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there.”
    “They are right, Rachel,” Lawrence added.
    Rachel put down her fork and stood up. “Okay, then. Guess I’ll just go back to my fucking desk and wait for the phone to ring, how about that?”
    She stormed out of the room before anyone could stop her.
    Jessica looked up at Lawrence. “Sorry.”
    Lawrence smiled and patted her on her good shoulder. “It’s fine. She’s just getting a little bit of cabin fever and she doesn’t understand. Go on and finish your dinner. You’ve got to be starving.”
    She was, and she went back to scarfing down the food in front of her.

CHAPTER FOUR

    David
    David Ellis sat at the edge of the bed, staring down at the floor. Before Lawrence and the girl stopped by the room, a nurse came in and suggested that he lie back down and rest. He ignored her, and instead chose to sit up. He’d been lying down in that bed since the moment he arrived the previous day, and he was becoming antsy.
    He felt the urge in his bladder to use the restroom, and walked to the toilet.
    The bathroom inside the hospital room was simple. It had only a toilet and a sink, which had a very small vanity in front of it as well as a mirror plastered to the wall above it The luxury of having indoor plumbing was one he hadn’t been sure he’d ever know again, and he was pleased to be experiencing it here after two days of hell out on the road.
    When he was done, he flushed the toilet, and then looked at himself in the mirror. He had on a gown, which he was already tired of. He didn’t care for the tickle of the open air hitting his bare backside. His curly hair looked like he’d just woken up from a week-long nap, and the stubble on his face looked like it had increased ten-fold overnight.
    On a table near his bed, there was a fresh set of clothes for him. On top, there was a note that read: “Hope these fit. Had to guess on the size. Not too many options. - L”. David stared at the clothes after he was done reading the note, and slipped out of the gown. The pants fit just about right, while the shirt was a little tight, but he was okay with it. His toned biceps strained the short sleeves of the shirt, and it felt great to wear a fresh pair of underwear.
    While he wasn’t hungry, David was going to go stir crazy if he stayed in the room any longer. He figured that, with everyone presumably at dinner, it’d be a good time to go have a look around.
    So, that’s exactly what he planned to do as he opened the door and stepped out into the hallway.
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    He looked both ways after he stepped out of the room, and saw that it was clear in both directions. He quietly pulled the door shut behind him, so as to not catch the attention of anyone who might be lurking around. David could hear the chatter down the hallway, presumably coming from where the group was eating dinner, so he headed the opposite direction. They’d kept David in his room since he arrived here the day before, and he was curious to learn more about where the stranger had brought him.
    Either side of the hallway was lined with doors, each one numbered with a small metal plate, just like the room he was staying in. Most of them were open and didn’t appear to have anyone occupying them. Two of the open rooms he passed did have belongings in them, proving to David that other people were in fact living in at least some of these hospital beds.
    When he reached the end of the hall, he looked to to one side and noticed a pair of double doors just a few steps around the corner. To the other, there was a set of elevators at the dead end of the hall, also just a few yards from where he was standing. He stepped toward the elevators and read the signs taped to the metal doors that read “Do Not Use”.
    He started to turn around, and he heard someone walking down the hall from the direction he’d come, mumbling as they moved swiftly. David stepped back and stood with his back against the elevator, with the frame of the door hopefully hiding just