Allergic To Time by Gables Crystal

Author:Gables, Crystal [Gables, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Pink Planet Publishing
Published: 2015-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

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The next thing I knew I was awake, this time in a totally normal hospital room, well above ground, with light streaming in through the clear windows. Bright light.

I squinted and looked out into the dazzling sunshine. It seemed to be a typical Sydney sky, with bright blue stretching all the way to the horizon. I pulled myself up, my arms having seemingly found the strength they’d lacked in the downstairs dungeon room. I put my hands up to my face, checking for the oxygen mask. There was nothing there, my mouth and nose were now unimpeded.

“Hello?” I called out. My throat was dry and scratchy, so it came out more as a loud whisper. I coughed and tried again. “Hello?” I sat back against my pillows, looking around for a buzzer to press so that I could get someone in to assist me. I found a button beside the bed with instructions that it be pressed for emergencies, but as my finger lingered above it I paused. Was it really the best course of action? I might have been in a normal looking room, but that didn’t mean that they were just going to let me walk out of there freely.

I took my hand away from the button and looked around the room, deciding that I’d stay as quiet as possible and get out of there as soon as I could. I looked down at what I was wearing. Damn it, I was in a pale blue hospital gown. What had happened to my stuff? A surge of panic coursed through me as I remembered that all my personal belongings were in a bag in a rented apartment in Nelson Bay. That included my laptop. And my thesis.

Come on, I told myself, you can worry about that later. In the meantime I had to worry about getting out of the hospital in one piece. Slowly, trying not to make any sounds that would alert anyone that I was awake, I peeled back the blanket that was covering me and placed one foot gingerly on the floor. Then I turned my body around and put the other foot down, and slowly stood up. I tiptoed over to the door and quietly opened it, peering around into the hall.

“Goddamn!” I whispered, immediately regretting my decision. There were people everywhere. For some reason I’d thought the normal part of the hospital would be as deserted as the creepy dungeon part, but it certainly was not. In less than three seconds I was surrounded by four nurses.

A round blonde one beamed at me. “Anna!” she called out in a delighted tone. “You’re up and about!”

“Erm, I sure am,” I said.

“You should be in bed. You could have pressed the buzzer. We’d have come straight away.”

“Oh, I didn’t want to cause any trouble.”

She smiled at me, and said her name was Rosie. A look of concern crept across her face. She glanced around us quickly, then took my shoulder. “Why don’t we go back

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