Tangled

Chapter 112

112 Ava: Waking Up

Darkness.

Light.

So cold.

It burns.

My lungs ache.

Something’s holding me down.

There are whispers. Prayers, I think.

Chaos reigns in this hazy world. Something beeps. incessantly.

I’m sweating. My hands are too warm.

1. up.

What’s that?

… Ava, you…

Who’s that?

can you hear me?

I struggle to reach the voice that calls me,

but

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something sucks me away again.

Frustration simmers, but I’m too tired to fight it.

Ava, you have to wake up.

There it is again.

I know you can hear me, because I can finally hear you.

Hear me? Hear me what? Am I talking?

Yes.

No, I don’t think I’m talking. I’m too tired. My body is crushed beneath the earth. Fire ate every last bit of me. I drowned. The air was sucked away.

You’re alive. You’re asleep in the hospital. You’re just fine. You just need to wake up.

No, no.

No, no, no.

Waking is pain.

the pain.

will be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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here, in

you have to come back. This is not where you

should be.

me? But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You

***

sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct.

Ava.

warm honey

my throat

nose presses into my

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resting on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes

colors her tone.

thick. “What happened?” The words scrape

I want to protest but exhaustion drags

calling my name, but

***

returns gradually. The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

my skin. An IV pinches the back

but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is

relief washes over

and Lisa are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to

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out?” I rasp,

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We were so

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to me.

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes

a punch to the gut. I struggle

her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their

entire process that

I take stock. My limbs feel

a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line in the elbow of my

hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist.

I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black hole in my

to

us, a

Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel

to shift, to run beneath the moon. To be whole. But now, with all the strangeness surrounding my heritage, the idea fills me with trepidation. I flick a glance toward my wolf, disguised as a husky for a reason she has yet to explain,

way too

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for

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tastes like ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are

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