Inside The Mind

Chapter 10

SARAH

"Marie go away, seriously. You always do something to ruin the plan. She's going to be the one to get us help. I mean we've been in this room for hours, she always comes back ready to listen. She wants to help. She is intrigued with us. But here you go running her off".

"Shut up Sarah she pissed me off. I got angry Okay".

"Isn't that how it always happens, you get angry".

"Shut up sarah".

"No Marie you shut up, go away before she comes back. I'll speak. We'll get something good out of her. I promise".

The door slowly opened and Laurie stood in the door way taking me in, obviously unsure if I was going to be the one to freak out on her. I looked past her and saw a gaggle of her colleagues watching me in awe.

"Laurie I'm not an animal to be watched, like at a zoo. Please shut the door". Her eyes were nervous, who wouldn't be. We didn't exactly ease her into it all, Marie just jammed it down her throat. No warning. She shut the door behind her and eased her way into the chair across from me. "I would like to apologize on the behalf of myself and Annabelle. Marie has anger problems truth be told. She gets aggravated when she's interrupted and she clearly takes pride in what we did. I'm here for ANNABELLE and only her. Want to know why"? Laurie swallowed hard as if she wasn't sure if she should say anything but finally she weakly replied.

"Why is that"?

"She has no idea what her mind posses. When we are around she has vivid hallucinations in her mind, that we actually exist. We are actually three separate entities. But clearly as you're experiencing. We are in fact one".

"Not really, three separate personalities. You must be Sarah". She said it like a question, not a statement. Does she think there are more of us?

"Yes, I am Sarah". Laurie's head nodded and I could tell she was still slightly nervous about it all.

"So Sarah". I folded my hands, waiting for the average What's your side of the story questions but she surprised me, "what would you like to say"? 

"I would like to say, Annabelle is a good kid. She didn't have any part in these killings. I'm here to fight for her sanity and to make sure she doesn't go to jail".

"Now Sarah". Laurie put been hand up, "Annabelle was there, she was part of it".

"Laurie, Yes I'll agree physically she was there but mentally she was asleep in bed the whole night. She has no clue how many men were killed, where it happened or when". Confusion filled her face.

"I don't get how that's even possible".

"Trust me, the mind is a powerful thing. Anything can be possible. I mean her mind created us to help her when she was in need. Unfortunately we went a little crazy ourselves but it's all very much possible".

"So how powerful is this mind of hers"?

"Powerful enough for a lot".

"Powerful enough to talk to you and Marie at the same time"? Before I could answer the question, Marie pushed herself to the surface giving a hearty laugh.

"Yes it's powerful enough for that. It's hard to do but there you go". Marie fell back into Annabelle"s mind and left her body tired, I had to lay my head onto the table.

"Sarah"?

"It's very tiring on the body to have us talk at the same time. One at a time is our motto".

Laurie nodded her head and gave me a small before asking, "can my questions be answered by one of you now"?