Anna ran her hands through the hot
water around her hips as she smiled idly at the memory of Vivian
staring at her aghast as she watched her new room-mate swell up like
a leaking mess. That had been the first time Anna had ever had her
welts break open. The only time. Until today that is. She reached up
and trailed the water over her body, hoping to bring peace, but all
it did was cause the stinging sensation to intensify. Anna sighed
deeply as she stood, water sluicing down her body, she felt heavy and
she was starting to wheeze a bit. She knew she may have to go the
hospital this time.
Anna stepped one foot out of the tub
and felt herself slip. Oh, God, she thought before hitting the
floor, they are going to find me naked.
She opened her eyes
what felt like moments later, her head throbbed. She reached up to
her head and winced at the pain. Her hand came away red. Blood.
Great, now she had no choice but to go the hospital.
She slowly got to
her feet, being very careful so as not to sleep again. James lived
next door to her. They each had a key to each other's apartment and
she knew he was home, he had to. Anna glanced at the clock. It was
getting later, she pulled on some sweat pants and a thinning t-shirt
forgoing underwear as it would be massively uncomfortable.
Anna's image in
the mirror did nothing to quiet the panic inside of her. Her face was
beyond recognition. Her lip had swollen four times its normal size,
she had one eye that had swollen completely shut and the other had a
very heavy eye lid. She had a welt across her chin and her cheek.
Even her nose looked misshapen. She had blood smeared on the left
side of her head where she had fallen. She looked frightful.
The wheezing was
getting worse; she was literally gasping for breath. She pulled on
her bedroom slippers and shuffled her way out of her apartment
carrying nothing but her phone and house key. Once Anna was outside
of Jame's apartment she reached out to try the doorknob and frowned
when it easily turned in her hand. Which was odd, as James typically
locked the door behind him always. He was weirdly fanatical about it.
She pushed the door
open and noticed his clothes strewn on the floor in his entry way.
She followed the clothing, notching other articles of clothing that
weren't his intermingled. She felt sick to her stomach as she
reached the bedroom door. It wasn't fully. She could hear whispers
and giggles coming through. Her stomach knotting, she reached out one
swollen, blood smeared hand and pushed the door open.
Tears running down
her cheeks, setting her raw, blistered flesh ablaze she look at her
boyfriend. Her sweet, sincere, loyal boyfriend laying in bed with
another woman. All Anna could really see was blond hair and tanned
legs intertwined with Jame's own pale thighs. His eyes met hers and
widened in horror. The woman also must have noticed Anna standing
there as she began to shriek. Unconvincingly. Anna turned and ran for
the door. She heard fumbling behind her as James came after her,
calling her name.
She stumbled out of
his apartment and to the elevator, when the doors shut she saw James
running towards her clutching a sheet around his waist. Anna gasped
as her stomach roiled. She looked at her phone. Only one person
would come to get her at this moment.
She hit send on the
phone. “Vivian,” her voice thick with emotion, “ I need to go
the hospital.”
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