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Talking to the Moon Part 2

A/N  TW: Mentions of Suicide, Asylums, and Cops!

Ozzy

I tugged my beanie down, sighing as I walked to the new school.

I walked in the two large doors, getting the same strange looks I had gotten while walking through town to get there.

Honestly? I'm feeling like I'm famous, the talk of the town. They say I've gone mad. I don't believe it. They don't know me. Just because I got out of an asylum does not make me insane.

I was only there because I had been caught attempting suicide while talking to the moon. A cop saw me while I was standing on the tall roof of a building. I was prepared to jump while holding a knife to my chest. I had hoped I would land with it going through me. If the impact of the fall hadn't killed me first.

I had been explaining what I was doing while in the back of the cop car. However, I wasn't talking to the cop. I was talking to Pluto. I didn't want to be alive if I couldn't be with him. He was my world. He was my moon.

A small whine snapped me out of my thoughts. I looked down at Neptune. I smiled at him. My therapist at the Asylum had said I should get a service dog. He was able to tell me when my heart rate went up too much. He told me whenever I needed to calm down. I was grateful for his help. He was my rock, and without him, I would have gone over the edge. He helped me feel better about Pluto.

"I heard him again Neptune. Last night. He told me he missed me," I chuckled.

"His neighbors think he's crazy. So do mine. He says that they don't understand. He said to me, "You're all I had." He told me, "I want you back." He meant it, Neptune. So, I responded. I told him that I heard him. I don't know if he heard me but I heard him." I picked my dog up and whispered into his ear.

" I told him, I said, "At night when the stars light up my room

I sit by myself talking to the moon." I asked him if he knew. I asked him, " Do you ever hear me calling? Still trying to get to you?" I didn't get a response but that's okay. I know that he knows." Neptune licked my ear, I smiled and petted him.

I whispered, "It's okay, Neptune. I'm okay." I felt a little better.

Time to go to class. Oh boy.

Okay, it's not that much longer but it's something! Just a heads up, when I say Aslyums, that's what Ozzy in the story thinks they were. He was locked in confinement and isolation. He talked to a therapist and himself. He looked out through a window, too high for him to reach, so that he could talk to the moon. 

Basically, the song/theme is Talking to the Moon by Bruno Mars. 

Love y'all!

Your Story Boy, 

Soldier (Ozzy/Leo)