As I looked around at the blank white walls surrounding me, my anxiety only grew. Why am I here? The question haunted my mind as my solid white shoes tapped softly on the monotonously grey floors. My green eyes landed back on the paper in my hand, reading the words again.
Patient 7539, please report to clinical area 3 for a checkup at 6:30am.
There were no “checkups” in that godforsaken place. Although they’d renamed the Asylum to be called a “State Hospital” long before I’d arrived, most of the people here called it what it was. The Athens Lunatic Asylum was not there to cure me. I was sent here to live out my life until I kneeled over dead. There was absolutely no point in having a checkup if I was just going to die here anyways.
“...What are you doing?” Josh Baker …show more content…
“Go find those two patients, Hannah. I’ll be back soon.”
“Don’t call me Hannah.
“Hannah sounds way more cute than Han does!”
I sighed, rolling my eyes and deciding that if Caleb was actually being serious, there was something to that Doctor Howard. I needed to find Josh, but where would be be? “PLEASE DON’T LET HIM DO THIS TO ME! DON’T! N-NO! NO!” My attention was quickly jerked to the end of the hallway. He was so fucking terrified as he screamed and thrashed around. “J-Josh?” The name spilled out of my mouth in panic, and his eyes met with mine right before one of the nurses injected him. “...Han.”
He must’ve got the news.
“Han, I can’t be a lab rat again..I.. I can’t..” Josh’s face went ghost pale, like he was about to puke. I took a deep breath, unsure of what in the hell to do. He’d just woken up not too long ago, and all he wanted was for me to be around. He was so fragile and innocent.. I’d always seen him as this crazy rapist, but there was something there. Something much deeper.
Josh and I, along with this other girl, were in
Patient 7539, please report to clinical area 3 for a checkup at 6:30am.
There were no “checkups” in that godforsaken place. Although they’d renamed the Asylum to be called a “State Hospital” long before I’d arrived, most of the people here called it what it was. The Athens Lunatic Asylum was not there to cure me. I was sent here to live out my life until I kneeled over dead. There was absolutely no point in having a checkup if I was just going to die here anyways.
“...What are you doing?” Josh Baker …show more content…
“Go find those two patients, Hannah. I’ll be back soon.”
“Don’t call me Hannah.
“Hannah sounds way more cute than Han does!”
I sighed, rolling my eyes and deciding that if Caleb was actually being serious, there was something to that Doctor Howard. I needed to find Josh, but where would be be? “PLEASE DON’T LET HIM DO THIS TO ME! DON’T! N-NO! NO!” My attention was quickly jerked to the end of the hallway. He was so fucking terrified as he screamed and thrashed around. “J-Josh?” The name spilled out of my mouth in panic, and his eyes met with mine right before one of the nurses injected him. “...Han.”
He must’ve got the news.
“Han, I can’t be a lab rat again..I.. I can’t..” Josh’s face went ghost pale, like he was about to puke. I took a deep breath, unsure of what in the hell to do. He’d just woken up not too long ago, and all he wanted was for me to be around. He was so fragile and innocent.. I’d always seen him as this crazy rapist, but there was something there. Something much deeper.
Josh and I, along with this other girl, were in