I wasn't a stranger to pain.
I've felt it in varying degrees before, inflicted through a myriad of ways.
I never welcomed it with open arms, but it didn't surprise me as much when it came.
This… This wasn't pain.
It is probably worse.
It was sheer… nothingness.
The pungent smell of bleach invading my nostrils is strong enough to bring me back to consciousness. The room is silent aside from my heavy breathing and the beep-beep sound from the heart monitor.
I scrunched my eyes at the light that was sipping through my closed eyelids. I felt powerless and heavy as the pain kept shooting from all over my body. I could not move my hand, my head, and my body.
"Thea!!"
The white walls started to clear up, my vision beginning to fill with sharper details as if I suddenly just found all the final pieces of the puzzle and figured out the picture.
Hospital room.
"Thea!! Are you okay?" I lazily turned my eyes to the gold-flecked gray eyes stricken with fear.
