I wake up to Luke shaking me back and forth. "Ronnie," he whined. I open my eyes and look into his deep blue ones. "Did you forget?" I sit up trying to recall what he's talking about.
"The date?" I ask. He perks up and nods his head. "Okay let's go. But I need to get changed." He grabs my wrists and pulls me out of my room.
"You look beautiful already." I smile at him and he intertwines our fingers.
He leads me through many halls until we finally reach a door. We stop and just stare at it "That is the door to the outside world." I start bouncing on my feet out of excitement. It feels like I haven't been outside in years.
"What are we waiting for then?" I ask. He laughs and pushes the door open. He drags me outside into the crisp air.
A real smile spreads across my face as I see a path heading for the streets. We run still hand in hand all the way down the path.
When we make it to the road, cars drive by in a blur. There are a ton of lights coming from each direction.
"Come on. Let's go," he says laughing and pulling on my arm as I stare at everything.
"Where are we going anyway?" I ask him.
"Doesn't matter wherever you want to go."
We ended up just walking around the city all night talking about our lives before the asylum. Luke didn't have much to say though. He mostly wanted me to talk.
"I think I'm ready," I say hesitantly.
"Okay we'll go back.."
"No that's not what I meant." He stares at me confused. I sigh. "I'm ready to tell you why I'm there," I say. He stops walking.
"Ronnie you don't have to talk about that he-"
"I want to though!" I say defensively. he nods his head and we sit down on a bench.
"When I was about 6 years old, I was in a car accident with my older brother. He was driving me home from my guitar class when a drunk driver came crashing into us." I could barley see the ground now with the tears in my eyes. I could feel Luke rubbing my back trying to sooth me. "I only came out with a broken leg and a couple of broken ribs."
"Ro-"
"My brother didn't make it." I say cutting Luke off. "My parents blamed it on me because I wanted him to pick me up that day and not them. After the accident my parents started fighting all the time and eventually got a divorce. I start-" as I was trying to tell him about the voices they came back.
You can't tell him Ronnie.
Yeah you can't tell him about us.
He doesn't actually care you know?
He just wants you for sex.
I shake my head. "No he doesn't!" I say.
"Ronnie what are you talking about?"
No one cares about you Veronica.
"Don't call me that!"
"Ronnie you need to calm down." I start banging my fist into the side of my head trying to get the voices to go away. "Ronnie stop you're starting to bleed!" He stops my fist the next time I tried to hit it and grabs both of my wrists. "Look at me," he says. By then I'm crying and my head is on fire. "We need to get back," he says noticing how out if it I was.
And that was the last thing I remembered of that night.
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Fanfic"Isn't that why we're here? We're all insane." He said a smirk forming on his lips.
