The Mental Health Ward

Chapter 15 - My great escape

I could hardly open my eyes when i first started to wake up but a lot of me didn't want to open my eyes because of the fear of having to talk to someone.

''Your'e awake finally, do you know how long i've been sitting here, this chair is very uncomfortable.''  I looked over to see Ben staring at me with a massive grin on his face. This is the first hint i had that i was still alive.

''What do you want Ben, i'm not in the mood to talk right now. Where are we anyway?''

''Um i'm not too sure, why don't you go and ask someone?'' I looked around at my surroundings, there wasn't much around only a few other beds. There wasn't any nursing staff or doctors around as far as i could see.

''Where is everybody, its normally louder than this, why does my throat hurt?'' I rubbed my throat hoping it would help but it seemed to hurt from the inside. ''What happened to me? Where am i?''

''I don't know, i told you to ask someone. So what happened why are you connected to all these machines?'' He sat there playing with his nails.

''You know what happened, you don't need me to explain it.''

''Matilda, who are you speaking too?'' The voice came from no where but it made me jump a mile. ''The nursing staff said you might be psychotic, do you want your medication?''

''NO! and i am not psychotic. where am i? and why does my throat hurt?'' 

''You are in the intensive care unit, the amount of tablets you took would have been fatal to you if no one noticed. The reason why your throat hurts is because we had to intubate you and keep an eye on your breathing.'' She was a large woman with no make up on and she stood with purpose.

She walked away from me leaving me to my thoughts. 

''Ben, this could be our chance to escape from this hell hole, what do you think?''

''Um... i don't know, how do you think that we do it, somebody is bound to notice you leaving.''

''I'll just take out all these tubes and wires, my trainers are on that chair there, and i think that's the exit.'' I pointed out a door that was opposite where i saw staff come in and out of. 

''Well its up to you if you want to go for it i'll back you up 100% but if things go wrong you need to deal with the consequences that will follow.''

I look around to make sure that there was no one watching me, i carefully remove all the wires from my torso and start on the ones that were in my veins, this hurt as they were being removed and started bleeding. I managed to get my trainers on when the machine i was attached to started to beep and make all sorts of sounds that was going to get the attention of the nurses. I started to run to what i thought was the exit when a nurse appeared around the curtain.

''HEY! STOP! YOUR'E NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE, COME BACK HERE, SOMEONE STOP HER.''

I got to the doorway of the exit and took a left down the corridor, i started running in any direction that i could without actually knowing where i was going or where i was going to end up. 

''HEY, STOP HER, SOMEONE GRAB HER NOW.''

The shouts where coming from behind me, nurses stated coming from all directions now all i could do was dodge them but it was becoming hard. I could see the exit doors just up ahead and started with more speed i could make it.

''SOMEONE GRAB HER NOW, SHES TO BE DETAINED.''

I get to the doors when a big beefy man grabbed me from behind and held me in a bear hug position, i tried to wriggle free but he had my arms trapped by my side and my legs wouldn't touch the floor. 

Breathing heavily ''Thank you...could he bring her back with us please and if you don't stop struggling we will have to sedate you again, i don't think you want that to happen again do you.''

With those words i let my body relax, she was right the last thing i wanted was to be sedated again at least if i was awake i could try to escape again. They start walking back up the corridor that i just came from but instead of turning into the ward that held the sign ITU they keep walking till the very end with a sign saying ward 14 and on the opposite side a sign that read PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit). 

''Shes going into PICU for now as they have no beds left in the child's ward, they'll make sure she finishes her treatment here.''

They rang the bell and waited for someone to come unlock the door to let us in. We were there for only a few seconds before someone come to let up in.

''Hello you must be Matilda. My name is Fraya, you are going to be spending some time on this ward with us while you get better.'' There was something about her that you couldn't help but smile back at, it was like it was contagious. ''Let me show you your room and get you hooked back up to the machine to finish your treatment, if you do disagree with the treatment we can force you to have it so i suggest you go along with it.''

I nodded to her to show i understood what she said, waited for the man to put me down and followed her to the bedroom. I was in room 1 Fraya explained that this room was used for observations and treatment. She hooked me back up to the machine and told me a few rules that they have and that i had her as a named nurse and she would be checking in on me every hour and somebody else would be doing the 15 minute observations.

I sat on the bed and took in my surroundings and started to cry to myself.

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