Mason's Horror

Chapter 3 Just Another Day In Paradise

(Mason's pov)

The nex morning I'm woken up not to being grabbed and dragged to be tortured but I'm woken up by the smell of something delicious being cooked what seemed like right out side my door so I get up and stretch put some really comfy slippers on and walk to my door I noticed that it wasn't like the doors before metal and bolted shut no this door was wooden with a window it also locked on the inside rather then than the outside as I look out the little window I noticed that all the people that used to be locked away were walking the halls smiling and laughing so I opened my door and was hit with the smell of freshly cooked bacon, eggs, pancakes, sausage, and biscuits.

I make my way to where the smell is coming from and realized that there actually was a cafeteria here. I finally get up to where they are serving the food and ask for everything I see because I am starving. I find a table to sit at and take a seat and practically devour the food and my drink. I'm finishing up my food and I see the nice front desk lady struggling to carry some boxes so I quickly finish the last bite or two of my food throw my trash away put my tray where it goes on top of the trash can and walk over to her to see if she needs some help with the boxes she's carrying.

As I'm walking up to her I ask her if she'd let me help her out when at about the time I got to her she drops all of the boxes and looks as if she was about to cry. I ask if she ok and tell her that I'll carry the boxes and all she has to do is lead the way.

she smiles and says "thank you mason I really appreciate your help". As I'm picking up and stacking the boxes I tell her that shes welcome and if she needs help carrying boxes or anything like that she can come get me and I'll help her. She leads me to a*****e room where the boxes are going to be kept and says thank you again and if she needed my help she'd ask for it.

I walk around for awhile after that talking to anyone who wanted to talk and checked out all the changes being made to the building the floors where constantly being kept cleaned along with the rooms that now had private bathrooms with a shower, ikr lol private bathrooms it's amazing. anyway I get done exploring and make my way to my room to clean up and maybe take a nap or something when I bump in to tia (the front desk lady) I quickly apologize and make sure she's not hurt she apologizes to and says she's ok and isn't hurt and explains she was just laying some reading material and more of my cloths that had been washed on my bed a long with some paper and writing utensils I tell her thank u for placing them in my room for me and she says ur welcome and walks away. I put everything away and get a quick show get dressed and decide to read a bit before lunch is served.

Lunch is served in the cafeteria around noonish or so and was delicious it was fried chicken with mc and cheese baked beans and coleslaw. I finished eating everything and put it where it went and headed back to my room to take a nap before dinner. On my way to my room I hear my name being called I turn to see who it was and to my surprise it was tia. she reaches me and asked me if I would mind helping her move some furniture that had just arrived in the truck inside to the new movie room. I of course told her I'd love to help her and away we went.

after helping tia I still had a few hours before dinner so I went back to my room to take a nap.

(Tia's pov)

My life hasn't always been good but it's getting better my parents passed away when I was little in a bad car accident. I was taken in by my family but had to learn to do everything by myself. I got through school on my own finishing high school early with a high gpa and was giving a scholarship for psychology and was able to make my own way though college. I was on my 3rd year of college when I got a job offer to run an institution that had previously been mistreated after hearing all the details of what had happened and being given warning and seeing pictures of what the place looked and smelled like I accepted the offer.

Now I'm not sure why I accepted this offer because I'd have to pack up my life and move there cause I live in the city of Louisiana but somewhere in my heart I had to take the job not only to help these people but get hands on experience in the degree that I'm going for. As I walk in to the building this god awful smell hits my nose I was told that the place was pretty bad I just didn't realize how bad it was till now. looking around i saw that a lot of what I had seen in pictures had started to be cleaned up but the smell was still in the air even though they were repainting everything and replacing all the furniture you could still smell the horrible smell that told the story of the buildings history.

After unloading my car and placing everything in my room and my office I made a quick run to the store to buy something to help try and get ride of what's left of the pungent odor in the building. I bought a ton of candles and wax and oil warmers and incense in all different scents.

After arriving back to the hospital I was carrying the boxes from my store haul inside when I suddenly tripped and dropped all the boxes I hadn't noticed mason till he asked if I was ok he then proceeded to say that he will carry the boxes and all i have to do is lead the way.

I smile and say "thank you mason I really appreciate your help." As he's picking up and stacking the boxes he tells me that I'm welcome and if I needed help carrying anymore boxes or anything like that i can come get him and he'll help me. I take him to a*****e room where the boxes are going to be kept and I say "thank you again and if i need your help I will definitely ask for it." I head back to the front desk when one of the houses keepers asked me if I minded delivering some stuff to one of the rooms I politely agreed and asked which room she needed it delivered to and she said thank u and that it goes to masons room I smiled and said ur welcome and that I would gladly deliver it for her.

as I got to his room I knocked but no one answered so i opened the door to see if maybe he was just asleep or wasn't in there to my disappointment he wasn't in there so I went ahead and set his stuff on his bed and started to walk out his room. upon walking out his room I ran smack dead in to someone they apologized and asked if I was as ok I then realized it was Mason and I say I'm ok and I'm not hurt and I explain to him that i was just laying some reading material and more of his cloths that had been washed on his bed along with some paper and writing utensils.after lunch I'm on my way to find mason when I see him walking to his room i called his name and he turned around to see who had called him upon realizing it was me he stopped walking allowing me to catch up to him. upon reaching him I asked him if he would mind helping me move some furniture that had just arrived in the truck inside to the new movie room. he of course said he'd love to help me and away we went.

Mason was a great helper he actually looked like he enjoyed helping me when none of the others did I was happy for him and happy he liked to help me. I could already tell he would be a big part of my life here at the hospital and well that made me extremely excited to be honest I'm not really sure why but I think I'm starting to like this man who is always there at the right time if hes not he isn't hard to find that's for sure.