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smoking gun usually at his feet was lying at the feet of a shadow man nearbyThen<br />
he was being woken up violently as his roommate shook his shoulders.<br />
“My watch is broken,” his roommate said with wide eyes, sticking the silver<br />
watch in Kevin’s face, “Been broken for hours now! Can you fix it” The watch read<br />
the familiar time, 3:14.<br />
Kevin looked at his own ticking watch and took the battery out of it.<br />
Slowly, he replaced his roommate’s battery with his own and watched it start ticking<br />
again. He handed it over to the man and rolled over to try to get some more sleep.<br />
The man cocked his head sideways to look at the watch. A smile spread across his<br />
face as he innocently lay down next to his new friend Kevin. Kevin jumped up and<br />
looked towards the door. The man looked confused and was about to say something<br />
when Kevin ran out the door.<br />
He was headed down the hallway, not sure where he was going, when he saw<br />
the sight he was hoping to never see again. His wife and little girl lay in a heap on<br />
the floor in front of him. Eyes open, hearts still, they were right there. He kneeled<br />
to the floor crying but as soon as he blinked they were gone. A nurse caught up<br />
with him and grabbed his shoulders with both of her hands as if she was trying to<br />
shake him out of it. He felt the world spin around him…<br />
A harsh white light was all that he could see. He squinted as the brightness<br />
overwhelmed him. Several faces looked down on him, smiling as if they were<br />
relieved.<br />
“Hello Kevin,” a man in white said with a deep voice, “How are you feeling”<br />
His body was stiff as though he hadn’t moved in days and his head was<br />
pounding.<br />
“Where am I” asked Kevin worriedly.<br />
“You’re at a mental hospital Kevin. Don’t you remember” a plump brunette<br />
woman asked.<br />
It all came flooding back to him. The death of his wife and child, cutting<br />
his wrists open over and over, admitting himself to a mental hospital during the few<br />
moments that he was sober, the fantasy he had created to provide motivation…But<br />
what just happened Why was he here He nodded solemnly at the woman and<br />
tried to sit up. Straps held him firmly to what felt like a hospital bed.<br />
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“We’ll explain it all, but for now all you need to know is that you passed,”
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