Trauma And Trouble- A Before You Exit FanFic- Book 2

Part 24- Insane Asylum

Lindsay’s POV

 

Day 50- Saturday (February 19th/10 000)

 

    For the past month, Riley, Toby, and I have been living in the tent in the forest. We hunt for our food and rarely leave the forest nowadays. Valentine’s Day passed without us even noticing. It kind of upset me.

     "Morning Toby." I said as he joined me for a swim. I swam over to kiss him but he jumped. "What Toby, what?!"

     "I thought I saw a giant shark in the water behind you!" he yelled as he started to shake. I spun around but there was nothing there.

     "It's okay Toby." I said as I hugged him to me.

     When we stopped embracing, Toby moved away from me and started to stare at his hands. "Is something wrong?" I asked him.

     It was a few seconds before he responded, "My hands are red and white, like a candy cane." I took a look at his hands and they were fine. They were his normal, pinkish skin colour. I gave him a skeptical look. Then he started whimpering and ran out of the water and down the path.

     Toby had been experiencing things and seeing things for a few weeks now. We really had no idea what caused it but my theory was he was going crazy from not seeing people and living in a forest. I kept myself sane by taking a daily swim and run down a 1.5km (about 90% of a mile)-long path and back.

     I figured there was no helping Toby right now so I went to seek out Riley. I thought he might've started going crazy too because he was talking less and less and seemed like he was drifting away to his own world. Yesterday he only said four words to me- "Good morning" and "Good night.” He stopped talking to Toby a week ago.

     "Hi Riley." I said to him. I didn't get a reply. He was sitting under a small tree so I bent down to hug him. He flinched like I was electrocuting him. "Riley?"

     He still didn't answer. I ignored that factor, grabbed his hand, and pulled him to his feet. He tried to violently yank his hand away but I held on tight. "Let's go for a swim." I said to him. Riley was already wearing his old clothes that he went swimming in.

       Riley kept hesitating so I just pushed him into the river. I walked in and he swam away from me. "Why do you not want me near you Riley?" I asked him. "Are you scared of me?" he still wouldn't answer, he just looked away from me.

     ‘I'm starting to think that not being near people has given him a phobia of everyone…’ I decided just to leave him alone.

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Omg I just fell off my skateboard and got a major scrape down my arm and tomorrow's the first day of school...perfect timing... -.-

Anywayyyyy, do you think Toby and Riley can/will recover from their damaged, mental states?

Team Toby or Team Riley?