Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena

Author:Hideaki Sena [Sena, Hideaki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2011-06-07T01:10:56+00:00

Hot air from outside permeated the hospital room, making it difficult for her to fall asleep. The bed creaked faintly as she turned onto her side.

She thought of school.

She had no desire to return there. The laughter of those two boys was still trapped in her ears. If she did go back, it was only a matter of time before she became an object of ridicule again. It was an unbearable thought. If this was how people were going to treat her, then living a life of dialysis was, to her, the more favorable option.

The next morning, a nurse came in carrying a white bag filled with packages of immuno-suppressants.

Mariko wondered what would happen if she didn't take them. She would only need to pretend to swallow them and hide them in the back of her mouth. Then, when the nurse was not looking, she could spit them out and stuff them under her pillow. No one would suspect a thing.

Then again, the doctor was sure to notice something eventually.

In the heat, her thoughts soon grew vague and disjointed. As she drifted between wakefulness and sleep, she imagined scenes from the near future when this transplant would end in failure.

Just then, she heard an indistinct noise.

Her ears perked up in alarm. She stopped breathing and listened for nearly a minute, but heard nothing.

Just a figment of her imagination.

She breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the window. A street fight threw jet black lines on her face mimicking the blind that was lowered between them.

She always had the same dream here of some unknown entity walking slowly with determined footsteps, her room as its goal. She wouldn't be able to run away. Her body was always paralyzed, her heart pounding close to bursting. And then her kidney would announce itself by moving around, enthralled by the strange presence approaching her door.

The footsteps always stopped just outside the hospital room. Before long, the doorknob would begin to turn.

She always woke up just as the door was about to open.

But Mariko knew who the footsteps belonged to.

The donor.

The corpse from whom she had stolen a vital organ had come to reclaim it.

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