Henry woke up from what he thought was just an ordinary 30 minute nap, but in reality was a couple years. Henry turned his head slowly like rusted gears. The vacant room remained silent compared to what you would normally hear in a hospital room. Suddenly the nurse broke the silence of the room.
“Hello! What great news you have finally awaken,” the nurse said with a giggle.
“I wasn’t asleep for that long,” Henry replied quietly. The nurse laughed as the echo bounced off the walls and however many other rooms in the hospital.
“You’ve been asleep for 2 years now. Or what we think is 2 years.”
“2 years?! What has caused me to be asleep for 2 years?” Henry commented with concern.
“It doesn’t matter why or when you got here, all that matters is the fact that you’re in good hands,” the nurses replied with a smile. Henry sat up, slowly proceeding to wake up from the bright lights in the room. He began to toss himself out of the bed, but the nurse attempts to stop him. “You can’t get up yet, you’re still recovering from your incident.”
“I’ve been healing now for 2 years you said, I should be fine,” Henry replied. The thought of what actually caused him to be in this hospital popped up in his head. His willingness to stabilize to his feet was more important at the time or the fact he can’t even remember how he got injured. Henry continued to slip out of bed, causing Henry to lose his balance, and the power turned off and him hitting his head.
Henry awakened suddenly when he noticed he is on the cold hospital floor. He became aware of the vacant room and the lights were flickering every three seconds. He got up slowly and limped to the exit to leave the room. The door creaked and echoed down the what seemed to be an endless hallway. He heard a whisper to what sounded like the nurse. Every step Henry took he stumbled causing an echo as that happened the whispers increased. When the lights flickered one more time, Henry saw something he didn’t want to see. It was a human body structure on the ground. It looked like a sleeping patient, but Henry couldn’t clear the image in his mind that the patient was dead.
The lights suddenly stopped flickering and darkness filled the area. Henry felt a chill sliver down his spine, goose bumps began to fill his body. He knew something wasn’t normal.
“Hello?” Henry said with fear.
“What are you doing out of your room!” The nurse spoke, but Henry didn’t see anything. “You need to get back into your room right now!”
“I can’t se-,” the lights suddenly turned on, but continued to flicker. He was alert that the body on the ground was gone. Henry followed the command of the nurse, but had no idea where she was when she spoke. Henry patiently sat in his hospital bed. After awhile, suddenly the intercom screamed,
“Hello patients. It’s time for ‘Get To Know Your Neighbor.’ Head to the main lobby!” Henry suddenly heard doors opening and people walking down the hallways toward the lobby. Henry followed the crowd as if he was one of them. Everyone seemed to walk in sync as if nothing was wrong with them. Then Henry thought to himself, is there anything wrong with me? The crowd came into a room that seemed to be a perfectly normal hospital room. No flickering lights and no creepiness, just an ordinary room. Everyone took their seat and Henry once again noticed something that’s abnormal. The patients seemed to be out of it, no one was talking and no one was moving. All the patients stared off into space acting like zombies, their eyes were all white. Henry attempted to talk to one of them saying,
“Hello? Are you there?” The being remained silent. Henry repeated himself, “Hello? Are you there?” Once again no answer. He continued to act like the others for a little bit so no suspicion would grow against him. The only weird thing about the atmosphere was that there were no nurses in sight. Not even the one that met Henry from the beginning. The only way Henry would understand this setting is if he snooped around.
Henry slipped away from the “event,” trying to find clues of what was making everyone act like this. Henry stumbled into a hallway where it is vacant with no one around. Far down the hallway he saw a room that has a bright green light shining through the cracks of the door. An odd sight that is not normal in an ordinary hospital, but what was normal for this hospital. Henry begins to hear a whisper not in reality, but in his head.
“You’re next.”
“What?” Henry says under his breath.
“Stay away.”
“Who’s there?” Henry knows there is danger to come, but his curiosity took over. Henry continues to creep toward the glowing door. As he reached for the door knob he felt a chill sliver down his spine. The door opened slowly with a creak. The rooms walls were filled with the reflection of the glowing green light. The container was a large sized container, which took up the whole wall of the room. It wasn’t any ordinary container, Henry had no idea what it was. He has never seen anything like this, but his eyes continued to focus closer on the container. He wasn’t expecting what was inside. Ghost-like creatures were flowing in the liquid of the container. There was something Henry noticed about each of them. They were all different in some kind of way. Little did Henry knew that thought would be his last thought as his body fell to the ground. The nurse continued to chuckle.