A NIGHT TO REMEMBER ch.2

The walls were stained a sickly yellow color. The air smelled of year old medicine and garbage. Jessica sat on a bed with crinkly paper, making noise everytime she shifted. Her arm was bandaged and cleaned, and it throbbed like hell. The doctor told her to follow a light with her eyes. He was a middle aged man, balding and had to keep pushing his glasses up on his noise. The light was harsh as she tried not to blink. The doctor looked in her ears, then down her throat. Why isn't he checking my arm? she thought. Can't he see that it says that bastards name?

The doctor wrote something down on his clipboard and left the room. Jessica looked around for a book or a magazine, anything to pass the time away. Her mother was sitting next to her, casting worried glances at her daughter. Great, now my mom thinks im totally nuts! she thought to herself.

Ten minutes later, the doctor came back into the room, carrying a sickly greenish-brown gunk in a bottle. "Now Jessica, I want you to take one tablespoon of this every night before you go to bed." he said. Jessica looked at him with wide eyes. He chuckled and told her, "you are suffering from what we doctors like to call, well, I forgot what it is called at the moment, but it's very serious.You have a sleeping disorder, and it causes you to have nightmares."

But I've only had one so far she thought to herself. Jessica shook her head and told him, for the thousandth time, "No! It was Freddy! Freddy Kruager! I saw him! He stabbed me! He is alive, and he's killing!" She was breathing hard.

The doctor pushed up his glasses. With a deep sigh, he looked down at the bottle again, trying to remember the name of that damned medicine. He looked back at her and said, "Jessica, dear, Freddy is no longer alive, he..."

but before he could say anything else, Jessica jumped in.

"No! He's alive! I saw him! He comes after you in your dreams!" she felt like crying.

The doctor and Jessica's mother exchanged worried glances. Then the doctor spoke, "Um, do you think it would be alright if we kept her overnight for testing? Just to make sure she's ok."

"Yes, of course! Anything to make her better again!" was her reply.

Jessica sighed, finally giving up on arguing. Well she thought at least I'm safe!