🌹R O S E III🌹

🌹CHAPTER SIX🌹

My eyes flutter open as light is shining on them, I groan as the light is shining deep into my eyes and I need to close them again and open them once more and I need to do that a couple of times to adjust to the bright light that threatens to blind me.

Once my eyes have gotten used to the light the pain is burning me from the inside out. I feel so much pain in my body that travels up and down my whole body. I let out a wince as I bite my own tongue to keep myself from screaming. Why have the drugs not been given to me?

I open my eyes once more and look around me. I'm in a room and it dawns on me that it's not the hospital room that I've been waking up in for the past couple of weeks. The room is white all over, all the walls. The bed I lie in us white with white covers.

The window is white and I notice that there are white bars over the window. Thee is one white table in the room, beside the bed and it looks more like a nightstand. I try to stand up but I feel the pain erupt inside me which forces me to lie back down.

I start to panic on where I am. I've never seen this place before and I can't remember the last thing that happened to me. All I can remember is being with Alexander and sharing a kiss, but that is all. I can't seem to remember this place or how I got here.

A white door is opened and a familiar faces comes up. Lena. "Rose, are you hurt?" She asks me with worry as she comes around to the bed and sits down. "Yes, everything hurts" I tell her. I feel the tears prick my eyes and I find it comforting that she's here with me when I don't even know where I am.

She takes out a syringe from her pocket and takes the lid off before she takes my arm. Something about this seems familiar to me but I can't seem to place it where I've been through this before. But, it can easily be mistaken for one of the nurses doing this, especially Jenkins.

He's always the one that puts a needle in my arms. She injects whatever is in the syringe and I feel myself start to grow calm and the pain soon begins to fade away and become almost not there at all. "Where am I?" I ask her as I sit up. I look around the room once again.

Praying that I've just been hallucinating in the hospital room from the pain but it would appear that I've not, everything is still white and the same. "Don't worry about that, you're somewhere safe and I'm here with you" She says as she takes a strand of my hair that had gone over my face and she tucks it behind my ear.

"What is this place?" I ask her, I do trust her but I don't even know where I am and that does scare me and I need to know where I am. "You shouldn't think about that. Let me get you some food" She says and before I could even utter a word she leaves the room through the doors that she came from.

I look around me once more and see that there is really nothing here except for the bed and the nightstand beside it. There is no clock around here but judging by how the sun is rising on the sky, I would say that it's morning. I just wish that I could remember what happened.

It's not that comforting to be in a unknown place where I don't even remember how I got here. But, I do feel perfectly calm when I should be panicking. I feel like I should be trying to get out, or at least pressure her more into telling me where we are.

I know I should be screaming for her and trying to get out and I should be panicking beyond panic but I feel calm and I don't know why. A little voice inside of me calls out to me that I'm not safe but Lena's here and I know that I'm safe with her.

She is my best friend after all. The door opens once again and Lena enters with a smile on her face. She has a wooden tray in her hands with food on it and I smile to her when she closes the door and turns around. "I brought you breakfast and I think we should play a game of card" She says as I see that there is a deck of cards on the tray.

There is also a toast with butter, cheese and strawberry jam on top and a glass of orange juice, my favorite. But, she already knew that and the smile on her face says it all. "That would be wonderful" I tell her. She sets the tray down on the nightstand and helps me sit up.

"How are you feeling?" She asks me as she sits on the bed and hands me the tray. I lay it down on my thighs and pick up the toast and start eating it. "I'm good, now anyway, what did you give me?" I ask her. The doctors have never given me something like this before, I can feel how I'm much more calm and collected than I've ever been before and I can tell it has something to do with whatever was in that syringe.

"Just something for the pain, don't worry about it" She tells me. Lena is also rather calm but then again Lena is always either calm or insanely strange but that is just who she is. "This is really good" I tell her, referring to the toast. I also drink the orange juice with it.

"I know, I made it just how you like it" Lena says happily and I can't help but smile to her. She's so happy and calm and amazing. "What do you want to play?" She asks me and I shrug. "You choose" I tell her, I'm not the one that knows much about card games.

Never have and probably never will. When I finish the toast she puts the empty plate and glass and puts it on the nightstand and turns the tray around on my lap so it becomes sort of like a table and she gives me five cards and gives herself five cards and we start playing the game.

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The day is coming to an end and the evening has arrived. Lena and I spent the whole day playing different games of cards. She had googled and learned some of them a couple of hours ago and taught them to me and some of them were actually a lot of fun while others weren't.

But the tow of us had fun today. We also eat lunch and dinner together. However, throughout the day I kept asking where we are but she always changed the subject which I do find a little odd but I must trust her. "Are you hungry? I have bring you some snacks before going to bed" She asks me.

I let out a soft giggle, I realized that I can laugh now without it hurting and does make me feel so much better because I've missed laughing. "I'm already in bed... but no thank you" I tell her and she rolls her eyes as I smirk a bit. "You know what I mean" She tells me and I nod at her.

"Of course I do, I'm messing with you" I say to her. Lena has been so kind to me all day. Giving me meals and staying with me the whole day, she never went anywhere else. Well, sometimes she did go outside the room but she was never that long.

She always came back and she always brought something with her, like food and sometimes a new blanket or a pillow. I still wonder where I am but I don't worry that much about it, not as much as I should. "Lena?" I ask her as she was about to leave.

She says the clock is getting late and I should go to sleep because tomorrow will be a new day and she has something in store for me, whatever that means. "Yes?" She asks as she turns around to face me again. The smile on her face never leaving as it hasn't really left all day but then again I've also been smiling all day.

I feel happy and calm and like nothing is to worry about. "Can you sleep with me tonight, I don't want to be alone?" I ask her and she is quick to respond. "Of course, I will" She says to me before she turns around once again and leaves the room.

Leaving me in slight darkness and in the very white room and I still have no idea where we are, but I'm beginning to learn not to ask about it. Waiting here is even worse than waiting in the hospital room or is it better? I can't be sure of it.

In the hospital room thee was that horrible clock that stared at me and mocked me and those annoying beeps, I think I can still hear them in my memory as I try to forget them. In this room, however, there are no clocks to mock me and no beeps to annoy me.

In fact, there is noting in here, just the bed I'm in and the nightstand, nothing else except for myself. Lena always took whatever she brought when she left and then took it back into the room once she came back. I don't know why but I know not to ask her.

I can tell that she's going through a lot and I really don't want to worry her about anything. She has already taken away the pain with her thing in the syringe and that makes me feel so much better. And she has given me food and everything and she's been here all day with me.

Lena opens the door and walks inside with a mattress and a pillow and covers for herself. I wish I could help her but I can't leave the bed. As much as I want to (and I really want) I can't leave this bed or even stand up. If I stand up it hurts so much but I do wonder now that she has given me something for the pain and it doesn't hurt to laugh or giggle like it used to hurt, it doesn't even hurt at all.

She sets the mattress down on the floor beside the bed I'm in and then she turns off the lights before she goes back again on the mattress and lies down. I try to close my eyes and sleep but it doesn't seem to want to come to me. No matter how much I want to sleep, it doesn't find me.

"Do you think I will be able to walk someday?" I ask her, cutting the silence with a knife. I know that my legs are temporary paralyzed but what if that temporary will turn into permanently and I will never be able to use my legs again. Stuck in a wheelchair or a bed for the rest of my life.

"Yes, I believe so. Rose, you are the strongest person I know. You've been brought down so many times and you still stand alive, you were shot and you still breathe. The pain and the heartbreak tried to break you but you kept fighting and you will continue to fight. So I think you will walk again, in time" Lena says which puts a smile on my face and comforts me into sleep.