Bites, Fights, and Lovely Ladies
Ch. 04
Make it stop…make it stop…please…just make it stop!
Emily sighed again, she still wasn't responding. In fact, it seemed that her lungs and heart were working harder. She thought that this was probably caused by the dehydration, her blood thickened, causing her heart to work harder to pump it, and her lungs to supply the oxygen to make the heart pump. She knew it was the dehydration, but Jane Doe just wouldn't… couldn't drink…
Sighing again she got up and left the room and Jane Doe, who still moved nothing but her eyes.
Through the door Jane Doe heard a muffled, "She's getting worse."
Of course I'm getting worse, she thought, it hurts even more…
Most people would think that she had been constantly struggling to keep quiet and not scream out her pain, but in this reality, that's not the case.
Where as most people scream at pain, she didn't. She dealt with it by stretching, but already she had figured out that this pain wouldn't lessen by that, so she just laid there, silently begging for help.
It was at this point that the burning pain jumped to her eyes, which had previously been unaffected. It was a terrible sensation, like burning needles pricking just behind the top of her eyes and she snapped them shut; thankfully that brought just a little relief, so she kept them shut.
She loved it when the other boys came over. When they weren't concerned over Emily they joked around with each other, and even when they didn't joke around it was nice to hear different voices.
Sometimes she even heard that one special voice. She didn't know his name yet, and barely remembered his face, but she remembered his voice. It wasn't as if she had a crush on him or anything, but he found her! Without him, she might've still been in the woods, suffering the ungodly pain without anyone to listen to…
So she always felt a form of hero-worship whenever she heard him, and begged anything that could hear her that if she got out of this alive to have the chance to thank him, whoever he was.
Listening to the rest of the conversation she didn't hear much else from him except an argument between him and Emily, who she had come to know as the girl who tried to help. She felt a certain respect towards Emily, there weren't many people left who would be this kind to someone they didn't even know. Again she begged to have the chance to thank her.
Throughout the rest of the night not much else happened, but the next day, several hours after Emily had already rejoined her, all the boys who'd come through the house during her stay gathered into the room she was in, along with a girl she didn't know.
One of the boys stood towering over her head and she got the uneasy feeling of being watched closely.
"She's really bad, isn't she?"
I would say so…
"Come on Seth, let's go."
He was the one standing above her? She longed to open her eyes and look at him before he left, but they apparently didn't want to open, and in the process of trying to open them everything worsened.
The pain increased all she heard was her heartbeat growing louder and louder. The pain began to be sucked from her limbs and into her heart and she lost all of her senses. For a moment she thought that she had been thrown into a volcano… but then it stopped.
Instantly she was flooded with relief and thanks that it was finally over, but then she was flooded with different feelings. Her senses were amped up and she could hear everything… well… not everything everything, but a lot more then she could before.
What she heard the most was Emily yelling, and even though it seemed incredibly loud, it didn't hurt her ears. Then again, after the pain she just came out of, maybe she couldn't feel any pain anymore just because of the comparison. A minor ear pain felt like nothing compared to that.
"MY FAULT? How is it MY fault?"
Him! She wanted to look at him, but she was overcome by a horrible sense of fear; what if the pain returned? For fear of the fire, she kept herself deathly still and listened to their argument.
Funny, they seemed to think that she was dead. No, no, not dead, just a lot quieter. Don't worry, I'll move eventually, but right now I'm too afraid.
She was marveling at the tones of his voice and trying to imagine his face when something patted her shoulder, it shocked her and her eyes snapped open, only to see everyone in the room jumped into a defensive position.