Going Insane

Jake and Shopping

About six in the morning when I get up, I go to shower and right before I walk past Zeke, Jake and Anthony’s room, Jake walks out and smacks into me. “What the hell? Why are you running out of your room?” Jake looks down to me and sighs before grabbing my arm and dragging me down the hall.

                “Sorry I ran into you Kylie, I just had to get out of that room. Zeke hates me and Anthony ignores my entire existence, do you hate me?” He looks, but he put this on himself. I should give him the benefit of the doubt and listen.

“I don’t hate you, I just don’t understand what happened, and I have to hear both sides of the story. However I don’t like you because you flirt with my boyfriend!” He looks down and blushes. By this time we’ve stopped and are sitting on the floor in the empty room.

“This is the room it happened in. I had gotten new explosives and I wanted to try them out with a prank. Zeke was always helping me with my pranks so he was going to help me with this one. I told him if he didn’t want to get caught he had to stay with me and do what I said. I always brought wet towels with me incase anything went wrong, like it did. The fire cracker blew up and the fire it caused was going towards the door, and if we didn’t get out quick, would make it so we couldn’t get out. I threw a towel on Zeke and I went to open the door, the heat had caused it to get stuck, and I broke it down. The fire had surrounded Zeke so I told him to stay and I went to go get help. When they started the investigation, all signs pointed to Zeke and I didn’t want him to get into trouble for it so I stood up and took the blame like I should have from the beginning. They decided to drop my charges about a month ago because they found out who my supplier was and new about me living in a mental hospital.”

They were supplied, what kind of crazy person supplies a thirteen year old kid living in a loony bin with explosives???? “Who gave them to you?” I question and he thinks for a second.

“Dr. Marks did and when they questioned he said it was for therapy. How is explosives therapy? And without them being supervised? BULLSHIT!!! Anyway, Zeke was at the five year old stage at the time so he didn’t understand, but now he’s like mentally twelve and confused. I really like him….” He looks sad. “Anyway, I think if we can prove it was a bad idea, then we can get Dr. Marks removed. That’s what you guys wanted, right?” I nod my head. Jake is so not a bad guy like we thought, he just has a problem, just like everyone else in here has a problem.

“Jake, do you want to hang out with us tonight at the Christmas party?” He got a big smile on his face. “We were planning on having something with us too….” He grins bigger.

“I have connections to people if you guys want alcohol, drugs, anything? I figure that something consists of one of those, right?” I nod my head. “Thought so! Okay well I’ll get us some alcohol to mix in our punch and maybe something else…”

“THANK YOU!!!!!” I hug him. “But, if you want to hang out with us, you have to do one more thing.” He looks at me with eyes pleading. “You have to talk to Zeke, Maya and Anthony. I have to go shower, I bet Maya’s already there. “Go talk to the guys or shower, whatever you want.” I walk off to the shower.

Maya’s just getting undressed when I walk in so she notices me come in. “Where have you been?” she asks, “I thought you were here already. Anyway hurry up, were going shopping for the party tonight.”

“Yea,” I say, “We need to talk about that actually. I was talking to Jake in the abandoned room. Did you know that’s where the fire was?” She shakes her head as we get into the showers. “Well we were talking about what happened back then. He says it was a prank that went wrong on some kid and I get the feeling that I should believe it. He was using fire crackers and it exploded causing a fire. I’ll let him explain the rest later but after hearing that, I invited him to hang out with us at the party.”