guilt and shame carried me like a rat.
I couldn't control it. Every second, my feelings ran wilder and crazier. My body temp felt like I was sitting on the sun, and my stomach felt like someone threw it into a washing machine.
"Carson, are you okay?" Meagan and Kyle both ran to my side after I collapsed to me knees.
I was feeling sick of the emotional boat ride.
"Carson?" Kyle took my arm and tried to steady me after I gave no reply. I felt his worry and Meagan's fear. It was too much for me to handle.
"Let me through!" I heard Aaronmon push through the crowd of people.
"Carson, it's okay just breath. Focus on one person. Focus on me," Aaronmon was whispering to me so no one else could hear.
I tried so hard, but all I did was include his into the millions of other emotions that were starting to churn my stomach. Nausea lightened my head and dried my mouth. I looked up at Aaronmon who was now cradling me in his arms.
"Focus on me now," he said again, but the nausea was too much for me, and I relieved myself all over his shirt. Then, everything blacked out.
CHAPTER FOUR
I slowly started to open my eyes. The light above my head was painfully bright. I sat myself up, taking in the familiar nurse’s office. Pictures were all over the room about hygiene and washing your hands. The room was frigid, like always, and smelled of cough syrup. My empathy quickly sensed worry and fear about what had happened to me. It only took me a moment to recognize the voices that the fear and worry belonged to.
"Look she's coming around!" Meagan pointed through the glass window. As she swung the door open, relief emerged from her and invaded me. Kyle was not far to follow behind.
"Hey babe! You gave us quite the scare." He slowly kissed my forehead. Then he reached for my hand. "How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine." I tried to think of a legitimate excuse, but nothing popped into my mind, so the simple words I'm fine would have to do.
"Move out of the way! I need to check her out before you guys start hounding her." Nurse Peggy shuffled through the small crowd of two people. Of course, her heavy exterior didn't make it hard for her to shove them out of the way. She shooed them out the door. Kyle stopped, right before he stepped out, to blow me a kiss.
"Seems to me like you wanted to take a good sleep." Her voice came out raspy as she pulled a chair up. "Well, let's take a look at ya," she ordered.
I gave her no fight when she checked my blood pressure, temperature, and even listened to my heart. When she realized everything was okay she raised her brow.
"Well, everything looks fine. Did you eat breakfast this morning?" she questioned me. Realizing it was probably a good excuse, I shook my head. "Well, your blood sugar probably dropped even though that didn't look like the problem. Make sure you eat breakfast every morning. I called your Aunt while you were passed out. She is already on her way to get you."
Nurse Peggy made everyone else go to class while I waited on Trish to pick me up. Thoughts ran through my mind about my life. Had it really been that well hidden from me? Perhaps, I was just too blind to notice. I remembered how angry Trish would get if I would forget my vitamins. It was funny to think that in some way she was drugging me. Anytime I stayed the night over at a friend's house, she would call to make sure I took those pills. My friends always thought she was a tad bit over protective, but I argued that I was the only family she had left. What was her plan when I went to college? Did she think she was going to go with me for the ride and make sure I took it every day? Oh yeah, that was right. They weren’t planning on me going to college. I was going to have to stay here in Alice.
She was going to keep up this charade until she wis ked me away in a spaceship! I couldn’t believe they’d let me go this long. Eighteen years that at some point she could have told me the truth, and instead she
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