"mmmm" Inah tossed and turned on her too-hard bed. Her fream was haunting. She was surrounded with a mist, it was like a sauna, minus the heat. "Hello?" Inah called but her voice was muffled, as if someone had covered her ears. "Inah!" someone called, but her voice souded distant, faraway. "Who are you?" Inah said. "You seriously don't recognize my voice?" the voice said. It was closer now, behing Inah. Inah turned aroumd, "Iza!?!?" Iza was still wearing the yellow dress she had worn when she was murdered. Her hair was messy and her eyes were bloodshot. "Duh." Iza roleld her eyes. "What are you doing here?" Inah said. "I'm here!" a squeky voice called and in an instant, someone approached them. She was wearing a maid outfit and, like Iza, had bloodshot eyes. "You're...." Inah widened her eyes. "The person that fell on you in the laudry room? Yeah, that's me. Sorry 'bout that. I was dead." the girl-Maria-said. Inah nodded, "Why are talking to me?" Iza sighed, "We can only send dreages- or dream messages- to our blood relatives and since,-" "My mother refuses to believe me." Maria huffed. "....you're our only choice." Iza finished. "Oh.." "Listen to me, Inah, the same person murdered both of us." "W-Who?" Iza and Maria shared a look, "Can't tell" Maria said, "Law of Murder or whatever." "Oh.." "But I can tell you this. The person is in. The. Castle." Iza said, "Talk to the princesses, you'll figure it out." "But I'm stuck in a mental hospital!!" Inah protested. "You'll find a way, you're my sister," Iza smiled. Inah smiled back, knowing tge dream was about to end, Maria and Iza's images started to fade. "Love you, Inah!!" Iza called, her figure flickering. "Oh, and," Iza smiled, "Jeff is hot and all, but so is Prince Thomas!" With a wink, thet were gone. inah was alone. The mist started to rise up, suffocating her. She ciuldn't breathe....it was impossible... Inah gasped, sitting up. Her hands clenched the bedsheets. "Jennifer?" she whisoered, glancing at the other girl's bed; it was empty. "Jennifer?" she called more loudly this time. "Inahh...." a voice called. Inah stood up and quietly walked over to her bed. The small girl was sitting on the floor, leaning on the bedframe, her legs folded tightly into her chest and she wrapped her hands over her knees, she was slowlt rocking bak and forth. "Jen? You okay?" Inah crouched down. "Do...you...know why....I...was....sent....here...?" Jen whispered, her voice so low Inah strained to hear. "Why Jen? You can tell me." "My dad...." Jen said. "Yoir dad what?" inah tried to make er voice as soft and calm as usual. "MY DAD KILLED MY MOM!" she screamed. "W-What?" Inah fell backward. Jen seemed to calm down again, and she was giggling nervously now, "I remember that day...I cam home from school, they were fighting...and he grabbed her shirt and started to shake her." Suddenly, Jen lunged forward and grabbed Inah's shirt, shaking her. "Jen!! Let me go!!" Inah's head was dangerously close to hitting the metal bed frame. "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID TOO!!" Jennifer screamed, laughing crazily. Suddenly, the door flung open and in a second, two shadows crossed over and broke them apart. "JEN! GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!" the first shadow screamed, Inah recognized it to be Jeff's. Jenn was laughing hysterically now, curled up on the floor. The second shadow scooped her up and laid her carefully on her bed, whispering to her. Jeff looked at Inah, a weary expression on his face. "Take a walk with me?" <><><><><><><> Forget the typos, my first post got freggin deleted so I had to write it all over again and I just wrote it hurriedly.
Inah and Jeff walked side by side inside the green house beside the institution. Inah was the first to speak, "What happened in there?" Jeff sighed, putting his hands in his pocket, "This...is a mental hospital, and...this happens a lot." "This happens a lot? People trying to strangles their roomates while laughing like a hobo?" Jeff ran his fingers through his hair, "Ah, how do I put this, here.." he raised up the sleeves of his long-sleeved shirt. Inah gasped, there were little cuts, they were healed, but still visible. Inah touched one that looked like it was still in the process of healing. Jeff's muscles turned rigid, and he winced. "Sorry. Where'd you get that?" Onah said, pulling her hand away. Jeff pulled down his sleeves, "Ehh. Logan attacked me a couple of times." "Logan? The guy who came in with you?" "Yeah, him. You see, we are sent here because we've gone through a traumatic experience and we're supposed to, you know, get over it. But it's hard. Sometimes, patients wake up amd go crazy, overcome by trauma. That's why we have roommates. Sometimes, when you're close with your roommate, right when he is about to hurt you, the, um, sane side of his brain tells him to stop because you are close." Jeff explained. "What experience did Logan go through?" "He....saw his brother kill himself" Inah's eyes grew wide, "And-And you?" Jeff lowered his eyes, "I-I saw my girlfriend being killed by my best friend." Inah quietly gulped, "I'm so, so sorry." He sighed, "It's okay. What about you?" "Well, I work at the castle, and, and one day, I discovered a body. A dead one. A week later, I sneaked my sister in the castle and she...she..." Inah couldn't go on. "I'm sorry." "No! She, both of them, right before Jen attacked me...I had a dream." Inah admitted. "Really?? About what?" "They were trying to get me to find out who killed them both. It was the same person. He...she...is in the castle." Inah's voice turned into a whisper. "Oh! You have to get out of here, right?" Jeff said. "Yeah." "Well, be glad you're my friend, cause I know how to bust you out." he said with a smile.