the asylum

bold means flashback

italic means voices in head

keep in mind I'm only 15 so if this s really bad I'm sorry

My name is Max and this is my story. I was playing in my garden with my rabbit, skippy when I heard a something in the bush beside me so i went to investigate. I look and see a rabbit there, it hops of and it moves it's head like it wants me to follow, so I do. I keep walking through the bushes until I find an old building.

"A worker at a local mental hospital has been attacked and murdered by a patient. Witnesses say that the worker came to give him his medication, when he jumped at him with a knife. The mental hospital will be closed down."

I stare for a moment, I recognise this place. I walk in I kicked something by accident then the door slammed shut, as I run to it I hear it click like someone locked it. I begin banging on the door. No reply. Suddenly I hear someone giggling behind me. I turn around to see my little sister lucy, she died when she was 5 from cancer. "Max! Play with me!" she said and runs off "hey! Wait!" I yelled and started to run after her.

"You're going to die here" "youre worthless" "you're trapped, and you're never getting out!" "shut up shut up! SHUT UP!" I yelled. I've hallucinated since I was young, both auditory and visually, apparently its because my old family was abusive. Suddenly there was loud banging on the door next to me, I jumped back then walked to the door and open it.

I walked in and I saw the walls and floor are covered in blood. "This must be where the worker was killed." I turned my head and sawa body hanging from a noose, I turned around and almost puked. As I did, I saw lucy again, she had a piece of glass in her hand and she slowly raised to to her throat. Then with one fast movement she slit her throat. I screamed.

I woke up in a bed I didn't recognise. "How did I get here? when did I pass out?" I started gagging the bed smelt like death. I heard lucy say "Come and find me max!" This time I couldn't see her. I got out of the bed and instantly tripped, I looked over to see a box. I opened it carefully as I didn't what could be in it. I looked inside and started crying, it was lucy's favourite rabbit. I hugged it tight and put it in my bag.

"Let me out! I can help you find your way out!" a voice called, it came from my bag, I took the rabbit out and it started to tell me where to go. I ended up in a room and the rabbits wanted to be put down, so I did. The rabbit grabbed a knife off the floor and jumped at me, I didn't have enough time to dodge. Everything went black.

I woke up again, in a different bed this time. I saw the rabbit on the floor with the knife beside it and its head half ripped off. I was so confused, I had to take a moment to take in what just happened. I started to see ghosts of the previous workers and patients "my meds must be wearing off now" I reached into my pockets to get more but they were gone. "Where are they?!" A dark figure emerged with the bottle in hand "I have them." they said "give them back! I need them!" "but this makes it so much more fun." the figure fell back into the shadows and disapeared.

I was terrified. I was walking through the halls slowly, I was too scared to move any faster. "Where do you think you're going?!" a voice boomed, it sounded like- "you are not going anywhere!" I turned around and saw my biological parents looming over me. I screamed as two giant hands came down on me. Everything went black.

I woke up again. Everything was dark. And I wasn't alone. I pushed my hands up and the lid opened. "I was in a coffin?" I thought to myself. I looked beside me to what was inside with me, I saw the body of the worker that got attacked. I scrambled out of the coffin as fast as possible. I looked around the room, theres was only the coffin and a picture. I picked up the picture, it was a picture of me and my biological parents, but I was cut out of it.

Suddenly I collapsed to the floor and as I did, I saw something. Everything went black.

I woke up in my garden. Lucy and Jessie were there. "Max, are you okay?" "yeah, I'm okay." They started to play tag, I joined in. suddenly the floor collapsed under us. I got up and looked around. Lucy and Jessie were dead. I looked up and saw my parents. They were burying us. I screamed. Everything went white.

I could only see white when I woke up. Slowly my eyes adjusted. I was in the same room but this time there was a shovel next to me, I picked it just incase. I started to walk towards the door when I saw jessie. I began to run to her, I slowed down when she started talking. "You never loved me, so suffer in here!" she walked off. I tried to follow her but she was gone.

I kept on walking and eventually I found a pool. I was confused as to why it was there so I walked up to it. The water was red and there were people floating in it. I almost puked. I ran out of the room to see my parents. "We're putting you back up for adoption, we dont like you anymore after what you did." I began to cry. "It's all your fault" "you're an awful human being for what you did" "I can't stand this anymore." I passed out.

I was in my old school again. "Your parents don't love you" someone said to me. People were crowding around me and the other kid chanting "fight" over and over. The kid swings at me. I dodged and punched them in the face, his nose started to bleed and he fell to the ground. Without missing a beat I jumped on them. One hand wrapped around their neck. The other was punching them over and over and over again. "MAX! STOP!" a female voice cried out, it was Jessie. I suddenly snapped back to reality and ran off.

I bolted up and screamed. I started panting. I looked around and there was a crowbar next to me, I picked it up. I stood up and I was getting blinded by a light. I followed it and found a window boarded up. I used the crowbar to take the boards off. "You're not getting out of here so easily." I turned around to see the figure again. I swang at it with the crowbar but it justed phased right through. "You can't kill me." I backed up, I didn't know what to do. Suddenly I had an idea. I bolted to the side and picked up two bits of wood and a string. I tied them together to make a cross and held it up to the figure. The figure backed up. I moved closer. When I was close enough I threw it at the figure. It withered away into nothingness. I continued to open the window.

I climbed out the window and ran home crying. "Mums, I'm so sorry" I managed to say through my tears. "For what?" "for everything" I forgot they don't know what happened. I told them everything later and they took me to a psychiatrist. I got diagnosed with PTSD and now I go here. "Thats's a long story, Max. It sounds like a horror story" my therapist said "it felt like one too"