Madness Takes Over - Nothing's Ever Normal Anymore

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Rain gently hit the window by my bed as I stared, mesmerized by the sounds the drops made. I was awake for only ten minutes when I heard the thunder, signaling the rain falling now. I was always fond of rain, I saw it as therapeutic, a calming and beautiful thing to occasionally come down from the sky.
I got off my dark blue bed, and sat down by my window, staring at the water drops sliding down the glass and sighed. "Another day to face in this world." I whispered to myself.

I grabbed my notebook on my nightstand and started drawing...my drawings weren't exactly normal to a regular person's eye. What I drew, I would say, showed what I viewed this world to be. I may only be 18 years old, and others may believe I'm too young to already know the actual view of how life is supposed to be - yet I already tend to see it in a different way. My way..
I was almost done with the drawing when I heard my door creak open. Looking over to the door, my mother stood there all dressed for work, "Madeline, are you ready?" She asked me. I sighed and shook my head, "Do I have to go today?" She came in hesitantly and stood a few feet away from me, "You ask this question every other day and I still haven't changed my answer now have I?" I didn't reply, and just simply looked through the window again, seeing it pour down harder. I nodded, "Two minutes and I'll be down." She nodded and rushed to the door, seeming relieved to be out of the room so quickly.

I got dressed in black tights, a long dark blue shirt, a black hoodie and put on my beaten up black boots. I grabbed my notebook and my bag and walked out of my room. I didn't say anything to my brother and sister that were sitting at the table eating, nor to my father reading the newspaper. I didn't grab anything to eat and I petted my dog Scar as I went out the door. I took the long way to school as I always did, it was by the woods so everyone pretty much avoided it, well except me. I always loved the woods, as to me it felt as it kept a vibe of mystery, of secrecy. The pouring rain started drenching my grey hair but I didn't care. As I reached the campus of my school, I started feeling stares all around me. I looked down at my feet, walking to my locker as everyone would move away from me as if I carried a fatal disease. It's normal to me at this point, everyone always saw me as the deranged girl in this town. I opened my locker and a bag fell out. I opened the bag to find......a dead rat. Nice. That has to be the third one this week. I groaned and stuffed it back in the bag and threw it out. "Aw what's the problem Madeline? Not hungry again?" I heard behind me. Rolling my eyes, I turned to find my favorite asshole Damani. "No, not hungry for your dumb shit today okay? You can leave now." I turned back around getting my needed books for class when I felt a hand snake around my arm and turn me around, slamming my body into the lockers. "Since when do you tell me what to do? Last time I checked, you are no one to tell me anything at all. All you are is a sad little girl that needs to be in a fucking asylum." He said getting in my face. "For just thinking the other way around about everything? Right. I'm not sorry that I don't see you as royalty." He spit in my face, "Just go and leave. You aren't needed here. Find an asylum, that's where you belong." He tightened his grip on my arm. I just simply breathed and closed my eyes. "Let go of my arm."

"Oh you say something?" He gripped harder to the point it felt as if his touch burned into my skin. "I said let go." I stared at him as I grabbed his wrist and bent it until I heard a snap. "You can leave now." I froze, staring at him as he groaned in agony and started walking away. I closed my locker and walked into the first class I had with a straight face.

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(During lunch)

The rain sadly stopped as I left the building and climbed up my favorite tree during lunch. I put in headphones and pulled out my notebook again. Before I knew it, I soon finished my drawing I started this morning..it was half the face of a girl who had blood flowing down from her lips and smeared mascara down her cheeks. I stared at the image, just entranced with what was on the page, when I saw something...

The drawing started flowing...the blood started dripping down the page from her mouth..and the mascara kept smearing down her cheeks. I stopped staring and blinked. I looked back at the picture and saw it just as it was right as I finished it, still. I felt something wet and damp and the bottom of the page, onto my lap. I pressed two fingers on the spot and raised my hand...

"Blood." I looked at my red fingers and back at my lap. I shook my head and sighed, wiping my hand on a napkin I had. "Hallucinating. Great." I said to myself as I got off the tree branch and put away my notebook. I decided to skip my last class and started walking in the direction of my house.

(15 minutes later)

I walked into the woods again and just decided to sit in a small clearing I managed to find. Dark clouds started to appear above the trees, signaling the rain that might fall again soon. I took out my notebook and examined my drawing again, "I must be hallucinating right? That's just not possible." I caressed the page, tracing the drops of blood and tears of black mascara. I felt something wet and saw my fingers had blood on them again. I stared at the drops on my fingers when I heard something, "It's possible Madeline. If you focus hard enough." I looked around to find no one, no one was there to say that. I put my stuff away and stood up when I felt something...

It was like a tug, like someone pulling me, pulling me down...
I felt my back hit the ground as I lost consciousness.

First chapter of a new story. Let me know what you think - Imaginary Games