Secrets of a Kept Chick Saga

by Ambria Davis

  “Uhh, how soon can I be discharged, Doctor?” I didn’t have time to be sitting in this hospital. I needed answers, and I needed them now.

  “I really can’t say . . . a week or two maybe. It all depends on how quickly your body heals enough for you to safely—”

  “Miss, you can’t go anywhere. No one knows that you are alive, and we’d like to keep it that way until Mr. Williams is caught,” Detective Webber interjected.

  “You mean to tell me that no one knows I’m alive?” I asked, dumbfounded.

  “Only the police and the staff here at the hospital know.”

  “Does Troy know?” I could feel my eyes getting watery.

  “No, she doesn’t, and I would like to keep it like that for the time being.”

  I sat there stuck. No wonder no one’s here. They don’t even know that I’m alive. I don’t know what came over me, but the next thing I knew, I was shaking and sweating profusely.

  “Ma’am,” I heard someone say. The voice sounded far away, but I could barely make out what they were saying because I was in a daze. One minute I was calm, and the next minute, I was yanking and pulling on any and everything. I felt a stabbing pain in my back, but before it could fully register, I was trying to get out of the hospital bed.

  “Get me some help,” Dr. McKenley yelled at Webber, who took off immediately, but I was already too far gone. Any and everything that was in my path was knocked down and kicked over. I was in a rage, and I couldn’t help myself. Finally, the doctor was able to grab ahold of me.

  “Let go of me!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. Tears burned my eyes as I struggled to see. “Let me go!”

  In five seconds, the room was filled with nurses trying to restrain me to the hospital bed. I tried to put up a fight, but one person against an army can only do so much. Eventually, they strapped me to the bed, still kicking and screaming, when I felt a pinch in my arm. Slowly, I stopped putting up a fight as my eyelids got heavy. I tried to fight it, but whatever they injected into me was winning the battle. My vision blurred as I looked at all the people it took to take down my little ass, and then I was off into oblivion.