"If you have another outburst Juniper, I'm sending you to the Room."
This memory, my earliest memory of an actual hallucination, was fazing into my mind.
I watched as a teacher stood over my small, seven year old self.
It was as if I was an observer, like this didn't happen to me and I was just watching it.
I watched as tears filled Little Juniper's eyes as she struggled to comprehend what was going on.
"I'm tired of this behavior, Juniper."
"P-please, I'm sorry Ms. Haja..."
The teacher grabbed her, and all of a sudden it was as if it was me. Instead of just observing, like I was, I was experiencing this memory all over again.
"No, not the room!"
I heard myself scream, I couldn't control it.
The teacher heaved my body into a dark, closet like room.
"This will be the second time I've had to call your mom."
I could feel tears running down my cheeks as the teacher shut the door on me and left me in darkness.
I could hear the little giggles of all my former classmates, laughing at the fact that I was being punished, and not them.
I was overwhelmed, I didn't want to experience this again.
I turned to face the wall and saw as a dark substance started to leak down the walls.
Oh God, it's starting.
I watched as blood started pooling onto the floor.
"Let me out, let me out!"
I heard a soft banging on the door. "This is all your fault."
I curled up in a ball and covered my face, which made my face bloody, as there was blood on my hands.
I saw the door open slowly, and heard a familiar voice.
"Juniper! Are you okay?"
I saw Ethe, standing above me, as the walls fazed in and out.
The bathroom...I was in the bathroom...
"What happened?"
I shook my head, not wanting to burden her.
"Just... memories..."
Yeah, just memories.
I jolted up from the bathroom floor, bewildered.
"Masa, calm down."
"I-i heard it, s-she..."
I trailed off, panicked and overwhelmed by the whole situation.
Pathetic.
Useless.
"S-stop reminding me..."
"What?"
I snapped up and looked at Ethe, forgetting she was there.
"Nothing."
It's always nothing.
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Dark Space
Mystery / Thriller"Just don't think, just don't think, just don't think." Juniper is trying to live a normal life, even though she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, trying her hardest to ignore it all. But after a hospital visit, her life seems to be falling to p...
