Chapter 2: The Stranger-Who Are You and Why am I in the Hospital?
どう思いますか？ Woops, forgive me. I was having a conversation in Japanese with a friend. My mind forgot to come back to English. What I meant to say was, What do you think? I hope you enjoyed the first of my story. Trust me, I didn't. You didn't have to feel what I felt. The pain, the burning, the sweat, the…oh I guess you want to know what happened next.
I woke up a few days later in a hospital bed. The room around me was bland. White walls, boring important doctor machines, a bulky 1980s television up on a stand. The least they could do was update the place a bit. I mean Children's Hospital had A flat screen television and a XBOX 360 in every room! Looking around the room, I noticed that I was alone. The TV was making a little background noise. I tried raising up a bit and winced in pain, grabbing my side as I slowly lay back down. What I noticed then was odd, considering that I…wait what happened? (I add that because at the time I did not remember the previous events. The last thing I remembered was seeing someone tied up.) Anyway the odd thing, I felt skinny and buff. How long had I been asleep? Was I getting some type of food? How did I end up looking like this? These questions scrambled in my head as I tried to get up again. I felt the burning and pain hit me again as I forced myself up out of the bed. I screamed as I stood up and made my way toward the bathroom.
Once inside I looked in the mirror, there was nothing worth mentioning inside besides a toilet and shower. The same bland white walls shown through with some white tile. My face was covered in bruises and burns. A white ace bandage was wrapped around my forehead and arms, and my eyes were swollen. Then I noticed something, I was seeing clear as day with no glasses. I had been in glasses since the age of two. I lifted my hand up toward my face and covered my left eye. Perfect vision. As I dropped my hand, I screamed again. Then I lifted up the robe the doctors must have put me in. Instead of a slightly overweight young adult, there stood a skinny, muscular build stomach and chest. It had looked like I had been working out for weeks. None of this made since. I turned to leave the bathroom and screamed in agony. My body burned. I fel a horrible pain shooting all through my body. It felt as if someone was electrocuting me. The jolt of pain cause me to collapse, on the way down I hit a red button.
"Are you okay?" came a female voice from within a small speaker in the wall. My reply, was screaming. I couldn't get a single word out of my mouth. Then I heard footsteps. They were fast approaching. One door slammed open then the other. I was on my news bent over, crying, still screaming. I was holding my shoulders, almost hugging myself. Trying to assure myself I would be ok.
"Alexander! Can you get up?" a nurse was asking. He reached out to grab my arm. On impact I jerked away and screamed in agony again. The pain was too much. The slightest touch was sending the shockwaves back through my body. Only this time, my body began to shack violently. It seemed like a never ending process.
"Quick, Jackie! I need that syringe! He is having a seizure" The male nurse shouted. I looked up. A nurse came into the room with a syringe full of blue liquid. I fell backwards onto my back hitting my head on the toilet seat.
"It is just morphine, you will be ok."
Since I wasn't able to move, I had no choice but to let the liquid enter my body. The impact added more pain to what I was already feeling. Then within seconds, it was gone. All of the pain, the burning, the shocking sensation. I felt like I was in paradise. The other side effect was what came next. I looked up at the nurses and mumbled "Thank you." Then I drifted off to sleep.
Stay tuned for Part 2!