Rewind (Vanish Book Three) by Sonny Daise

but we just had to head north and go straight for the
most part, and we were good.
    Once we got closer, I had to
figure out which way to turn. I remembered the way, but it seemed
as though it was in another life—and it kind of was.
    We parked down the road
behind a couple of bushes. Then, we walked to the building. It
looked just as abandoned as it did the last time I was here. The
gate was open, and we went right in; the door was unlocked as well.
The desk and file cabinet remained, but other than that, it was
just as empty as before. I walked over to the filing cabinet. I
wasn’t expecting to find anything, but it was worth a shot. I
stopped before I opened the drawer. I felt stupid. I didn’t know
what I expected to find here, but was almost certain that I
wouldn’t find it.
    When I opened it, there were
two files instead of one. The first one I pulled out, said
‘Scarlett Summers’—so I went to Meadowbrook anyway, but why? Before
I looked in the file, I decided to see who else went here. The
second file said ‘Rose Summers’—she sent both of us here. There was
something off about this place. I opened my file, but it was almost
exactly the same as the one from before. They gave me medicine to
stop my powers, so whoever worked here must have had powers
themselves. The only thing that was different—there was no birth
certificate. I looked through Rose’s file. It was almost identical,
but they didn’t give her any of the medicine. Something weird went
on here. I wasn’t sure what, but I knew this was no run-of-the-mill
mental hospital.
    “ This is crazy,” I said
aloud. “What did I do in this life to get sent here?”
    “ What does it say?” Grace
asked.
    “ They locked me and my
sister here. They gave me medicine to stop my powers, but they
didn’t give any to her.”
    “ Who else has been
here?”
    “ As far as I can tell… no
one.”
    We walked back toward the
rooms, and all but two were empty. The rest were filled with
cob-webs and mice. The two that weren’t empty, looked as though
they’d been recently cleaned up. In fact, when I stopped to look
around, pretty much everything on the way to the rooms was
spotless. Then I heard a noise. It sounded like a truck pulling up
in front of the building. I ran to the window to look, in the back
of the truck, there was a sign— Meadowbrook
Hospital for the Mentally Insane .
    There was nothing we could
do. We couldn’t leave, they would see us. So we sat inside and
waited for them to leave. They put up the sign and pulled away, but
mere seconds later, a car pulled up. A woman in a nurse’s uniform
walked up to the door. Before I could get a good look at her, we
ran and hid.
    There was a room right down
the hall with a window, so we could still look out and see what was
going on in front of the building. Twenty minutes later, a familiar
car pulled up—Ann. She got out of the car, dragging Rose behind
her.
    “ Come with me,” the nurse
said, I recognized the voice—Nurse Debby. “First, I would like to
talk to you. Do you have any idea where your sister is?”
    “ No, I don’t,” she said with
defiance. “Why am I here? This is ridiculous.”
    “ You need help, stop denying
it to yourself.”
    “ No. I don’t.”
    “ I need to know where your
sister is.”
    “ I told you already. I don’t
know.”
    “ We have to get her out of
here,” I cried.
    “ First we have to get out of
here; we’ll come back when it’s dark,” Dante said.
    “ Okay, we should go
now.”
    We ran to the entrance and
down the street to the car. I needed to get her out of there, but
first I needed to know why she was in there in the first place.
Why we were in
there before?
    I needed a plan; I needed to
know what was going on, but how? Obviously, Nurse Debby and Ann
were the only ones really in on it, so how would I get any
information?
    I imagined that I looked like
Ann.
    “ Whoa,” Grace and Dante said
together.
    “ I’ll be back in a minute.”
I walked