A steady beep started to ring through my head, making me wince awake. I slowly opened my eyes, to see my arm patched with different things put into it. The beeping got louder, the light somehow grew brighter, and when I tried sitting up I instantly fell backwards onto the bed. “Whoa, keep it steady there”, a female voice said by me, “you aren’t quite ready yet there.” The voice chuckled and walked up to me and put her arms on me. My eyes finally focused on the figure, it was a woman with blonde hair put back and big almond shaped blue eyes and her cheeks were rosy red. “Hi sunshine, glad to see you are awake, how do you feel?” the bright woman said while typing on her laptop. “Where am I?” I managed to say.  I felt no power to move or even speak, my body didn’t even feel like it was attached to my body. I felt a cold object be stuck into my ear, sending a cold shiver down my spine, I heard her muffle something to herself and write stuff down. I looked around more to see that I was in a hospital like room, although the windows had bars on them, and I was laying on a hospital bed. My heart starts to ache, “I said, WHERE am I?” The woman stops talking to herself and turns to me, “Oh you are in the Child Sanctuary Health Center honey, your Mom asked me to take very good care of you!” Bars on the window, big metal doors, and a overally nice nurse, this wasn’t any hospital I have ever been too. “Where is Mother, she must be worried about me, tell her to come in” I sat up and tried leaving the bed but felt my feet not being able to  move. I look down and see rusted chains on them, forming perfectly around my bruised ankles. “She is the one who brought you here, she thinks you need some time to relax and get more help!” the woman walks over to me and takes one of my wrists, clipping them to some more chains. Time began to feel slow, I looked at my wrist and up at her, and her giant smile turned into sudden worry. She spoke but I couldn’t hear anything except excessive beeping coming from the monitor. It got faster and faster, and my body started to wriggle around and fight. I knew the woman called for help because I heard a muffled yell and others dressed in blue outfits. All of them held my weak body down and I felt a sharp needle in my arm causing my body to stop and fall back. I had so much anger but not enough to make me fight more and more. As my body dropped, all I could feel was dejection. My own Mother would do this to me, my own blood, I felt like a fool. I couldn’t move my body, I just laid there staring at all the different faces surrounding me. “Her body should be weak enough for you to put more meds into her system without her fighting and flailing around” I heard a stern voice say by me. I heard footsteps walking away and heard the tip taps of the woman by me touching her electronics. “I shouldn’t be here” I grumbled and was able to turn my head toward the woman. She looked up at me and I got to see her name tag, “Louise, I don’t belong here.” She shakes her head and smiles slightly, “sure you do honey, you have a very special case that this whole building  has dealt with a couple times before and we helped them.” She walks over to me and places the back of her hand on my forehead then strokes my hair back out of my face. I moved my head away from her, and her head just stuck in the air. Her brightness started to fade and her smile went away, “just you wait, you will be happy your Mom blessed you.” I laughed and pushed myself up a bit, my arms shook heavily with the effort of pushing myself up  to place my face in front of hers, “I would rather die.” I could see that she wanted to say more, but all she did was fix the stuff attached to me angerily, gather her belongings and make her way to the door. “You be careful of what you wish for” she growled to me softly as she turned her head and went out the door. I laid there and stared at the ceiling, my anger boiling second by second. I looked around my area and tried thinking of ways to get myself out of this stiff mattress. “Hello miss” a jolly little voice called out to me. I turned around sharply to see a young girl standing in a white gown, long brown hair and bright green eyes. The young girl smiled and swiftly moved to me, “ah so you do see me?” I nodded and smiled back at her, “yes I do.” She shifts her body and wipes down her gown, “well ain’t that just comical.” I lifted myself  and steadied my body weight on my elbows that kept me up, “Who are you?” The little girl studies me and walks over to the monitor, gently resting her hand on it, “My name is Elizabeth, but you Sophia, can call me El.” I looked at her and I could see the white border around her silhouette, “you know my name?” She nods, “I was in here since you arrived, and I overheard the nurse talking amongst themselves!” The girl twirls around the room angelicly, swiftly moving side to side. Her body was light like a feather dancing in the wind, and her hair flowed smoothly while she moved up and down. “Why are you here?”I ask her mid twirl, “I mean I’m seeing you for a reason right?” El stops, “I have been here for many many years, the same reason you are here for, this used to be my room.” I searched her face, it was pale white and her smile was turned into a frown. I watch as she makes her way to a corner of the bare wall, touching some carving on the wall, “my Father was the one who put me in here, and I was a damn fool for believing him that there was somethin wrong about me.” The ticking of the clock and beeping of the monitor was the only sound I heard after El spoke. She looked back at me and sadly smiled, “I guess we are both fools.” Her swift movements came towards me, “this is not a good place young Sophia, you must escape.” I sat straight up, my body not aching an inch, “why?” Her eyes turned dark, “no time to explain.” She turned to look at the door, I moved my head with her motion and looked as well. A young woman walked in with the same blue outfit and closed the door behind her “Hello miss Sophia I’m nurse Jolie, I’m just coming in to give you a few details  if that’s alright.” I watched her as she made it near me, she held tightly onto the clipboard she held and stood next to me. “I have been notified that we have to be giving you haloperidol by your referring doctor and wants you to take them every night before bed” she looks at me with a big smile on her face. She takes out this big bottle of pills and places them on the counter next to me. “When you need a refill make sure to talk to me ok?” the young nurse gave a thumbs up to me and started to write down on her papers. I need to get out of here, but how? “Okay so the first thing is that our sleep schedule here is 9:00 exactly due to us having specific patients who need a good night's sleep”, she takes out a piece of paper from her clipboard and places it on the counter beside her, “this is our full schedule, you can take a good look at it later if you’d like.” I needed to get out of here, fast. I slouched back into my bed and laid my arms beside me, “can you loosen these chains up, they are beginning to hurt my ankles.” She lifts up her head and smiles at me again, “of course, don’t want you feeling uncomfortable in your new bed.” A bit too late for that lady. I watched as she whipped out different shaped keys and moved over to loosen my anklets. She  loosened up my right ankle and started to try and lock it in place. Adrenaline hit me and I suddnely flet my body jerk forward and smash my head against hers. The pain scorched through my head and started to pound. The impact of my head made the lady fall straight back and collapse on the cold floor. Everything happened so quickly I didn’t even have time to react so fast. I paused and stared at the nurse who’s head started to bleed, then realized the keys were at the end of the bed. I reached over and unlocked the chains on my ankle and stood up. As soon I stood up, dots started to form in my vision making me stumble back on to my bed. “Miss you need to hurry” I heard a soft voice say to me. I got up and grabbed a syringe, stuffing it into my pocket quickly as I walked to the door. I made my way into the hallway and gingerly strutted down it. I noticed how every door I passed by was the same, and all the kids I passed by looked like they haven’t slept in days. Time seemed to slow down as I started to walk down the cold hallway faster. I looked up to see nurses huddled around in a room, sharing conversations while drinking their warm coffee together. I started making my way down the hallway then saw the nurse that I knocked down standing at a counter talking frantically with this woman. I put my head down and covered my face with my hair, hoping to get by quickly. “There she is, she was the little monster who hit me!” I heard a voice shout. Before I could even think, my feet started down the hallway as fast as they could. A siren began to echo down the hall, and people began to stumble behind me and try to get me. Kids started to pop their heads out of their rooms and nurses were coming out of rooms with syringes in their grasp. I manuvered around them all and looked up to see an exit sign ahead of me. I turned my head around to see so many people running after me, “see you later sh*theads!” I turned my head back around to see tall men dressed in all black with big weapons held in their grasp. I felt my body cramp up, like how you feel a cramp in your leg, but it was my entire body. My muscles spasmed and my whole body just seized up, making me collapse on the cold floor. 

“Okay Sophia, have you been taking your medicine on the daily every night?” I nodded and smiled at the nurse, “I have yes, never missed one.” She smiles back at me and gives me another bottle of meds, “I’ll come back and check on you in a bit, you get some rest before we open presents!” As she walks out I pull out my phone to see a text from Mother, “can’t wait to see you soon, I’ll bring your favorite, crinkle cookies!” I grabbed my house coat and put on my slippers and made sure I had every present I needed. Life has been simple here, I have started to sleep better and I even made new friends. As I started to turn the rigid door knob I heard a light whisper coming from behind me. “You have been misled I presume.” I spin my head around to see El sittig on my bed, her hands clasped together on her lap. I roll my eyes and turn back around, “misled by what?” I hear a soft giggle and movement of feet, “them nurse folk, they are treating you like a poor sick baby, silly really what they are doing.” I clench my fists and drop my presents on the ground, “you know, I get you have a bad past with this place but I am doing just fine.” I turn around and walk toward her with my fists hidden under my folded arms. “My bad past is why I am here to help you miss, you are blinded by the smiles of those around you, you need to be weary!” El says to me in a loud angry tone. I drop my arms and look at the clock above her, “listen, I’m just dealing with this place till I get to leave in a few months, then I can be gone and live with my Mother again.” The room became freezing cold and dark, making me get a shiver down my spine. “You are completely ignorant, do you not remember what your so-called Mother did to you?” El walked up to me and stood in front of me with her hands on her hips. I scoffed, “she meant to help me and I forgave her by the help of the nuns.” El just laughed in my face and waved her finger in my face, “you are not yourself Sophia, you need to stop taking those medications, you have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes, miss!” I walk to the door and pick my presents back up, “why should I listen to you, hell I’m not even supposed to see you, my meds have made me stop seeing spirits for a few months now.” El then flashed in front of me which made me tumble back a bit, having to catch my balance. “You will see in time miss, this place is not what you think”, she says to me, “your brain is not in the right place.” I opened the door and walked past her and made my way to the cafeteria, pretending to not be disturbed by what she said. I am happy here, safe here, I am better here. 

After gifts I walked around the facility with Mother. It was nice catching up with her and talking about how I was helping myself so I could return home.

“Dear, I’m so glad you are helping yourself” Mother said in a gentle tone. She held me in her arms and kissed the top of my head. “Mother knows best, remember that!” she said as she walked out of the building, leaving me to stare after her as the door closed. I strolled back into my room and went to grab my pills I take before bed. “Stop taking them” a soft angry voice said to me as I opened the pill cap. “Why!” I shout. I looked around the room for El, but I couldn’t see her anywhere. “You will see what I am talking about, stop taking your meds for at least this night, in the morning you will understand, miss” I turn to the corner of the room to see El with her white gown glowing in the dark. 

For her satisfaction, I didn’t take them. I felt weird about not taking them, and every bone in my body said to take them. I faught the urge and struggled to sleep. I woke up with the sound of dripping from the faucet coming from my faucet. I got up and went to go see the faucet and turn it off so I could go back to back. I turned on the bathroom light and turned the dripping faucet off. I looked up to see my reflection in the  dirty mirror. I was staring back at myself and fixed my hair. As I did so, the reflection of me had a smile on her face. I shook my head to see if I was dreaming, I even pinched myself, but I wasn’t. I could see my reflection staring back at me with a grin. I moved back and hit the wall behind me, and gasped. “What the hell!” I mumble to myself. Was this paranormal? Does this go with my ability? My reflection, with her creepy grin, just stared at me, not moving to my movements at all. I ran out of the bathroom and closed the door shut behind me. I held my head steady to focus, but when I looked up I saw my bed and all the equipment around me. I became dizzy to the point that I had to fall on the floor. I’m not supposed to be here, why am I still here? “Are you okay sweetie?” a soft paniced voice asked me. I slowly got back up and noticed another nurse kneeling down by me. Without hesitation I get up and move away from her quickly, “get away from me!” My anxiety got to be too much to the point that I grabbed a needle myself. The nurse stumbled back and froze, “Sophia what is going on with you, it’s me Jolie.” I held on to the needle so hard my knuckles started to ache. I watched as she narrowed her eyes and took a step closer, making me tense up even more. “Get away!” I screamed at her. “You didn’t take your pill did you?” I hear her softly murmur to herself. More nurses rushed in the room and all I could see was the evil grin my refelction gave me when I was in the bathroom. I felt sick and my body felt hot, to where I felt dizzy once again. “Where is my Mother!” I managed to shout at the nurses. All of them shook their heads at the same time. “You don’t have one anymore, she doesn’t want anything to do with you after this mess” a male nurse said to me with a syringe in his hand as well. “No! She loves me!” I choked out as I fought the urge to fall on the ground. The clicking of the clock got louder and the nurses got closer. “I’m warning you stay away!” I backed away more from them into a different corner of the room. Suddenly, four of them rushed at me and strangled my body with rope and syringes. I felt several jabs in my body, making me yell and shout in pain. I fought harder and harder until my body couldn’t anymore. “Take her to the black room”, a muffled rough voice said, “she needs more help than we thought.”