Chapters 13

       Samuel woke Claire up the next day to give her breakfast which consisted of  oats and milk "The food in here keeps getting better" Claire thought as she ate her food. Samuel sat there and looked at Claire as she ate her oats. She was looking filthy for not bathing for these past years "Hey Claire" Claire looked up to Samuel and Samuel continued "Do you want to take a bath?" Claire raised her eyebrow "Well you looked dirty sorry to say" now that Claire thought about it, she does fell dirty and stiff "So do you wanna?" Claire looked at him with her tied eyes and nodded after hesitating for a sec "That's great. Just finish eating and I'll take you to the bathroom" Samuel smiled.

   Claire stepped into the bathroom and Samuel locked the door after giving her the necessary materials like a towel and a toothbrush. Claire stretched her hands left and right looking for the sink and she found it by her left side. Setting the brush and the towel down on the sink, she thought how she would react when she'll remove the blindfold from her eyes. The last time someone did that, she almost killed the person from that
day, they never removed it from her eyes and now she wants to do it. She thought that why would Samuel tell her to bathe when he knows that when she takes the blindfold off, she'll see that man face everywhere. 'Maybe he thought that I could handle it'. Sighing she untied her eyes and the first thing she saw was the white light shinning. She used her hands to block them and after a while she got used to it and looked round the bathroom. It was beautiful yet simple. Turning around to her left side she came face to face with a mirror. She stared at herself for a while until the image of  that man looking at her, grinning, appeared in the mirror and fear envelop her and she screamed "No!!  Stay away!!" And ran out of the bathroom to see people looking at her but in her eyes it was the man. That man everywhere. She was too scared to move. Too shocked to do anything "Claire" she heard someone called her and she turned to the direction and saw her brother looking at her with tears in his eyes but in real life it was Samuel who was looking at her with shocked eyes. 'Her eyes are that of a clear sky day but it holds nothing but pain and fear. And why is she looking at me like that?" Samuel thought "Big brother" Claire shouted happily ad ran up to her big brother(Samuel) and hugged him "Big brother. Thank God you're here. I've missed you so much" Claire cried into his shirt whilst Samuel looked down at the girl crying against his shirt thinking its her big brother then when Claire looked up at him, he saw her pause and not moving just staring at him with fear in her eyes "Claire" Samuel said wanting to touch her head but Claire screamed and pushed him away "Stay away" Claire screamed and ran for the  door "Stop her" Samuel screamed as he ran after Claire. The other workers were to shock to do anything as Claire passed them running towards the exit door "Claire stop" Samuel cried out as he and other workers pursue her. Claire ran past the door and Samuel smiled thinking that the gate would be locked but it seems today wasn't his day because when he stepped outside he saw two people on the floor and Claire running past the road "Claire!!!!!!" Samuel screamed

     Patrick woke up at that intense dream " What was that?" He asked himself through his panting "It felt so real" he thought holding his head as the image of Claire looking in the mirror seeing the man that killed her Parents, Claire hugging Samuel thinking it was her brother and Claire running out of  the asylum, crossing the road to the other side came to his mind " Why would I be dreaming about that? About her?  Is she Okay?  What's going on?" he thought "This is so frustrating!!  Why am I dreaming about her?  I've never dreamt about anyone before, so what's this?  What's happening to me?" Patrick thought closing his eyes.

    The next day for Patrick was quite exhausting and uncomfortable. For some unknown reason he felt that way and he couldn't stop thinking about what's going on with Claire and why is he dreaming about her?. He thought about everything but he couldn't come up with a reason he would be dreaming about Claire. I mean come on, what's the big idea?  You work in a asylum and you saw a girl you pitied and felt like you want to comfort her. You talk to her and she doesn't talk to you but when you try touching her or touch her, she screamed badly and cry and you felt like comforting her again. And you then one day you sleep in a nice comfy bed and you wake up at night cause you had a dream about her, I mean what's up with that?. Sighing he step out of his room dressed in red and black stripes top and a knee high shorts with a black sandal and his bag on his left shoulder, to see his two best friends smiling at him "Good morning" "Morning" they said back as they walk "You're early today"Bella said "Yeah. I woke up early this morning at 4 and I couldn't sleep back again" Patrick yawned after saying that "And why did you wake up at that time" Isaac asked. Patrick hesitated for a while and said "I just woke up. Maybe because i slept early" Patrick lied. He just couldn't tell them the truth that he had an intense dream about a girl in an asylum. It would look weird. So he had to lie. And when he saw that his friend shook their heads, he smiled as they approached their classmates and teacher "Class,  Listen up. Today we're gonna check out the forest and draw anything that captures your view. The drawing will be a adding mark to your art project when you write your final exams the week after next week" Mrs Vane answered "The exams is close. Just next two weeks" Patrick said to his friends as they walk behind the whole class heading to the forest of the small town " Yeah. I'm so excited. Can't wait to go to college" Bella squealed in delight "Yeah me too" Issac nodded smiling.

     By the time the class was done exploring and the forest and taking a pic of the forest and drawing, it was just 2 and they went back to the hotel and Mrs Vane told them that they could explore the whole town as long they'll be back by six on the dot. Shaking their heads 'Yes' the whole class settled in their favourite group of friends and went to explore the town as well as our three friends, Patrick, Bella and Isaac.

        (Claire point of  view)
  Claire ran out of the asylum and ran across the road and pass to the way facing the asylum. Claire stooped running when she heard a car honk. Looking around she saw that she was outside and the sky was dark with tears lights igniting the streets of the city. She looked around and saw people looking at her like she was crazy and indeed she was crazy an when she felt someone touched her shoulder, she looked at the person and saw that man "No!!  Leave me alone" she screamed and push the man away and ran bumping against people. She ran and headed up in a attic where she sat down and fold her legs to her chest, press her hands on her head and cried rocking back and forth. She cried and cried and lay on the ice cold ground of the attic and fell asleep whilst crying.

     "Hey Johnny, come look" a man who had brown hair and brown eyes  with beard adorn on his face called out to his friend Johnny "Markus what's up" Johnny, a older guy with hair almost all white and green eyes and a white goaty beard Saudi as he approached his co worker "Look" Markus said pointing to a girl who was lying on the floor close to a trash bin. She had blond hair and she looked skinny "Is she dead?" Johnny asked looking at the girl "No she's breathing" Markus answered seeing the girl chest rise and fall "Then what's she doing here?  This is not a place for a girl or she might be a begged" Johnny said "She might be. Let's just leave her and get on with our trash work. She's none of our business" Markus said as he picked up the teas can close to Claire "Mmm" Johnny nodded and picked up a trash can and waste it on their trash trunk. And with that the two men drove away leaving our sleeping beauty in the attic exposed.

Claire woke up and sat up and looked around. "This doesn't look like the infirmary" she said to herself in a weak dry voice needing for water.  She looked around once more and her head started spinning. She felt dizzy and she remembered everything. "I.. I.... I'm out... Out.. Outside" she stuttered in shock looking at her surrounding and saw she was really outside. "What am I gonna do?" She said to herself as she stood up and looked left to see that the attic went deeper and to her right.  Taking her right, only one place was on her mind "Mama, papa and big brother graves"

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