The walls are closing in on me. It sounds crazy, I know, but they are. Besides, it wouldn't be the first time somebody would call me crazy. It's the only word I've been hearing this last year. Crazy. Insane. Out of my mind. I hate it when someone calls me that, the same expression of pity and revulsion smeared all across their faces. How can pity and revulsion even exist, side by side, on the same face? That makes me think I'm not the crazy one. But then again, so many people seem to say it, and I can't find the will to care anymore.
So maybe I am crazy.
Maybe I was out of my mind all this damn time- I could always see myself from above, see my weak body struggling against the bonds of the white strait-jacket – almost as if I wasn't inside my own body. I can't see it now, though, for some reason, and it's kind of unsettling.
I see the white walls around me growing closer and closer, silently moving. I wonder why no one else notices them shift. I see my crudely cut bangs, the auburn hair sticking to my forehead. It stings in my eyes. And I can hear my own faint screaming. Oh, sure, it's dim to me now; I'd learned to tune it out. It used to be very loud in the beginning. Very annoying too. But I couldn't seem to stop my throat from producing this shattered sound. My throat doesn't like me very much. Big surprise – nobody likes me.
Why are the walls coming near me anyways? I mean, they shouldn't do that. They should stay put, right? That's what walls do. They stand still. If I'd known they could move I'd have talked them into it a long time ago, and then they'd be on my side, and they'd let me go. Because I don't belong here. Not really. The walls know that too. See? They’re coming closer. They're not afraid of me. Unlike you. Unlike anybody, really. They're chilling color is completely different from the lively red liquid that filled the living room floor all that time ago. It seemed so important at the time.
It's a blur in my head, that time of my life. I can't remember really, but I suppose there's no harm in that. After that time, everyone got really nervous. People were shouting. I think that's when I started screaming, trying to drown them all out. They kept talking, louder after I started yelling. They didn't stop. And now I can't stop. That's not so good, I think, but I'm not so sure. Maybe the walls will know. Maybe I should ask them.
The walls are closing in on me. But then, that just can't be all that bad. Not after all that I've been through. Maybe I should just stay still and let them take me, because the walls won't hurt me. I think.
