...Lucy...
Alessa sat in the padded room. She hates it in here. She can never tell when it’s morning or night, and all she ever does is sit, get judged, eat horrible food and get judged some more. She remembers the night that changed her whole life forever. I mean, how could she forget it?...
She sat at the check out line, scanning items as they come across the conveyer belt. Shes at her boring job,Target. Finally, her shift was over, and she hurriedly clocked out and made her way to her car. All she wanted was to go home to where her best friend lives with her, talk to her, take a bath and just go to bed. Thats all she wanted. Too bad thats not what shes getting.
She makes her way through the streets. Expertly dodging cars as asks makes her way home. Once she pulled into the driveway, she locked the car door and saw Mr.Byerly, her neighbor, outside his house, drinking coffee, she waved towards him and smiled as he smiled back. Alessa walked to the door of her and her best friend, Sharon’s house and made her way inside. She always thought this house was creepy, but it was the only one that was in their price range.
The lights were off, the transformer blew, it happens all the time so she ignored it knowing that it’ll come back on eventually. She just wanted to go to sleep, so she went upstairs, laid in her bed, and did exactly that. It was now about 10:00 at night. Alessa got awoken by a noise downstairs, all the lights were still off, she just thought it was Sharon or their cat, Sprinkles, but she still couldn’t help herself to get a little scared. She slowly got up from the bed and crept towards the door to her room. Slowly, she opened the door, inch by inch and peeked into the hall. It was dark except for the small candle light on the shelf in the middle of the wall. She slowly moved about the hall and glanced into the kitchen and livingroom. She turned on the light, the transformer must’ve come back on. From the big window behind the couch, she saw Sharon’s car in the driveway. She sighed in relief and decided that there was no reason to keep tiptoeing...it was just Sharon.
She felt this weird feeling, like, she knew something bad was to come. She heard another noise.
And then she panicked.
Check on Sharon. Make sure she’s okay.
She sprinted to Sharons door, its closed, she opens it without knocking and immediately smells something. A certain, metallicy smell, almost like….blood. She freezes. What if something happened to Sharon!? Unknown to the sight she might see, her hand slowly finds the light switch and clicks it on. She immediately bursts into tears and fell to the ground. In the middle of the room, Sharon was lying on the ground with multiple stab wounds to her chest, blood was spilling onto the carpet. She refused to believe that she was dead. She didn’t WANT to believe it. But she knew, the sight before her, was real. She stood in the doorway, staring at the body of her best friend, suddenly she wasn’t so scared anymore. Alessa walked a little closer to her body. She felt a sharp pain in her back, and Alessa crippled to the ground.
Soon, blacking out.
When she woke up, she was in a room, all concrete with a single table and 2 chairs, in which she was sitting in one. There was one way glass on the left wall. Alessa looked at herself, she was in her nightgown, that was covered in blood.
Where is she? More importantly, what happened and why is she covered in blood? She tried to remember but the memories turned out fuzzy. She tried to move her hands, but saw that they were handcuffed to the table leg. She moved her hands vigorously, and started to panic. The door suddenly opened with a loud squeak and a man in a police uniform sat down in front of her.
"Im Officer Murphy of the Wikenry police station." Alessa just sat quietly.
“Alessa? Do you know what happened?” She shook her head and He slammed a police file on the table. He took out a picture and set it in front of her. “Do you know who this is?” He asked, Alessa nodded “Yes, thats Sharon, my best friend. Where is she?” Alessa was confused at this point, she put together that she was in a police station but, thats all she knew.
“You killed her, Alessa.”
His words hit her like a ton of bricks. She would never, IN A MILLION YEARS kill Sharon, she loved Sharon, she was there for Alessa every time she needed her. “Alessa, you suffer from Split personality disorder.” Her eyebrows furrowed “What is that?” Alessa choked out
“It’s where you are basically two people without realising it. Like you can be Alessa, but at the same time, your subconscious can create a whole different person, just, in your body, you have never known that this ‘other half’ existed, we did. We just didn’t know how dangerous she was. We’ll call her… Lucy. When you were little, you tried murdering your cat, but your dad got to you before you could do it. But, it wasn’t really, you. It was Lucy. This other part is, crazy, reckless and a killer and she needs to be stopped. We know that you’re a smart, talented, good girl… It’s Just that, Lucy… is not.”
He goes to stand up but Alessa grabbed his hand. “How did she do it?” He sighs and sat back down.
“You came home that night, and went to bed. Sometime when you were sleeping, Lucy came out. Lucy has loathed Sharon, for a very long time. I think she was just waiting for the right time to do something about her, tell me Alessa, were you ever jealous of Sharon?”
Alessa lowered her head and nodded slowly.
“Maybe about how pretty she was or how many guys were all over her… your subconscious took all those bad feelings you had towards Sharon, and gave them to an already existing, Lucy, but they were heightened which made Sharon her next goal. So all this time you would put away any small amount of jealousy or hatred, Lucy took it and when you loved Sharon, Lucy despised her.”
Alessa desperately wanted Lucy to be gone. She had already taken away one person she loved, she wasn’t gonna let Lucy take away another “How did you know what was happening?” She asked
“Mr. Byerly heard a scream from inside your house, called the cops and went over there. He saw you blood covered, hovering over Sharon’s body with a knife at your feet, so he took the nearest object, and whacked you with it. And now, here we are. The judge said i have to escort you to Wikenry Mental Institution, we leave in 20 minutes.”
Alessa was still trying to comprehend everything that she just got told.
She has D.I.D?
Sharon is dead?
Wikenry Mental Institution?
She’s NOT mental, she knows it… Lucy may be but not her!!! Officer Murphy then got up and left.
And now here she sits, Wikenry Mental Institution, in ward C, the ward for the mentally insane. Alessa sits in the corner of the white padded room, rocking back and forth quickly, tears streaming down her face and onto the whitish grey night gown. She’s scared, she wants to leave, that’s all she wants! She’s still confused on the whole thing, but suddenly, something about her changes drastically. She’s not Alessa anymore. Instead of rocking back and forth she sat still, legs crossed, staring at the padded wall. Her head cocks to the side in one swift movement, her face blank for a split second before an eerie half smile forms on her face…
“I’ll get you Officer Murphy. I’ll make sure of it.”
Was the last thing she whispered before bursting into hysterical Laughter.
