Today started out just like any day at the "orphan's asylum". At least thats what the sane kids called it, of course those kids also made fun of us all the time. I woke up screaming at about midnight. Then took my medicine to help with the hallucinations and pain that I was always feeling. I listened to my music rocking back and forth on my bed until a nurse walked in smiling.
"A man and woman has come to see you Alice." The nurse said putting in the code to the door in my glass observation room. I turn my music up louder to drown out the screaming I heard in my head. A man and woman walk in holding hands and smiling.
"This is Alice she is fourteen. You'll have to come out in thirty minutes." The nurse says locking the door to the room. I see doctors and nurses watching me. Waiting for me to snap.
"Hello I am Marzia and this is my husband Felix." The woman explains sitting down on my bed. I scoot to the other end of my bed trying to get away from her. I see her frown and look at her husband Felix.
"What are you doing here?" I growl at her.
"Well we were hoping to adopt a child..." Felix says to me as if I was a young child.
"I am not a child."
"We know that but you are still young. We just want one to call our own." Marzia sighs.
"The children are down the hall." I say knocking on the glass. The doctors hear the signal and run in. They push Felix and Marzia out of the room quickly before I feel myself slip away. When I slip away I see my parents as they are dying in front of me. I scream for my parents to move. I hit the doctors and tear at the their clothes trying to get to my parents. The doctors give me a shot in the arm that makes the visions go away. It also makes me pass out. When I wake I see Marzia and Felix looking at me.
"Why are you still here?" I ask rubbing my head. They continue to stare. I look in the glass and see blood all over my hands and face.
"What happened to you?" Felix questions.
"That is really not your business." The timer goes off and they are once again led out of the room and taken to the front room. I am given more medicine as soon as they leave. Once the people looking at other children leave the older kids get together and work on our project in the auditorium. The nurses keep a watchful eye on all of us. Once rehearsal is over my friend Jack walks me down the hall and gives me a peck on the cheek. The clock strikes twelve and we all run off to bed before they turn off the lights. We all know that once they turn off the lights we are prisoners to our minds. I tuck myself in bed and fall asleep thinking about the couple that came to visit.