Panic Pond
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The first time we went to the hospital, I told them it was just kinky sex because I certainly didn't want them to think that he was abusing me. I loved my husband, and there was nothing wrong with what he was doing. It was happening between two consenting adults, and everything should be fine.
They warned me of the dangers of it and offered to call for help several times when Devon left the room. I said it wasn't necessary. I felt completely safe and I just wanted to go home to him. I promised them that I wasn't going to do it anymore.
Looking back, they shouldn't have listened to me. They should have ripped me away from him and put handcuffs on him.
But they didn't. And I often wondered how many other girls they’d let walk away. How many other girls were dead because they let them go home to their abusers?
How many other girls came into the very hospital that I came into, fighting for their lives, and were saved, only to go home and die?
How many other girls were dead like I was?
I thought, at least, that I was dead. I couldn't see. I couldn't hear. I felt like I was in a dream.
But I knew that I was moving. I was on a flat surface, and I was moving somewhere.
The world started to come back to me as we moved. My senses started to awaken, and I could smell antiseptic and the stench of death.
I felt the light sheet on my body and the stickiness of the pads they had left on my chest.
I felt the cold of the morgue as they opened the door, and I started to be able to hear the conversations around me.
I wanted to call out to the people who had left me there, but I couldn't talk. I was floating, and I was falling.
And then suddenly, I was back.
I was alive.
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