Chapter 4: Asylum

APOV

When we came downstairs we saw 2 men wearing black suits white shirts under their black coats and black ties and slacks. Mom said, "That's them." Then the men came towards us trying to get us, but we darted around them into the kitchen and out into the backyard. We thought we could hide in the woods surrounding the house until we were both grabbed from behind. We started kicking, screaming, and punching doing anything we could to get away from these men, but soon we realized that it was no use trying to escape. As soon as we realized this we went limp in the men's arms and they dragged us to the car and not too gently put us in the back seat.

BPOV

When we were in the car as soon as we saw each other we crawled over to each other as fast as we could and held on to each other like the other was our lifeline, which to us is exactly what it felt like. We sat like that the whole there. When we got there we were instantly terrified. This place looked like a prison, just it had white walls instead of grey. Then, we were being shoved into this prison that would be our home for the next 6 years. After we got inside we were shoved into a room and told to sit down. 'Man these people just love to shove you around don't they?' I thought. We sat there for about 5 minutes before a lady in her late twenties walked in. at least she didn't look at us like we were crazy like everyone else seemed to. Then she said, "Hello, my name is Ms. Nelson, but you can call me Rose. I will be your nurse during the duration of your stay, now I will tell you all of the rules after we are finished with the procedure you must go through when you first get here. First, I will have to cut your hair to just below your shoulders, then I will not have to cut it again until it reaches to your lower back. Then you will need to be fitted for your uniforms for your treatments, then you will be asked to strip down, so you can be cleaned with an ice cold water hose." Me and Alice said, "okay" at the same time. Now me and Alice were more petrified than ever of this place, but we didn't let it show. There was no telling what our 'treatments' would be. Rose then started to cut our hair after she was positive that we would be okay for now. Then we got fitted for things that strangely resembled hospital gowns, scrubs, some really uncomfortable pajamas, and some really uncomfortable thing that looked a lot like one piece bathing suits. After the 2nd time measuring both of us and about the millionth time of us telling them, they finally figured out that they just needed to measure one of us and just get two pairs of clothes and shoes that are the same size. After that we were told to strip down to just our underwear and go wait in the bathroom. Rose came in and whispered that she was sorry and we were confused until we felt water colder than ice hitting us, then we understood. We were told to turn sideways with water still hitting us. It hurt so much. Me and Alice both had silent tears rolling down our cheeks when it was finally over with. She handed us the hospital gowns and told us to put them on and go find some other underwear to put on. So that's what we did. After we did that Rose showed us our room and it was pretty ironic that we got the room 717 our birth date on our birthday. When we got into the room Rose told us to sit on the bed. She said, " okay so the rules are; no getting out of bed after lights out, no leaving the room without me, your doctor, or a guard, you can only wear your own clothes on Saturdays and Sundays and you can also wear your own pajamas on those nights as well, and lastly you must respect everyone in this building no matter what, and no excuses." Me and Alice said, " Yes ma'am." at the same time again. I swear sometimes I think that our minds are linked with how we do that all the time. After we said that Rose asked, "Do you two always answer at the same time?" We said, "No." at the same time again. After that she gave up and said that the doctor should be here soon to tell us what our treatments were, what time to get up, go to bed, etc. and left.

APOV

A few minutes later a man with dark brown hair and crimson red eyes walked in and introduced himself, "Hello, my name is Dr. Mitchel, but I go by Mitch and I will be your doctor for your stay here." When he said this I got a vision of me and Bella going through shock treatments and ice baths together tomorrow. I looked at Bella with horror etched into my face. I whispered to Bella what I saw and she looked like how I felt. Then, mine and Bella's things started floating right in front of the doctor's face. I tried to get Bells to calm down before she made the bed start floating. When she finally calmed down she looked at me and started crying. When this happened the weirdest thing happened; I heard her thoughts or 1 thought to be exact, and it wasn't mine, it was Bella's. She thought, This doctor is going to think we're crazy like mom and dad did. It came so naturally that I thought back to her what my gut and visions told me, No he won't I've seen it. after that we looked at each other in surprise, and as quickly as it had come the link was gone. After we were done talking, or thinking in our case, the doctor said, "Well, could you tell me your names and then we could go to dinner, eat and get you 2 in bed and to sleep since today has obviously been an eventful day for the both of you and you must be very tired." Since he seemed nice I said, My name is Mary Alice Brandon, but I go by Alice and I'm 9 years old." I looked at Bella and she looked at me then the doctor and said, " I'm Isabella Marie Brandon, but I go by Bella and I'm Alice's twin sister." The doctor said, " Okay, let's go to dinner. Follow me." We followed him down the long hallway to the cafeteria where we got our food that looked more like mush than actual food. We sat down at the only table that had enough seats for all 3 of us. There were 2 other people sitting at the table. There was a girl about our age that had a medium brown tone of skin with wavy black hair and dark brown eyes with a kind of reddish tint in them and a man just as pale as our doctor with brown cropped hair and dark gold eyes sitting there. We walked to the table and sat in the only three seats left at the table. The girl looked at us and gasped. We looked at her and asked at the same time, "What?" she looked shocked for a second and said, " Oh, sorry my name is Star, I was sent here by my parent because I could sense if other people had powers and I could see peoples' pasts by looking onto their eyes, but I can't tell what kinds of powers they have and I can only see glimpses of their pasts." After she finished I introduced myself, " Hi, I'm Alice and me and my twin sister got sent here by our parents too. I got sent here because I could see the future." Then Bella did the same saying, "My name is Bella, I'm Alice's twin sister I got sent here by my parents because I could move thing with my mind, but the weird thing is that I can only do it when I have a really intense emotion going on inside of me, I just can't control it but I really want to." We talked a little more before we heard a loud siren go off. All 3 of us looked at our doctors to know what we were supposed to do. Mitch said, " That means it's time for the next thing you have to do for the day, that will go off one more time for lights out and will also serve as your alarm clock every morning." After he finished explaining we all got up and went to our rooms. We found out that Star's room was right next to ours and our doctors said we could hang out in Star's room until lights out if we wanted to. So we stayed in her room until that loud siren thing went off and we had to got to bed. While were getting ready for bed I thought about all that had happened to us today and what we learned about Star. She said we got here about an hour after her so none of us had any idea what was in store for us tomorrow. My last conscious thought was, I hope tomorrow won't be too bad. the next morning I was woken up by that stupid siren thing and it wouldn't turn off for about 2 minutes, I guess they wanted to make sure we got up. I really hated that stupid thing and I could tell Bella did too.