I remember
exactly what the sky looked like when I arrived at Butler hospital. I remember exactly how the air smelt, and I
remember exactly how I felt. I remember
the nauseous feeling and the churning in my stomach. I remember how I felt that I shouldn't be
here, that something was off about this place.
I, however, had no choice in whether I was going to stay or go.
I remember
exactly how the restraints felt against my skin. I remember the burning sensation it caused when
I fought so desperately to break free of them.
I remember how terrified I was of the two men who gripped my arms too
tight as they dragged me through the large building's front doors and up to the
nurses' desk.
"We have a live one for you," the one on the right
spoke out with a smirk upon his perfectly chiseled face as he playfully leaned
up against the desk to flirt with the pretty nurse who sat behind it.
"A live one, eh?"
She replied with a pretty smile.
She seemed unfazed by the man's shameless flirting. Her eyes shifted their focus from the godlike
man in front of her to me, the scrawny little girl from the island that no one
has ever heard of. "How old are
you, sweetie?" She asked, her smile
seemingly stretching even further across her face.
I however
did not hear her question. My focus had
been on something, on the mirror on the wall behind the pretty girl. Within I stared back at my own reflection,
studying every feature, and watching every movement of every muscle in my
face. I then diverted my gaze to study the
men that had brought me here, to this hospital; to this asylum. The faces that looked back at me in the
mirror were not of those to my left and my right. Though I knew very well that the man on my
right was devoting all of his attention to the pretty girl in front of me his
reflection was devoting all of its attention to me. What I saw in that mirror chilled me to the
bone. It was the eyes, for there were
none. Only darkened eye sockets where
the eyes should have been were staring back at me from the mirror. I kept trying to assure myself that I was
seeing things. That it was the stress of
loosing my parents making me see things that weren't there. I kept wishing that it was just the
stress. It was only when my eyes met a
pair of cold, dark, familiar black eyes that I tore my gaze from the mirror and
back to the pretty woman behind the desk.