The Insane Child

Chapter 1

(During school) My friends and I were hanging out during break, in the back corner of the cafeteria. I was talking to Emily, one of my friends, when I saw Sam silently sneaking up behind her. I stayed silent, knowing it was going to be funny. As soon as she reached Emily, she shook her shoulders and yelled, "BOO!" Emily screamed a really high pitched scream and jumped at least three feet into the air. "Jesus, Sam!" She exclaimed, her hand laying on her heart as if it were trying to escape. "Don't do that!" Sam, who was rolling all over the cafeteria floor laughing her head off, along with me, sat up and pouted. "Awww, but Tobi thought it would be funny to scare Emily!" She burst out laughing, "And Tobi was right!" At this point I had gotten back up. Emily and I shared a glance, then looked back to her with a confused gaze. After a long pause, I had decided to speak."Umm....Sam? Not to be rude or anything, but, who the heck is Tobi?"

"Tobi is Tobi." She said pointing to herself looking confused. Emily asked, "Are you Tobi?" Sam nodded, "Why are you talking in third person?" Sam looked at her as if she had two heads. "Tobi doesn't know what you're talking about. Tobi talks like this all the time." Emily opened her mouth to say something else but I tapped her arm and shook my head, "Don't question it." She nodded in understanding. The dreaded school bell had rung, telling everyone to go back to class. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Sam...or Tobi...or whatever her name is...pouting, "Tobi doesn't want to go to class." She whined. I shrugged, "Neither do I, but we have to." She sighed and walked off. I watched her as she walked away and thought for a bit. I wonder if she has multiple personality disorder? It would explain a lot. I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt, that she was a normal child. It is what I would have wanted in that situation.

Once school had ended, the Drama rehearsals had started. Sam was acting... somewhat normal. She wasn't calling herself Tobi, and speaking in third person, but she was extremely hyper, like someone had given her fifteen Pixie Stix, and she was bouncing off the walls. Sometimes, I wonder what is going on inside her head... but then again, I don't think I want to know. It might not be pleasant.

During Drama, we were talking about random topics. Then it started getting weird. We eventually had a debate about which would kill better, Horses Or Hand Sanitizer. She said hand sanitizer and I said Horses....She was winning....In the middle of our conversation, she started laughing with a crazed smile on her face. I looked her strangely, "What's so funny?" I asked. By this time she had suddenly stopped laughing, but the smile was still plastered onto her face. "~Nothing you need to worry about.~" She sang. "~Not yet anyway.~" She then turned and walked away, laughing once again. I had a really bad feeling after she left. Like something horrible was going to happen, and I tried to brush it off. But how could someone as sweet as her do anything horrible. She couldn't harm a fly, even if she wanted to......could she?

(at night, Sam's P.O.V) I walked silently down a dark city street, watching as people passed by, wondering who to... talk to. I looked down the street a little ways. Under a flickering streetlamp was a small woman on her cell phone. She was crying. I listened in on part of her conversation. "You're BREAKING UP WITH ME!!" She yelled/cried into the phone. "What the HELL TRAVIS!! WHY?" There was a long pause before she spoke again. "I see...you chose her over me...NO TRAVIS...I am in enough pain...Goodbye...." She hung up the phone and burst out crying once again. I think I just found the one. I put on one of my best innocent looks and walked up to her with tears in my eyes. She wasn't looking at me when I was standing right next to her, so I tugged on her sleeve. She looked up with teary eyes. Her mascara was running down her face. "What do you want?" She asked. "Miss? Tobi is lost can you help Tobi?" I asked pointing to myself. "Are you Tobi?" She asked. I nodded, "Please help Tobi." "Yeah, sure....I have no one else to go to..." She said. "Thank you!" I smiled. "What is your name Miss?" "Oh, sorry I am a bit distracted, its...Anne." We walked in silence for a while. Anne stopped, realising she had no clue where she was leading me, and asked, "Where do you live, sweetie." I gave her "my address". The address I gave her had led to an abandoned warehouse, far from people. When we got there she looked at me in confusion. "Are you sure, you live here?" I nodded. I screamed and pointed down another alleyway, and said "Tobi just saw something in the alleyway." Anne stepped into the alleyway and said "I don't see any...." She never got to finish her sentence because of a little surprise I had. The surprise was a little... toy to the back. One of my many knifes. I ripped the knife out of her back and I started a fire. I threw the knife into the fire and waited until the handle was melted and the blade was deformed. Then I walked away acting like nothing had happened. I internally laughed to myself and started to sing as I made my way home. ~ASHES ASHES WE ALL FALL DOWN~