Confusion.

   "You didn't see who did this?" I sigh and knead my temples.

           "No sir. I seen the shoe and nobody answered me, so I opened the door assuming someone was hurt...ugh..."

           It hurts to concentrate. My head is throbbing, and my nose broken. My sad little ladybug nose stud barely holding on to the swollen mess of my nose, slightly crooked from being reset. My brain swims, my head like a fishbowl and my thoughts are little more than random food flakes just settling to the bottom where they congealed and make no sense to me.

           I can still hardly decipher what happened. One moment I cracked the door to check and the next I had thought the man had leapt up and attacked me through the door. I had sworn I heard my name, but was it before or after the door had cracked? To my horror though, the man was alrea