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The Room
The last thing I remember that I was standing at school, I was in the hallway. I had gone to the bathroom and when I returned everyone was gone, no one was in the halls. Once I finally found someone they gave me a weird look, then nothing. There was nothing after that, it just all goes into blackness. I feel as though I heard sirens and yelling and machines beeping in the back of my head but I pushed it all to the back, because none of that mattered now. I sat at a table in a white room, I felt like I was more in a small box rather than a room, and underneath me was a cold metal chair. I shivered, and ran my hands down my arms. I had goosebumps, my whole body was cold. I looked back to the table, hoping for some type of clue, and saw a piece of paper. It was blank but as I stared at it I slowly grew to understand what it was. On the back side of this piece of paper I knew it had the day I will die. I thought about what today was, March 23 of 2014. I placed my hand on the table, pain seared through my body. It was if the pain was looking for where it should go, it stopped in my stomach. I cried out in agony. I kept my hand in place and gritted my teeth. Three doors appeared opposite of me. One red, one white, one green. The red door immediately disappeared as quickly as it had came and the green and white door got bigger. I knew what I should do, so I picked up the paper. It was still facing downwards but just touching it made my pain worsen to the point where I thought I would pass out or puke, possibly even both. I walked in front of the table and held the paper out in front of me, the date still facing away. I looked towards the white door with hunger, knowing that all my pain and sorrow would be over if I just took one step towards the door. I also knew I could never come back to this room to be able to make this decision. I looked at the green door, I heard voices from the back of mind. The voices bounced through my head, growing in volume before another voice got louder and drowned the other one out. One voice in particular though stood out, it was Levi. I would know his voice as well as I know my own. I couldn't make out what he was saying, it was too soft and gentle compared to the roars of everyone else. I chose my fate there, I stood up straight and flipped the paper over to face me. All it said was Not Today. I ran towards the green door, letting the paper fall, and threw myself through the door. A bright light blinded me at first until I saw a room form. I didn't take in much of the detail of it for I was too busy smiling at the one person whose voice was able to drag me back to the world of the living,
Levi.
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