Alone in the Dark

[Apollo]

My eyes didn't open right off the bat. My whole head hurt to much for that right now. I lifted my arm and gently let my hand fall onto my head over my eyes, where somehow the sun still seemed to pass my eyelids and enter my pupils. I groaned and heard the shuffling of feet.
"Oh it looks like you've finally waken up huh?" I stopped. I didn't know anyone had been close by. I tried to sit up fast, opened my eyes to look around and froze. I had no idea where I was. My head spun and I feel to the bed I was laying on.
Around me were white walls and a white curtain, like a hospital room. The blinds weren't fully opened on the windows but I could see outside and it was around noon if I had to guess and a beautiful spring morning was starting.
"Where am I?" I asked.

[Oblivion]

''If I had to guess, I'd say it was the psych ward of the hospital.'' I muttered. Another person that shouldn't be here. He wasn't here before... Or was he? I scratched my chin at that, shaking my head slightly and wondering yet again what had brought me to this place myself.

[Apollo]

"How the Hell?" I muttered. I looked around and recognized the man that had spoken. On the other side of me was my friend. That was the only thing I could remember. "Max?" It looked like he was still asleep. I turned my head to the man who had spoken. "Who are you?" I noticed the nurse that in the room taking care of the man. "So how did my friend and I end up here?" I asked.
"We found you outside and we couldn't just leave you silly boys there." She checked the paper on the end of my bed and said, "You bumped your head pretty hard there."

[Oblivion]

"It's funny, I got here the same way. Guess we're all just unlucky." I rubbed my bandaged head. It was all coming back. I crashed, that's what they'd told me. "So..." I looked at the nurse and could feel my eyes glazing over in anticipation of a bullshit answer. "Why are we in the psych ward if we're all just injured?"

[Apollo]

"That's 'cause you're not in the psych ward silly." She chuckled and hit his arm playfully. "This is the hopsital wing of Augusta Maine Health Institute." That hit me hard. I couldn't remember why but I knew that that somehow could not be possible. I shrugged it off for now and tried to sit up again.
I put my feet on the cold floor and walked to thw window and looked outside and saw the front yard. People were being pushed by nurses, a painting class on the yard, and people just watching everything like I was.
"Why was I around here?" I muttered to myself.

[Oblivion]

"Oh good. For a moment I thought we were in a regular old hospital." I muttered, beginning to look around. "Hey. What's your name?" He glanced at the new person. "I'm Gene."

[Apollo]

"I. . ." I thought about that for a second and drew up a blank. I scratched my head a little bit.
"It's Nick."
"What?" It had been the nurse that had spoken.
"Your name was on this." She handed me a Maine state driver's license with my picture. "I just said Nick instead because I thought you'd like it better." She shrugged and handed it over. It was me alright, when I compared it to what I saw in the bathroom mirror of the room I was in it looked like me.
"I do. . . I do like Nick better." I whispered.

[Oblivion]

I didn't feel like sitting around and watching this scene carry on any longer, but I wasn't sure why. "...What is there to do around here, nurse?"

[Apollo]

She started listing off activities that the wards could do. I shook my head and walked out of the room with a small wave behind be only saying. "I'm going to look around." I walked down the halls with bare feet on the cold tile, but it felt nice.
I looked in on some rooms and most people looked to be out and about in the activities. The larger section I was in was bigger than most hallways but it seemed to be so wheelchairs could get through. At the end of the large hallway was a fireplace with no one around it, as if no fire was to be lit. In the middle of summer I can't imagine a fire.
I continued my tour.

[Oblivion]

"Have you ever noticed? When its just that right time of summer out and you go camping, it's always cold as hell even though it was hot when you got there." I had caught up, having grown bored of the nurse's drivel. "That's how it feels here."