Dawn

The next few weeks were rainy yet quiet. Seth and i had gotten to know each other even more and plan our escape.

To tell the truth, i felt so shy around him everythime. He likes me, and i liked him. But i still felt shy.

Right now, it was December. Snow covered the entire land around the asylum.

Right now, if none of this ever hapened to my life, if my parents were never murdered that day, I would be going out with my mom, my dad, and Mark to look for a perfect Christmas tree, and then coming home to decorate it with golden ribbons and red, silver, and green ornaments. But that won't be happening at all.

I felt tears roll down my cheeks as i thought about it.

"Dawn, are you okay??" Seth asked me.

We were in the garden, planning the escape. We bought some thick lankets we stole from the laundry room to keep us warm.

"Huh??" i say, looking at him. He reaches his hand and gently wipes away my tears.

"Sorry, just missing my family. You know, being Christmas and all," i said.

"Don't worry. It'll all be okay. If anything, they know, wherever they are, that you are innocent," he saids.

I hug Seth close to me. "Thanks," i said. We part from the hug and he pulls the blanket closer around my shoulders. I felt much warmer.

The poor plants in the garden were starting to wither with the cold, desperate for Spring to hurry the hell up so they can bloom beautifully again.

"Ok, so i was ale to find a diagram of the ventilation system in the lunchroom. Strange, though, since it was just on the ground," Seth said, showing me the diagram. It was a labyrinth in the air system.

"Wow, seems complicated," i said, observing the diagram.

"True, but it could be our way out," he saids. I shrug, knowing he has a point.

"We'll give it a shot, but depends when. Nurses will proably be after us," i said.

"Yeah, so we got to be careful when we find this vent so we can crawl through and reach around here, past the lobby entrance, east," he said.

"I guess we can," i said.

Soon it starts getting colder and we fold up our diagram and maps and stuff them into the pockets of our hospital sweat pants. I decided no more hospital gowns ever since i had that attack from the weird nuse, who i gladly never seen ever again.

I keep the blanket wrapped around me as we exit the gardens and rush to the building. We enter through the door, but it isnt the usual hallway. It was much darker, and seemed to have been made of concrete. It felt so warm around me, so i decide to ditch the blanket. I'll take another form the laundry room later on. Seth does the same.

Our only light source- a single dusty lightbulb hanging above our heads.

"Wrong door, i guess," i said, turning around so we can leave. Seth turns the doorknob, but it woudn't budge. "Locked," he said.

"Seth," i said, feeling a little scared.

"It's okay. We'll find a shortcut," he said, taking my hand. It was hard seeing anything cuz it was just so dark here. We walked and then my foot hit something hard. Considering i was wearing weird sock slippers, it hurt alot.

"Ow!!" i said, holding on to my foot.

"What happened??" he asked, holding on to my arm gently.

"My foot hit something," i said, the pain slowly going away from my foot.

Seth then kneels down and feels the ground around with his hands, and then gets up. I then see a bright light shine down the hall after a small click.

"A flashlight. That's what your foot hit," he saids.

I take his arm as we walk down the hallway. A flashlight here means people have been here before, despite this hallway looking abandoned and full of a couple small cobwebs. I held tightly to Seth's hand as we walked down the hall.

Soon, we came up to a metal door. I look up at Seth, and then reach open for it, but then he stops me.

"We dont know where this leads," he saids.

"It could be a way out of here, though," i said. He then releases my hand and i turn the knoob. It was gladly open.

I let it open wide and we peer in. It looked like a messy office.

"What is this place??" we asked as we walked in, stepping on some scattered papers.

"I dont know," he saids and then i see there's a sickening smell of blood in the air, making me gag.

"Dawn, Dawn!! Are you okay??" he coughed, taking notice of the smell.

"Y-Yeah. Just that the smell is really strong," i said, sucking it up. I then notice alot of pictures and papers all around a wall behind a dusty old desk.

Not too far away, a weird looking dental chairs stood close by, a metal table next to it. It had a small tray of weird metal sticks in it. Seth went and looked at the papers on the wall.

Seth

"Any ideas of what these are for??" Dawn asked, picking up a thin metal stick.

"I dont know," i shrugged as i looked at the papers.

Creepy pictures of blood and gore, open skulls, stitched up chests and bodies, creepy stuff covered the walls. Also what seemed like sketches and accounts- pages of people who i think were "lobotomyed" before. 

I never bothered for the definition of the word.

I then see something strange- an employee profile account. It was of my nurse, the one in his mid-40's. His picture looked like a mug shot. I read his history, and my eyes grew wide.

"Murders of high degree..... charges of cannibalism..... what the..... F.B.I. fugitive.... What the..." i said to myself, weirded out by this

All of a sudden, a loud noise from across the room makes us jump high.

I look and see its a television scren, showing some weird footage.

Dawn walks up, taking my hand as we approach the television. It was footage of the room we were in right now. Doctors and nurses were inside. We watched quietly.

"Is the patient ready for his lobotomy, doctor??" a nurse asked in the tape.

"That's my nurse," Dawn said, pointing to the nurse who spoke.

"Yes," the doctor said, approaching what appeared to be the weird dentist table. I see someone strapped to it, struggling to break free.

"LET THEM GO!!! YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY!!! DAWN AND SETH ARE NOT CRAZY LIKE YOU!!!!!" the man shouted shouted.

"That's the guy!! The guy that strangled me a few months ago, when we met!!" Dawn said, gripping nervously to my hand.

"How does he know us??" i asked, gripping her hand tightly, too.

"Pass me the ice picks, Olga," the doctor said as the nurse searchs through the familiar metal tray.

I then see the doctor take two sticks, one of them a small little metal hammer. Dawn then looks back at the tray and approaches it, looking back at the metal sticks.

I then see the doctor position the pointed end of one of the sticks on the guy's forehead near is eyes, the guys screams continuing. I was afraid of seeing what was going to happen next, and turn off the television.

What the hell did i just see??!

"Seth, what does it mean to be lobotomyed??" Dawn asked, holding one of the sticks, which i believe was known as an ice pick, in her hands.

Before i can answer what im thinking, we hear a door knob turn at the end of the room, and it wasn't  from the door where we came in from.

Oh shit.