Bad Dreams (ON HOLD)

Chapter 2

I tried to open my eyes three times but shut them again for they were too heavy. After the fourth time, I managed to open them. I tried to look sideways, but I could not turn my head.
As I tried to raise myself with much pain,somebody rushed to my aid and prevented me from getting up . She was the nurse.
"Where am I ?" I managed to ask her.
"You are in the hospital ", the nurse answered.
"In the hospital,who brought me here?"
She did not answer but I remember someone telling me like an echo reverberating.
"Have more rest and you'll be alright".
I awoke with a pain in my head and some energy left on me . I tried to turn myself to lie on my side but I could not for my legs were too heavy and I started to feel pains all over my body. I made another effort to turn but still I could not.
I then burst out shouting, "I'm no thief! I'm no thief! Leave me alone! Leave me alone!" At the same time I was struggling and kicking to free myself. All this while my eyes were closed but with a strong feeling that the mobbers were still around me.
Amidst my struggling and shouting in a state of delusion I was able to hear two voices talk about me.
"He will hurt himself the more if he doesn't stop all this nonsense," voiced one.
"I wonder why such a patient should be brought to this hospital " ,replied the second voice, "if a male nurse is around to help us hold him we can inject him so that he can sleep 'till the morning shift begins.
"When was he admitted?" asked the first voice.
"Maybe this morning",answered the second". I was just on my rounds checking from the other side when his shouts attracted me away. The handing over nurse was in a hurry to go home so she was unable to take me round there , let me see his card.
My energy began to sap . Seeing this change in me , one of the nurses rushed down to get the syringe for my injection.
Not long after the injection I started to feel a blanket of darkness descending on me. Immediately,I saw myself being thrown overboard a ship and into the sea
I sank a couple of fathoms down before I could struggle to re-surface. Immediately I resurfaced, I raised myself up to look for a bank to climb up. To my surprise there appeared to be an unending expanse of water before me.
I tried to swim a little but saw I did not go very far before I drowned . I stopped swimming and I only kept myself afloat letting myself be carried away to wherever the tide was going.
Just then I had an eerie feeling of something rushing towards me. I tensed myself with a start and to my fear a school of sharks and barracudas were swimming towards me.
"I am lost!" I cried,then said prayer and I started to swim as fast as my legs and hands could carry me.
I had not swam very far before I was caught. They were coming from all directions, and as they drew nearer I closed my eyes to say another prayer but I was not given the chance to finish. A shark seized me by my ribs and was about to swallow me after balancing me in its wide mouth. Just then a barracuda rushed at the shark and bit some flesh off the shark
The shark let go of me and the turned to the barracuda and they started to fight. As they were on each other , another shark seized me, another got me away from its mouth and another snatched me away from the latter and started to swim hurriedly away with almost thirty of them in pursuit.
It had not gone very far before another shark got me in its mouth and another snatched me away from its mouth. This sort of snatching and biting some flesh off me was like footballers on a pitch struggling to gain possession of a ball.
After much seizing and snatching I became numb to pain. I was a sorry sight , holes all over my body like a vacated honey comb.
As another shark gained possession of me, I threw me high and away from the water . As I fell back I saw mouths of sharks wide open like newly hatched birds with mouths open waiting for their mother to drop some grains in them.
"Oh , what a good resting place it's going to be in the belly of a shark." I groaned.

To be continued...