Chapter 1
All I can remember at the moment is an argument I had with my mom's boyfriend. His breath reeked of beer and clothes of cigarette smoke. I remember bolting out of the house an hour later furious with clinched fists and tears streaming down my face.
After everything went blank and I woke in an unfamiliar hospital. All the nurses had white uniforms, blonde hair pulled back, and pale blue eyes. They all looked the same to me so I couldn't tell who was who. The doctors had smokey gray uniforms, quiffed dark hair, with pale blue eyes as well. "sheesh whoever hired them must have a specific type" I say to myself. I prop myself up with my elbows as one of the doctors enter the blue and white room.
"Ms. Smith" he says. "Can you tell me what you remember."
"Call me Zoë." I respond.
He nodded and waited for me to continue.
"um... I remember leaving my mom's boyfriend Jim's house and getting In my car.....thats about it." I don't dare tell him what happened before.
He gave me a questioning look, but said nothing. There was a slight change of color in his right eye, a flash of red. He wrote something down then gave me a nod to indicate that we were done for now. When he left I decided to get some more sleep. Not that I needed it.
As soon as I fell asleep, I was reawaken, but I wasn't in the hospital, I was in my room. I'm not sure if this is a dream any more, it feels too real to be a dream. Everything looked and felt different. Jim barged into my room interrupting my thoughts. His eyes were now pale blue. "you little slut!" he shouts at me.
As I'm searching for a weapon of some sort, he jumps on me and starts punching me in the stomach and I try desperately to get him off me. Then everything goes blank and I end up in what I think is an asylum. I'm in a navy blue jumpsuit and flip-flops. I look around the small room and a sickly looking man laughing to himself. He is in the bed on the other side of the room. "Zoë you done fucked up now" he says and flashes his pale blue eyes at me. I start to feel afraid but I don't dare show my fear.
"What?" I respond not knowing what he ment by that. He rushes toward me and starts chocking me. I attempt to kick him, but then he pulls out a knife and I freeze. "Why did you fuck everything up Zoë?" I blink at him not knowing what to say. "God damn it Zoë answer me!" Before I can respond everything went blank and I was back in hospital.
