It's the sound of the heart monitor that brings me back. The faint droning of a weak heartbeat, far too slow, yet somehow loud enough to wake me. Everything hurts. My lungs burn as I breathe in. The smell of disinfectant and cleaning products wraps around my nose, clutching on and refusing to let go. Beneath my body I can feel a hard mattress pressing against my spine and I twitch uncomfortably.
The room is overwhelmingly bright, lights tower over me and I can't help but squint a few times before my eyesight becomes slightly clearer. I'm lying on a bed. The room I'm in is horribly plain, white walls with no pictures, a window with a crooked blind and only the only sound is my heart bouncing across the walls. Nevertheless my eyes lock on to the only thing that truly matters. He was perching in front of me. His head is facing downwards and I can see that his normally confident body posture is now hunched and small.
I want to reach out to him but something stops me. I cast my head to the side to further investigate my surroundings, when I see a bedside table. On the table there is a bunch of flowers with a label hanging loosely around them. Jack doesn't like buying expensive flowers, hence he's always buying me flowers from the petrol station. Who said romance was dead? I smile slightly at his gesture when my eyes focus on the label.
'It was only a joke,' It reads. I freeze. The world around me seems to fall away and I suddenly I'm tumbling back, reeling away from the hospital room and back into my car with Jack pestering me to eat his chocolate.
I despised it when he did this. Jack was always doing this, always playing ridiculous jokes on me and never thinking twice about the consequences. And I, silly old Jill, always somehow forgave him. Though I don't know where I found the strength to. He's been a complete idiot... but who am I to turn down a piece of chocolate?
We were smiling, giggling like loons, it reminded me of how our relationship was before. Then I pulled the Vanity Mirror down and all at once everything changed. Chaos rained down on me as a black spider fell onto my lap. I screamed, my hands instantly shot off the stirring wheel and the car was thrown to the side of the road. I could hear Jack beside me, attempting to calm me down. I sprang from the car, clawing at my skin, tearing any traces of it away.
'Calm down! It's fake, it's a toy," The spider flew towards me and I jumped back. I felt it, metal plunged into my ribs, the bonnet catapulted me forward like a doll.
Blood.
"You arsehole!" I scream hurling the flowers towards him.
"Jill, babe, it was only a joke, I never meant for you to get hurt,"
"I almost died! You made me jump in front of a car, what the hell is the matter with you?"
"It was only a jo-"
"Get out!" I howl at him, pointing at the doorway like a mad woman. "Turn around... and don't you ever come back,"
I glare at him now, the man who I once loved, and feel nothing but rage.
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