Chapter Four386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtv1tljCrC
Staying home was not something I did often.
But neither was getting struck by lightning.
It'd been two days since I left the hospital with Marci and the instructions to 'rest', Dr. Wright explaining that this was a crucial step in my healing process.
"School is not as important as your health." I remember him saying.
My mind had been spinning with thoughts since.
I could recall the entire memory of that night in my head and replay it over and over again like a broken record.
But then again I couldn't help but wonder if it was a memory at all.
I felt like I could see the old nurse in my minds eye—no, feel the nurse. Her cackling laughter vibrating through me with each breath she took, but then I remembered what the doctor had said.
"...I'm sorry Charlotte but I have no recollection of a gray eyed old woman as your nurse. As far as I'm concerned your nurse was Ms. Jennings here."
He then pointed to a brown eyed middle aged woman, her eyes in no way gleaming with keen malice, but sparkling with irritation from having to deal me, and my consistent baggering as I insisted that she was not my nurse the past five long hours I'd been there.
I'd lost it then, breaking down into a puddle of tears as I mumbled nonsense about blue magic and gray eyed evil.
Arms wrapped around my body as Doctor Wright attempted place me back on the bed.
"I think we may have over done it with the antibiotics, April." He says, speaking to the nurse.
April nods slightly and runs out of the room returning with a plastic cup filled with a clear liquid I didn't recognize as water.
Dr.Wright takes the cup from April and places it at my lips tipping it slightly so I could drink it.
"Here, this should help work some of the drugs out of your system, in the mean time get you some rest."
That was all I could remember when my eyes closed, and I woke up the next day, Marci standing next to my bed with a wheel chair claimimg we could leave.
Since then I had been sitting in my room, listening to Marci and her boyfriend drink themselves silly as they watched college football.
I could still remeber the way the energy had built up inside of me, the way it pressed down on my head until it felt like it would explode, and then the way it surged out of me in a blue tidal wave, the way the world turned electric blue.
How could any of that have been just a hallucination?
The way the nurses eyes had lit up the room, and the sound of her raspy voice chanting those foreign words.
Was that all a dream too?
My thoughts were cut off when my small cellphone beeped, a text message coming through it.
Quickly, I hopped off of my bed and snatched it off my dresser knowing if Marci heard she'd know I was awake.
Sliding the phone open with a quick flick of my fingers, I lightly touched the screen and read the message, it's subject short and straight to the point, and small smile graced my lips.
Were n da hell were u 2day
Sent from Gracie @ 04/20 5:09pm
Gracie had been my bestfriend since as long as I could remeber, and she's been texting and calling me for the last two days now, today being monday I knew she was mad at me for leaving her at school by herself today and she just got off of soccer practice.
Being known as that weird kid in grade school really limited a person's friend choice, and so Gracie actually trying to talk and get to know me meant the world and I was forever grateful.
So now staring at that screen I started to feel a bubble of emotions stir up within me and I felt this huge urge to break down and start bawling my eyes out like a baby.
It was then I realized that I needed someone to dump all my thoughts and woes onto, someone that would comfort me and let me know everything would be alright, and isn't that what bestfriends were for?
Swallowing back a loud sob and wiping away a few stray tears from my eyes I hit the phone button next to Gracie's name and held the phone up to my ear, silent sobs ratcheting my body.
"Hello?"
"Gracie!" I gasped out, pure relief blanketing my voice. "You answered."
"Well of course I answered." She scoffed in incredulity. "You only ditched me with a bunch of imbociles for the entire school day, not to mention you ignored me and my phone calls the entire weekend—which, we'll get to in a second by the way, but first why do you sound like you've been crying—no better yet, where were you today?"
I swallowed.
Gracie was known for being blunt and over dramatic, honestly I was scared as hell to tell her everything that happened to me for fear she'd either tell everybody, or call me crazy.
I mean what if she really thought I was mentally insane or something, or worse yet—what if she believed me?
"Hello!" Gracie's impatient voice cried out. "Lottey are you still there?"
"Yeah, I'm here." I sigh running my fingers through my hair. Glancing over at my bed I walk over and plop down on the edge needing to sit. "I'm here." I whisper again as if to reassure myself.
"Well good, because an explanation as to why I had to partner up with Marsh Randall during chem would be well appreciated." She huffs.
I snickered a little.
Marsh Randall was our schools nutcase, he had bright orange curly hair, piercings all over his face, he talked to himself, and had a tattoo that said For sale going down the side of his arm that looked third grade handwriting.
'Crazy', a voice inside my head whispered. 'Exactly what Gracie and the rest of towns going to think of you.'
I groan and fall backwards on the bed. "Gracie... you have to promise me you won't tell anyone what I'm about to tell you."
Gracie was silent for at moment before she spoke, her voice a mere whisper. "Okay..."
"Okay." I start, 'please don't think I'm crazy.'
"First was there was the lightning bolt..."
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A/N: Okay, so this and the next chapter are just going to be fillers.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSySL88sns
Mostly I'm just going to be kind of easing in bits and pieces of Charlotte's past, like Marci, everything about her will be explained in the next chapter.
Also you'll be able to know more about Charlotte and her personal life and personality as a person.. lol.
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