Death by C.M. Radcliff

Author:C.M. Radcliff [Radcliff, C.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-24T18:30:00+00:00

chapter seventeen

PAST

I was pulled from the darkness faster than I had slipped into it. Between the beeping monitors and the sterile smell, it didn’t take long for my mind to realize where I was.

I was in the hospital… but why? It hurt to think, but I had no memories of how I ended up there.

My body felt fine, a little sluggish, but I had enough strength to sit up in the bed. The lights in the room were dim, but there was enough light to see my grandma hunched over on a chair sleeping.

I should have known that she would be here. She was always there, no matter what.

An overwhelming panic washed over me, and I was suddenly ripping the different monitor wires from my body. I needed to get out of there.

A nurse came running in and stopped short in the doorway when she saw me sitting up in bed.

“Curtis, I need you to sit down, okay?” she said carefully as she held her hands out in front of her.

She slowly took a step toward me without taking her eyes off of me.

“I need to leave,” I told her, standing up as straight as I could. I felt like I had been hit by a Mack truck.

“I need you to sit down, just so we can have a quick talk,” she demanded quietly.

“Oh my god, Curtis!” my grandmother cried out from behind me. “What in the Lord’s name are you doing?”

I turned back quickly to look at her. “Getting the hell out of here.”

“No,” she demanded, nodding to the nurse.

I turned back to the nurse just as I felt a prick in the side of my thigh. “What the fuck?” I questioned, glancing down at my leg and up at her. “What was that?”

“Something to calm you down. The doctor needs to talk to you when you’re able to.”

I slowly tried to sit back down but more so fell onto the bed. The nurse helped me to get comfortable and I laid there as she reapplied the different monitors.

Cooperating was better at that point and even if I did want to get up, my legs felt like jelly and I could barely keep my eyes open. There wasn’t a chance in hell that I would be able to stand up on my two feet alone.

Time ceased to exist in my mind as I fell in and out of sleep. When I finally woke up, I found the doctor standing by the side of my bed, arms crossed, with a pissed off look on his face.

“Curtis,” he started, looking down at me. “Do you know why you’re here?”

I looked back at him and tried to run through any memories in my brain. I still couldn’t remember a single thing.

My mouth was dry, and my lips were stuck together, so I shook my head no, not trusting my ability to speak.

“You overdosed on a large amount of narcotics and had alcohol poisoning. We had to pump your stomach for both and

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