When you look at the world with a practical and objective point of view, the entire world will appear to be run with logic, consequences, probabilities, and some mathematical formulas beyond our human understanding. Many people don't view the world this way and it is not wrong of them to do so. Who would want to focus on the reality and darker side of the truth, when instead, they could see the beautiful harmony that arises from illogical human behavior, people breaking the molds, going above and beyond the expectations set for them and proving that against all odds, and against everyone else's beliefs, that they can make something. Be it of themselves, their companions, or seemingly out of nothing.

Kaitie however, did not fall into either of these categories.

Kaitie was, by all appearances your average, everyday teenage girl, if not a bit dressy. Her brown hair was often left down and her green eyes were nothing particularly noteworthy. Her face was never done up in makeup and had the average amount of acne any teenager would have. And while she almost always wore jeans and running shoes, not many people could say that they could recall her wearing anything but a nice blouse that had a bit of a business air to it. Her grades were rather average, consisting of mostly C's and B's, and she appeared to have no outstanding traits other than a rather friendly and optimistic view. If someone were to take her at face value, they'd have assumed she was a goody-two-shoes that was generally well-liked and rarely bullied.

Generally liked...

That would be incorrect. You see, Kaitie had this small tiny tick that often led to misunderstandings, awkward situations, and much more often than not, with Kaitie having what her parents dubbed as an 'attack'. Ever since her parents could remember, Kaitie had a problem when it came to separating fiction and imagination with reality. On more than one occasion, Kaitie had mistaken her stuffed animals as living beings, she'd ask her parents if one of her favorite t.v. characters could come visit and even mistook certain non-existent creatures (i.e. unicorns, gnomes, zombies, vampires, etc...) in pictures, paintings, statues and carvings as beings too. And, in nearly every time it was some supernatural nonsense, the obscure creature would be sentient.

Her parents had explained on more than one occasion what separated reality and whatever was going on in her mind when she was younger, around four years old to be more precise. It had seemed like the right thing to do. After all, many children grow up with imaginary friends and there are times when an adult needs to step into teach the child what the difference is between truth and figments of imagination. So being the good parents that they were, they sat down together, all three of them, and approached the topic admirably. If it was any other child, they would have been the parents of the year. Unfortunately, Kaitie wasn't another child but herself, and as she was told that the world she saw and lived in was nearly all merely a piece of a lie she had told herself, caused her world to fall apart.

At first, her parents thought that Kaitie was just trying to compute everything as she was staring off into space. Then her brows furrowed. Her eyes teared up, small hands reached for her own head and a blood curtailing scream was heard.

Needless to say, the neighbors called the cops, afraid that there was child abuse happening within Kaitie's home. It took a few days to get everything straightened out, but when Kaitie's parents were told that whenever someone told Kaitie that something she believed to be real wasn't, she would have a migraine, they became extremely overprotective of her. They did try to give her space and leave the city but their jobs wouldn't allow it. Instead, they took out the t.v., removed the picture books, and forbade her from drawing. Kaitie's 'condition' only became more

Kaitie's 'condition' only became more prevalent as she grew up. She had begun talking to her own mental conjuration of characters and continued to see them with her mind's eye even after she had a mental breakdown after being told that they were fake.

After being told of Kaitie's 'condition' a lot of people thought that they could deal with it. They tried to befriend her, but they had always struggled and it never really panned out. She wasn't hated per-say, but no one could say she had many friends outside her mind, or if she even had any.

When Kaitie was about to enter her junior year of high school she realized that she was on the fast track to crazy-town. She had heard her teachers and parents of other kids talk to her own parents about putting into a mental institute to help her with whatever was going on in her mind. Kaitie had heard it since she was a child, but her parents had remained steadfast. That was until recently. They were worried that Kaitie would wind up hurting herself at some point or even believe in some horror story character that would permanently scar her mind. She did not want to go to a home for nut jobs, even if she was one herself. She had managed to live her life

She did not want to go to a home for nut jobs, even if she was one herself, which she had come to believe. She had managed to live her life for sixteen years without any severe problems, and at times her condition had actually helped her in the long term. So after overhearing a conversation between her parents, she ran.

She ran away from home with a surprisingly good amount of supplies and managed to get to a train, and later found herself at a bus station.

"Where's the most remote stop?" She asked one of the other people at the bus stop.

"Gravity Falls."

"Thank you."