I am sure I won't be going to the toilet at all. Sky gave me the medicine and made me drink a whole lot of water that I'm sure I need to pass out later on tonight. When Sky left the room I was feeling drowsy and pressed but I tried to ignore the latter feeling and just let myself fall asleep. I didn't know when I fell asleep but I found myself waking up and the door was wide open. There is no Sr Drevin like Sky had said and the whole building is darker than how it had been when I fell asleep. My bladder has reached its capacity so I don't have much of a choice. I got down from the bed and I was immediately greeted by the coldness of the floor. A shiver run down my spine as I felt the temperature drop.
I am back to saying the Lord's Prayer and I'm trying to get to the bathroom as soon as possible. The door leading out of the clinic was open and the only thing I could see is the Assignment center and a silhouette of a woman with a child beside her. I looked away quickly and bolted to the bathroom and made sure to shut the door behind me. I quickly pulled up my dress but before I could relieve myself I heard the door creek open. I gulped down the fear that had built up in my throat and looked behind. I dropped my dress because of the building had suddenly changed into some abandoned warehouse filled with white clothed mannequins.
I closed my eyes hoping to be back in the clinic but when I opened them again I was still in the warehouse.
"Our father, who art in heaven...."
I wasn't the one who was praying. My heart stopped beating normally at the chilling sound of the prayer. I'm not willing to check who it is so I'm just going to start running. There were a lot of passageways and very few doors available.
"Hail Mary....."
This time the voice was familiar; Jen. Not that it is comforting but at least I'll get a scare from a ghost I was familiar with. I looked around me to see where she was and I saw her sitting in a room that had a red door. The room was dark and I only saw her because of the light in the corridor. She stopped saying her prayer and she looked at me and I noted that she had blood shot eyes like she had been crying for a very long time.
"Do you know where we are?" she asked me in a clear voice.
I didn't have the strength to respond and I was trying to hold in my pee and honestly being pressed is making me less afraid. I continued to stare at her from a distance but soon she got up to walk closer to me while I kept moving backwards.
"Do....you...know...whe..re..we....are?" she repeated in an eerie voice.
I felt a cold, chilling gust of wind blowing past me going to where Jen was. Somehow her skin started tearing off of her body to expose her bones. I screamed and turned to start running; to where? I don't know but I just want to be away from her. I continued screaming and turning through the passageways without knowing where I would end up and I'm glad I did. I found the exit and luckily the door was wide open. I run even faster, gasping for air and turning around to see if I was being followed. No one behind me. I looked to the door but found Jen's skeleton standing there. It's just bones though right. I'll just run into them and they'll fall apart and I was right yet again.
Jen fell apart even before I could crush into her. I closed my eyes in relief that I was out of that place but been in a forested area isn't comforting either.
"Ol....ive....." a boy's voice called me in an awfully loud whisper.
"Keep walking." I said to myself.
I continued walking towards the only building I could see but can't label. I started running when I felt someone breathing down my neck.
"Help! Help me please!" I shouted as I heard several pairs of feet thumping on the ground right behind me.
l screamed until I realized that the building I was running toward wasn't getting any closer. I stopped running and heard the feet behind me stop as well. I started walking slowly and heard the shuffling of feet behind me which was enough for me to know that whatever was after me before was following me again.
"Deep breathes Vee....take deep..... breathes..." I heard Elise instruct me.
I turned around on impulse only to have my face covered with a bloody palm. I opened my eyes and was back in the bathroom in the clinic with my dress pulled up while I was facing the wide open door that let me have a view of the Assignment center. The woman with the child was still there but there was no child. Also I don't feel pressed anymore so I must have peed while experiencing all that in my head. I dropped my skirt and run back to the door of my room but I didn't get there because I hadn't flushed. I turned back to go back to the bathroom but there stood the silhouette of a child, probably the one who had been with the woman, standing by the toilet. The child, male or female I can't tell, flushed the toilet and then raised it's left hand as if waving at me.
Right now I can't even tell if it's looking at me or the wall but I do know that I am going back to the room and I won't sleep. Or maybe I can take that green stuff that sky gave me.....I turned back again and run to the room, ignoring the woman's silhouette that was now standing by the door leading out of the clinic's building. I threw my self onto the bed, making sure to bury my face in the pillow and then I covered myself; partially. My lower body is exposed and my dress flew up. This is frustrating! I don't mind been discovered like this but the fear of feeling a hand on my exposed flesh doesn't sit right with me.
I used my right leg to pick up the lower part of the blanket and drag it over myself. At last! Completely covered and eyes shielded from the sight of whatever ghostly entities are watching me! I'll just stay like this till sunrise and then I'll leave this place! I can make it unless the need for oxygen exceeds my capacity to keep breathing exhaled air.
I can't do it anymore! I turned my head to the side and gasped for the clean air that invaded my nostrils. Jen is standing right at the corner with something that looks like an axe! If I looked away I fear she might drive that thing right through me. So we sort of have a staring competition going on now and I can't afford to blink too often otherwise I might die. The windows in the room all opened and the chilling evening air rushed in. She's trying to break me but I won't let her have that satisfaction. Dawn was quick to come, much to my relief. I slowly got up from the bed but I didn't get down while keeping my eyes on Jen, who I have noted didn't blink once since coming to stand there.
"Ms Rogers?" Sr Drevin's voice made me turn my head.
She was dressed in a white night gown with a fleece blanket over her shoulder and I noted she was also barefoot and she looked worried and annoyed. I looked at the corner and noticed how Jen was still standing there staring at me. I lifted my hand to point at the corner and Sr Drevin walked into the room further to see what I was pointing at.
"There's nothing there Ms Rogers." she said in an annoyed tone.
"You're looking too low Sr. Look straight at the corner." I told her because she was looking down like she was hoping to see a rat or a dropped item.
She lifted my head and to me I saw how Jen locked eyes with Sr Drevin while the latter looked confused. Sr Drevin turned back to look at me with a frown on her face because she had not seen the ghost who now smiled at me.
"Is this a joke Ms Rogers?" she asked walking to the corner a settling there and wiggling a little to show me that there was nothing there.
For a second their faces merged and I moved back only to fall from the small bed. My dress covered my face as I had landed with my head down.
"Ouch!"
I did a baby flip and sat on my legs while my dress fell back down naturally. I looked at Sr Drevin raised her brows at me with a look of disgust apparent on her face.
"Where were you last night?" she asked walking towards the bed.
"I was here!" I said quickly before the images of me teleporting to a warehouse flushed in my eyes and I corrected myself,"I think I was."
Sr Drevin helped me get up and when I stood up straight I heard a bone crack and judging by Sr Drevin's expression she heard it too. I sat on the bed slowly and even then I heard a few more of my bones crack. Am I decaying or something? This definitely isn't normal and I can't help but feel that I am dying.
"I hope Dr Buffers will be returning soon." Sr Drevin said to me in a slightly worried tone.
The worry that was apparent in her tone made me worry as well and I looked at her the same way I would look at my mum whenever she was worried about me being sick. somehow somewhere I'm hoping that Sr Drevin and I can become friends what least more than student and staff member. The way she was looking at me now reminded me of the time I'm I had got lost after running away from Oliver after we had an argument. She gave me a quick check up and even tried to see if my bones would crack again but nothing like that happened and according to the results of her examination, I am totally fine.
"Go and bath." she said with a sigh.
I examined her with my eyes as she walked to the corner of the room where a heavy black coat was hanging from a screw in the wall. Her night gown was dirty and it had some small holes with drops of blood close to the holes. Her hair had some dry grass sticking out here and there like she had forgotten to remove them before coming here. Did this happen to her because she was looking for me?
"We're you looking for me?" I asked out of curiosity,"When did I go missing?"
"Yes. Me and a handful of other stuff members. This is the first time we've received a sleepwalker." She said in a tired tone that made it more than obvious that she had barely slept,"Even Ms Stevenson was there."
"The headmistress?!"
Why would she look for me? It's not like I am some rich man's daughter that they were so afraid of losing me. Sr Drevin left without giving me a response as if my question was irrelevant, which I know it is. She came back though.
"Thanks to you today's classes have been dismissed."
"Why so?" I asked not understanding why lessons couldn't proceed because I had sleepwalked.
It's a little strange though because in all my years alive I have never sleepwalked. Sr Drevin sighed again and I can tell from how she dragged the sigh that she was getting annoyed and even more tired.
"Three of the teachers fell into a ditch in the forest and are currently battling for their lives." in the hospital." she explained.
"Aren't there any other teachers to take over their classes?"
"No."
After that short and decisive answer she left the room and I followed her out not wanting to remain in this place anymore. When we finally reached the dormitory, Sr Drevin left me to go to wherever she was going. The lower part of the dorm was noisy which told me that the girls were bathing, probably still unaware that the classes had been cancelled. What are we going to be doing if we aren't having class? Maybe I might get occupied trying to fend off evil dead girls' spirits. I wonder if Oliver knows I have been released from the clinic or if he knows I went missing last night. What about Markus.....?
My question was quickly answered by the sight of Oliver and Markus begging Maria to give them passes to see me. Maria seemed extremely uncomfortable as she tried to explain to them that I wasn't in the dorm yet.
"I told you she hasn't come in yet. Maybe she is been examined." Maria said as calmly as she could.
"Come on Mama....please!" Oliver whined like a little girl.
He placed his hand gently on her shoulder and moved closer to whisper something in her ear that instantly turned her pink. She looked down like someone who was just confessed to and now I'm wondering what he said to her. She doesn't seem uncomfortable anymore but she seems like she wants Oliver's hand to be on her shoulder forever. I don't know when I stopped moving but I'm still standing by the door while staring at the three who were standing close to the stairs.
"Liv!" Markus exclaimed and he run towards me.
His curly hair bounced off his shoulders as he run and Oliver followed leaving a dazed Maria standing alone with a frown on her face. So now I know she is not my friend. My attention shifted to Markus who caught me off guard by trapping me in his warm embrace. As he wasn't wearing the uniform the T-shirt he had on did nothing to hide the bulges of his firm biceps. Oliver must have realized what I was thinking about because his eyes widened and he pushed Markus away from me.
"What the hell man! Don't you dare hug my sister ever again!" Oliver yelled.
"Sorry.....I got carried away....." Markus apologized sheepishly realizing how weird it was for him to have hugged me when we barely knew each other.
It was a nice hug though; one I won't forget, ever. It's as if he is still hugging me from where he is because I can still fell and smell him.
"Vee....!" Oliver said smiling sweetly to reveal all three of his dimples.
I smiled back and lifted my hands to put them in the dips of his dimples and his smile widened. He did the same to me and for a moment it felt like we were three again; when I had first discovered the pleasure of poking my fingers into his dimples. My day dreaming didn't last long because of Elise who came to throw herself in-between us. Then she did the last thing I would have ever expected; she hugged Ollie. My eyes widened at this and Oliver's were basically about to pop out of their sockets as he looked at me. What the hell! I'm the one who is unwell and almost died! Elise broke the hug and turned to hug me as well. I don't even want to imagine what Maria's expression but the little bit of her that I can see tells me she is about to explode.
She did explode but not by slapping Elise as I had anticipated; she also went to hug Oliver but this time I think he was too shocked that he pushed her away. Or maybe he finds her revolting and prefers Elise. Maria fell to the stone floor with a loud thud and I'm certain it hurt but she just got up and run up the stairs. Elise was still holding me and so I could feel her jiggle as if she was silently laughing.
"Preference?" Markus asked breaking the silence as Elise moved away from me composed like she had not been laughing.
"What? No! When she hugged me it was scary enough so I was too alert when she tried the same thing." Oliver explained as his hands waved around aimlessly in the air as if he was trying to draw the scenario in the air.
"Right...." Markus drawled to annoy Oliver.
"You also have to apologize for hugging my sister you piece of garbage!" Oliver shouted annoyed as he grabbed Markus by the collar.
"What are you doing Ollie?!" I exclaimed in shock.
I quickly went to them and tried to break them apart which I did only after they both landed punches on me because they thought they would hit each other.
"Vee are you alright?"
"Liv are you alright?"
No I'm not fine! My cheeks feel hollow as if my whole face is a dimple and the sting on my flesh is horrible. I started feeling drowsy and before I knew it I lost consciousness. When I woke up I was in my room where Elise was slipping some underwear onto me. I didn't move because I was feeling shy being dressed by her even if it wasn't the first time. She continued until the underwear was secure. Next she took a breast holder and somehow she helped my pit it on after carrying me as though she was dressing a baby.
I decided to open my eyes before she would start helping me into a dress all by herself.
"It's about time." Elise said in a cheerful tone that I hadn't expected.
"Sorry." I apologized.
"Are you better now?" she asked placing her warm palm on my forehead.
"I'm better. Did it leave a bruise?"
"I put some ice on it so it's all better now."
"Thanks."
I really want to ask her why she hugged Ollie but she looks like she has forgotten about it.
"I like him." Elise said seriously as she looked at me as I lay on the bed.
I suddenly felt vulnerable under her gaze and quickly covered myself. So I was right about her liking him. But.....
"You're older than him!"