Short story: This story is something that I encountered myself. I've met patients like this. It's very pitiful. The other stories are additional fiction. As you imagine, for entertainment ^^

***The characters in the story are fictional. There is no real identity. Including the location in the story and various behaviors***

“Oh...it hurts so much. Oh..." Pim Prae lay in pain in a hospital bed that was not her own. Including patient rooms as well. The door to the room slowly opened. The person who visited and greeted him was A young girl and a nurse who just met

“Get well soon, Auntie. I have to go home. The doctor said that my younger sibling is getting better.” Those eyes were cold and suggestive. A smile that made Pimprae goosebumps from the back of her neck up to the bottom of her hair. She couldn't move much because her body was wrapped in bandages from the head down. The smell of the disinfectant made me vomit.

"Let's go back. Don't disturb Aunt Nom." The nurse who came with her said. Smiling meaningfully as well before pulling the boy's hand out of the room. Letting Pimprae look on in fear The voice that came out of his throat was so soft that hardly anyone could hear it. All she could do was scream in agony. “Scream!!!!”

Her name is Pim Prae, and she is eighteen years old. Today her nine-year-old brother had an accident because he was mischievous for his age. A bone in his foot was broken and required stitches. Well, that's not very dangerous. The doctor who had the fever told him that he would have to go into the hospital for a day or two to monitor his symptoms. You can go home. She and her brother had access to self-pay treatment.

Therefore, patient rooms are private rooms. So her father and mother let her stay with her younger sibling before Both of you will return from work in the evening. But what can you do? Because this time happens to be a school break. Moreover, all of my close friends had returned to their homes in the provinces. So she was forced to come and take care of and be a friend to the younger sibling at this hospital.

“How is it? Is the wound tight?” Pimprae asked his younger brother, who was lying down and looking at the yellow saline line mixed with disinfectant.

"Not much, but it's boring. I want to go home." A small voice replied, asking to go.

“Who is using us to be naughty? Good, that's okay. But it'll be good for now. I saw the doctor say I'll give you two bags of saline and you can go home." Pimprae smiled at his younger brother. Today, in a hurry after Father dropped by to drop off my younger sibling at the hospital and called to tell her to rush out of the house to come and see the younger sibling instead. So she picked up whatever outfit she was wearing and quickly put it on to be with her younger sibling.

Grab the book you regularly read with headphones. Mobile phone charger cable, wallet, gather everything and put it in your favorite cloth bag and hurry to get out. Pim Prae wears a light-colored round-neck shirt and dark-colored pants with elastic that reach to the knees. Gather your long hair loosely tied in the back with an elastic. It doesn't look very neat. Which is as it is.

“I'll come soon. Do you want to eat something? I think I'll go out and explore a bit. I'm bored just staying in the room." Pimprae sometimes complained." She got up from the sofa next to the patient's bed. Gather your personal belongings and prepare to leave the room.

“No, I want to go home.” The younger brother, dressed in a cartoon-patterned child patient uniform, sat on the bed and looked at his older sister. As he reached out and grabbed his mobile phone from the nightstand, he opened it and looked at it to relieve his boredom.

“Okay, if there's anything, call me. Let's walk around and explore. But why did they let us come up to this floor? I don't know. It's on the 11th floor. This morning when I came, I saw the lights on only on our side. It's dark on the other side of the building,” Pimprae said, going to pick up her luggage.

“I suspect he was secretly experimenting with a crazy doctor. Like creating monsters, those kinds of things.” The younger brother tensed his throat as he recounted. Take your eyes off your phone.

“Watching YouTube, I'm delusional,” Pim Prae gave in. He picked up his mask and put it on before walking quietly out of the room.

'Testing on monsters? That's crazy, kid,' Pimprae thought as she walked out of her brother's room. The lights along the walkway gave a soft glow but felt rather dark in my mind. She continued walking straight until she passed the nursing ward where doctors and nurses prepared medicine and planned patient care.

Next to it was an elevator that traveled to different parts of the building. As she pressed the elevator, she waited. Something felt on the side of the building where the lights were off. It was like it was calling out to her to turn to it. Out of curiosity, she responded to that feeling. She turned her eyes to adjust to the darkness. My goodness!!

She saw the figure of someone, a black, flickering shadow, standing at the end of the road near the fire escape door. Suddenly!! Someone's hand touched Pimprae's shoulder.

“Little sister, little one, the elevator has arrived. Do you want to come with me?” the voice of a nurse standing near her called out.

“Yes...yes, brother.” Pimprae let out a soft breath of relief. He shook his head lightly as if to regain his senses. Ready to step into that elevator

The elevator box drops down to the ground floor of the building. Inside, there were only Pim Prae and the nurse who came down together. The nurse turned to greet me brightly.

“Coming to visit relatives?” She greeted with a friendly smile.

“Come and stay with me, in room 118,” she smiled.

“Oh, room 118, how is your scar? Are you complaining of pain?”

“No, I'm just going to go home. You really are being naughty.” She muttered softly to herself.

“Brother, let me ask you a question. Why are the lights turned off on the other side of the building?” Pimprae became even more curious about his question.

“You mean the side of the building that has odd-numbered rooms, right? That is, the ward on that side is the room closest to the fire exit. There are patients infected with Covid. The ward on this floor is closed for disinfection. A week ago When I came this week, the wards on the other floors were full, so this floor had to be closed. And my younger brother is the second room to stay on this floor. Don't worry.

There's definitely no Covid infection, I guarantee." The nurse smiled until her eyes narrowed. while moving the mask he was wearing to put it in place

"Thank you for the information, but I'm fully vaccinated. I'm not afraid," she smiled under a cartoon-patterned mask.

“Good, but in any case, you have to take care of yourself. Because of the vaccination against Covid There is a chance of infection. Only the symptoms will not be severe enough to cause death. We ourselves like to remind each other that "Vaccines prevent death, they do not prevent infection"."

“I feel sorry for you guys. We must be very tired. Especially the doctors, pharmacists, and those in the analysis lab. In any case, be careful. I'm here to help."

“Thank you. If there is anything I can help with today, you can always come see me in the hospital room. Today is my duty to stay here tonight. My name is Noina.”

“My name is Pim Prae. Thank you again. To the first floor? I'll excuse myself first." Pimprae excused himself and stepped out of the elevator that opened. The look from the nurse standing behind the elevator door flickered for a moment before it changed back to normal. until no one noticed the abnormality

Pimprae came down for a walk to "explore" as she told her brother. For the past two hours, she had only a bag of snacks in her hands that she bought at a mini-mart near the hospital. The elevator door opened slowly on the 11th floor again.

“Scream!!!” A scream of pain floated from the side of the building where the lights weren't on. It made her stop and listen intently. The sound continued loudly. But it was soft or deafening, she thought. She dared to walk in. The further she walked, the darkness away from the bright lights completely covered her body.

Her erratic heart nearly burst out of her chest, causing her to be unable to breathe. The whistling sounds of pain had stopped. Only the darkness surrounding her was a reminder that she had entered a land devoid of life. The closer you walk to the fire escape door, The pungent smell of the disinfectant was so strong it hurt the nose and eyes.

Or so it was as her brother said. “Testing monsters!!” Crazy!! That kind of thing isn't true. But what is the smell of disinfectant? She thought and searched for an answer.

Pimprae stopped in front of the room where the mysterious smell came from. 1133 sweat dripped from the wet palm holding the bag of snacks she had brought. She tried to tiptoe to look at the glass in the door. Suddenly!! She felt someone's breath ease against her neck. Goosebumps rose from the nape of the neck up to the middle of the crown of the head.

She immediately turned around, filled with fear and suspicion. It turns out that there is only emptiness, without a root cause. Curious, she tried to peer through the small glass window in the door again. Inside the room that was closed with curtains, there was light from outside escaping into the darkness. It was enough to see that on the hospital bed there was a body of someone lying there, trembling and convulsing.

The body was connected with a saline hose. and other medical equipment

“Scream!!!” This time the sound was so loud and clear that Pimprae was startled. It was this sound that made me walk through the darkness to get here. She mustered up her courage again and looked at the figure on the bed that was screaming and convulsing rhythmically. Observable things The body was wrapped in cloth from its feet to its neck, revealing the long, high-cheekbones face of an elderly woman, between five and sixty years of age. It looked haggard.

The eyes in those deep sockets blinked rhythmically until only the whites of the eyes could clearly be seen. Oh, that's so scary, she thought.

promptly!! that her hand was touched by someone She was startled again and immediately turned to face the force of his hand.

“Ugh!! It's P'Noi Na. Don't let me randomly give you a voice." Pimprae felt more at ease when she met the nurse she met who gave her a lift when she went shopping.

“Then what are we doing here?” the nurse asked in a low voice, as if afraid that the people in the room would hear.

“Well, I heard a scream, so I went to see the source of the sound. But you can come. I couldn't see or hear anything.” Pimprae looked at the nurse standing behind a cart containing small wound dressings.

“Brother, you must ask us. You saw us tiptoeing in front of this room for a long time. I don't know what I'm doing,” the nurse said laughing.

“I apologize, as I said from the beginning.” Pimprae felt that he had acted inappropriately.

“It's okay, but don't go anywhere next time. In this room, he is a special patient. There are no relatives to take care of me. Do you want to go in and see if you change the dressing and dress the wound? His aunt is very kind. She would be very happy if some children came to visit.”

“Is that possible? If that's the case, then I'll ask Auntie for permission. But what is wrong with you that makes you have to wrap your whole body in cloth and cry out in pain? You must be in a lot of pain,” she said.

“You are a farmer living outside the city. The day before it rained heavily You go out to the rice fields. Didn't notice and was struck by lightning. So my whole body burned. The skin burned off and had to be bandaged all over the body like this. The doctor gave him some strong painkillers, but he still didn't have much. When I see you, I feel sorry for you. Luckily, you're still conscious. When you wake up, Miss Pimprae, try talking to her." Nurse Noina smiled as usual.

“Then I'll take the snacks and stop by again. Noi Na should have finished dressing the wound by now.” She smiled as she looked at the many bags of snacks in her hand.

“That's good. I think when we come, Auntie will probably wake up.” The look in Pim Prae's eyes was strange than usual, but she didn't notice it.

Pimprae knocked on the door of room 1133 before turning the doorknob. Pull it out slowly. Strange!! The room inside wasn't as scary as before. It looked bright, probably because the curtains in the room had been gathered up. causing the figure of an elderly person to be seen sitting on a hospital bed which there is only you Her face looked fresh and not frightening at first sight.

“Auntie, I would like to ask permission to come in.” Pim Prae came in to visit a sick person because of the snacks on her hand. The elderly woman didn't answer, turning her head to look at the guest she didn't recognize. Nodding and smiling faintly friendly A new visitor rushed to the patient's bedside. Put a wonderful item at the head of that bed.

“Hello, my name is Pim Prae. P'Noina, who is a nurse who takes care of Auntie, said that Auntie lives alone and no one has come to visit her. So I came to Visasa to visit,” she smiles. The patient, who was wrapped in a cloth on the bed, tried to move up and sit up comfortably. She smiled before speaking in a soft voice that could hardly be heard.

“Yes, thank you very much, Auntie Nom....I'm so happy to have you come visit.” The elderly woman stopped, panting for breath.

“You don't have to say it. It's going to hurt again. Like moving a lot. I saw that Noina said that Auntie had an accident. It must be very painful, right?”

The old woman could only slowly nod in response, because the more she moved or spoke, the more her body ached with tight wounds.

“Oh, Noo Pimprae has arrived?” came the nurse's voice from behind her.

“Sister Noina, you walk very lightly. I didn't even hear him come in."

“You walk lightly like this. What are you talking about?” The nurse smiled.

“I just introduced myself. Besides, I'm five minutes ahead of you so I can see it.”

“How are you, Auntie? After you got the medicine, did you feel better if you changed your clothes?” Nurse Noina asked the patient on the bed.

“P'Noina, when will Aunt Nom be able to leave the hospital like this?” Pimprae wondered.

“Oh, the doctor said that if If your body is stronger than this, you can go home. But I don't think so. If there is encouragement, people come to visit like this. May get better faster

Pim Prae could only listen, 'A wound of this size would be difficult to heal with age,' she thought of not answering anything. The older woman tried to lift her bandaged hand to bring her closer. It's like saying something.

“Noom Pimprae, Auntie, what does he want to say to me? Please listen to me,” the nurse said knowingly about the patient.

Pimprae moved closer to the patient until she could smell the burning smell of disinfectant. before leaning in and bringing his ear close to the patient's lips

“Auntie, can I ask you something?” The voice was very soft, but I could understand the meaning. Pimprae nodded in response.

“Auntie, please........your.....body.....silly child!!!!”

Pimprae was shocked at the sentence he heard. before she hurriedly pulled away But not in time!! There was a piece of cloth stuck in her nose. It was filled with some sort of liquid. The stench stings the throat. She's about to lose consciousness. The mysterious cloth came from Noi Na who was standing behind her.

“Mom, take care of it, or you'll be able to trick this kid. It doesn't hurt, Pimprae. His mother has a subject. But because of the lightning It shortens the lifespan of his mother's body. Brother of my body Guaranteed to take good care of you. It's a good thing that Mom's room is on this side of the building. No one is paying attention, huh...huh.”

The sound of custard apple laughing in his throat sounded like a crazy person. Embracing the body of Pimprae who tried to resist.

Pim Prae's feelings were about to extinguish. Things that can be realized before losing consciousness It was a wet, mucus-filled tongue inserted into her ear, painfully tight. Both terrified and disgusted Tears flowed from her eyes, begging for life. A feeling of heat and cold, as if someone had poured very cold water on the back of her neck, flashed goosebumps all over.

But her body no longer had the strength to resist. Before everything goes dark

Her heavy eyelids lifted in distress. The image in the retina said that she was still in the hospital room. Strange!! It hurts, it hurts all over. She tried to raise her arms to look up. It became heavy as if it were using her body. Pim Prae looked at her body and it was covered in bandages. Yes! It's not your body, it's Aunt Nom's body!!!