WhiteSpace Season One (Episodes 1-6) by Sean Platt & David Wright

Author:Sean Platt & David Wright [Sean Platt & David Wright]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Goodreads: 16122864
Publisher: Collective Inkwell
Published: 2012-06-10T23:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 4 — Milo Anderson Part 2

Sunlight hit Milo in the face, forcing his eyes open to blurred, unfamiliar surroundings. His vision slowly adjusted to bright light above illuminating the mostly white room. A punctuated blip from somewhere behind him beeped.

He rubbed his throbbing temples and saw the first of the tubes, sticking from the middle of his arm and trailing into the IV bag dangling above him on a metal pole.

Why am I in a hospital?

Milo shook his head, trying to clear the cobwebs from his memory and draw clarity to his present. He looked around the room, hoping to see someone, anyone, but he was alone.

Milo looked for a mirror, but found nothing. Just as well, he figured, since he could feel the tubes in his nose and throat, and clearly see the horrid layers of bandages snaking around both of his arms. Though it took Milo a minute to place the unfamiliar pinch, he realized with a quickly rising fear that the sharp pain in his groin was from a catheter sticking into his penis.

How did I get here?

Milo remembered getting the call from Cody in the middle of class, then Beatrice in the parking lot, nearly mowing down Russ Harvey while she zoned out like a zombie just as she had done in front of the snow-filled TV screen.

Milo remembered Beatrice riding the crazy train, right off the tracks and into the glass wall of the grocery store. Milo squeezed his eyes shut, replaying everything that had happened from the moment Beatrice picked him up from school, until the minute his world lost every drop of color.

Nothing made sense, and unless Milo was remembering things wrong, which he was sure he wasn’t, Beatrice hadn’t said a single word from the time he climbed inside the BMW, all the way until he was begging for her to stop or slow or at least say something. It was if something else had taken over her or something.

Milo felt a sense of growing dread as he remembered Cody’s warning:

“I didn’t think they’d strike now. In fact I was sure they wouldn’t. But they did, and that means they’re more worried about what Manny was going to say than I realized. That means you’re probably next.”

Was Cody’s message and Beatrice’s behavior related, or had Milo seen too many movies, and written one too many Twilight Zone-inspired short stories with Alex?

They might think you know more than you’re saying, Milo.

You need to get out of town. Now.

A flutter of panic filled Milo as the room around him felt as if it were somehow shrinking, and caging him.

He wondered if Beatrice was okay. Was she laying in a bed nearby? Or was she dead?

Milo looked to his side and saw a button on his bed rail which said, “Help.”

He pressed it.

A painfully eerie silence drifted through the room, absent even the usual sounds of a hospital. While he hadn’t ever been admitted to the hospital, his doctor’s office was located in the hospital, as was the case with everyone on the island.

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