No One's Perfect (A Zodiac Story)

Make it Stop

Pisces

The day had started out fine. I woke up, got dressed, ate breakfast, and then went with Ophiuchus to take my meds. 

Trouble came right before lights out. I was sitting on my bed, shoving a few clothes that had fallen out back into my trunk, when a sudden movement in the corner of my vision caught my attention. 

It was a demon, its mouth bared wide in a cruel sneer. 

"Pisces."

I shook my head and back away. He was fake. Just my imagination. He couldn't hurt me. 

"Kill yourself."

"N-no! The hell?"

The demon stepped closer, the sneer stretched even wider. "Look around you. Everyone here- they're fine. Except for you. You're insane, Pisces."

"No! The-the others... they just have different problems!"

"Like what? Do you hear them screaming at night?"

"...No."

I heard of soft, "Pisces? Who are you talking to?" from across the room, but I ignored it.

"You're the bad apple, Pisces. Infecting everyone else. Be a good boy, and just kill yourself. It'll be a gift to the world." The demon suddenly blurred, and a copy of it shifted out the first. They started to multiply, advancing towards me.

"Go away!" I shouted at the monsters closing in around me. I knew they weren't real. But something in the back of my head kept nagging me, whispering dark thoughts to me, they're alive. And they're here to get you.

You should die, Pisces. You're deranged. A lunatic. 

A hand reached down to touch my shoulder, but I just screamed and back further away. "No! No... get away from me!"

I could feel tears streaming down my cheeks as I curled into a ball. "Please... please go away." My voice was reduced a whimper, and I could feel myself slowly losing consciousness.

I don't remember much of what happened after that. But I could remember someone shouting for Ophiuchus, and strong arms dragging me out of my room.

Then I saw Ophiuchus looking down worriedly at me, and a huge, inky-black, demon-like monster standing behind him. 

"Stop," I panted, my voice growing softer and softer. My schizophrenia- it had never been this bad before. What was happening?

"Please, please, just make it stop."

And the world spiraled into darkness.

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Gemini

You know that prickling feeling in the back of your head that you just feel sometimes? Like, something's off, but you just don't know what?

All throughout class, that feeling crept around in my head, haunting me. There was something wrong with today. Whether intuition about the future or something in the past I forgot, it wasn't good. 

Perhaps it was because I hadn't heard from Corvus or Gena anytime today. 

Even when I stumbled and fell during soccer, there was no teasing from Corvus, or fussing from Gena. 

Odd, I thought. Odd, but comforting. Maybe this condition is starting to go away once and for all.

I comforted myself with that thought, all the way until it was time for dinner. I was digging into my food when just a single sentence from Corvus startled me.