Elena woke up one day and was sure that she was dying. The realization came fast and clear like water from those Siberian Springs from the PBS documentaries she liked to watch. It wasn’t a series of thoughts, like the racing, panic filled ones that came two weeks ago when the doctor told Lola that Elena was ill and needed to be taken to the emergency room. Over the past three weeks, Elena had gotten weaker and developed a rash over her face. The rash had convinced Lola that Elena wasn’t just faking. Elena replayed the doctor’s panicked warning at his office in her mind. She had been laying on the white, crinkly white paper on the examination room bedding. She didn’t feel as dizzy when lying down. Well, just a little bit dizzy. The doctor’s …show more content…
The sunlight was peeking through the blinds above her head. She knew that Lola come into her room this early. Elena had been too weak for their daily trips to the library. The routine had consisted of Lola feeding Elena the antibiotics on intervals and cooking meat that Elena just later get up and flush down the toilet. Her appetite had disappeared the week previous. The smell of cooking meat threatened to make her stomach lurch. All she could think about staring at the dark meat was that it just poor baby cow flesh. It smelled revolting.
Elena pushed herself off the bed, her arms wobbling. Her heart was beating and a rush of adrenaline overtook her. Her Imagination Mind was silent and intrigued to see what would happen next. Almost falling to the granite floor, Elena rushed to the door and opened it, twisting the metal doorknob slowly. She peeked into the hallway, and eyed the adjacent door where her mother was smoking. She could just make out the muffled voice reverberating from within. Walking down the short hallway, Elena approached the front door. It was a pale white painted color with a small chain and two bolted locks. On the floor was a thick white wooden board propped up with the apartment fire extinguisher. To Protect Us, Lola had