Chapter Twelve
My head. For some reason my head hurt. I didn't know why. I just knew that there was a dull, throbbing pain, a pain that I could barely tolerate. Ow, ow, ow … god damn.
Not only that, but people were talking nearby. They spoke quietly, but even their low tones made my head hurt. I tried to open my eyes, but it was hard, like they had been taped shut.
Nonetheless, I eventually managed to crack my eye open wide enough to see that I was lying on a soft bed, with a white sheet pulled over my body. I blinked, trying to figure out where I was, but my senses felt like they had been knocked out and were slowly coming back to normal again.
That was when I noticed that I was not alone. Two people sat in chairs next to my bed, two people I didn't recognize at first. I blinked a cou
