Too Close to Normal (COMING SOON!!!)

What if meds really do push down one's creativity? The feeling is like someone is taking your creativity and shoving it down your throat. Lilly-May Stevens, or Lilly for short, lives life on the outside as Ms. Popular, Ms. Prom Queen, and Ms. Who Everyone Wants to Be. No one really knows the real her. Who is actually is. She feels like she is the monster hiding under someone's bed; comes out during the day to explore like nothing happens, while at night she scares everyone and no one understands how she really truly feels. Being on her meds she is still smart, but she doesn't feel right. She feels like everyone knows her for the mask the meds create. When not on her meds (which seems to be happening a lot lately) she feels, wild, free, and creative. She feels alive. Everyone is trying to make her normal. She hates that word, "normal". She hates when people try to push normalcy upon her. You can't make someone normal. Nobody is normal. Everyone is extraordinary.

But something happens that challenges Lilly's opinion about normalcy. She has wanted to be a homocide dectective all her life, and when the chance comes along for her senior year internship to work with the NYPD she takes it. Only problem, she can't go off her meds. One slip up. One schizophrenic act and she is done for it.

Her older sister and guardian, Lacey, warns her that if she messes this up then her chances are blown. Lacey doesn't want Lilly to be screwed over by her mental state but sometimes Lilly can't help it. Being off the meds makes her feel alive. It is the rush she needs and craves.

So will Lilly be able to conform to the ways that people want her to be, or will she struggle with that one word, "Normal"?