HEY GUYS! I know, I know. It's been a realllllly long time.. I hope I still have people who like this story T.T I just had such writer's block after the first one, I had such difficulty writing it :/ But I'm kind of getting back into the flow of things, so here you go! ^^ This chapter is short like the other one- I can't remember if it's shorter than the previous one, but ahh well. But I do promise that they will get longer in the future! I pretty much have what I'm going to write planned out, sooo I hope you like it ^^ Anyways,
Enjoy!
When she awoke, the man with the red, red eyes was gone. So was her mother. Instead she lay on a hard bed with strange, peeking sheets. Like they were watching her and cursing her for being so heavy and using them to lie on. The room was small, cold. The walls were white, but the corners grew shadows that leered at her, where the voices stemmed from. But for now, they were quiet. Small murmurs in the back of her mind.
That she could handle.
Alice sat up slowly and carefully pulled her legs to the side of the bed. The room was empty other than the bed and a small table next to it. On it lay one piece of small, crisp paper and a little bottle. She stood and moved over it, her eyes scanning over the paper.
Dear Alice,
You had a small spell in Mr. Pillar's office, so they brought you back to your room. The nurses informed me it would be best to leave you here for at least a week by yourself, to get used to this place, and Mr. Pillar decided it would be best to reschedule. Honey, I know it's hard, but I promise it's for the best. Just try, for me please. I will see you in about a week or so.
P.S: I had the nurses make a small liquid version for you to put your medicine in, since I know you hate taking the pills. Hopefully you'll like it, but please take it.
Love,
Mom
Alice looked over at small bottle. It was clear and short, with a clear liquid in it, and had thin, delicate card tied to the stopper reading in swirly, neat handwriting, Drink Me! She was thirsty-extremely thirsty. Her mouth was sandpaper, begging for a drink. But she knew what this one held.
That small, blue pill. The one that made the voices quiet down.
She liked when the voices were quiet. Like now. But when she took it, she could sense them gnawing at the back of her mind- she didn't want them to know. To know that she was trying to get rid of them. Defying them. That she hated them. Because then they would come back.
And they would hate her, too.
Her mother didn't understand. She cared, but she didn't know. Despite this, Alice carefully picked up the bottle between her thumb and index finger. Oh-so-carefully she pulled the itty-bitty stopper and set it on the table, next to the paper. Then she stared into the bottle, the still, clear liquid that was staring back at her.
She didn't want to drink eyes.
She could almost feel them, slimy, slithering down her throat. Alice blinked and shook her head, trying to steel herself. So, she closed her eyes and swallowed it, the liquid cold and slimy as it slipped down her throat. Alice could taste the bitterness of that small blue pill and forced herself not to gag.
She finished half the bottle before setting it back on the table, pushing the stopper back in and cutting off the rest of the liquid. Alice breathed for a moment, and glanced around. Almost immediately the shadows seemed less angry, and the remaining liquid wasn't eying her. But there was still something.
The bottle was smarter than Alice.
It knew about the voices. The liquid wanted to help. And knew how. It was waiting for Alice to figure something out. And now she felt tiny compared to it- everything so much larger, looking down at her, disappointed that she hadn't figured whatever it was out yet. She shrank and faced the door, which seemed a lot taller than before, the key hole gaping at her. Alice padded over to it, only barely noting that she was barefoot, and after a moment's hesitation, she reached out and touched the knob.
It was freezing, and she almost snatched her hand away. Instead she tightened her grip and turned it ever so slightly.
Unlocked.
Why would they leave it unlocked? She wondered, her eyebrows conversing and the edges of her lips tugging painfully downward. They didn't want her to go into other people's rooms. That's what that lady had said early- the one with the horse mouth. Now that she thought about it, Alice felt slightly embarrassed about thinking of her that way. Or anyone. But not Mr. Pillar. Whenever she thought of him, she couldn't regret seeing his red-red eyes, his terrifying face and roaring office. Alice shook her head before focusing on the doorknob. She turned it again, ever so slightly, and began to tug it open.
The hallway was long. Empty. Tall. There was no laughing boy. The carpet was still. Alice felt like a mouse as she took a tentative step forward, looking both ways. It was dark, the shadows settled into the corners or lay sprawled across the walls and floor.
To her right, down at the end, there seemed to be a faint blue glow enticing her forward. So, she took another few steps. She pulled the door slightly behind her, so that it's edge touched the doorway; not closed in case it locked behind her and she couldn't go back, but not wide open that it would give the voices the chance to follow her, or let anyone passing by know at a glance that she wasn't there.
Alice moved toward the blue light, the cool air crawling at her neck, and she glanced behind her several times before forcing herself to focus on the blue. She moved closer and closer, the only sounds being the light pad of her feet when she let them come down harder than expected. Closer, closer. The blue light grew bigger, and Alice shrank as she gained on it.
It flickered occasionally, as if someone were walking in front of it, and a few times she stopped, fear striking her. What if someone were there, that heard the voices worse than her? This was a place for people like her, after all. Or people who were worse. But why would someone like that be out at night? Unless, of course, their door was unlocked, too. Despite this, she pushed forward, and soon found her toes bathed in the blue light.
Alice peeked around the corner and halted. There, in a slightly open doorway, the blue light spilled. She inched forward, nudging the door ever so quietly. There was only the occasional shuffle coming from inside, and suddenly a quiet laugh. Alice froze, and after a second reached out and pulled the door open even more. The blue light bathed her feet as her eyes settled on the scene before her.
It was a small room, though much larger than her own, with one couch, a television, and a small refrigerator in the corner. From the couch came another laugh, as the one before, and Alice glanced at the television, i.e., the source of the blue light. It was simply a blue screen, colored and blank, with no moving pictures of people or actresses. The laugh, a male laugh, Alice decided, came again, though Alice now was concerned as to where the source of comedy was coming from. Suddenly the person stood, and the blue was blocked. The form was taller than her, maybe a head taller, with broad shoulders and shaggy brown hair.
They turned and Alice didn't have enough time to move before his eyes alighted over her. From the dark it was impossible to tell what eye color he had, but from where she was it looked almost as if they were yellow. He was handsome, around her age, and as she watched a slow, large grin curled across his face, showing off brilliantly white teeth. He stepped onto the couch, hopping off the back towards her, and Alice stumbled back with large eyes as he crossed to the door way in no time.
His grin was huge, stretching across his face like… like a cat. Did cats smile? When the voices were louder, she could see them smile at her. Before they grew fangs and tried to bite her face—
He continued to grin at her as he grabbed hold of the door. And then, he whispered just a few words in a low voice, almost a growl that ran deep in her stomach.
"Lost, are we?"
He slammed the door in her face.
:O So who is this? Wouldn't you like to know ;) Well we'll meet a lot of the characters in this next chapter if all goes well :) and I'm going to not make Alice as crazy as she was in the first one all the time, because a lot of the time she'll be on medicine for it, but we'll see about later on! So anyhow, I hope you enjoyed it! Review and things,, see you later!