Sorry, this isn’t a chapter, but I felt the need to try to defend my ending. I put a lot of work into this story and I want to have at least some explanation.
Alexander always kind of knew that she was a hallucination. That's why he kept on taking all of those medications- he was trying to make her real.
Thomas and Cynthia never really acknowledge Julia. They kind of were just like, "okay, cool, I don't see anyone…" He [Alexander] assumed the reason that they didn't see her is because he had a lot of girls over before Julia came into his life. Staying in that chapter, the blood, the cuts, everything that Julia did to help him was gone when Cynthia and Thomas arrived. He looked down and saw there was no towel and blood was on the carpet.
Julia, who is a figment of Alexander's imagination, didn't exactly know she was a hallucination, but she had instinct in her that wanted her to prevent Alexander from taking the medication that Dr. Anthony gave him. It's kind of like a human instinct that we have to stay alive. If we know that something might kill us, we have that impulse not to do it. That's what she had.
The fact that the purple elephant didn't leave and was constantly returning, even though Alexander said that hallucinations hardly ever showed up more than once was another clue. We all know that pink elephants aren't real.
Julia had a tendency to disappear and when she suddenly had a different pair of clothes, but to her, she never changed, but Alexander knew that she had changed. That was me playing with the idea that hallucinations don't know they're hallucinations. She's not going to know that she suddenly changed clothes, because to her, she has no clothes to change into.
Next: the scene in which Julia had a vision of the stove catching on fire. If Julia had cooked, Alexander would have basically been leaving the stove on for a long time- with nothing it, so it would've caught on fire because it wasn't cooking anything. That was his mind telling him not to let Julia cook. That was his way of protecting himself.
Julia had a vision of someone (as in one person) coming over, and if you remember, Thomas told Alexander he was coming over. Alexander just forgot, so Julia reminded him. And she didn't say "two people were coming over" she said someone. Alexander didn't know Cynthia was going to be there, because Thomas never told him she was coming over, so of course, Julia didn't see Cynthia.
Every time that Alexander wishes on 11:11, his wish comes true, but not in the way that he would've hoped. He took medication, which made his hallucinations leave. It started with the pink elephant, then Julia, and finally the book.
The medication Dr. Anthony gave Alexander is Clozapine. It's for people with schizophrenia. Julia knew it was for people with schizophrenia (which means that Alexander, in a way, knew it was too, but he just didn't really think about it, medication is medication to a drug addict), which is why she didn't want him to take it.
Julia knew that she was going to leave soon, so her last wish was for him to get better. Part of it was his brain saying "hey, you're killing me here" the other was me experimenting with hallucinations kind of feeling something for their host and Julia really wanted Alexander to be happy.
I thought this story through. I really tried to make it all work and I hope that I did. It's hard to write stories, especially stuff like this, so hopefully it's not bad. Hopefully I did a fair job with it.
Hooray for unhappy endings! Hopefully, this cleared some things up. Uh..vote if it did? :D
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