Pill Hill by Bryan W. Dull

Author:Bryan W. Dull
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mental Illness, Psychological, Addiction, PTSD, Drama
Publisher: Anthropolis Publishing
Published: 2021-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

9

Still waiting on Mason to finish whatever chore he was doing, Elsie sat in the same seat for most of the day, watching and observing others having a good time and, unbeknownst to her, getting a little drunk. The bunch's livelier were the nurses and the orderlies, with a small batch of the ‘crazies’ in its mix.

As she looked around the room, illuminated by the occasional strobe light and the light reflections, all Elsie could see were the people on the sideline like her. One lady with dyed pink hair stood between the archway going to the rooms because she couldn’t stand confinement in one area, so she had to have a comfortable space to be in, just in case she had to go to another.

An older man briskly paced around the room because he was afraid that he would die if he stopped. No one would have known it, but the man had been like that since the Vietnam War. His platoon took a break while they marched through the jungle, and as soon as they stopped, the enemy opened fire on them, and he was one of two survivors; if they had only kept moving, most of them might have survived. There was no real reason to think that, but he did, and he always kept moving after that; no natural sleep due to nightmares and the occasional flare-up of violence in public places is what lead him to Hammett in the first place.

The more she looked around at the people, the more she felt about it. What bothered her most was that if she was the one looking at all the poor people who can’t get better, they were all looking at her the same way. She didn’t want to be like those people. Elsie never had anyone to compare herself to, and she finally, after years of therapy and thought, realized that she is not the normal one...everyone else is not sick...she is.

Elsie popped out of her seat to find Mason on the other side of the room. She walked around the table with the punch bowl, where many lined up to find out where Mason was. She saw him on the other side, in the corridor where the rooms were, but before she could make her way there, Greta appeared in front of her.

Elsie scoffed and said, “I don’t have time for your bullshit right now, Greta!”

Greta put her hand up and retorted, “Just hold on a sec. I need to say something.”

Elsie crossed her arms, waiting for Greta to talk. “Okay,” Greta started, “I’m not good at this kind of thing, so here it goes...”

Elsie patiently waited for her to get what she needed to say out in the open.

“I’m sorry. Sorry for being a bitch towards you. It’s obvious that he wants you and not me, and I shouldn’t sabotage someone else’s happiness just because I can’t control my impulses. So there. That’s all.”

Elsie smiled at her, not believing a word of it. “That sounded rehearsed.

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