Madness

Chapter Thirteen

SHADOW’S P.O.V

It’s been two weeks and I’m finally out of the hospital and so was Patch but he of course go out earlier than I did. The only bad thing is that he has to get checkups every week; all I have to do is take my stupid medication, as if the ones I took weren’t already enough. It wasn’t so bad being at the hospital; my friends came and visited whenever they could, which made me feel less alone. I stood outside of the hospital wing of the institution waiting for Patch, Lyric and Art to appear.

ZETH’S P.O.V

I woke up to my dad smoking as usual. I got up and checked the time; it was only 6:30 a.m.. I sighed; I only slept for 20 minutes, great. Well at least I didn’t have any nightmares today.
“Hurry up Zeth we can’t be late to getting you into that fucking institution!” I heard my father holler.
“Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! I’m coming don’t rush” I yelled back at him. I heard him coming up the stairs, probably coming in to help me finish packing.
“You almost finished?” he asked as he stood by the door way.
“Yeah, I guess” I grumbled. He walked over to me and started helping me pack.
“Well at least now with my help you’re finished. C’mon help me with your bags and lets get driving. We have a long drive ahead of us.” He said in a calm voice.
“Alright” I said. I got some of bags and threw them in the car. I let my dad get the rest of them as I hopped into the car and put my ear buds in. Guess I’ll have to keep myself entertained with my music. I spent hours just staring into space imaging how this place would be like; I wonder if I’ll even be able to make friends there, at least some that aren’t that crazy… I hope someone can at least talk decently there and aren’t all nutshells. We finally arrived, the hell that I will be living in for who knows how long. I took a deep breath and got out of the car and walked in.

PATCH’S P.O.V

It was around 2-3 in the morning, everyone was asleep but us. We had practically spent the whole day spending time with each other. We weren’t very tired considering we had just finished watching a movie and stuffing our faces with candy.
“Anybody want to suggest anything to do for the rest of the night?” I asked, breaking the silence that had set upon us.
“Let’s play hide and seek!” Art said playfully.
“Yeah, let’s play!” Lyric and Shadow said in unison. We started discussing who would be it, and of course no one wanted to be it. I just decided to be it. Before we could start the game we began to hear voices and footsteps; everyone immediately fell silent. We listened for more of the voices and footsteps. We heard them again, getting a little farther each passing moment. We all quickly got up and poked our heads around the corner; curious as to whom the voices belonged to. We saw a shadow round the other corner; we all looked at each other as if to agree that were going to follow it. As we got closer, everything became more louder. When suddenly they stopped; I ran to where we had last heard the voices speak. I came to an abrupt stop, only to realize it wasn’t two people but one. We all stood in silence as we stared at him. He shook his head as if to shake some thoughts away. I looked at him oddly, not getting a very good vibe from him.
“Hi there” he said cheerfully, waving at us. We all hesitated on saying something.
“Hallo, my name is Art, and this is Lyric, Shadow and Patch” Art spoke up, introducing us all.
“I’m Zeth” he said finally revealing his name.
“When did you get here? Are you new or something?” Lyric asked, curiosity getting the better of him.
“Yeah, I’m new here; I got here earlier today. And well, as you can see I couldn’t sleep” he said almost shyly. “But, well I better get going, bye! Nice meeting you all” he said quickly, not giving any of us the chance to say goodbye.
We all stood there in silence, dumbfounded; as we stared at Zeth disappear into the darkness.