LAURA
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
That was all I kept hearing. The sound wouldn't f*****g leave my head.
I tried to open my eyes, but they remained firmly shut. My lids felt like two lead weights and lifting them felt like a herculean task. When I finally did, I must have been looking straight at the sun because it was so bright, I winced and shut them immediately.
The second time when I opened them, I did so slowly, and that was when I realized that I hadn't been staring at the sun. The room I was in was bright, painted with white all round, but it shouldn't have hurt my eyes like that.
The fact that it had meant only one thing; My eyes had been closed for a very long time.
Swallowing past a painfully dry throat, I looked around. There were machines connected to my body an
