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Narrative Essay On Safe Care

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Safe Your morning tray has arrived, the white computer screen announced. One shake comprised of organic, vegan, gmo-free matter, and water purified through reverse osmosis. Bella sat on the edge of the bed in the Safe Care unit. The unit’s three white walls were broken up by one virtual wall, which switched off different outside scenes. Her favourite to appear was the scene of the ocean, its virtual waves slowly washing in then flowing out. Bella would try to imagine what the sloshing of the water would sound like. Time for your exercise, the computer said. A treadmill slid out from the wall across from her bed. She went over to it, gripping the rail to pull herself onto it. A jagged, half-moon-shaped scar crawled its way up her left arm. …show more content…

It is safe here. Your needs are provided for in a manner least likely to cause harm or be polluted. We screen everything you eat, provide healthy physical outlets, and there is less than .002% chance you will sustain an injury in the Safe Care unit. Here, there is no reason to fear the world out there. …show more content…

Lush green trees and a sky so blue she had to cover her eyes with sunglasses. The laughing girl in the seat beside her. The excitement of their destination. The vehicle taking the turns of the uneven road. A sudden swerving, as the road opened up to large pits and holes. A frantic grabbing of the wheel, a sharp turn, and next thing they knew, airborne, flipping over . . . and over. Crash. Thud. Bella reached for the girl, but she couldn’t make sense of the world past the cracks of her sunglasses. Crimson blood was everywhere, on Bella’s shirt and pants and the red flesh of her open arm. And there was crying that wouldn’t stop, not even when Bella woke

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