Ready to Run

Chappie 2

When I wake up, I am seated in a metallic type of chair with glowing blue on either sides. I quickly jump to my feet and look around me. To my left there is a simple grey table with nothing on it except a white hospital gown. I look down to be greeted with my new grey tunic type dress. Directly behind me is a type of "prison bed" contraption. The sheets are off-white with two matching pillows. The entire room is white/on the verge of grey, without windows or doors. Guess I can tell the theme of this room-bland. The lights are way too bright for my eyes yet I can slightly see through...it.

Straight ahead I see myself through a pale glow. It's as if I am looking through a mirror with a thousand lights shining on me. I look around and see it on all the walls, but on the last one I see people with clipboards and many tables set up. Computers, test screens, the whole scientific bunch. Once they look onto their screens, I notice them with my puzzled expression, they all frantically look to me. It is somehow unexpected that I can see them.

"Hello?" I say shyly to them. They just keep staring, some mumbles and writing on clipboards.

"HELLO??" I yell now. All but a few run out a door to go fetch something urgently. Or someone.. The few that stayed behind wander over to desks and keep working, trying to stay calm but I can see their panicked expressions staring at me occasionally. Slowly I walk to the wall and realise it is exactly what I thought it was. Some type of modernised laboratory, focused on me. My inner emotions come out and take control, this place seems all too familiar to me. I pound as loudly as I could manage against the wall and scream my lungs out. The people still watching from the lab look over to me. Two people run to the nearest computer and type insanely. Just then I feel a pain in my arm, it spreads through to my legs and I drop. Shaking, I clutch my ribs and weep, calming down and slowly falling into unconsciousness due to the pain, but not before I see everyone run back into the lab.

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"Lacey? C'mon wake up!!" Opening my eyes I see.. Zayn? What is he doing here!? I try to get up and he speaks again.
"Don't. You'll just feel worse. It will be okay soon." The pale light shining from the small area in the corner affects my sight of him.
"Wh-what happened? Where are we?" I ask as the light intensifies. I realise I am laying across his legs as he fixes my hair.
"I will see you soon. Stay calm Lacey." He says as he closes my eyes with his hand.