Fever Dream

Fever Dream, Chapter 1

I used to see her in the mirror when I brushed my teeth. Now, I only see her in my dreams when I go back to the hospital.

My sister, Sabrina, died three years ago because she had gotten sick. I had no idea that she was having problems with her health until my dads had told me that she had died. Since then, my life seemed emptier... and I felt... alone.

I didn't have friends, everyone always laughed at me. But a few years after my sister died, I didn't have to go to school anymore.

I was trapped in a room made of iron. There was nothing but slick, silvery walls. My footsteps echoed as I walked across the metallic floor.

"Leo..." whispered an eerie voice through the walls. I was startled at the mention of my name. I ignored it and kept walking forward down the endless, iron room.

My legs got weak and tired so I knelt down. When I did, I looked up and I saw a small turquoise sparkle that seemed to be miles away. I whimpered as I dug my fists into the floor to push myself up. I started running towards the little green sparkle until it wasn't as little. It stretched into an illuminating turquoise door.

A tall silhouette emerged from the blinding light like an inky black dot forming on a perfectly white piece of paper.

"Leo..." whispered a raspy voice, "Leo, go home... don't end up like me..." A pale figure with short midnight back hair now stood in front of the glowing light.

"S- Sabby...?" I collapsed to the ground. Streams of salty water poured down my cheeks and my vision became blurry. I blindly ran to my late sister and embraced her, "Are you r-real?" Tears continued to roll down my face.

"Am I?" She wrapped her arms around my shoulders and rested her head on my unkempt, auburn hair.

"You have to be!" I pulled away and clenched my fists, my knuckles began to turn white, "I can't lose you again! Tell me you're real! Say it!" I screamed while my shirt slowly soaked in tears.

Sabrina held me tighter. I gripped her waist and cried into her cobalt blue turtleneck. My heart had fallen to the pit of my stomach. A part of me always knew that she wasn't real, but my brain couldn't handle the thought of living another day without Sabrina with me. Since she had died, all of my friends had abandoned me and I was picked on so much more often. I was told to die by so many people, and sometimes by a voice in the back of my head. I wouldn't leave without Sabby.

"You need to go home," Sabrina bent down to look me in the eye.

"I'm home wherever you are," I glanced down to the metallic, sparkling floor where salty water puddled.

"No. You know where you belong," She smiled as she shed a single tear, "And you also know that I don't belong in the same place," Sabrina's lip started to quiver and she squeezed my shoulder.

"I guess I just really hoped that you were still alive," I sighed, "I miss you," A small smile crept onto my face, I couldn't stop crying though. After all, I would still never see my sister again.

"Beep beep beeeeep..." An electronic noise sounded through the infinite walls of the iron chamber.

"I love you, Leo," Sabrina clasped my hands.

Suddenly the world started to chip away quickly around us. Green light shone through the slivers that had fallen away and Sabrina began to slowly fade with them.

"No! You can't leave! Not yet! Not ever!" I fell to the fractured floor and dug my knuckles deep into the cracks until the entire thing shattered. My legs fell through and I clung to a shard of the iron floor to keep from falling. Not long after though, my fingers began to slip, and an endless sea of green luminescence awaited my arrival. I fell, continuously.

A sudden pool of inky black darkness wrapped its slimy tentacles around my throat. It then proceeded to consume the entirety of my body. I was in a bubble of midnight, a cube of blackness, a never ending death.

And then I woke up, confined in a hospital bed, where I would remain for the next six months. It turns out... I contracted the same illness as my sister. Lucky for me, mine wasn't fatal.

The End.