DREWS POVI chuckled hesitantly, placing one step ahead of the other.“What do you mean, ‘have we met before?’” I asked dreadfully.My voice sounded unfamiliar to my own ears, tight, brittle, as though it could snap at any second.She heaved in a deep sigh, her chest rising sharply, a glint of fear flickering in her eyes.Real fear.Not confusion.“Don't come any closer!” she charged.Her voice cracked through the room like a whip.Her eyes darted wildly around the environment, scanning everything, the walls, the machines, the beeping monitors, as if she had just been dropped into a foreign world.Her breaths grew shorter and rapid.Like a trapped animal.“Where am I?” she demanded.Her fingers clutched the bedsheets so tightly that her knuckles turned pale.“Rebecca… um… I… uh…”The words refused to form.My throat felt dry.My chest tightened.This wasn't happening.This cannot be happening, I said to myself as suddenly the room felt twice as hot as ever. The sterile hospital air n
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