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Grayson was always labeled as insane. He claimed he could hear the distant whispers of voices and see the long gone figures of people who were deceased. He was troubled, but I loved him.

He said that he was haunted by the ghost of his twin brother who'd died years ago by suicide. They'd found Ethan in the woods that were only two blocks away from their childhood home, a rope around his neck as he swayed back and forth between two huge trees. Nobody knew why he did it. He seemed happy and at ease with himself and then one day he disappeared and Grayson found him after claiming he had a dream to meet Ethan in the very woods. After that night was when his terrors began and he couldn't control himself from telling people. He wanted someone to help him make them stop. He wanted to rid himself of the voices but nobody believed him.

"The boy is insane; he's gone mad," was what Grayson heard every day of his life. Nobody listened, they believed he had lost his mind.

When Grayson's parents sent him to a psychiatrist, he was diagnosed with PTSD and anxiety. They put him on medication but nothing changed, yet he was so obedient he let them do everything to him and they thought it worked.

Then one day he cracked. His mental barrier splitting down the middle, and he turned uncontrollably violent.

First, it was his teachers. He'd go to school everyday after not being able to sleep because of the night terrors he encountered. Already low on energy and annoyed by the lack of peace in his life, the poor teachers who'd ask him simple tasks would be met with the wrath of his uncontrollable, violent intentions.

When the news got out that Grayson was publicly violent with his superiors, people begun to question his parents, who at first ignored their complaints. When his parents begun to be lectured by principals and teachers, students' parents, and friends from around town about giving their children troubled childhoods, they started to turn their annoyance to Grayson and try to fix what was too far broken.

When more medication didn't work, they were disappointed in the child that Grayson had become. They yelled at him without remorse and told him about what reputation he had dawned upon their household name. He was blamed for all of the misfortunes in their lives and he couldn't take it. Then one day when his mother yelled at him for causing his sister to not get accepted into a local college, he lost all sort of control within his body and mind. He rushed past the sounds of his mother, straight into the bedroom of his sister who sat over a stack of papers covered in tear stains, and swung his hand back. He'd hit his sister, the first time he'd lost control on his family. His mother screamed, his sister cried out, his father heavily rushed through their house. When his mother laid a hand on his bicep, he slapped it away and pushed her away, loosing all sense of awareness as the voice in his mind repeated one thing.

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