"This isn't real. Just like the voices weren't. Seriously, dead people do not walk around and eat people," Audrianna declared to herself as she coward in a corner of a small house. When the voices yelled in her head and it got to be too much all she had to do was tell herself they weren't real. This delusion had to be the same, right? Because, honestly, dead people walking around? She had to be going crazy again.
Georgia was supposed to be a fresh start. The voices had stopped. This couldn't be happening now. When she had first started hearing things it was the most terrifying feeling in the world. No matter how hard she searched around her empty work place she couldn't find where the voices came from. Paranoia quickly set in and only made matters so much worse. There was absolutely no bigger relief than when you think you're normal after being crazy. The biggest disappointment in life would definitely be coming to the realization your bliss wasn't real.
Even if it was all a delusion, it didn't make any of it less scary. Real or not Audrianna had to actually struggle to stay alive. She wasn't sure what happened when you died in a delusion but if it was anything like dreaming, she didn't want to take that chance. Some may think that leaving a world like this, especially when you're crazy, would be a relief. Audrianna didn't think so, though. She had to try to make it through this. Her parents taught her to never give up and that was exactly what she planned to do.
If there was anything she was ever grateful for, it was being so tiny. Standing at 5 foot 1 and weighing a whooping 100 pounds made it fairly easy to squeeze into tight spaces. Apparently, in this crazy world she was now residing, tight spaces were the best places to be. Smooshed into tight spaces made it easy to keep an eye on her back and not have to worry about being grabbed.
The rumbling in her stomach had become an actual ache and after too long she had to clutch at her sides to try and relieve the pain. She had been hiding out in the house for what felt like months now. The food that she had found there had either gone bad or was gone by now. Feeling a bit brave after a mental pep talk the young and terrified brunette woman decided to be adventurous. In search for a place to find food, anywhere, she managed to get lost. Yet another reason to be sure it was all a delusion. One minute she was on the open road and the next she's stomping through the woods. "Just keep going," she muttered under her breath, "you'll find the road sooner or later. This isn't even real. What could go wrong? You're fine, Audrianna."
Much to her luck, or maybe not luck, she came face to face with a crossbow. Immediately she took a slight step backward, her arms shot up in the air in surrender, trying to show she was no harm to the man on the other end. He was rugged, scary, and brooding. But, she had to give herself credit for conjuring up such an attractive man. Surely, he too was a part of her delusion. "I'm not going to be any trouble," she insisted, already feeling weird defending herself to her own imagination. Why couldn't she just imagine herself some friends instead of enemies?