The Asylum

CHAPTER IV

Once again I find my favorite place in the garden ,next to the fountain, and I lay down looking at the sky ,

I can't help but think about how blue the sky is today and how beautiful the clouds look but maybe ,just maybe , this is a way of my subconscious trying to distract me from my horrid thoughts.

Feeling a presence behind me , I slowly turn around to be met by the Greek-God himself.

"You know it's not polite to just sneak up on people ." I say in a monotone voice , returning my gaze to the sky.

Ignoring my remark he stayed quiet, I spared him a quick glance and saw that he too was staring at the sky , lost in his own world the same way I was.

He sat down next to me and did the unthinkable , he spoke to me , directly .

"What do you think is out there? "

I was baffled by how deep yet smooth his voice was . He sounded so deep in thought as if the question wasn't even directed at me .

"What do you mean ?" I was so curious as to what was in this boy's mind .

Not even blinking he said "Do you really think we're the only ones here ?In the universe I mean, and life I think ? I mean this can't really be it, right ?

A little dumbfounded by the fact that this person was speaking to me , and was thinking the same thing I was thinking,

"Oh," was all I could muster , I shook my head slightly trying to form some sort of response.

Clearing my throat  I said "Umm , I don't know honestly , maybe we're not alone ."

He looked at me, like really looked at me, I felt naked under his gaze, it's like he saw right through me.

That made me a little uncomfortable,  how this stranger could read me so clearly. His captivating grey eyes studying me so intently .

"Yeah ,"he said lowly  ,returning his gaze once more to the sky, making me feel  at least a little  sense of relief that the attention is no longer on me.

"What if it's just us then ?"

These were all questions I asked myself so many times ," Well one day we might find out."

"Doesn't that scare you though ? The fact that we might surrounded by only darkness, with no way out, where it follows us everywhere."

"Well I mean we live  with the darkness within us, what's a little more to live with ?"

"Isn't that why we're here ? In this place ? We couldn't handle the darkness. "

I taught about it and he has a point "You're right, but maybe you need the darkness to see the stars. "

Suddenly he seemed to snap out of his daze "Hey, don't we have the same activity therapist ?"

"Uh, yeah yeah " And here I go again with my social awkwardness .

Lucky for me Mr.mysterious wasn't even paying attention to me at that point, he was just staring at the clouds .