Inside Out
Chapter 1
Burning Sensation
The sun peered through the silk pink curtains of the no-star bedroom belonging to our protagonist Mikan Sakura. It was 7:00 Monday morning. Mikan was already awake. She stared at the ceiling like it was an answer to a math problem. She hated Mondays, scratch that she hated every morning.
From the corner of her eyes she saw the clock turn from 7:00 to 7:01, it started.
Her body started to shake. Her blood felt like it was boiling from the inside out. Her spine felt like it had shattered into millions of pieces. Her head felt like it could explode any minute. She wanted nothing more than to scream and yell for somebody to help, but to her demise her voice didn't work. Her skin had bubbles on it like she was some frog going through some mutation.
She flailed around like she was having a seizure. She looked like she was something that crawled out from hell. Even though her body was telling her to put it out of its misery, she crawled out of bed and made her way to the bathroom. She turned the nob, her muscles were weak and she just wanted to disappear and never return.
Her vision was getting blurry, colors mixed with others making odd shapes and even odder colors. To her it was what a drunk person saw. She used all the power she could muster and turned on the faucet.
Her skin was turning a green color, as if she was a lizard. She slipped into the tub filled with hot water with her night gown still on. She didn't know if she was crying because of all the sweat that was on her face. The hot water felt good against her cold skin, she wanted to stay like this forever but that would not be possible.
She reached forward, and with even more strength that she could find, shut off the water.
Mikan literally crawled out of the tub and to her closet which was at the other end of her room. When she was partly there something hit her, hard. The skin on her back was threatening to break from the impact that was caused by having it inside her.
The world was spinning but she held her ground. Shockingly she managed to stand on her feet. She stumbled over to her closet. Within a few seconds she came out wearing the school uniform, fortunately she put it on right.
She wobbled to her mirror and drawers. When she was within reach she grabbed one of the drawers and dragged herself to her feet again. Mikan stumbled with pulling out the drawers but somehow managed to do it needless.
Her shaking hands pulled out a blue pill bottom case. With shaking hands she popped open the lid and took 5 pills, not even needing water. Her body started to calm down after 2 minutes. Her skin when back to normal and the bubbling stopped.
She sighed of relief, as she slumped down on the floor from exhaustion. She just stared at the ceiling then shifted onto her side her side and looked to her clock. It read 7:59. She sighed as she slowly made her way to her feet and to the dresser. The effect of this morning still linger in her bones. Even though she took the pills, it didn't work for her headache and it was getting worse by the second.
She looked at herself in the mirror before the mirror cracked. She sighed again as she made her way to the door. As she took the handle pain shot through her body again. She was hungry, so, so hungry, but she sucked it up and made her way down the halls with her normal bright smile.