Tucked away

Leave me be

'If you don't kill him soon he will kill you.'

My heart jumps and i wake up sweating. That was Clauds voice. 

Claud! I'm sick and tired of you interfering in my sleep and disturbing my daily life! You make me look like a psycho.

'Isn't that what you want? You told me yourself you want to be admitted into a metal hospital did you not?' 

Well ya but I don't want you here anymore! Your evil, and you want me to kill Kevin!

'I'm only warning you. For the both of us it's what needs to be done. You and me will cease to exist if you don't.' 

No... Your wrong.

'Am I?" 

Y-yes... You... You are.

'Are you sure? Think long and hard about that.'

But he's my friend kinda? Right? I know we only just met... but I mean hes opening up to me... He said himself he wouldn't.

'He was lying! Kill him and you and me will live!' 

I quickly get up and grab a chair. I place it in the the exact same spot Kevin does, then I pull one of the ceiling tiles loose and hoist myself up into the ceiling. I have a good estimation in where Kevin's room is so I begin to quickly crawl through the ceiling.

I make it to where i'm sure Kevin's room is and pull up one of the ceiling tiles. I drop down and land directly on Kevin. He wakes up out of his sleep looking a bit nervous. I probably scared him. 

"What are you doing in here?" He asks still a bit startled.

I hesitate.

'Your here to kill him! Now quick wrap your hands around his neck and choke!'

"Hey? Are you there?" Kevin is waving his hands in my face. 

'He's going to kill us both if you don't act soon.'

I snap.

I grab hold of Kevin's hands and push them into the bed. Then I raise them above his head. My breath has hitched and it's getting really hard to focus. 

"Is it this Claud again?" Kevin calmly asks.

'HE KNOWS TO MUCH KILL HIM NOW!'

"NO! STOP! I WONT..." Before I can finish my sentence Kevin flips me so that  he is on top and covers my mouth.

Tears are now spewing out my eyes. 

"Shhh... Your okay... calm down... calm down." Kevin is hugging me and caressing my head like i'm a child.

'Look now he can easily snap your neck.'

"Kevin... Are you going to snap my neck?"

Kevin raises his head and looks at me with a dopey smile and responds "Why would I do that? I really actually like you."

I feel my heart start to throb at Kevin's words.

"Kevin please help me. I want control. I'm not crazy. I was going to kill you because of him. I want control Kevin." I quietly sob under Kevin and plead for his help.

"I'll help. I'll make it so that Claud never comes back." Kevin whispers this softly in my ear.

'He is going to be the death of you.' 

No if you stay in my head you are going to be the death of me! I don't want you Claud! It's my body and my mind! Not yours!

'YOU ARE MINE!'

"No i'm not... I'm not..." I mutter these words still sobbing under Kevin.

"Your not what?" Kevin asks still caressing my head.

"I'm not Clauds puppet." I say while bringing my sleaves to my face to wipe away my tears.

"Correct. You are no ones puppet. You are you and you control you. Okay?" Kevin is very admirable. I respond to Kevin with a nod. 

"I wish I could stay in your room. I'm afraid to stay in mine tonight. I know I shouldn't be but I am." Kevin sits up and my words.

"You can stay here. We still have till 7 am. It's 12:35 am. We have time." With that Kevin moves my body so that I am properly laying on the bed and then he lays down beside me and pulls the covers over us both. 

"As long as you are this close with me, Claud can't hurt you." I nod once again in response to Kevin. 

"Thank you Kevin." I really do feel better next to Kevin. Even knowing Kevin's past and what he does, just being here like this with him I feel like I can just forget about his past. 

"I wanna ask you something. Before when you where telling me about what you told your doctor why didn't you tell me about Claud?" Kevin asks from beside me.

"Well I was just afraid. I'm not crazy. Claud is just something there. I don't have like schizophrenia." I say with strain to my voice.

"Jasmine. Your in denial. You have schizophrenia, but it's okay because its fine to be crazy." Kevin grabs my hand and caresses it with his thumb.

"but... I... are you crazy?" I ask Kevin shakily.

"Yes Jasmine. I killed people. I am a psychopath." Kevin responds bluntly.

Oh he's right. He did kill people. I totally forgot.

Do I really have schizophrenia though? Could I really possibly be crazy? I wanted to be here but I didn't really want to be crazy.

"Why are you so quiet now?" Kevin asks breaking the silence. 

"Oh... I was just thinking. It's hard to except the fact that i'm crazy. Also I totally forgot that you killed people." I honestly tell Kevin exactly what i'm thinking. 

Kevin takes a moment of silence and then responds back with a question that's rather confusing. "What if our places where reversed?"

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"I mean what if you killed people like me?" He asks in a monotonous voice.

"I-I'd probably... Well I d-don't know. Why are you asking me this?" I nervously respond. 

"I don't know I just w-wanted to know." He stuttered and added a chuckle.

why did he stutter? He hardly ever stutters like that. Well I haven't known him long but I've never heard him stutter like that yet.

"You rest up now Jasmine. No more talking. I'll wake you up when you have to go back. Okay?" Kevin says with a soft voice.

Frankly I don't want to go to sleep now. The tension in this room is so thick how could I. Even though I say that I still manage to fall asleep, right next to Kevin.