Hospital

Do you have a phobia? Most people are scared of something it could be spiders, the dark, heights, dogs; there are pretty common fears, most people can live their life comfortably avoiding their dee

The girl sat in the cubical waiting for the doctor; the nurse suggested that her injury might upset other patients. It wasn't a huge injury, it was a half inch hole in the cheek, but the ink had contaminated the skin all around the wound, it was black, and if you looked at where she held the padding on her face, you could see the blackness. She was crying, she had been bullied for years, but this was the worst incident to date. They would just call her names, ask questions and twist her answers or ignore her existence entirely.

She had been beaten up a few times, but it was rare, today the girls in her class had been drawing on each other's faces with permanent marker, she asked them not to draw on her, she was in the air cadets and would get in trouble if she showed up covered in ink. Instead of listening two girls had pinned her while a third started coming toward her with the pen, she had kicked her in an attempt to stop it. Then felt pain as the pen pierced her cheek, permanent markers are pretty blunt, so it takes a lot of force to penetrate the skin, it hurt a lot. The girls holding her heard the scream, they let go, and she had run, directly to the school office, holding her face, sobbing in both fright and pain.

The receptionist took a while to calm her down enough to work out what was wrong. As she removed her hand from her face the hand was red with blood, the receptionist quickly grabbed the first aid box and gave her some padding to put over the hole. Even as upset as she was, she could see the pity in the eyes of the women, it wouldn't be until later that day she worked out why. The receptionist then called the girls parents, asking them to come pick her up and take her to the hospital, they soon arrived, her mother demanding the receptionist to explain how this happened. The next hour was a blur, of going to the hospital, talking to hospital staff and hearing her parents asking if they should involve the police.

A man walked into the room, he was wearing scrubs and had already put on some blue gloves, he came over and introduced himself as Doctor Singh.  He began looking at the wound, he told the girl that stitches wouldn't help, but he was worried about the ink, and that it would need to clean with alcohol.  They said they would phone a colleague from the facial surgery clinic to take a look. A few moments after he left a nurse entered with a stack of alcohol wipes and got to work.

Now I'm sure most people have used alcohol wipes on small cuts, it stings when you rub it gently, well let me tell you this nurse wasn't the nice gentle type.  She was a bloody Nazi, using as much pressure as possible to try and get rid of all the ink, she continually wiped the wound each wipe covered in a grotesque mix of red and black. This continued for 30 minutes, but the black ring was still there on the girls face, as the nurse, a second doctor arrived.  This doctor came from the facial clinic, he took a quick look and said I need to come back in a week, to see if it was healing well and if further intervention would be necessary. When they arrived home the police were waiting, they were told what happened, and they agreed that this was a case for police intervention and asked for a statement to be made the following day.