Side Effects

Karina

I need to crawl out of this darkness engulfing my mind... need to crawl out of this void.

The harder I try the quicker I'm sucked in.

The darkness keeps suffocating me.

"Fight it Karina. Fight it." My subconscious tells me.

My eyes flutter open.

As soon as they do all my senses go on overdrive.

My eyes hurt and sting, watering immediately once rays of sunlight pour into the room, there's a terrible pounding in my head like an uncoordinated beating of drums to announce a royal's arrival.

Okay it just got worse, louder.

I sit up on the bed and try to raise my hands to my head and ears in an attempt to stop this noise... this pounding, when out of the blues I feel an overwhelming urge to throw up.