The Other Me
The Angel's Sanctuary Mental Institution, Room No. 13. I don't know why they put me in Room 13. Don't they know thirteen is an unlucky number? I sighed; Anyway, I tried to put my mind and nerves at ease from the depressing gray walls and the darkness that's settling in my room as the sun sets by going to sleep and dreaming of my girlfriend, Christie.
Christie's beautiful dark brown hair blows lightly in the soft wind. We were on a beach together, just the two of us. She kissed my lips softly and I returned the kiss the same way. Then the clear blue sky started to darken like before a storm. I looked up at the sky then back at Christie, she looked at me with her soft brown eyes and she whispered the four words that I'll never forget her saying to me, "I love you, Jin." But then HE came and ruins my moments of happiness as always.
I blinked and I wasn't at the beach anymore I was in my bedroom, but something was odd, the scent of blood was in the room; I look down and saw Christie on the floor covered in blood; a huge slash was across her tan throat and something was in my hand that wasn't there before, a bloody machete. I gasped in horror of what I saw in the gleaming blade covered in red. Me, but it wasn't me, the face that reflected off the blade. Its eyes filled with anger and hatred and smiled evilly at the horrid act that it committed.
A dark voice chuckled evilly in my mind. Well, did you enjoy that beautiful scene, Jinny? The dark voice said. I sure did. It's sad really, the woman of your dreams slaughtered by the man she loved with all her heart and soul. I almost feel sorry for you. But, then again, I don't.
I woke up and turned to the mirror in my room. "Why do you show me this every night, Devil?" I whispered to the being that looked like me in the mirror. My demonic doppelganger just smiled in return, to remind you, my helpless and desperate vessel, of the fate that got you here in this hellhole in the first place.
"Why don't you just go away?" I said to try and get him out so I can go back to sleep. Why should I? So you can waste your life rotting in here? I don't think so Jinny. No matter how hard you try to fight, no matter how far you run, I will never leave you, NEVER.
Besides your quite cowardly, Jin, and quite useless to me; and quite amusing; and such a challenge to make something out of you. But in the end I did what you couldn't. I made you into my perfect image of darkness and evil. "SHUT UP!" I screamed and I smashed the mirror with my fist and shattered the mirror into splinters of glass. His dark voice laughed evilly as I smashed it.
The nurse rushed into my room and asked what happened. "I'm so sorry, nurse my head was killing me today, and I just had a bad dream…" I said smiling wearily at the nurse. She nodded and locked the door to my room and left. I looked at my bloody knuckles and smiled in satisfaction of not being able to see him. You are forever mine Jin; you will never escape the fact that I'm inside you. I sighed as I got back in my bed and closed my eyes.
I drifted off to sleep again trying to drive his voice out, but I know I can't get rid of it easily. For the rest of my days in here I guess I just have to live with it, my darker self, my other me.