Ryan--Coma

The scene sets in with Mark, a boy that seems about 17 years of age. He is on the floor seemingly unconscious in a small white room that contains nothing but a single door. “Ugh… where am I?” As Mark exams his current location, he starts to ponder the thought of why he can’t remember anything before he woke up. “Why can’t I remember anything? I don’t even remember who I am or anything about my family.” Mark then notices the push-bar door that leads out of the empty white room. He then proceeds to open it and find that behind the door is a room of similar proportions to the room behind him, although this time there are two doors and a note on the floor. Mark walks across to the note and reads it. The note reads “Welcome to the lab Mark, you have been chosen to be a participant in our little game…of death. What lies behind these 2 doors are a series of puzzles, in order to escape this lab you must solve these puzzles. For, once you solve these puzzles, an entrance to another room will appear, and within that room are 4 doors all leading to puzzles, and the room after that will have 8 doors all leading to puzzles, solve those and then you get 16 doors, and the number of puzzles you need to solve will constantly increase, until you reach the end of course. Although, you probably shouldn’t even start anyway, for the probability of you getting out of here is 1/99999999. Why the outrageous probability? Well, remember how earlier I said this is a game of death? Well…. One mistake in this silly game and you will die a horrible and gruesome death. This note has gotten too long. It is time for you to start playing. Have fun.” ~Anon. Filled with confusion and rage, Mark tears up the note and starts to worry if he’ll ever get out of this god forsaken place. “So if I don’t pass these puzzles, I’ll die? What kind of sick person would make a game like this? Am I the first person or have there been others before me?” Pondering at these questions, Mark enters the door on the left, what he sees is just a button. Mark presses the button and then he hears gears turning overhead, but nothing happened after that. Mark exits the left room and then enters the room on the right. Inside this room is the same thing, a button. The button is pressed and gears churn overhead, after the churning stops, Mark leaves the room. Although when he exits, he notices that a door has presented itself in front of where the note used to be, in the middle of the two puzzle room doors. When Mark enters the room, he notices something on the floor, another note. It reads “I see you’ve passed the first room, ready for the next 5?” ~Anon. As Mark finishes reading the note, the floor below him opens up, sending Mark through a black abyss. Mark seemed to fall for more than an hour until finally he landed on a gigantic air mattress. At first the room was pitch black, no light seemed to enter or escape the grasp of the room, until a gigantic monitor with the words, “Ready for more?” popped up in big read ghastly print. The monitor then went blank and 4 doors were revealed, behind each door was an item. Behind door number one was a gun, behind door number for was a knife, behind door number 3 was a noose above a stool, and behind door number 4 was a note. Mark picked up this note and read it, it said “The odds are against you, kill yourself now and avoid the torture that awaits you.” ~Mark. “Wait a minute, this is my handwriting, was I here before?” Mark questioned. Mark dropped the note in confusion and disbelief as to what he had just seen. Slowly recollecting himself, Mark went ahead to take his own advice and picked up the gun and shot himself, or so he thought. The gun didn’t have a bullet loaded in it. Instead it was a flag that had the text “BANG!” written on it. “What in the world?” Mark exclaimed. Mark then went on to take the knife and tries to slit to his throat, except this knife wasn’t actually made of metal, it was made of plastic. “Why can’t I just put myself out of my misery already? Even the note told me to do the same thing…” Mark said while starting to well up with tears. Finally Mark went on to take the noose, this time he had finally succeeded in ending his life. With his last seconds on Earth, Mark started to remember something, something very important. This entire experience wasn’t actually real. Mark woke up in a hospital bed surrounded by bright white lights and a life support system. A board ahead of him had read “No response. 12/30/15” It had been 30 days since Mark had entered his coma. As Mark became aware of where he was and what kind of situation he was in, Mark tried to get out of bed, but could not lift himself from his bed. He then proceeded to try and call a nurse, a nurse named Peter had responded almost instantly. Peter had explained everything to Mark, since Mark suffered from dementia and severe brain damage. He had not remembered anything from his coma or his life. Peter had said that Mark was in a car crash, and that Mark was driving. Mark had fallen from a 2 story building while doing his job of repairing roofs and cleaning out gutters. He had landed on his head, and was almost completely disabled. The only thing that he can is his mouth and eyes, nothing else. Mark wished for death after hearing this.