Prologue

 The small metal door creaked open and Amy looked up from where she sat. She made no indication of showing any interest in her new roommate; the women must be about twenty-one, her age. Over the past five years she become used to having to share her room with loonies, it never lasted long though. Her ‘friend’ would visit it her. She’d have a fit and they’d scream to get out. She couldn’t see why the staff bothered putting them in with her to start with.

  “This is your new roommate, Chloe.” The head nurse stated – speaking as if Amy was a young child; “Be nice to her please.”

  Amy stared at the woman, cowering in the doorway as thin as a stick. Anorexia. It was usually the case and Amy never really cared about them, they never truly got over the disease and should – in her opinion – just be left to die.

  The door closed and she heard the hollow click as the lock was placed back into its place. The girl – what was her name again? – stood with her back to the door shivering, trying not to cry. Amy stared at her still; her eyes blank and empty, her face free from any expression.

  After a while the girl was afraid of her and she knew it, for a while they stood in the absolute silence before the girl scurried over to her bed. Amy turned to look back at the wall, picked up the crayon and finished her drawing. Chloe watched her from across the room, curiously until she saw what the women whose name she didn’t know was drawing. Her curiosity soon became fear at the look of the face on the wall staring out at her.    

Hanging from a noose was a girl with cold white hair and the greenest eye’s ever. There was a faint smile on the girl’s lips and her eyes! Her eyes jumped out of the picture, they were alive. Those eyes chilled her to the core of her soul and fear that seemed so rational yet so irrational burned inside her, pouring out of her mouth.

   The next thing she knew she was in another room waking up from being heavily sedated. Although she remembered nothing of what she’d done after seeing the eyes she could still see them.

Alive yet dead.                    

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