ENTANGLED

PART 15

When I fully gained consciousness, I was in a strange room. It looked like a hospital but the fun thing was, instead of a bed, there was only a mattress which I was lying on. The walls and the ceiling were white. It reminded me of a movie I once watched where the leading star was taken to an asylum!

No! It can't be,

I couldn't be in an asylum? Why would they take me to an asylum? How can they do this to me? No it couldn't be asylum.

Looking around, I tried to stand up, my body was still aching I guess from the fall and my left hand had a cast. I stood up slowly and rushed towards the door. Even the door was padded, really?

When I tried to bang on the door, no sound came out. Looking around, desperately I saw a camera and started waving at it.

"Hey! Is anyone there?" I yelled

"Hello? Where am I?" I continued. Suddenly the door opened, a nurse came in and in her wake was my mom and dad

"Mom where am I?" I asked. Mom looked like she had lost ten pounds and dad like he has grown ten years older.

"Don't worry you are safe now, " replied the nurse who was with them. I understood clearly why mom and dad did not answered my question, is because they were both ashamed to even talk

"Mom, am I in the Mental hospital? So you think am crazy? Even you mom? I thought you were on my side, how could you?" I cried. Mom tried to explain why she had to let them bring me to a lunatic hospital.

According to her, the doctor found a huge amount of sedatives in my body when I was unconscious. They thought that I was trying to kill myself again.

"And you didn't even bother to ask me?"

"Ann this is best for you" said daddy trying to calm me down

"I was using those pills so that I could sleep peacefully, I couldn't sleep dad, but with the help of pills, I slept without dreaming. And if I don't dream, I don't see him"

"Him?" dad and mom exchanged a look and at that moment, Twilight made an entrance, dressed in a lab court except his was black

"Hello you lunatic, time for you to take your medicine, because you are coucocu" he said with a evil grin

"But i...i..am not crazy, am not crazy, look do I look crazy?" I said trembling.

He started singing again " Shut up! I said am not crazy!" I yelled on top of my voice.

Forgetting that the more you try to convince people that you're not crazy the more you prove to them that you are indeed crazy.

I tried to get rid of Twilight but I couldn't. At last, he wave sarcastically bye. That's when I realized that his goal was to make me hysterical in front of everybody and he did pretty well at that.

***

My life since then become a disaster, I was never allowed out of the room. And whenever mom and dad come visiting, I refused to meet them. I spent like a month locked in one room, not able to see the sun.

Until one day, a nurse came into my room. As usual I thought she was there to give me my medication. But to my surprise, she led me outside and asked me to take a walk, in the garden

I should have been excited because I was going to have a breath of fresh air but no, I was like a dead person walking, like a zombie. Instead my leg just decided to take a tour around the asylum without mind's approval. It was a little nicer than the hospital but more crazier;

There was an old woman who was crying and laughing at the same time, she kept calling Jesus of Nazareth. It seemed like she was imitating how Jesus was being question by Pilate

"What? Truth? What is the truth?" She asked

"What you have heard" she answered herself and then burst out laughing, then she started crying.

I ignored the cinema and continued with my tour.

I found myself standing at the entrance written 'SECTIION C' the spelling was obviously wrong; maybe the one who wrote it was even much crazier.

I led myself towards the corridors that finally open up to a hall. It was crowded and the people were even crazier.

One of them threw a sandwich at me and yelled

"They are giving us sandwich because the daughter of the richest man is here" she said

"You shut up, we don't get this manna everyday" another said. I was so scared instead of being proud since I was a celebrity in the world of madness.

I skimmed my eyes through the hall to find somewhere to sit but it was all full, I skimmed again just to find someone who seemed less mad to sit next to.

My eyes caught one of the mad people sitting alone, I forced my legs to go over there and sat down. The food was horrible and that take from somebody who had no appetite for months.

"Why are you here? I mean, which kind of madness brought you here?" She asked making it sound like a prison. But prison indeed it was... She had a long brown hair which looked tangled out but seemed healthy as if it was taken care of, she was light skin and around Lydia's age.

"Invisible devil and you?" I found my strength

"Inheritance madness" She said shrugging as if it wasn't a big deal.

"Oohw, nice to meet you by the way am..."

"Anna, I know, the new girl"

"What now?,

"Don't worry, you are a celebrity" she added

" Am Julia" she said "Nice to meet you Julia" I smiled at her. She didn't seem crazy;

Seriously I was crazier than her.

"This place is only for mad people so take advantage and act all mad while you still here" she pat my shoulder and left. I must say she left me curious, she had inherited madness?

Was it from her mother or father? Strange.

I got up to follow her since we were in the same age group. The rest were either too old or too you and let's not forget coucou.

As I was rounding up the corner of the hospital building, I saw a nurse creeping behind Julia, he looked suspicious. He took out a white handkerchief from her pocket and dubbed it with a liquid from his pocket.

He grabbed Julia and covered her mouth with the handkerchief. she struggled a bit then the body went limp. I was about to scream when another nurse showed up carrying a stretcher and put Julia on it.

"Isn't this dangerous? She will lose her mind completely" said the second nurse

"That's the idea" the other one replied lifting one side of the stretcher

"It's an order from above" he continued unaffected

"But do you know why they are doing this, I mean she does not even seem to be crazy"

"Rich people's problem" they started walking while I follow slowly at a safe distance.

"Come on tell me, don't let me guess. Rich people have many problems" he whined.

"Like I said my brother, wall do have ears. Let's just carry this and be over with it" they entered inside the building and moved downstairs.

The place looked creepy like no one had been there for the longest time.

What could they be possibly planning on doing to Julia?

I wanted to know more but when I reached the door it was locked. I tried peeping but I could see nothing. After a couple of minutes trying to figure out how to get to know what they were doing when suddenly I heard someone groaning, then sparks of light coming from where they disappeared. I got scared, I turned around and ran to back.

As I tried to catch my breath, Twilight appeared and impatiently ordered me to kiss him, of course I refused. I could see annoyance in his face.

"Okay, so you are trying to play hard to get" he snapped his fingers and all over sudden the chains caught on fire again.

I fell down on the ground screaming for help. I begged him to stop but he just stared amusingly. Nurses came running towards me. They injected me with some sedative which made me feel calm a little bit then passed out.

When i woke up, my whole body was aching; I was wrapped in a strait jacket which restricted me from moving except from my head.

"You have finally woken up" i heard a familiar voice, it was Julia, same condition as me

"What have they done to you?" I tried lifting my head up which was so heavy

"Usual they just force me to take pills, but today, they did such a monstrous act, how can they do this to me?" She cried

"What exactly did they do to you?" I remembered the groaning and spark of light inside that creepy room.

"It was terrible, I was in so much pain. I wish I was dead, so that I can be with my mom and dad" her sobs became cries. I stay quite since I didn't know how to react to that.

"Sometimes, I wish that I was really mad, then maybe...then maybe..." she trailed off

"Am really sorry" I tried to sympathize with hers.

"We were so happy, I was their princess until that night, when they were both running late. We were supposed to watch a movie together" she smiled like she was back at that moment. Her face suddenly changed and the smile got replaced with sadness and grief

"There was a knock on the door, I quickly ran to open it. I was eagerly waiting for them but the one I saw.." she tried holding on to her tears

"A police officer, with his cape on his hand and do you know what he said?" he looked at me

"Am sorry" she finished, I saw a tear fall from the corner of her eyes.

"Sorry" was the only word I could say which didn't seemed enough "You don't have to be sorry, it happened long ago"

"Is that why you are here? Because you were so sad they were gone?"

"Three weeks after my parent's wake, while I was still in my room which I didn't leave, my guardian, who was my dad's brother, walked in with a group of nurses following him. I wondered what was wrong but the next thing I knew I woke up in this place, which is now my new home. Diagnosed with mental health, depression and anxiety, so said the doctor. Can you imagine it? Me, being a threat to myself? Anyway you have it, story of my life" she said finally looking at me, her eyes dry like she wasn't crying.

"So they are making you lose your sanity, they are electrifying you!"

"Yeah, only that this one is worse than the last one" this was unfair, unjust and inhuman.

What they were doing to her was just so wrong

" I will help you!" i found myself blurting out. I found myself making a promise without knowing how to keep it.

"Really? Let's not get a head of ourselves" she scoffed "No am serious, I can help you, my dad has connection, and he can talk to a judge and..."

"He also has, with my father's riches and the title of being the late Ambassadors brother...."

"Wait a minute; you are Ambassadors Julio's daughter?" I was shocked.

Everybody knew him. She just smiled and starred at the ceiling

"My father can still help, your uncle may have millions of connection but my dad has brains"

"The same father who put you here? Forget it, help yourself first" with that I had nothing to say, considering that it was true.

But then I was dealing with something that I have created. Mine was an invisible threat while hers was a different case

Twilight came back. "Wow, well, well, well. What is this? A pity party?" He asked "Shut up!" I shouted. Julia opened her eyes wide with shock but said nothing. Me too I wasn't ready to offer an explanation. I wasn't ready to offer an explanation that I wasn't speaking to her

"Careful their darling , you don't want to lose her before she becomes your friend" .

that's when it hit me, it was Twilight's plan to create a wage between me and Julia. So I swore to myself i won't talk to him, I will ignore him.

"You know what Anna? You can actually help yourself. You know what to do. Be mine, be free" he mocked. I just starred up at the ceiling pretending that he wasn't around.

"Ooohw, so you are going to ignore me, let's see for how long" he snapped his finger and the chains glowed.

This was becoming a trend, Twilight snapping his finger, chains on fire, me screaming the nurses would come with the sedatives and inject me. Sometimes I wondered why I was in this mental hospital in the first time. i mean I only met him twice.