Its been a while sense i have writen anything so i typed a part of my story idea that i have had for a while.
I woke in a familiar room. My entire body ached, my skin burning with raw heat. A low whimper escaped my lips, quieter than I had hoped because my swollen throat didn’t allow noise to escape.
I tried again. This time my voice came out as a high pitched keening. Nobody would be able to hear me. I felt as though I was stuck in one of those nightmares where you are so scared that you are paralyzed, and something terrible is going on behind you, but your body is frozen and no matter how hard you strain your eyes you cant see.
I felt tears spill out of the corners of my eyes, rolling in hot streams over my temples and disappearing into my hair. I couldn't feel anything. All I could feel was heat. My ears filled with static. Adrenalin pulsed through my veins, the tempo of my heartbeat increasing.
I thought that I heard bathwater running in the next room, but I couldn’t tell through the static that filled my ears. I searched blindly with my eyes but my vision became increasingly blurry. A black spot covered a part of my vision, then another, and another. They got bigger and bigger until I couldn’t see at all. My breath dragged, a crackly counterpart to the static that filled my ears.
I found myself in the air; the blistering heat dulled my senses, so I couldn’t tell exactly what was going on. My legs and arms were swinging in the air (I thought) and my head seemed to be hanging limply from my shoulders.
I felt my legs slide into something cold. I cried out in surprise, but couldn’t pull my legs away from the cold. It was so cold! It felt like emerging from fire and then being trapped in ice. Slowly my hips entered the cold, then my back and my shoulders. The cold fluid sloshed around me, so I guessed that it was water.
I whimpered breathlessly, unable to escape the freezing cold that caused my burning skin to prickle painfully. The cold poured over my face, entering my eyes. When the water entered my eyes, the black that covered my vision faded.
I gasped as my leg muscles contracted and wrung themselves. Gentle hands massaged my leg, relaxing the muscles. I sighed contently and opened my eyes.
Everything was extremely blurry, but I could still see. I was in a bathtub full of chilling water and ice cubes that bobbed and bumped against my body. I was in my soaked pajamas, and my skin was flushed red, as if every inch of my skin was badly sunburned.
My mother was leaning over the edge of the bathtub, gently kneading my calf.
"Mom?" I croaked, my voice sounding like sandpaper rubbing together. She turned to look at me and smiled.
I had always gotten along with my parents and naturally thought that they were nice looking people, but she was truly beautiful. She had shoulder length red hair, and rusty brown eyes. She could have been a model, but she had miraculously settled down with my father.
"Hello dear, that’s quite a fever you have there sweetheart." she said with a devious smile. I blinked, feeling a thousand times better than I had before. But wasn't she supposed to be worried, not happy?
"Um," was all I could say.
"Don’t worry honey. It will pass in a few minutes.” she said reassuringly. I sighed. The frigged water was uncomfortable but if it would get rid of this horrid fever, then I would gladly wait.
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