Worn chapter 5
It had been three days since Lyle had hung himself. They had put Konnor in the padded room until he calms down. Pietro had also seen Lyle and it had effected him as well. He hadn't eaten no drunken anything since then and he was becoming terribly thin due to his fast metabolism from his mutation.
He was laying on his bed currently when Nurse Annett came into his room with an assistant and a cup of water.
"Pietro, you need to at least drink something." Pietro stared at her. She tried to make him drink the water but failed. She then signaled to the assistant to get him to the medical room.
The assistant picked Pietro up and carried him to the medical room without Pietro resisting at all. He was placed down on a bed.
Nurse Annett swabbed Pietro's arm with alcohol then took an I.V. and put it in his vain before covering it with medical tape.
"It's fluid so you won't be dehydrated." Pietro didn't move. "If you don't eat something we will have to call the Professor."
"How's Konnor?"
"Upset but he's getting better."
When they were done with the I.V., Annett took it out and bandaged his arm. Pietro got off the bed and tried to walk but his legs shook from weakness. The assistant helped Pietro walk to the T.V. room where he sat on a couch.
Hyram was on another couch in front of the T.V. He was watching something and criticizing it at the same time.
Benji came over and sat on the couch with Pietro. "You ok?"
"I just haven't been eating."
"Better start again or you know what's gunna happen."
"Yeah. I know. I just haven't been hungry." Pietro began to space off.
"Someone call an ambulance!" people were yelling.
"His pulse is weak." he could hear alarms and so much yelling. "Can you hear me?" there was a pause. "Not responsive."
"Pietro?" Pietro shook his head.
"Sorry. I was just thinking."
Hyram sat on the couch with them. "What an idiot Lyle was." Pietro thought of the site he had seen when Hyram said that. He narrowed his eyes.
"Your such a bastard, Hyram." Benji shot at him. Konnor walked over with an assistent and sat down too then the assistant left.
"Hey, they let you out!" Hyram said. Konnor looked worse then usual. "So, you guys wanna sneak around tonight?"
"How do we do that?" Pietro was curious.
"Meet at the art room tonight." Hyram then walked away.
That night-
The lights were off and Pietro and Benji now wondered over to the art room where they met up with Konnor and Hyram.
"There are a bunch of underground tunnels and rooms that are no longer used." Hyram spoke.
"How'd you find this out?" Benji asked. Hyram just laughed. He tried to open the art room door but it was locked. He picked the lock and everyone went inside before he closed the door.
Hyram then went over to the door which Pietro thought was a closet but it turned out to have stairs leading down into darkness.
Hyram took out a flashlight then turned it on. They walked down the stairs to come to a hallway with more doors.
They walked until they came to a particular door.
"Most of these rooms are full of junk but I found this one to be interesting." he opened the door and turned on the lights inside.
There were file cabinets, a tape player, tapes, and strange devises.
"What are those devices?"
"They were used on the people here cause they thought it's help them get better."
"Do they still use them?" Pietro asked, Konnor nodded; wanting to ask the same thing.
"Dunno. Rumor says they still do."
"No they don't! Stop scaring them!" Benji yelled and it echoed through the halls.
"That's what I heard." Hyram looked through the files for something interesting.
Pietro looked at the cassette player noticing there was a tape in it. He pushed play and he could hear people talking.
"Those are session tapes." Hyram told them. They could hear a person crying. Suddenly it started making a strange screeching noise like a huge animal. Konnor covered his ears and Pietro turned it off.
"What the hell was that?" Benji yelled. It had scared them, but Hyram remained calm and smirked. The lights then started to flicker and everyone looked at them. The lights soon gave out and Benji tried to turn them back on but they would not come back on. Hyram showed them files with the flashlight. "Lobotomies, electro shock therapy, suicide. The list goes on."
The screeching started again. Pietro tried turning off the cassette player again but it wasn't working.
"Let's get the fuck out of here." Benji said. They all started to run down the hall to get to the stairs. Konnor fell on the way but was helped up by Pietro. They all ran up the stairs and closed the door.
"The files say people have died here like Lyle."
"You mean this place is haunted?" Konnor asked; Hyram nodded.
"No it's not! Let's get back to our rooms before they notice we're gone." Benji said while the others nodded. They went back to their rooms like nothing had happened.
Benji turned to Pietro. "In all the time I've been here, nothing had happened that was strange. Don't listen to Hyram." Pietro nodded.
When Benji was asleep, Pietro lay on his bed thinking. There was light from the moon that entered his room through the windows and bars, which made him feel trapped.
'There are things I picked up from being here, especially from Benji who tells me questions and thoughts I now dwell on. Like, there are always times when you feel that something is the worst it's ever been and that it can't get worse. You feel like you're going to loose everything and be left with nothing and be a different person or that you'll disappear. You fight and continue on but then it gets worse and you know that it will continue to get worse. You think to yourself, what's the point of life? Do I have a purpose? What does the purpose matter? When faced with death you choose life but aren't sure why and continue on searching and waiting for something you have no idea what it is. Benji said he thinks about this stuff a lot and says that time doesn't really exist, that time was created by humans. It makes sense. He says there are things you can't quite comprehend as though you're incapable of understanding some things or that you're not supposed to know. I found out that Hyram has a whole conspiracy theory and all I could think at the time was that Hyram might not be who we think he is. I don't think this place is haunted and that this whole thing is some sort of plan made by Hyram but I'm not sure what. My appetite is gone but all I think about it is it's my body who needs to eat and not me. I think that might have blocked out the feeling of hunger from my mind even though the hunger is there. It's just like Tylenol.'
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