“The Unhappy Fairytale” Chapter 7: Hospital

Waking up Jake looked around the dark room, he was very cold and sweat dripped down his pale face. Jake went to wipe his face but felt a pull on his arm, looking down he saw that there was tube sticking in it. He also felt a great pain coming from his wrist upon inspection Jake saw that his wrists were bandaged. On the outside of them blood had soaked though. In a panic Jake ripped off his bandages peering though the darkness trying to see what he had done. Jake saw four cuts on each arm with about twenty stitches in each one. 1

Jake could barley believe it last night had been a complete blur to him he could hardly remember anything only a few things stuck in his head, the knife, the picture of him and Kayla, but other then that there was nothing. Trying to keep his mind on others things Jake looked around the room, trying to identify objects though the darkness. In the left corner of the room Jake spotted a TV hanging from the ceiling, and wondered if there was a controller anywhere.2

For about three minutes Jake searched the room with his eyes making sure that he didn’t miss anything, and found the remote on the nightstand next to him “yes my first great victory” said Jake to himself trying to make himself feel better, but it didn’t work. Jake reached over to the remote, which took a lot more effort then he had anticipated it would, but after another battle with lifting the controller Jake came out victories. This time Jake yelled at himself “ look at yourself your in the hospital stupid stop trying to make light of it, now just turn on the TV and watch it”.3

When Jake turned to the TV the room lit up and he had to close his eyes because they were so sensitive. After a couple seconds he opened his eyes back up and looked at was on the TV. It was some guy doing standup comedy. Jake scoffed under his breath “ hack” then changed the channel to cartoon network and put the remote back on the nightstand.      4

Ed, Edd, and Eddy was on it was one of Jakes favorite shows, but Jake wasn’t really interested in the show his attention was more on his wrists. Even though it hurt Jake traced over the cuts on his arm with his finger slowly becoming entranced within them, it felt weird because even though he was touching them and he could feel the pain. 5

It was it like they weren’t part of him. Jake was startled out of his trance when a young women walked in and turned on the light. Walking over to Jake who still had his finger over one of his cuts that had started bleeding due to the pressure he had applied to it. Jake thought she was going to be angry and yell at him but instead she merely looked at his arm turned around to a cabinet behind her and grabbed some more bandages. “How’s that” she said after finishing wrapping jakes arm. Jake who couldn’t think of much to say just said “great”, and the women just smiled and left turning off the lights and leaving Jake to be alone with his thoughts once more.6

After she left Jake turned his attention back to the TV occasionally poking at his bandages. About half way though his show Jake became very tired and could feel his eyes get heavy…Jake woke up on the ground, looking around he saw that he wasn’t in the hospital any more. He couldn’t really tell where he was because it was completely dark, Jake could barely see hands in front of his face. Jake heard a sound behind him and when he turned around there was a bench. He didn’t really feel like standing so he walked over the bench, which almost looked like it was glowing and took a seat.7

When Jake sat down he heard footsteps coming towards him he would have hid if there had a place. As the footsteps grew louder he Jake braced himself for the worst thinking that it could be another monster or worst another memory, but it ended but just being Crow now most would probably be afraid of there darker self but Jake felt very relaxed around him he had already had a couple of dreams about crow in which he helped Jake out with a problem he was having, so when he saw him coming from out of the darkness Jake waved and motioned for Crow to sit.8

When Crow sat down he looked down at jakes wrists “busy were we”, “yea” Jake said looking down at his feet kinda feeling ashamed “yea I remember those” Crow said looking down at his wrists. They looked like the ones on Jakes wrist only there were more of them and there were a little faded but they all had the purplish hue that still very much intrigued Jake. They had talked about it before in a previous dream, but Crow hadn’t really given him any real explanation on why they were like that.9

“So what do you plan on doing about all this” Crow continued “your mom knows the kids at school, do you think you’ll be able to handle it.” Jake really didn’t know what to say to this. Up in till know he had kept those thoughts out of his head, but know it was right in front of him. What would his mom say? Would she even want him anymore after this? What about Chris and rob and the other kids at school would they hate him now?  10

The thought of this made him incredible depressed and out of it Jake felt the need to cut. Crow saw this and grabbed Jakes arm “you can fight it, all you have to do is believe” but Jake was feeling something outside of this dream. 11

There was intense pain coming from his right wrist… Jake woke up so suddenly that he could hardly breath. He looked down at his right arm and saw that he had ripped the bandages off and was now digging his fingers into the cuts ripping open the stitches and sending a stream of blood onto his white bedcovers. The last thing Jake remembered was pushing the call for help button and footsteps of someone running down the hall towards his room before blacking out.12