Asylum

Chapter 4

   Patrick stood in the cell of a dark room in which only the source of light was the sun shinning through the window illuminating the bed where Patrick saw a girl not older than himself sitting on the bed. She had blond hair " long hair" Patrick complimented and her eyes were tied so he couldn't see her eyes and she looked skinny. Very skinny. It looked like she hasn't eaten for years, you could probably see the shape and size of her bone " Poor girl" Patrick whispered to himself with sad eyes and he saw that she wore a white  gown " Em hi" Patrick saw that the girl flinched when he just talked and saw her looked at his direction with her eyes tied "I'm here with your food" Patrick said as he sat down on the bed and lay the food on the table in front of her " You should probably eat now. The food is right there in front of you" Patrick said as the girl made no attempt to eat her food but after a while the girl picked up a slice of bread and took a bite from it and start eating. When Patrick saw this he grinned at her even if she couldn't see him " That's better" Patrick said smiling and continued talking as she ate her food "So my name is Patrick Simon. What's yours?" He asked looking at the girl but he didn't get a response " Oh sorry. Never mind. So I'm in my last year of high school and I can't wait to finish cause its so stressful. My best friend Bella says so too but I know she's just too lazy to study" Patrick smiled thinking of his best friend " She's a nice girl. I like her very much but only as a best friend though. And even if I do like her she won't like me cause she is so in love with Matthew. I don't know what she sees in that guy, sure his handsome. Good at sport. Has a great body. I just mentioned all that she sees in him didn't I?" Patrick asked looking at the girl but he saw that she's asleep and her plate was empty " Was my talking so boring" Patrick chuckled as he stood up and lift the girl feet and placed it on the bed and carried the tray of food and head to the door and opened it and step out "See you tomorrow" He said and locked the cell door and walked along the non so stable hall towards the elevator.
          " Hey Patrick" a girl with brown hair and black eyes called out to Patrick who was resting his head on his desk "Mmm?" Patrick hummed as he put up his head and looked at the girl " What's up? Why are you resting your head?" The girl asked Patrick "Nothing, Bella" Patrick shook his head " oh okay" Bella said as she looked back to her book she was reading. Patrick lied when he said nothing when his best friend asked what's wrong with him. He was actually thinking about the girl in that cell. He has been thinking about her since he got home yesterday and till this very moment. Anytime he thought about the girl, he would feel like comforting her and telling her its all gonna be okay and that nothing would happen to her again. Where did this feeling come from, he didn't know but he knew he had to do this that's why he stood at the gate of the Asylum once more. " Good afternoon, Samuel" Patrick grinned at Samuel as he approached Samuel who was at his post writing " How are you today, Patrick?" Samuel said as he looked at Patrick "Same old. Same old" Patrick answered " Okay follow me" Samuel said as stood up and walked to the stable people room with Patrick following close behind him. When they got there, Patrick was welcomed with " Hey. Yo and how are you?" From different angles and he answered that he was fine. Looking around he asked " Where's Tory?" he was answered by a girl tackling him to the floor "Hi Patrick. I miss you so much" Tory said as he hugged Patrick " Miss you too but could you get up form me" "Oh sorry" Tory said as she stood up and stretch her hand for Patrick to grab which Patrick did and he dusted his body " Where were you" he asked Tory " In the bathroom" "Oh okay" Patrick nodded smiling at Tory "Come along Patrick" Samuel called out to Patrick as he rolled the tray of food into the elevator " Coming" Patrick said as he walked towards the elevator. " so I've been meaning to ask, how old is Tory?" "15" "Seriously" "Yes" "But she's young. What's wrong with her?" "Nothing actually. Just a misunderstanding" "Misunderstanding?" Patrick asked with a raised eyebrow "Yes. They thought she killed her parents because they saw her parents blood on her hands" "And how do you know this" "She told us and she was pretty normal when she came here but she cried due to the lost of her parents" "Hmmmmm okay" Patrick said as they step out of the elevator "Why don't you take Claire food to her?" "Huh?  Who's Claire?" " The girl that her cell is located at the end of this hall" "Oh okay" Patrick said as Samuel handed Claire food to him "Claire!  That's a beautiful name" He thought as he walked towards her cell

        " Hey. I'm back" Patrick said as he lay the tray of food on the table and looked at her as she sat on the bed " So how've you been?  I've been great. School was okay today but I kept thinking about someone and no this person is not my special someone, in fact I met the person  yesterday. Now the reason why I thought about her was because I felt like I need to help her and yes its a her. When I saw her she looked so fragile and weak. I couldn't stop thinking about her" He said looking at Claire smiling at her as she ate her food slowly "My best friend finally got her crush to be her boyfriend. Surprisingly he liked her too, didn't see that coming, but I'm happy for her cause when she's happy, I'm happy" Patrick talked and talked until Claire was done eating " Okay bye for now" Patrick said as he locked the cells door and head towards the elevator.  Weeks past and Patrick went to the asylum frequently even on the weekends and when he got into Claire cell he would always tell her about his activity of the day and everything else and even when Claire won't respond to his comment and talking, he felt content knowing she's listening. He felt that Claire always listened to him even though she doesn't respond to his talking or questions. Until one faithful day that Patrick was telling her about their  school trip ".... this trip is so gonna be fun since they allowed us to bring our phone along even our laptops and all the kind of social.. " "Stop" Patrick was caught off by a voice filled with pain and sadness " Huh" he asked "Please stop" Claire said as she looked at him with her eyes tied and she turns towards the bed and lay on the bed to sleep. "O... okay" Patrick wasn't expecting her to  talk and he wasn't expecting her voice to sound so lifeless and full of pain and sadness. Her voice would make the stone hearted to cry and pity her " I wonder what she had gone through for her voice to sound like that" Patrick thought as he exited the elevator " Hey, why do you look so down" Tory asked snapping him out of his thoughts " Nothing. Bye guys I have to go home" Patrick said as he waves at  them and ruffled Tory hair " Bye" Tory said to him as he exited the room. "I see you're going home" Samuel said to Patrick as he stood in front of him " Yeah. Good night" Patrick said as he walked pass Samuel "Okay. Good night" 
      "I'm home" Patrick called out "Welcome home dear" his mom answered waving at him from the couch "Where's dad and Gerald?" "They went out" "Okay. I'm heading to my room" "Okay dear" "So tired" Patrick sighed as he lay on the bed closing his eyes. "Please stop" those words made him open his eyes immediately "Her voice sounds so lifeless. God!" Patrick exclaimed " She must have gone through worse. I don't know why but she makes me feel restless. Its like if I don't make her okay or something like that, I won't be able to live with myself. But how can I do that?  I don't even know anything about her apart from the reason she's there and her name" Patrick sigh at his thoughts and stood up "Maybe if I take a shower it would be more clearer" he said as he took his towel from the towel rank and head towards his bathroom to take a nice hot shower.