My Secret, My Bully, My Mates by Miss L

Warmth.

Softness.

Safety.

That’s what I feel right now. I recognize the smells here, even before my brain and body fully wake-up. I’m home, I can feel it in every fiber of my being. A smile creeps across my face as I start to blink my eyes open and take in my surroundings.

“SKYLAR!” A scream from somewhere in the room brings me out of my safe bubble and I am plunged back into that dark dank cell. Was I dreaming? Is my mind starting to play tricks on me to make me feel safe? “SKYLAR! HELP! HELP ME!”

I shot up from where I was laying, looking to my left for Jena. But she’s not there, a door is there. No, Jena is chained up to my left. What the f*ck is going on?

SKYLAR! PLEASE, HELP ME!”

I shake my head, I’ll figure it out later, Jena needs me first. I swivel my head to the right and see her thrashing in a bed a couple feet from me. A bed. We never had beds. The white comforter is on the floor and she is tangled in the sheets to the point of strangulation. I shut my analyzing brain down and ran to her.

I grab her by the shoulders so she doesn’t hit me in her quest to get free of her nightmare.

open your eyes.” More thrashing and whimpering. “JENA,

and Doc Sylvia, Osiston and Lillian are there. Jena jumps back more, receding into the spot where her headboard meets with the wall and she makes herself as small as possible. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the Find_Nøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early

eyes turn towards me, wide and unfocused. She’s awake, kind of, but still locked in her dream. “We. Are.

that prison.” I don’t look behind me, but the question is aimed at

what is real. It will help her brain to start to accept that she is free. I don’t even know if she can hear me right now.” Doc Sylvia says from the door. “Five things that she can see. Four things she can feel. Three things she can hear. Two things she can smell. And

are going to

on my face, I know she is trying and present at

five things

darted around the room, almost like a trapped bunny. “I see

“Good, what else?”

wrapped around my legs. I see the people at the door with Doc Sylvia, I don’t remember names though.” She

your’s maybe and a desk

me four things you

your hand.” She smiles for real this time, it’s small, but real. “I feel

is color to her cheeks and

outside the room. Where are

get distracted by