Hanna shot up from her sleeping position, looking down she saw she was in bed. The covers were thin and provided little warmth, looking around she waited for her eyes to adjust to the dim light.
"What the " Hanna whispered to herself, the room she was in looked like a hospital room. Her last memory flashed inside her head. The pain and struggle all flooded back to her as she realised she probably wasn't in a safe hospital room, but instead inside the lion's den.
Pulling her legs over the side of the bed she put her bare feet on the ground. The floor was cold, looking down Hanna noticed she wasn't in the clothes she was previously wearing. Instead, she was wearing some grey jogging bottoms that hung around her ankles and a light plain blue top. Hanna could see that the outfit was obviously awful but she couldn't concentrate on her current fashion disaster.
Pulling back the thin blue curtain that lay a metre away from her bed, she gasped.
Em lay there unconscious, her dark hair covered part of her face hiding the cuts and dried blood. Her arm lay resting on her stomach, enclosed in plaster. The girl was visibility paler than normal, Hanna watched for a second as she saw the girls' chest move up and down slightly as she breathed.
"Omg, Em?" Hanna tried to say, although it came out in a rough whisper.
Hanna went over to where Emily lay, she didn't want to touch the girl in fear that it would hurt her. She didn't understand how Emily could have been in such a bad state.
"Emily?" Hanna spoke louder, trying to wake the girl up from her slumber.
"5 more minutes," the athlete mumbled, trying to turn in her bed. A sharp shooting pain radiated through her whole body as she tried to move. Emily moaned, she tried opening her eyes.
"Em? Can you hear me?" Hanna inquired.
"Where am I?" the sleepy girl asked.
"I'm not sure but It looks like a hospital…." Hanna replied.
"What do you mean looks like?" Emily asked opening her eyes fully to get a good look. Moving her eyes around she saw the blonde girl looking at her worryingly, cabinets hung above some counters. The counter was relatively bare, the only thing on display was some rolls of bandages.
"Em, what's the last thing you can remember?" Hanna questioned.
"You… you called me, so I decided to come over to your house." Emily replied thinking.
"Do you remember why I called you?" Hanna asked.
Emily paused trying to think, "um…"
Hanna started to reassure the confused girl, "It's alright if you…."
"Omg, I was in a car crash. Am I dead?" Emily interrupted.
Hanna laughed, "I hope not, this is a pretty crappy afterlife."
Emily tried to ease herself up from her bed, with every tiny move her face crumbled in pain.
"Em, stay still your hurt." Hanna tried to persuade the injured girl.
Hanna went over to the door and tried the handle, it wouldn't budge. She tried to put all her weight into pulling it down, but still, it wouldn't open.
Pulling her hand into a fist she started banging the door, "Anyone there?" she shouted.
After a few minutes of trying the girls hadn't got a response, walking up to Emily she pulled up the chair that was near the girl's bed and sat down facing the injured girl.
"Han, where are we?" the girl questioned.
"I don't know," Hanna replied with fear in her voice.
"I'm scared," Emily whispered almost in tears.
Hanna brushed her hand against the girls' face trying to avoid the cuts and scratches.
"Stay there, I'm going to search the room. Try and get some rest," Hanna instructed getting up from her chair. Emily closed her eyes as she started to drift off to sleep.
Hanna wondered round the copycat room, opening the cupboards she found normal medical supplies; more bandages, burn creams, heat packs, cleaning wipes, a selection of different plaster box's, sterilised scissors sealed in bags, suture packs and wound closer strips.
Opening a lower cupboard in the counter revealed a fridge with cool packs in it. Hanna opened the cupboard next to it, the cupboard was packed with a plastically cloth. Hanna pulled it out to get a better look at what she was dealing with. Her stomach turned as she realised what it was – a body bag.
Pushing the bag back into the cupboard she shut the door quickly and tried to regulate her breathing. She thought to herself, why would A need them. Then it dawned on her, they really weren't safe here. Hanna thought back to her previous friends and wondered if they were actually still alive or if they had ended up lifeless suffocating in the body bag.
Em lay there, eye's still closed. "Han, you found anything useful yet?"
"Not quite," the blonde replied as she opened up the final cupboard, "Oh wait. Food!"
Hanna hadn't found much but a box of cereal bars but it would give them some needed energy. Hanna ripped open the packaging and took out one of the bars, tearing of the foil she offered the contents to Em, before attempting to feed the girl. She was in no state to do it herself as every slight movement in her body cause pain.
Hanna gobbled up on of the cereal bars too before placing the rest of the box on the counter.
"Em, get some rest. You need it," Hanna commanded before she went over to the door and started banging her fist up against it again. She felt completely powerless, she just needed some help.
Quite a while past and Hanna was growing tired.
A loud voice boomed over the speaker causing Hanna to jump and Emily to wake up.
"Welcome. Willkommen. Bienvinedo." A loudspeaker announced, "Please exit your room and follow the lighted pathway."
Hanna stared over at the confused girl and whispered, "I think we are in A's house."
The speaker repeated, "Please exit your room and follow the lighted pathway."
The door let out a small buzz and started to quickly opened causing Hanna to fall backwards as she had been leaning on the door.
Hanna got up, stepping outside the room she looked at the dark and narrow pathway. There were small lights shining in patterns installed in the bottom of the walls.
"Em, the corridors empty, "Hanna started to explain as the door slammed shut in front of her, "Em!" Hanna shouted banging on the door in a panic, she wasn't going to be separated from Emily when she was so vulnerable.
The speaker boomed again more persistent this time, "Please follow the lighted pathway."
Hanna didn't move from where she stood, she continued to shout out to the injured girl.
Smoke started to feel the corridors, Hanna started to panic more as she started coughing. Her fist pounded against the door as loudly as she could. She couldn't breathe, the smoke was suffocating, Hanna collapsed on the floor trying to collect any oxygen before she passed out.
Hanna woke up, her wrists were shackled together with a chain leading to a wall. The room was dimly lit, only a small amount of light filtered into the room. Hanna blinked twice staring at a silhouette of a figure standing in the doorway.
The figure laughed menacingly.
"Where is she you monster," Hanna screamed into the darkness of the room.
A slammed the door shut engulfing the room into near darkness, the sounds of loud screams echoed through the room. The deafening sounds of Emily.
Hanna cried out, begging for A to stop hurting her friend, the screaming continued and so did Hanna till her voice become too dry that no sound was coming out.
She tried to cover her ears to silence the screams, looking around the dimly lit room to draw her attention away she saw a great colour change. Staring at the area more she noticed the sickening shade of red that lay like a puddle on the floor and the blood-red handprints that decorated the floor and wall around it.
Hanna gulped, she knew she was in trouble now.
