Introduction to "Melt"

Introductory paragraph to an upcoming short story called "Melt." The story will be a sequel to "I Promise."

I sit alone in a crowded room. My thoughts swarm around the room, speaking to me each with different instructions and questions. One tells me that I should get up for the first time in four days. Another tells me to remain where I am. Those two voices battle with each other, only sometimes talking to me directly .Yet another voice reminds me that I am here to stay. I am to remain in this room with only my thoughts crowding about my mind until the day comes that I meet the same fate as Erik and Corbin. I am to remain in this room with the reminder of what I have done. The voices never let me forget, no matter how much I want them to silence about it. They go through the story, seemingly second by second, on a constant loop that I cannot stop. My hope is that by writing the tale they tell, perhaps it will escape my head and live fully in the minds of others who read it, so that I may forget, while the spirit of the story of Riley, myself, and Erik lives on.