I was upstairs writing in my notebook
When my college roommate called me down
Hey Mia, there's a police officer who wants to speak with you
It was actually a detective and when I came down he was standing by the door with two other officers by his side. I
Remembered his face from the first time we met years back only this time. He didn't want to speak with me
He came to arrest me. Did you do it Mia? Did you really do those things to your own father?
I didn't do anything. I am innocent
According to your notebook. You're an accomplice along with Relic
Everything they need is in there all of your and relics thoughts ideas and including what happened to your father
Why don't you tell me how he did it? I?
Don't want to talk about him
He's my friend and he saved my life more times than I can count. He's innocent
let me explain I
Am here because the police have charged you with what happened to your father while your court case continues
I am to evaluate and give my final thoughts to the judge
What I'm trying to say is I can save your life
I just need you to tell me the truth, so please
Tell me everything and start from the beginning
Well, I met him in my cell from a year of high school during lunch
I
Was a loner before I met him, how do you even be friends with the semi deaf like me?
My hearing aids made me the school target where I would either get picked on or someone would mock me behind my back
But that day as they were trying to read my new book. I finally had enough and
Stood up to them
They were speechless
But instead of apologizing one of them threw my notebook onto the floor
Causing all of the pages to fly all over the ground as I was picking them off the floor
I saw a pair of shoes in front of me with a hand holding out one of my missing pages. I
Think you dropped this
Thanks
whoa
What is this?
Poetry huh?
It almost reminds me of my depression and relic by the way. I'm yeah, um
Why are you talking to me, they'll pickle you too if they see us are you new?
They won't even notice us don't worry and no I was born and raised here, but between you and me
I was just released from a mental hospital for depression
No one wants to really be around me
But I guess you can say I'm new I thought he was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen
he was sweet intelligent and
Understood all of my feelings. He was the one who encouraged me to write more of my thoughts and feelings into my notebook
saying it helps and we'd do it together and then the police pulled me out of class and
Handcuffed me in front of everyone
They questioned me about the notebook
Apparently someone had noticed me writing in it and they broke into my locker wanting to read it
They turned it in to the principal without knowing the context who then called the police fearing for everyone's safety
The only thing they focused on was the mental issues things like my fear of going to school
Making shis thoughts of judgment and how death would be a peaceful way out
When I tried to explain to them that it was all fiction
The only thing they would ask was but do you want these things to happen? I didn't matter what I said
They already had it in their heads that I was crazy and wanted a reason to send me to a mental hospital
They were just trying to protect you from yourself
Some of things in your file are alarming and you needed help
help
They put me in a mental hospital or for a notebook
They called me a danger to everyone at school when really it was the school that was a danger to me
I'm sorry, you had to go through that alone
But please they just wanted to monitor you to see if you were fine
Can you tell me where relic was in all of this? Did he get in trouble -
No, he didn't he was my only friend and I wasn't going to lose his trust. So I never mentioned him to anyone
Did you hear from him during this time?
Just through a letter he sent me when he found out where I was going
I didn't know what it meant until I got to the hospital
They diagnosed me with anxiety depression autism or
Asperger's syndrome to be exact and bipolar disorder
All of which they tried to cure me off and failed
And that was because I knew nothing was wrong with me. The nurses didn't understand anything
I was trying to tell them they thought I was being difficult and stubborn so they put me in hydrotherapy treatment
They make the water as cold as humanly possible
So it was just above freezing and then left me in there for hours to remove my illnesses
I'd hear them drive other people out of their roads and when they returned it was like they were zombies
I knew I didn't want to end up like that
I just wanted to get out so I panicked and I tried to run out the doors but a nurse grabbed me and I accidentally
Head on her face breaking her nose. They held me down the sedated me
strapping you to me bed with soft cos that was the last straw for the doctors and I heard him authorised and
ECT electroconvulsive
Shock therapy. I tried to scream and get out, but I was already fading in and out of consciousness
Then it went dark
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