Anyones Story: Chapter two
Chapter two: The Demon
How could this be I asked myself? My precious elixir…a demon? After so many great times together. After so many great memories had been made. I had many new friends because of my elixir. I was no longer alone, or was I?
Everyday I would wake up with one thing on my mind; get more elixir. I came to realize that without it I was nothing. Nobody cared about me without it. The world was a cold hard place without its comforting warmth. I needed it. During the times that I did not have it I felt terribly alone. In fact, I felt worse than before I had found the elixir in the first place. My friends began to change as well. Without my elixir they did not seem like friends at all. Sometimes when they drank the elixir they changed in bad ways. Sometimes they got really mean and hurtful. I could not have done that could I?
After a while I began feeling very ill when I woke up in the mornings. I started feeling lonelier than ever before despite the fact that I had all of these new friends who kept me company. From time to time I did not remember what I did the night before. My life began getting out of control. Faster and faster I seemed to be spinning downwards. All the while clinging to what I believed was keeping me afloat despite the constant sense of drowning.
One day, feeling lost and confused I remembered my secret place. I had no elixir that day and needed to be thinking clearly... I needed to sort things out. As I neared my secret place I realized something was terribly wrong. Time has a funny way of slipping by when caught in the grips of something as powerful as the elixer and I did not know how long it had been since I last went to my secret place, but I knew it had been quite a long time indeed. During that time that I was away someone had bought the land it sat on. The trees were gone... the pond was gone as well. The railroad tracks were still there, but they were rusty and overgrown with weeds. A small gas station was what I found in place of my secret refuge. I was crushed. I was losing control of myself and needed to think, I needed the elixir.... how could I go on without it?
Devastated I went back to the place where my friends gathered to enjoy the elixir. I walked in carrying a burden that I desperately needed help bearing only to find laughter in the place of help. I had to run away. Their faces, their voices, everything about them were driving me mad. I had to escape but I had nowhere to run. All the while the elixir called mockingly. Like a hideous demon driving me mad the elixir called me. I ran away nonetheless.
I ran to the people I felt so apart from. The normal people who to me seemed so different. I walked among them but in my mind I was running for my life. I was being pursued by a demon I could not outrun. Without even knowing it I had been running from this demon for a long long time already. Finally, my strength gave way. I could run no more. It was time to make a decision. Lay down and call it quits or stand up and fight.
-John Alexander (aka SirJohn)
