Veronica Blue

chapter 1

After what felt like an eternity in my mindless sleep, my senses slowly returned to me.

Noticing how uncomfortable the position of my neck was I turned my head to the other side, instantly feeling rays of light pierce through my eyelids in their closed state. Instinctively I opened my eyes and I was hit with a sudden unbearable headache.

"Ahhh" I moaned as I sat up and massaged my temple, which I then noticed was tightly wrapped in a bandage. I looked around at my surrounding only to get hit by sudden confusion. "Where the hell am I? And what Am I doing here?" I rubbed my eyes in an attempt to clean the scene in front of me. Seeing that it didn't work, I dropped my hands on my lap to study them from a much farther angle.

I decided to try to make something out of what I was seeing in my surrounding. I was in a big white room that smelt like disinfectant, I cringed. As I looked to my right I noticed a light blue curtain stretching from one end of the room to the other. I figured if I saw what was behind it I would have an idea of where I was.

The moment I got on my feet I felt like a really big stone was placed on my head. I was so dizzy, but I was determined to end all the confusion. I had only taken a few small steps when something pulled me back by my wrist. I looked back to notice a narrow rubber rope connecting my wrist to a plastic bag with some liquid inside. It was suspended on an iron pole.

"What the heck?" I mumbled. "Was I captured? Well whoever captured me should know I'm not going to stay put." I noticed the rope lead all the way to the inside of my wrist, and so I tried to pull it out.
"Ouch!" Realising that was a bad and painful idea, I decide to pull the rope out of the plastic bag. I pulled hard, but I wasn't strong enough and I was starting to get weaker. I sat back on the bed in frustration. As I stared at the floor in hopelessness, I noticed that the pole had four wheels underneath the flat piece of iron it was placed on.

"Looks like you're coming with me then." I grabbed it by the middle and carried it along with me.

Considering the fact that I was weak, it took quite a long and painful while to get to the curtain. I pulled it back to see a girl, probably my age, sitting on a bed just like mine, with the pole and the plastic bag and everything.

She was so pretty, like something that came out of a book. Her midnight black hair so long, shiny and silky. Her pink lips and skin so pale like she came out of a horror movie. She was sipping something out of a small cardboard box.

Noticing my presence, she looked up at me with a smile.

"Oh wow." She said, tossing the box into a trash can beside her bed. I looked back to see if my bed had a trashcan. I didn't see mine so I figured it was on the other side. "You're finally awake. Come here let me tell you what all of this is about." She gestured for me to come over and sit on her bed. I hesitated a little, but I went anyways. Slowly though, but I went.

"What was that?" I asked quietly.

"What?" She asked with a giggle.

"That thing you threw into the trashcan." I replied as I sat on the bed.

"Oh that?" She paused a little, as if she was calculating something. "Oh that's true. She has partial amnesia."

"What's that too?" I asked.

"Oh, the nurse will tell you." She said, moving her hands as if she was sweeping the matter away.

"Who's the nurse?" I asked.

"You'll know pretty soon. Don't bother about that." She said with her hand on my shoulder. "How's your head though? You had an accident, you were out for a week, you almost didn't survive. And now you are in a hospital." She tapped her chin as if she was trying to remember something. I wanted to ask her what a hospital was, but I figured I had better kept that to myself. "Ah ha! What's your name?"