"Wha- who a-are you?"

I stuttered, as I do when I get anxious.

"It doesn't matter, grab your things and hurry! We need to get out of here now!"

The blond girl stood in front of my door in pink stripped pajamas. I was still in a hospital gown. She had a fearful yet strict look on her face, like she wanted to prove something. There was something, very slim and cylindrical sticking out of her left pocket near her chest, it looked like she had nothing else on her. I scrambled to get all my stuff in the old brown backback I brought. I didn't have much, just a couple pairs of clothes, some snacks, a sketch book that I draw in when I'm angry or anxious, and my I-phone. She opened my door very steadily, careful not to make any noise and peaked out the window.

"I think we're clear, step out and be quiet"

She snapped at me. Down the hall I could see the door to my nurses office wide open, she was on the computer probably finishing documentation. My heart was beating out of my chest as she could look up at any moment and we would be caught dead in our tracks. We tip toed to the door at the end of the hallway that would lead to the elevator.

"How are we going to get in there?" I asked

"Shhhh"

She glared at me, then she pulled out whatever it was in her pajama top pocket, it looked like the stick that man in the cape pulled out in 3rd grade. If my obsession (hyperfixation my parents would call it) with fairytales, witches and wizards held to be real I would say it was a wand of some sort. But I didn't get my hopes up that an alternative universe was real, I only believed in it because I felt out off place in this world according to my therapists and psychiatrists. After all, it was common for autistic people like me to dwell on alternative universes.

The blond girl pointed the wand at the door handle

"Alohamora"

She muttered

The door didn't budge.

"Shit"

I nudged her and she glared at me. My mum said 11 year olds shouldn't swear, she would kill me if I did. I'm not sure how old the blond girl was but I'm sure she wasn't much older than me. Sometimes I swear in my thoughts, but only in my thoughts.

"Why didn't it work!"

"I don't know, try again a little louder. I don't think that door heard you"

She took a deep breath and repositioned her wand

"Alohamora"

She said a little louder, loud enough for the door to unlatch and also loud enough for my nurse to peak outside her office. I could see her navy blue scrubs inch a little closer to us by the milisecond.

"RUN"

She shouted, we skipped taking the elevator as we knew we didn't have time to wait for it. Instead we ran through the hallway and down the stairs. I took a quick glance behind me and saw that there was no longer a tall women with blue scrubs chasing us, instead a 6 foot long Burmese python hissed at us from now only a couple stairs away. My heart rate sped up faster than I thought possible. When I said I loved animals I did not mean snakes.

We made it down the stairs and onto the first floor. The blonde girl was a few feet ahead of me and clearly more in shape than I was. The snake was now only a mere couple of inches away from me and ready to bite my ankle off at any moment. And so it happened, the snake bit it's jaw into the side of my ankle, I tripped and slammed onto the floor waking up the security guards that were only half awake with their eyes glued to their phones until now. I could feel blood rushing down the side of my ankle. If it hadn't been for all the adrenaline raising through my veins, I'd probably be screaming in pain.

"Code grey main lobby, code grey main lobby"

I knew enough about this hospital to know that they call a code grey when someone runs away, meaning security and who knows who else would be after us. In other words, we're doomed.

"Flipendo"

A beam of red light shot out of the blond girl's wand and sent my nurse flying backwards, she was no longer a snake.

"Not so fast mudblood"

The nurse sneared at me with an evil looking grin on her face.

"Fuck off"

The blonde girl shouted at her.
For some odd reason security was gone and everyone that was previously on the floor was no where to be found. It was just me, the blonde girl and my nurse. I was still sitting on the ground with blood dripping down me growing weaker by the moment. I felt my heart rate start to slow down and burning and shooting pains snearing through my leg. I winced at the pain and tried to get up but I was too weak.

"And what is a silly little traitor going to do, stop me? You had your chance to join our side and become become rich and powerful like your family and you ran away like a little coward. I bet your family is ashamed that such a little wimp was birthed to the Malfoys. Little Hailey Lucius Malfoy, too precious and too weak to seak glory huh"

And just like that the nurse disappeared. My whole body started to burn like like lighting bolts shooting though my veins. The room started spinning and I saw Hailey run towards me. Her face was hot with anger. Then 3 men and a women flew through the automatic doors of the lobby on broomsticks. The 3 men, one with black hair, one with red hair and one with brown hair and the women (she was rather hot might I add) with long curly brown hair and some freckles. The women examined my snake bite.

"Poisonous definitely and the poor thing looks like she's about to pass out. Good thing I had a hunch this would happen."

She whipped out a small glass bottle with something purple in it.

"Drink it" ​​​​

The women nudged me to take a sip, it tasted gross but I immediately felt better, I grew less dizzy and the pain numbed a bit but I still felt super weak and drowsy.

"Darn good thing we showed up when we did, if we'd gotten here a minute later you would have died kid"

The red head just said I almost died and I still couldn't tell if this was all just another hallucination. Either way I was shaking and my heart rate started to race again.

"Ron shut up can't you tell she's terrified"

"It's ok girl you can trust us I promise, come with us and we'll take you to another hospital. They'll fix you up and you'll be as good as new."

She seemed kind enough so I agreed. I got on the back of a broomstick with the man with black hair and held onto him. Hailey was ridding with the man with brown hair. Soring through the sky made forget about the pain I was in and how weak I was. I felt elated. An alternative universe does exist and I must be part of it now.