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.

remember the

be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in this

come back. This is not

should be.

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

won’t die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for

***

They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything

Ava.

warm honey in my mind,

speak but my throat is

nose presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue

colors her tone.

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick. “What

want to protest but exhaustion drags me under again.

but I’m already gone.

***

returns gradually. The steady beep of a heart

my skin. An IV

focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up

back. Her relief

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

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I out?” I rasp, my throat raw from

disuse.

softly. We were so

worried.

way too

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other

news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit

and Lucas rest their hands on

process that leaves me exhausted.

upright, I take stock. My

needle 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 elbow of my other

gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is

as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

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

flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and

don’t know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel

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

not. She’s way too big for that.

Selene soothes, sensing my

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been natural. Is Vanessa

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