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I tucked my head in my lap, curling up like a ball.
"I’m the doctor in charge and no one gave you permission to come in here!” she yelled again.
Hands touched me everywhere, and all at once, causing me to fight harder. Pain coursed through my entire body, my head throbbed and my vision blurred.
“She's going into shock. Get the hell out of here now! You’re not helping anything.”
“We’re trying to help her. We have a Detective behind bars and a man who—”
“Nooooo!” I cried out. “No… no… no… no… no…” I sobbed, my body shaking uncontrollably to the point of pain.
“Get out! Now!” she ordered. “Aubrey, Aubrey, sweetie, you need to stay with me. You need to calm down,” said the woman in scrubs and white coat.
She seems so familiar? Do I know her?
I shoved their hands away, pushing at the grips they all had on me. At anything near me, at anything that was touching me.
“Don’t touch me! Don’t fucking touch me!” I screamed, violently thrashing my body around. Causing even more pain. The sounds of the machines beeping all around me were deafening. “Don’t fucking touch me!” I repeated, yelling out bloody murder.
“Grab her legs!” someone demanded above me. “Help me grab her arms.”
Their hands were everywhere, trying to control me, trying to restrain me, trying to undo me.
“No! No! No! No!” I whipped around every which way, but they were too strong for me.
They were always too strong for me.
“Please… please… please…” I bawled like a baby, my emotions overtaking me, smothering me in nothing but a sea of despair and loneliness.
“Shhh… shhh…” they coaxed and I immediately pictured Dylan’s face, Dylan’s voice.
I instinctively placed my free hand over my heart, taking in their words, “Shhh… shhh…”
My body felt slack, heavy, foreign, as a warm sensation began surging through me from my head down to my toes.
“Shhh… go to sleep. Close your eyes and go to sleep, Aubrey…” I heard them faintly say as an echo in the distance.
I shook my head, desperately trying to keep my eyes open. I couldn’t fight it off. I never could. I closed my eyes against my will, welcoming the darkness.
Silence.
Always numb.
Always alone.
Always afraid.
I secretly prayed that I would never wake up or that I would die.
Knowing in my heart…
I was never that lucky.
DYLAN
I walked into Alex’s restaurant like a man on a goddamn mission.
“Fuck, man, what the hell happened to you?” my friend Jacob asked, taking in my bloody lip, bruised eye, and cut up knuckles.
