Stay by Mia Archer

Author:Mia Archer [Archer, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

21: The Hospital

Alyssa:

Lisa was coming in for the finish. I held my hands out. Blinding light hit me along with a dizziness the likes of which I’d never felt before. The whole world seemed to float. Or was I floating?

The race. There was a race going on. I needed to be in the water. I wasn’t going to get disqualified again. I wasn’t going to repeat what happened at that stupid fucking state meet where I ruined everything. This stupid dizziness wasn’t going to control my life.

I jumped. Did I jump? Everything was moving so slow. The water was coming up to meet me, but everything felt wrong. I was moving so slow. I could see people in the stands around us cheering, but the cheering was stopping for some reason. I saw Sarah staring at me but she looked horrified.

I hit the water at a weird angle, but it didn’t hurt beyond the slap against my bare back. I was under water. I needed to blow out of my nose but it wasn’t working. At least I didn’t try to breath. I couldn’t move my legs. My brain was telling my body to move and my body wasn’t listening.

Damn it.

What was wrong? I knew this wasn’t right, but I couldn’t get anything to work. Everything went black around me.

Flashes of life. Was my life flashing before me? If it was it was showing me things that had never happened before.

Sarah wrapping her arms around me in the water.

Floating at the edge of the pool on some hard surface.

The natatorium ceiling flew past me as I floated on a cloud of air towards the door.

The sun and sky overhead. It was a little overcast and really cold. I mean not too cold, but the air hitting my wet suit and skin felt downright chilly. Fall was coming.

Someone growling at someone else. That sounded like Sarah. Darkness again. A strange white color and Sarah hovering over me.

Darkness.

When I woke up again there was beeping all around me. I was staring up at something bright and white. What the heck was that? I looked to the side and saw a bunch of machines. Sitting next to those machines were Sarah and my mom, and neither one of them looked too happy.

Of course Sarah didn’t look happy because she was leaning forward and staring at me with worry. My mom didn’t look happy because she kept glancing over at Sarah as though annoyed she would dare to be there.

I opened my mouth and tried to talk but it was hard. My mouth felt dry. I couldn’t get anything out. My voice croaked.

Sarah leapt into action first. She reached over to a tray I didn’t even see beside my bed and put a straw to my lips. I drank without thinking and water flooded my mouth. That felt good, but for some reason I still felt dizzy and weak. That was really weird. Usually that feeling went away pretty damn quick. Why was it staying?

A bit of fear and panic was starting to hit me.

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