Alice Isn't Well (Death Herself Book 1) by Amy Cross

Author:Amy Cross [Cross, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Dark Season Books
Published: 2015-07-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Today

“Why didn't you answer your phone?” Doctor Carrington asked as they sat in the hospital's interview room.

Staring at her hands, Alice was aware of the question but still couldn't bring herself to answer. In her mind, she was reliving the dead girl's stare over and over, focusing on the way her skull had been so badly broken that one of her eyes had been been forced up to one side of her forehead. There had been something in the girl's expression, too, that hinted at a kind of resentment, as if she was angry about being dead.

“Alice,” Doctor Carrington continued, “are you listening to me?”

She turned to him, but she found that when she wasn't thinking about the girl, she had no thoughts at all. It was as if her mind had been completely taken over.

“This is a set-back,” he added, making a note on the form he'd begun filling out a few minutes ago. “I'm sorry, but there are no two ways about it, this is the worst-case scenario in terms of your recovery. Alice, can you think of anything in particular that might have precipitated this public breakdown? I thought last time we spoke that you seemed fairly happy, fairly confident, but obviously I was wrong. Did something happen to knock you back?”

She swallowed hard. “The mall.”

“The mall?”

“I...” She paused. “Did you speak to them?”

He nodded, and it was clear from the look in his eyes that he knew all about the incident with the graffiti.

“So I'm fired, right?” she asked.

He paused, before nodding again. “It was decided that you shouldn't continue in that role. Obviously the pressure of going back out into the real world -”

“I didn't see the person who was with me,” she replied, interrupting him.

“The person in the video?”

“I don't know who she is,” she continued, with tears in her eyes, “I've never met anyone named Hannah, I...” She paused, thinking back to the extra bus tickets and the piece of wire that had been placed in the box in her room, and then the note that had been slid under her door. “Is it possible,” she said finally, taking a deep breath, “that I could have a friend, someone I spent time with, but somehow I've completely blanked her out of all my memories?”

“Have there been other instances where this has happened?”

“Just little things. Hints that someone was there, even though I don't remember anyone.” She paused. “It's like I'm alone and not alone at the same time. I know what the video shows, but there was no-one there with me!”

“The footage from Barton's Cross mall suggests otherwise, Alice.”

“But if there was someone and I can't remember her, then...” She paused for a moment, as she realized that there was no other possible explanation. “I'm crazy,” she whispered finally. “It's not going away, it's not ever going to end. Whatever's wrong with me, it's permanent. You might as well put me back in a padded cell and throw the key away, because there's nothing you can do.

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