Simone Elkeles Quote

When there’s a knock at my door, I scream, Go away!The knock gets more persistent.Fuckin’ leave me alone!As the door creaks open, I hurl a cup at the door. The cup doesn’t hit a hospital employee; it hits Mrs. P. squarely in the chest.Oh, shit. Not you, I say.Mrs. P.’s got new glasses, with rhinestones on them. That’s not exactly the greeting I expected, Alex, she says. I can still give you a detention for cussing, you know.I turn on my side so I don’t have to look at her. Did you come here to give me detention slips? ’Cause if you did, you can forget it. I’m not goin’ back to school. Thanks for visitin’. Sorry you have to leave so soon.I’m not going anywhere until you hear me out.Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse. a voice bellows through the speaker.I’m bein’ tortured.Mrs. P. walks over to me and pulls the speaker out of my hand. He’s joking. Sorry to bother you. She puts the remote speaker on the nightstand, deliberately out of my reach. Don’t they give you happy pills in this place?I don’t want to be happy.