Ethereal

Chapter three:The vision

Her eyes cracked open…

Blurry visions.

White lights.

And the steady beep from the monitor beside her bed

The air was a bit heavy not as light as the one from heaven and didn't smell as pleasant

“W-Where.. am I ?” Ethereal groaned slowly

“Are you okay..?” A dark figure rushed forward worriedly

A sharp throb started echoing in Ethereal's head, relentless like it would never end

*Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

A sharp high pitched sound rang in her two ears

Ethereal slapped her hands across her ears, she tossed, turned, kicking at her blanket as if that would stop the ringing buh it never help…

Suddenly everything became blurry

*Flashh*

Horses galloping.

She sees a blurry vision of herself on a horse with a male figure above her, like they were running from something

The scene disappears and another slides in

“You have to go now.., hide among the humans and we will come get you soon” a dark female figure echoes… like a voice in her head and then

*Black out*

It all goes blank again

*Beeeeeeeeeeeeep*

The machine beside her goes static

“Bridget… Bridget?!!” Ruby rushes out screaming, worry written all over her face

“ Help..! Help!!”

“Please I need help”she screams dashing into the hallways, trying to drag every doctor she can find..

*Blurry visions again*

“What's happening..” she slowly opens her eyes, voice low

“ Don't worry miss Bridget is fine, so sorry, we will replace the machine, it should be experiencing some fault” the man in white said and bowed before leaving

“Who is that..” Bridget whispered with as the name Ethereal still echoed in her mind, trying to sit up

She winces, clearly in pain

“What happened..?”

Ruby is on the other side of her room still a little bit shook at the thought of her best friend dying

“Bridgie… are you okay?” She slowly approaches her

“Yh.. I think I'm fine” Bridget looks up at ruby trying to ignore the “Ethereal” ringing in her head

“Do you not remember wah happened” Ruby asked, still a bit worried

There's silence.

Bridget jus stares at her like she had seen a ghost

“You slumbed” Ruby rushes forward placing her hands on Bridget after finally being sure that her best friend was still in there

“I'm sorry, I…” Bridget was cut short

“ You must have hit your head really hard.. do you feel” ruby placed her hand on Bridget's fore head

“Fine.. I guess” Bridget still numb replied

Bridget had been having dreams like this right from childhood, dreams of heaven, and dark figures but never once had she ever seen a face

But this one was so sudden and this time it came with a name

“ I'm gonna go get the doctor, so you can be discharged ’kay?..”

“Don't go anywhere, I'll be right back” she paused and walked to the door

Ruby comes back with the doctor, she seems less worried especially since Bridget's test results said she was gonna be just fine,

The doctor arrived…,

Examined Bridget one last time before discharging her

***

Ruby took Bridget home because she didn't trust to let Bridget walk home by herself

It was a small apartment.. not the broke-college-kid small… jus normal small

It had jus two rooms

In the first room was her parlour and dining merged together, it was literally jus a small space containing her couch, some stuffed pillows, Pinterest pics hanging in the wall, a small window that let in the evening sunset making the house look tired.

At the front was a wooden coffee table. It had scratches and ting marks from mugs.

The TV sat on a low cabinet against the walls where the Pinterest pics were placed.

Nothing fancy, jus comfy

They walked into towards the bedroom, kicking over the cans and little litters that lay around

“Your place is a mess” ruby casually stated the obvious

“I know Ruby… gimme a break, will ya?” Bridget grumbled back

The bedroom wasn't all that large, I mean it was hard to say because the bed clearly took up more space..

White sheets, wrinkled now… with a yellow throw blanket kicked to the end of the bed,

There was a lamp stand on the little drawer beside the bed, there were also little framed photos of her and her parents and another of her baby birthday picture that she took with ruby

A white closet at the other end of the room and a door next to the closet wall leading to the bathroom

The walls were painted light, …cream maybe nothing fancy with little butterfly designs scattered across the room

“I'm gonna take a shower” Bridget yawned taking her clothes off

Ruby had already made herself comfortable on the bed with a magazine she slipped out of the lil drawer beside the bed

Bridget stepped into the bathroom.

Everything exactly the same way she had left it, every little detail

It was small buh not stuffy.

There was a little bathtub and above it, a shower head.

A little sink at the other side.

White tiles.

And the little stain on her blue shower curtains

She stepped into the bath tub and turned on the shower, she relaxed her body in the tub and for a moment every where went calm

“ Wanna watch a movie after this” Ruby called out without lifting her head from the magazine she was reading

“Yeah, sure…why not” Bridget's voice floated in from the bathroom

“Soon be done…” she continued

After what seemed to be a “forever shower”, Bridget finally stepped out of the bathroom…

Her white towel wrapped round her body

Hair drenched.

Body dripping.

She cleaned her self up, put on some lotion and dressed up

Ruby had already set the parlor for the movie, she had taken the yellow throw blanket to the couch and was waiting for Bridget

Bridget brought some chips n popcorn from the kitchen..

Ruby had prepared them earlier

They both sat at the parlor and started watching the movie…

The place seemed quiet for some time and then the silence got broken

“You're not going to work tomorrow right?” Ruby asked, eyes fixed on the TV

“You know how my boss is”

“Gurll, you better call him right now and tell him that you won't make it, you collapsed for crying out loud”

“Yeah buh he's my boss, I can't jus call in the middle of the night and say I'm not coming”

“You almost died gurll, pretty damn sure it was all that work and if you won't call him then I will…” A little sense of seriousness in Ruby's voice

Then silence…

Jus the TV playing on and on…

“Yeah and before I forget…” Ruby called out again

Then she paused, like she was contemplating on whether to ask

“Who's Ethereal” she continued sounding a bit bland, eyes still fixed on the TV

Bridget eyes widened.

She jus stared, didn't know what she was staring at buh she kept staring

“I…” she got short of words, like there was a huge lump in her throats that wouldn't let her speak

“You kept mentioning it during your seizure” Ruby finally turned to face Bridget

Bridget jus sat there, confused, and for some reason wasn't able to face Ruby too as she quietly bowed get head…