"Oh god, my head!" My skull was throbbing like I had downed a gallon of vodka the night before then picked a fight with a truck and lost.
"Anna! You're awake!" The high pitched happy voice nearly split my skull.
"Shut up . . ." I groaned trying to turn over, only to have my arms and legs not move. "Wha?" I yanked, and once again my arms and legs didn't move. I cracked open an eyelid glanced at my wrist. It was in a restraint that they use on mega humans. "The fuck?"
"Oh, Anna don't mind that just tell me how you feel!" I turned my head toward the voice and saw Mrs. Virginia, my director, behind a large glass window. There was a speaker on the wall that I guess I could hear her through. Something was important about this . . .
"Uh, well, my head feels like I used it to stop a semi and my body feels tingly, like I'm about to get that legs fell asleep-pins and needles thing. Umm, did I get hurt?" The last part was spoken in a question as I looked at the Director through the glass.
"Well, Honey, what do you remember?" Director asked as she leaned forward, almost touching her nose to the safety glass 'safety glass, something was important about that.'
I closed my eyes as I tried to relive the last moment that I remember, "I was cleaning the power lab on Friday night to make it last for the weekend, I remember walking by the open formula for a new battery fluid, the red one, and seeing a power cord hanging from the ceiling. I remember reaching over the tub to grab it and," I scrunched my face," there was a loud sound and I was startled I remember a weird tingle feeling and being suffocated . . ." I whipped my head toward the director, "Did I fall in?"
The smile that the Director gave me, made me relies how bad my situation was. The restraints, the glass wall, the fact that I was contaminated with some experimental chemicals; I was a lab rat now. I started to freak out immediately.
"D-director please let me go! I-I'm sure that there was no affect at all! I-I'm positive!" I pleaded with her.
The Director gave me a sweet doting smile as she shook her head, "Anna, I always knew that you were oblivious, but could you really miss the color of your own skin?"
I turned my head toward my arm, and low and behold my skin was red, lobster red, worst sun burn you will ever have red, and blood red. I looked back toward the Director but she had already turned toward the lab assistant with her and they were ignoring me. I slowly looked back at my arm and stared at it. It was really different.
The once pale flesh was now red, but it was also shiny like I was made out of plastic. I could no longer see my pores and my once blue blood veins were now lost in the skin of my arm. My hand no longer had any lines in it and oddly enough my fingernails were pink.
I looked down at my body, blushing a little to realize that I was in a hospital gown, I was surprised at once.
I was thin. I had never been thin before. I hadn't been overweight but I was never someone you would call thin. But now I was very thin, almost too thin. And my boobs! They were gone! I was now flat as a board, and I had the suspicion that my butt was gone too. I looked back toward the glass wall.
"Mrs. Director! Why am I so thin?" The Director looked up from her conversation with the assistant and spoke into a microphone. "Your body is using an extremely high amount of energy to just stay alive, and while that would not explain the amount of weight that you lost, your body seems to be changing all unneeded materials into a chemical state of energy, and that energy is spread out all over your body."
I froze suddenly, a horrible thought overcoming me, "W-what kind of 'unneeded' materials?"
The lab assistant came over with a piece of paper, the Director looked down at it and began to read off. "All body fat deposits, all oil deposits, all color pigments, sweat glands, hair materials, taste buds, among others."
My mind got hung up on only one of those, "Hair? I'm bald?"