OUTCAST CHAPTER: TWO
"what a plot twist, you were"
"Honey, there's something with Jung, He keeps talking to walls, plants, breeze, winds, and all that craziness! We need to show him to a doctor!" Jung's mother shouted worriedly to her husband, currently reading a newspaper. "But what is wrong with talking to walls? That's not absurd at all. You're worrying about nothing, honey." This angered Jung's mother even more, "Why don't you care! Jung's running around like a madman talking to this and that! The neighbours keep complaining and telling me that I have a crazy teenager inside my house! I can't take all the embarrassment alone! I'm going to take him to the doctor, tag along if you care!" The man folded his newspaper and spoke, calmly. "Adelaide, calm down, please. If Jung hears this, he'd be so upset, I do care, but I'm afraid it's something that'll affect his future, he's only 13, Honey, do we need to go to the doctor?" Adelaide, now all tearing up, sobbed and hid her face in her hands, she cried. "William, How will I? He's my son, I can't stand seeing him like that. We need to, I tell you, and I promise you, the faster the better, Jung has a future, He can't continue like this."
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"Del, My mother thinks I'm a madman, a crazy person... Am I a crazy person?" Jung spoke about what he had overheard. Del just smiled, "Well, you never know, Every human is a madman, one way or the other, You need to control it, That's all.." Jung always found comfort in Del's words. He never knew how she knew the correct words to tell. "But they said I need to go to the doctor, I can't be trapped inside a hospital forever!" Jung spoke worriedly. "You gotta do what you've got to do because you'll understand everything one day... and you'll laugh about it, just push through.." Del spoke, that genuine smile still plastered on her light brown face.
"Lavender's blue dilly dilly, Lavender's green,
When you are king dilly dilly, I shall be queen.
Who told you so dilly dilly, who told you so?
It was my own heart dilly dilly, it told me so."
Del sang again. Adelaide watched her son sing the song from a bit far, her heart pounded with pain. Her brown eyes brimmed with tears as she cried silent tears. Something she'd keep all to herself and no one else.
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"Jung, get ready, We're going to the doctor" Adelaide spoke. She witnessed her son come down the wooden staircase, all dressed up in a yellow sweater and black jeans, He was still murmuring something while clasping his own hands together. "Son, what is possibly wrong with you?" Adelaide whispered under her breath and made her way to William's car. She sat inside in the passenger seat, as she watched her son, still talking to the empty seat right next to him. Her heart pounded again with pain, as William held her hands and comforted her.
"What is wrong with me, Del? Del... why aren't you answering? Del!"- Jung
