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

Ava. Just

1. me.

No way.

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in this hazy

you have to come back. This is

should be.

here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t enough to kill me.

Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for

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my

Ava.

warm honey in

but my throat is parched,

presses into my

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my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur

Relief colors her tone.

heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words

want to protest but exhaustion

calling my name, but I’m already

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beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of

An IV pinches the back of my hand.

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

Her relief

here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over

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was I out?” I rasp, my throat raw

disuse.

whines softly. We were so

worried.

asks, way

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other

hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my

her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back

that leaves me exhausted.

take stock. My limbs feel stiff,

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. My hair is lank and greasy against my neck.

I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

of the century. I cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black

to me?”

his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort,

for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to

now, with all the strangeness surrounding my heritage, the idea fills me with trepidation. I flick a glance toward my wolf, disguised as a

not. She’s way too

soothes, sensing my unease. This

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Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a

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