Crazy (standard:drama, 1400 words)
Author: JM	Added: Mar 29 2002	Views/Reads: 3419/2399	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
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like she was going to hit me too. Instead, she said, “Daniel, I don't 
think you realise how much your father needs me, after what your mother 
did to him”.  I have no idea what she was talking about. 

It was my sixteenth birthday last week. My dad forgot, but Carolyn gave
me fifty dollars. I couldn't believe it. I've never had that much money 
at one time in my life. Brian would've said that she was just trying to 
buy my blessings. I caught the bus into the city and found a shady 
looking guy. I bought off him as many pills as I could afford, which 
wasn't many. I threw them in the river. The dealer said I was a crazy 
bastard. I threw him in the river too. Once he'd got out of the river 
he became a crazy bastard and hit me. I hit him back, and it felt so 
good. I knew that Brian would have hit him back too, if the same thing 
had happened to him. I'm a pretty big guy for my age and the dealer was 
a small, wiry guy so I pretty much won. Although, just as the dealer 
guy blacked out on the ground, a police car came squealing up and I was 
arrested.  They took me to the police station and half an hour later my 
dad and Carolyn turned up. Dad asked me what happened and I told him 
that I just did what Brian would've done. My father took one look at me 
and started to cry. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen, a grown 
man crying like that. Especially my dad, who didn't even cry when mum 
died. I said “Dad, you just didn't like Brian because he was gay”. Dad 
bawled even louder and I laughed. 

A few days later they put me in a hospital. I didn't want to go, but
Carolyn said that she'd give me another fifty dollars if I did. I don't 
see what good it did though. The whole time I was there, all they did 
was lie to me. They told me that my mum killed herself and I found her 
in the bathroom when I was four. I spat on the man who said that. Then 
this other crazy man said that Brian was a reaction to this or 
something and the experience with my mum and knowing that my dad never 
told me the truth and worrying about what my dad thought of me and that 
Brian never existed, that he was an altar ego or some shit like that. 
Believe it or not, I ended up killing this crazy man. He was screwing 
with my head. I swear everyone in this place is crazy.


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