With one soul-stirring kiss, I knew I was lost to him forever. The passion oozed from his pores like a secreted pheromone that dripped over my shoulders when he dipped his head to the side to lick my wounds. There were so many that I didn't really know where to begin figuring out each one.
He kept calling me Ellie, the name panting from inside of his throat whenever he had to come back up for air. Three months without sensual human contact and this is the first taste of heaven I get? I have a man ravaging me, calling me mysterious names and I can't even move a finger or eyelash to let him know I'm here. My comatose body lay in the warmth of a bed; I knew that much. I can feel the pillow behind my head and the scratchy feel of some other fabric on my body, but what I felt first the most was his lips. His soft lips were crawling over my skin and he was still panting, "Ellie... My sweet Ellie..."
Ellie? Who's Ellie?
I tried to open my mouth to speak, or to give a motion of awareness, but it was captured once more by the phantom of kisses. A sense of panic trickles through my mind but I just keep trying to figure out what to do next. What to do next. That's the way to correct rational thought. Someone told me that once. In a panic, I throw out rationale and start from scratch. Who told me that??
His hands were now joining the party. Ok! Ok, next step!
Move. Your. Hand.
I raise my left hand in the air about six inches from the fabric of the bed I'm on and I hear cries all around me.
"She moved! Someone, get in here! She moved!!"
A loud crash comes and footsteps as I hear, "Trevor, what do you do to her?"
"No, no... I was just... holding her and her left hand moved! I swear!"
Just to please the masses, I did it again.
Now, I heard more than one kind of cry surround me. I'm not sure how many people were in the room now, but that panic thing that I tried to avoid came back and then a loud beeping sound replaced the cries.
"Everyone out! The doctor needs this room to treat her now everyone leave! God, I hate when they let so many people into the I.C. unit."
Welcome darkness.
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Ok, so I was in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital. That was at least one question answered. Now, all I need to figure out is everything else. How did I get here? How do I get out? Who's Ellie? Who's Trevor? And when can I move my body? This idleness was getting to me. I've been in here three months and the only reason why I knew that was because the nurse said so yesterday when I came to.
I can hear the silence around me and the empty air is filled with a buzzing. I knew where it was coming from already. The buzz became louder and louder until finally it pulled through my brain and it was running around my body in a smooth infestation. It happens in silence, when the silence hurts around you so bad your mind creates a noise just to fill it. But instead of filling it with babies laughing or kittens purring, it's the cry of a chainsaw. I want to jump up, turn the TV on, sing, and scream... anything to kill the buzzing.
Then the door opens. I hear the doorknob turn through my chainsaw burrowing into my body, and it instantly flushes away. I pull that doorknob sound into my ears to fill that hole. It closes and I hear the shuffle of feet, the scrape of a chair on the floor, the flush of fabric against itself.
Then a sigh. A very heavy sigh. It was a sweet sound, filled with sadness and longing, but it made me tingle all over. In the back of my broken mind, I knew that sigh so well that it brought unaware tears to my eyes, but I didn't know why. Which made more tears flow.
"Ellie... I miss you so much."
It was Trevor. I remembered his voice from the other day. Or was it today? I'm not sure how long I fell for, but I remember his voice. Anything to do with his mouth I can remember. I longed to hear him speak again.
"It's been so long without you I'm not sure what to do with myself. I can't sleep, I can't eat. I'm not sure what else needs to be done, but whatever it is, I'm going to try my hardest to get you to come back to me."