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 wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

in this hazy place.

to come back. This is

should be.

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

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake. Up!

***

sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry,

Ava.

Her voice is warm

but my throat is parched, voice a ragged

wet nose presses into my palm. The

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I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with

Relief colors her

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick.

She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me

my name, but I’m already gone.

***

of a heart

skin. An IV pinches the

ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me, a comforting warmth.

back. Her relief washes over me.

asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to

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out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

whines softly. We

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way too close

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

to the gut. I struggle to sit

Lucas rest their hands on my

that

upright, I take stock.

pinches my hand, connected to an IV pole with 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

a hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

how I ended up here. Training

happened to me?”

us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my cheek

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do

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

not. She’s way too

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for

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Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right?

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