Desperate Awakening

When I woke up, everything felt wrong. Bright lights above me, beeping machines, that gross hospital smell. My head was pounding like someone was hammering inside my skull. My eyes were swollen from all the crying, my throat raw, and my chest still hurt like I’d been punched repeatedly.

I blinked slowly, groaning as I tried to sit up. An IV was stuck in my arm. Someone had changed me into a hospi