Hospital

Every second of every day it felt like I couldn't sleep. Everytime I close my eyes I have night terrors, waking up sweaty and screaming. The nurses would always come running into the room injecting me with things that makes me very weak, and very shortly afterwards making me go back to sleep.

It felt like an endless wave of toture. 'What did I do in my past life to deserve this?'

I never cheated on anyone, I've never killed anyone .... What kind of debt do I have that would make God think that I deserved this?

Waking up, I hear voices talking in the background, keeping my eyes closed to make sure no one realizes that I'm awake, I start to eavesdrop.

"Pat? Why are you leaving?"

"I have work to do Juli, it's already been three days. I am the CEO of a company, I can't stay here too long. Just call me when she finally wakes up and don't forget to tell me if anything new arises."

"But Pat...you're not going to tell her that you were here? She needs you, if not then, I know for sure that right now she needs you."

Walking towards the door Pat says "Don't forget to call me." Juli watches her brother leave with tears in her eyes, crying because now she was left at the hospital by herself watching over her bestfriend who was attacked by 'God knows who' Juli just couldn't hide her tears anymore.

Noticing that Pat was now gone, and hearing her friend trying to mask her tears, Crystal tries to speak.

"...J..u...li?"

Gasping, because this was the first time in three days that Ci Ci has woken up, she runs to the side of the hospital bed and quickly snatches her hand up,

"Thank God you're finally awake Ci Ci, I was so worried."

Feeling dry I start reaching for the jug of water sitting on the bedside table, "How long have I been in the hospital?" My hands were shaking while trying to pour the water into what seemed to be the tiniest cup in the WORLD!

Spilling the water everywhere, looking at me pitifully, Juli takes the jug of water and pours a cup for me.

As I start to chug down the water, Juli asks "what the hell happened to you Crystal?"

Lord knows when she uses my full name that she's in serious mode.

"....nothing…."

"What the hell do you mean 'nothing'?"

Jumping out of the seat that sat right beside me, she starts pacing the floor looking all angry.

"You've been in the hospital for days now CRYSTAL! This isn't a 'nothing' type of situation, you were nearly beaten to death."

"We found you passed out in the middle of nowhere….COVERED IN BLOOD!"

"..." What should I tell her….? How could I tell her something like this? Or how do I even tell her that I ….. That he…. I can't possibly tell her what happened to me.

Refusing to tell Juli what happened, she asked again "Crystal, I'm only going to ask one more time, what happened to you?"

"..." Looking down, playing with my fingers, trying my hardest to avoid eye contact with her. I feel embarrassed from what happened to me….

"Okay you don't have to talk to me…?" Juli then grabbed all of her things and left me alone in the hospital room.

At this time, it was already dark outside, and no one has come back to see me yet…"What do you expect, your parents are already dead." I don't even know why I even thought anyone would care about me.

I probably deserved to get beat so close to death… I wish he would've just killed me you know….Then maybe I wouldn't be sitting here in this hospital bed half dead.

*knock knock* 'Could it be he came back to see me?' "Come in!" Watching the door with big eyes, praying that it was him….A nurse walks in, seeing the change in my expression, the nurse says "sorry to disturbed you Ms. Carter. But I have to check your Vitals." Walking over to the side of my bed, she starts to check my vitals and even drew blood. Staring at the ceiling, I didn't even notice when the nurse had finished taking my vitals and left.

For reasons even strange to me, tears started falling down my face.

And I just couldn't stop them from falling. Turning to my side, facing the window, I continued to cry until I was too tired to cry and I fell into a deep sleep.

Hearing strange noises by my bedside, I decide to finally get up and try to get discharged from this place.

Opening my eyes I see a different nurse than the one I had last night.

"Is there something wrong?" I asked the new female nurse that seemed to be messing with the IV that was in my arm.

"No ma'am there's nothing wrong, the doctor told me that you're ready to be discharged. Therefore I'm only in here to remove your IV's."

Excited to hear the good news I asked "Around what time do you think I'll be able to leave?"

"Well it's eight o'clock now….so maybe around eleven or twelve."

"Sounds good to me!"