The Divinest Sense
"Much madness is divinest sense" –Emily Dickinson
Chapter 1:
The girl with an olive skin tone and brown hair smiled mischievously. Nina watched as some of the people in the room grinned along with her and others shriveled back in fear of her. She wondered why this whole ordeal of this random girl named "Joy Mercer", as the nurse had said, was made into such a big production. Sure, she could be underestimating this girl, but she was small and looked so fragile. How could she make all these people (including grown men) frightened of her? Nina wondered what she was hiding under that pretty exterior.
Nina shrugged out of Fabian's grasp and stood. "Who are you?" She tried to not sound rude, but it seemed to come off as much.
Joy Mercer had begun to pace the room looking at each and every face, almost daring them to speak. As soon as she heard Nina's voice, though, her head snapped in her direction. Joy Mercer raised an eyebrow at her rudeness, but, otherwise, looked unaffected. She flashed her a kind smile and replied, "I am Joy," she looked her up and down then continued, "And you are?"
Joy sounded sickeningly sweet to Nina. Did she do this to everyone? Or just people she didn't know?
"Nina…Nina Martin." A flash of recognition clouded Joy's eyes, but quickly faded into disturbing cheeriness once again.
"Oh yeah! I've heard of you! You're the suicidal American that got transferred here? Well, I give you my warm welcome to the craziest place on earth, and I mean that quite literally," Joy gave her yet another warm smile before moving on.
"Okay, everyone. Who's going to finally break their insistent stare and continue on with whatever they were doing so we can finally get back to our lives?" Everyone took that as permission and went back to their conversations or activities. Patricia, the auburn haired girl that didn't exactly love Nina, decided to jump up and run to Joy. They embraced each other in a friendly hug and others surrounding Nina soon followed.
"Joy, where did you go? Did they take you like they did Amelia Pinches? I heard you went because you weren't insane anymore and I was like puh-lease! She's insane in the membrane!" Nina heard all of this and more coming from the people around Joy. She even matched some of the things said with voices she knew. She had heard Alfie tell her he had had a dream that she was turned into cheese and he accidentally ate her. Yeah….Alfie was a bit weird.
He was in some mouse stage at the moment. He always walks and talks like different animals all the time. Nina thought it was a strange version of Clinical Lycanthropy, but she wasn't exactly sure.
It was odd for Nina, being around mental people all the time even though she was deemed "insane". Nina knew she wasn't completely insane, though. Not like these people. She was just suicidal and had showed symptoms of being a danger to the public. That wasn't so bad, right?
Other than herself and Alfie, she had no clue as to why her other friends were here. They all seemed normal enough. So why had this particular asylum been unofficially named "Hell on Earth" and "The Home of the Craziest of the Crazy"? No one seemed to live up to the name.
"You actually didn't taste too bad," Alfie said while sucking his teeth in and out of his lip to create mouse-like noises.
Joy laughed, "Oh, Alfie. I missed you. I missed you all, actually."
Patricia smiled and jokingly said, "Yeah, yeah. We missed you too and all that gushy crap, but that's beside the point. Where did you go? Why did you leave?'
Joy looked down and hummed thoughtfully. "I had some unfinished business with my father." Once she looked up again, her eyes settled on Nina. Looking at her as if she were a toy to be played with. Not in that creepy boy-likes-girl way, but…Well, Nina didn't really know.
"So Nina Martin, I see you are well acquainted with my friends?"
Nina stared back confused. "Um…yes?"
Joy smirked, "Good because I'm sure we will all be spending a good amount of time with you."
Joy went back to catching up with her friends. Nina couldn't help but wonder what exactly she had meant. She had a bad feeling about it though.
~*~*~*~The Divinest Sense~*~*~*~
Nina soon went to bed with her roommate, Amber Millington. She really liked her. She wasn't always the brightest, but she was very sweet and a lot of fun. She was extremely pretty too. Not like "Oh, yeah. She's nice looking", but like "Oh my God! She's gorgeous!" Amber kind of made Nina a little insecure sometimes, but Nina wouldn't dwell on her looks for too long.
Nina and Amber's room was much different than she was used to in America. The institute Nina was at before seemed happy, warm, and friendly with the occasional craziness, but here, and specifically in this room, was bitter, cold, and just down-right scary. The walls were made of thick, gray bricks that had unknown stains in various places. The floors were made of gray concrete which also had stains, but Nina could recognize this red substance. Blood.
She shivered at the realization and decided to just pull her sheets closer around her and squeeze her eyes shut. The beds weren't all that bad. They had some cushion in them, but sometimes, if you moved a certain way, you could feel the metal bars of the bed frame digging into your back. Nina didn't care all that much. How could she when she barely even slept? Within the past two weeks of being in her new asylum, she probably got a day's worth of sleep.
Suddenly, a loud noise that sounded like an old door slowly opening came about. Nina shrunk into her bed and brought the blankets to her nose. What if it was the gang she had heard so much about? She believed it was called Siruna, but she couldn't be sure.
Fabian and Amber had told her all about the group and how dangerous they could be. They would be called by their leader to slaughter, burn, hurt, or whatever he/she wanted, people in the night when the nurses and guards weren't around. Apparently, one time, a girl had cheated on her boyfriend with another girl and the morning after he found out, charred bones and pieces of blackened flesh were found in her bed.
Nina's thoughts were interrupted by another creaking noise. She jumped up and ran to Amber's bed, shaking the blonde awake.
Amber rolled over and rubbed her eyes. A raspy voice filled with sleep sounded out. "What?"
"I heard something," Nina whispered, frantically.
Amber sighed, "I'm sure it's just-"
Screeeeech!
Amber bolted upright while Nina jumped and sat beside her. Footsteps could now be heard coming down the hall, slowing creeping towards their room. They weren't exactly quiet either. They were heavy and echoed throughout the hallway. With each step, they came closer, making them echo slightly more. Abruptly, they stopped.
A shadow could be seen through the crack at the bottom of the door. Nina knew that this must be the night she would finally die. After all the deaths of her family members, she would finally follow them into the afterlife-
They door opened and there stood Fabian. Nina left out a breath of relief as she realized this, but then wondered if he was going to kill her. That their whole relationship was fake and that he decided to do the ugly deed (and not the sexual kind).
Fabian walked over to them and hugged them both, knowing he'd scared them. When he released his grasp on them he stared into their eyes. Nina saw a flash of fright go through them, but it quickly disappeared.
"We have to leave," he said.
"Now."
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Sorry for the delay! I got grounded (Naughty me…. ;) )
Song/Quote of the Chapter:
"I never worry, Now that is a lie"-Red Hot Chili Peppers (Under the Bridge)
Questions (I like knowing about my readers!):
Something exciting going on in life right now?
Who do you like better- Willow/Jerome, Mara/Jerome, Joy/Jerome?
Let me know what you think! About the chapter and the answers to the questions above!
Love,
Soaking In The Reign