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

15:30

1:10

112 Ava: Waking Up

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

Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

15:30

2:10

112 Ava: Waking Up

here, in this

you have to come back. This

should be.

of darkness. I feel

won’t die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake.

***

my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct. White.

Ava.

voice is warm

to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper.

my palm. The

15:00

3/10

Ava Waking

on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s

colors her

heavy and thick.

want to protest but exhaustion

but

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

rough against my skin. An IV pinches the back

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

back. Her relief washes over me.

here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s

16:30

W10

Ava Waking

I out?” I rasp, my

disuse.

whines softly. We were so

worried.

way too

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from

like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak

against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up

that leaves

take stock. My

IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks

around my waist.

I waver, dizzy.

15:30

5410

Ava Waking

through a lot.

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 hole in my

to me?”

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

your wolf is trying to emerge. Do

trepidation. I flick a glance toward my

She’s way too

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

15:31

6/10

Waking

about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255