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Hallucinations

TRIGGER WARNINGS - SLEEP PARALYSIS, CHILD NEGLECT, HALLUCINATIONS, MENTIONS OF PSYCH WARD, SLIGHT BODY GORE, MENTIONS OF SUFFOCATION.

Adam lay on his bed in fear. There was a strange figure lurking in the corner of his room. He couldn't stop it. It felt like the blankets that were once used to contribute to his comfort were chains keeping him from escaping. This wasn't anything new for him. He started developing sleep paralysis at just the age of 10. His parents couldn't do anything about it. In all honesty, they couldn't care less. 

The poor boy had cried his eyes out to his parents about the strange figures appearing in the corner of his room. He had no idea why these things loved to torture him. His parents thought their child was mental. Adam was taken to appointments after appointments and was nearly even admitted to the psych ward. 

Adam lay paralyzed on his bed watching as the figure taunts him. Suddenly, it makes its way towards the cowering boy. The things eyes slowly start to melt away into black ink before the being opens its mouth and nearly thousands of black berries spill out. These berries compacted the room until Adam felt himself being forced down onto the floor. The fruit rained down from the roof until his room was filled to the brim. He felt himself lose consciousness.

He woke up with a heavy jolt. He nearly hit his head on the wall next to him. That didn't matter though, he was still trying to process what just happened. Adam grabbed a journal out from under his bed. Ever since these incidents have started becoming a lot more than the occasional "creepy figure stands and smiles for 10 minutes straight", Adam started to document them. He wanted to remember them for some reason. He felt like they had some sort of meaning.

Just as Adam finished writing down every last thing he could remember from the "dream", his mother came in. He quickly slammed the journal shut and hid it under his pillow. Who knows where he could end up if anybody but him had read that. 

His mother informs him that his friend Kaz was at the door. She asks if she can let him in and Adam gives her a slightly shaky thumb up. He was thankful she was in quite the good mood and decided to not take her troubles out on him. She had quite the issue with that,

Kaz made his prescience known by slamming Adam's bedroom door open. Adam was already shaken up from the "dream" he just experience and that was the last thing he needed. 

KAZ - "ADAM!"

ADAM - "OH MY GOD!"

Kaz looks at Adam with a humorous expression before it switches to a worried one at the sight of Adam's obvious discomfort.

KAZ - "Dude, are you okay?"

Kaz was the only other person to actually know about Adam's sleep paralysis. Well, his parents were told like millions of times, but they dismissed it as "imaginary friend bs".

ADAM - "I don't know."

KAZ - "Was it another one of.. those?"

Adam looked up at Kaz with a teary-eyed expression before slightly nodding. Kaz signaled for a hug by lifting sugars arms out just far enough for Adam to slip into their embrace. Adam told them everything. Every little detail of the hell he suffered through. He needed their opinion on what they think it means. Adam felt stuck.

KAZ - "I-Oh wow."

ADAM - "I know."

KAZ - "I think you should stay away from anything blackberry for a bit."

ADAM - "That's what I'm planning on doing."

KAZ - "Good luck! I actually gotta go, my dad wants to take me skating."