? Alcohol, both of my parents only ever drank a little bit of wine on the holidays, but that was it. Why would they even resort to drinking that, and so much of it? How could they do this to me? Parents are supposed to be loving people who bring you into this world and treat you right and help you to grow older. They aren't supposed to beat the living shit out of you and then smash bottles on your head until you're nearly dead. They don't even feel like my parents anymore, instead I feel like a bastard, like they never wanted me to be born.

"They don't love me." I say in a whisper. "They aren't my parents. They used to actually care and would over work themselves trying to get out of that ghetto when I was eight. But now, now they just beat me and hurt me and it seems to me like I was never supposed to be born by how they treat me. What did I do wrong? Why me?" I begin my sobs, and the tears fall from my eyes. "Out of everything in my life, why do I still live in Hell? People bully me at school, and then my parents bully me at home, and everyone just hates me. I guess I really am worthless like everyone tells me that I am."

"Sweetie," Jennifer wraps her arms tightly around me, and the tears just fall down my face even harder. "You are not worthless. You are no where near a worthless person. You have so much potential in this world that if you die, the world loses such an important thing. You can't let others bring you down, and you can't just result to self harm when things don't go your own way. I can see inside you the urge to just die, but we won't let you die. We won't let you down here and we are going to help you become better no matter how hard it seems."

More tears slip down my face, but I just wipe them away. I let go of Jennifer and she walks over to her desk, and then back to me handing me a tissue. I use it to wipe my face off. Once the tears have stopped, I look at her straight in the eyes. She grabs my hand and I stand up. She snaps her fingers, and we appear someplace amazing.

"This place, it has so much meaning to me." I look around at the place Jennifer brought us to. It's the most breath taking sight. A waterfall, not just a regular one, but one of the most precious blue. It's very tall, on shiny grey rocks, and a big pond it lands in. I look around and see the sky is a blue grey color with a crescent moon and bright stars in the sky. Around us, the grass is a dark green, and the trees have pink leaves. Colorful fish begin jumping up and out of the pond, and then diving back in. I smile, and I know Jennifer notices because she returns the smile back to me.

"This place is amazing." I tell her in a breathy voice.

"I was hoping you would say that." She says back to me. "This is the peaceful waterfall. Now, we're still at the hospital for souls, just outside of it looking at a sight that usually calms most people and brings all of their troubles away. When you feel stressed out, just come here. It usually makes people feel better and sometimes they even find answers to things they may not have been looking for."

I smile at Jennifer and she smiles back. She wraps her arms around me again and gives me a big hug. "I would love for you to stay all day and we can talk more and look at beautiful things, but you're going to be waking up soon and it is now time for goodbyes. Just remember you are welcome into my office at any time and I am always here when you need me." I start to feel myself drifting away slowly.

"Goodbye Jennifer." I say. "I'll see you soon. I feel myself fading away as I wave to her.

"Just remember! No matter what on the dice life rolls, you'll always have the hospital for souls."

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Ok kinda boring chapter sorry guys! Still let me know what you think! Vote/comment I would appreciate it! Um....I might not be updating this everyday but I will try my best to update as often as possible! Listen to the song on the side its "Saviour" by Black Veil Brides and I absolutely LOVE this song! That's all I gotta say about that so BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!