The Necklace

Wait, what? I'm crazy?!

Keres

After last night, I'm wondering if they were actually ever real. Maybe I actually am crazy. Maybe my parents were right. I should have just stayed quiet and ignored everything. Even just sitting in this car with them is claustrophobic for me. Hopefully, they don't ask me any questions before we get to the therapist...I don't want to live through this again! I-it was bad enough...t-that they were sending me to a therapist for nothing, but now even I'm scared. Have I actually lost it?

"You know that they're right Keres. Nobody in their right mind would believe anything like that."

Yeah, probably. I might as well just go through with it, it could end faster if I do.

"That's right, just stay quiet and everything will be okay, no need to worry, just relax."

I was hearing the voices more frequently now. And maybe they were right, everybody was right. I was the only wrong one. Wonder what Aeron would think of me right now. Probably that I'm acting pathetic, he would have made me tell my parents to stop the car so I could leave right then and there.

"Too bad he never existed." And then it laughed.

As I almost had enough of that damn voice, we stopped in front of the hospital or wherever it is that you go when somebody thinks you're crazy. The interior was so white and shiny that it actually blinded me. The reception lady asked my mom some questions and then told us to go to the last room on the third floor. "See, that wasn't so bad. Was it?" That voice was getting so annoying! I would have just screamed at it right there if my mom wasn't here. If Aeron wasn't real, then why is this voice. We took the elevator to the third floor, and when we reached the door, my mom started saying some nonsense again.

"Keres, behave. If you don't, you might as well not even be here." She said. "Also be nice to the therapist."

"Yeah, listen to your mom, Keres. She knows what's right for you."

You know, it wouldn't matter if I just ignored the voice. But I think that even it knew that some part of me thought that I might have been crazy. My mom opened the door to see a man, maybe in his 30's, sitting in a desk by a huge round window at the far end of the room. It took him a while to notice us, but when he did he came up to us and apologized.

"I'm sorry, I was working on some results and I didn't hear the door open, I'm really sorry." He said ushering us to sit down. My mom went and sat down at the L-shaped couch in the middle of the room. While I just stood there not wanting to move. I wanted to stop time right there. I don't want people to think I'm crazy. I'm perfectly normal. But going to a therapist every day might make me crazy!

"That's a lie and you know it, you want this to happen just so you can be normal. So you can get rid of us. But like your little buddy Aeron, we're not leaving." This time it was a different voice, but it still stung the same amount.

The man held out his hand to me, not wanting to be rude, I shook it. "Hello, Keres, is it?" I nodded slowly. "Nice to meet you, my name is Mr.Olleson, but you can call me Cain." He then gently pushed me towards my mother and I got the hint that he wanted me to sit down, so I did. He took his rolly desk chair and put it in front of me and sat down.

"So, what may the problem be? He seems like a good kid to me." He said.

"Nothing much, just from an early age he has been talking to himself, or just things around him. Even if there's nothing there. He also snaps at us from time to time for no reason. We went to another psychologist a few years back but seems that it didn't work. And a couple of nights ago he was crying over nothing, we tried to give him some space to calm down, but it didn't work. So we decided to bring him here..." After that, I just tuned her out. I didn't want to hear anything else. I would have even accepted the voices to insult me right now. And they did...

"So our little Keres finally grew up and decided to accept us. Hopefully, he knows that we won't be going away any time soon" The voice laughed.

"Yeah, let's just tell him to end this already. He might actually make it out alive that way." The second voice said.

"No, Aeron's case was bad enough and he turned into a demon. We can't let that happen again. We have to make this stop." Wow, was the number of voices increasing?

By this time I had had enough, so I just started screaming for them to stop. Aloud.

"STOP! JUST STOP! STOP TALKING ABOUT AERON! IF YOU WANT ME TO FORGET HIM, I WILL! JUST LEAVE me alone... I don't wanna seem like this. I'm a normal kid. I don't have anything wrong with me..." I just started crying. But my mom had left by now and there was only Cain and me in the room. I think he had asked me a couple of questions but I didn't hear them. Now he was sitting beside me asking what was wrong.

"Hey, there there, kid. Everything's okay. Nothings gonna hurt you here." He said getting me a drink of water. "What's the matter? Are you scared of something? Maybe your parents did something?" I just shook my head, I don't think he would ever even understand. But he looked at my necklace for a while and asked me if I could remove it.

"Hey, is this necklace important?" He asked pointing to it. I didn't want to give it to him. Even if Aeron had never existed. "Don't worry, I won't break it, well I can't break it more than it's already broken." He said weirdly. Making me remember Keith's warning..who was this guy..?

//* Woahhh~~~ I've cloned myself so I can write faster, so here you are people! A new and first chapter of the necklace. Actually the name is a w.i.p but I just went with it because my friend suggested it. If you guys have any suggestions please tell me >_<||
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