TCHIAI part 8

Now, it was either from his long nasty speech or from the meds they most likely gave me, but I was feeling pretty beat. With my vision blurring from the scared tears that are betraying me and the overcoming exhaustion weighing down on me, I slump backwards onto the gurney. As I do, I realize that I’m not really sure what to think, or how to really think anymore.

Above me, the doctor comes into my vision and says, "Don't be scared, sweetie, it will only last for a little while, not for too long."

"Then, I can go home?" My words slur together.

"Then, we will set you free. When you awake, you will be in your room and the tests will begin. Good luck."

Right after his words end, everything turns black again, but it stays that way, for a long, long time.

Blackness. The dark. One can see the darkness, but cannot see what lies within it.

I wake up to blackness – well, I think I am awake. I blink and try to move, but I realize that my arms and legs are tied down. A voice crackles through the air, as if it’s coming from a speaker. It says, "This room will show you your dreams and make them come true. Just remember that nightmares are dreams too. So it will mostly be bad things that you see. Sorry about that – well, not really. Don't try to change the dream because frankly, that won’t work. Now think your darkest thoughts and dreams and we will, to no charge at all, give them to you."My eyes widen in the darkness. What kind of crazy place is this? I decide to try it by testing it out.

I think of unicorns. Nothing.

I think of puppies. Nothing.

I thought they said they’d give me my dreams? Or they said nightmares, right? Maybe if I think something bad, then that will show up.

So I think back to a nasty movie that I saw called the “Human Centipede.” That was the grossest movie I’ve ever seen in, like, ever. Some crazy guy put three pe… You know what, I don't even want to explain it because I might actually throw up doing so.

"I'm going to make you into an experiment," someone says into my ear, his breath going over the side of my face and to my noise. It fills the air with a horrible stench.

I try to scream and to get away, but then I’m lying on a gurney as I am looking at a diagram of what is to become of me. Fear and panic squeeze my heart and I look over at the two people beside me – they are going to become a part of me soon. We're all gagged and attached to gurneys. The creepy man before tells me that I will be the middle piece, a special piece.

I go through the torture. I feel all of the pain. I feel all of the torment.

I.

Feel.

Everything.

Then, everything becomes black again and I’m back in the dark room. I throw up, multiple times, as a matter of fact. It was like I was in that movie, like I was one of the girls. I didn't even remember the dark room while I was there. I just felt the pain and the terror of what was to come. I just felt the need to escape.