Sounds of glass breaking suddenly came out of the room.

Matthew Williams stared at the pieces of glass on the floor silently. His face had a strange look, but it was neither a look of a normal human, nor an animal look. It was like... A look of a robot that could show emotions but had a system failure inside. In other words, Matthew was surprised, angry and smiling at the same time. His unnatural crazy smile combined with blue eyes opened wide and tears ready to come out of the eyes. The young man seemed to look somewhere into the distance, like the opposite wall was transparent. He acted like he wanted to move but something stopped him from doing this, and Matthew fell on the small sofa behind him.

"I didn't need the mirror anyway", - said Matthew abrupt and bitterly, with his voice fading and gasping. - "I've seen myself so many times that I hate my look now. I wouldn't see anything new in the mirror, I know myself even without glasses. Bags under my eyes because of sleepless nights, my pale face, the damned curl in my hair, stupid glasses, thin body and no one beside me. Especially no one around" - He sighed. - "I don't need to see myself. No one sees me even in the mirror, so it's useless. Like me"

Williams took a glass from the table beside the sofa and threw it into the wall hard. There was ringing again, quieter than before. After that, the blonde stood up and smiled crazily. He tried to walk to the door but his legs couldn't carry him, and he fell on the floor. The young man didn't bother about it - he didn't even understand what happened. He lay on the floor, laughing strangely.

"What did you just say, Kumajirou-san?" - Matthew looked at the bear that was sitting on the floor in the corridor and staring at the man. "Or didn't you say anything, eh? Whatever... I can't understand anything anyway. No one can understand anything now. No one needs me... and I don't need anyone!" - He shouted it as loud as he could. - "No one, you've heard me! Now, let them die in their own world of violence... Let them die!"

Williams started laughing again and couldn't stop for a long time. His body was shaking a lot, hitting the parquet hard, and so was his head. Matthew often pattered his hand to the floor and shouted with tears all through his face and still smiling.

He didn't think about anything and just followed his mind. He tried to stand up, fell down, shook his body, pattered on the floor only smiling. Matthew didn't want anything, only to do what he did at that time. He was smiling and smiling and smiling when all went dark (he forgot to turn the lights on), when his head was hit by something heavy, when he noticed blood on his forehead, when he felt weakness, when he fell limp and lifeless on the floor, whispering something, when the last tear ran across his face, and Matthew fainted. Still smiling.

***

Some hours later, when Matthew came to himself, he felt only some pain in his head and a strong will to get up from this stone floor at last and do something. It was already 7 a.m., so he immediately got up and went to the kitchen to make some breakfast for himself, find Kumajirou and get ready to go to the university. So, as usual, the Canadian quickly got something from the fridge, had a glass of milk and began to look from the kitchen window. Alone, as always.

Matthew remembered that he didn't say a word to somebody except himself and Kumajirou during the last two days. They were the days off in the university, so he didn't have to talk to anyone. Without any friends, Matthew always spent his days on his own, going out somewhere, like having a weekend in the country or having an ice cream with maple syrup in the park. But due to some illness in the city, he could go to neither of those places two days ago. So, just to spend his time, Matthew went to some electronics shop - just to look at the gadgets, that's all. To be honest, he looked like he was interested in them, although he wasn't. He was all in his thoughts when he heard:

"Could I help you?"

Matthew turned and saw a tall young man, the same age as Williams, that was looking at him and - was that true? - smiling. Smiling! Matthew couldn't believe it was true, and his cheeks went all red.

"Um... Excuse me..." - he could only say when he tried to get out of the shop as soon as possible. He just... couldn't stand that man's look. Like it was a special look to him, Matthew Williams, and no one else. But there was something else in that smile, like... compulsion. "Looks like he's insincere", - thought Matthew, - He smiles because he has to, that's all". - He already got to his house and was ready to open the door. - "God, why am I thinking so much about this? It's only a small incident. I'd better drop this out my head and get at home at last". - And Matthew did.

This morning, after the last night, he thought he acted like an idiot. First, when someone paid attention to him, he left that person a minute later. Then, Matthew blamed himself for this night madness. "I've started to grow crazy a lot recently", - he said to himself. - «And do terrible things. Maybe that's because I don't have anyone to talk, friends, I mean. But, in my opinion, everyone would go crazy if they were me, so it's not surprising. It seems I need to find at least one friend, or I'd become a real psycho".

***

Half an hour later, Matthew had already come to his university. It wasn't far away from Matthew's house, so the young man came there very early, so he couldn't see anyone inside yet. Again, he was alone. But he didn't feel really sad about it at that moment - he could go anywhere freely, without meeting hundreds of people. So, it was a lucky beginning of the day to Matthew. Well, except the thing he was VERY sleepy this morning, no wonder why. But he was lucky no one could see him, and that's why he happily walked along the corridors, a little bit unsteadily. Williams opened every door he saw and looked inside. The rooms were empty, but it didn't stop Matthew to continue his walking, although he felt like he would fall asleep soon.

"I should have gone to bed earlier and shouldn't have thought about bad things", - the young man said to himself and opened one of the doors. - "I'm such an idiot!"

"Hey, you're not!" - he suddenly heard back, and that nearly made Matthew jump and scream.

In the small room, at the table with lots of papers on it, sat a tall man with glasses, blonde hair and blue eyes. The man from the electronics shop.

"I think I saw you two days ago!" - the man continued, smiling. - "You were really strange!"

Of course Matthew saw him two days ago!

"Who... Who are you?" – the words escaped from Matthew.

"I'm a man, of course!" - laughed that man.

"No, I'm a man!" - suddenly for himself objected Williams.

"No, I'm a man, and you're a freak!" - answered the man.

"No, you're a freak! Look in the mirror"

"Look there yourself! You don't even look like a man"

"That's you who don't look like a man here!" - shouted Matthew and went silent without any oxygen.

"Anyway", - said the man. - "I've been studying here since this September. My name is Alfred F. Jones, by the way. During the day, I work in this room as a psychotherapist - I give psychological consultations for students. I'm starting to work today"

"Oh, really?" - said Matthew and felt uncomfortable. - "Sorry then" - He turned to the door and was going to go somewhere else.

"Wait! - cried Alfred. - I saw you two days ago, as I've said before. You're acting really... strange, I think. Like you have problems. Um... So, um, I think you need an individual therapy, so you could be happy".

"But..." - tried to say Matthew.

"No "but"s", - отрезал the "psychotherapist" - "You won't get easily from me! So, what is your name?"

"Matthew", - said the young man. - "Matthew Williams"

"Now, sit down, Matthew, so I can talk to you and get to know you. And answer all my questions!"

Yeah, a lucky day indeed...


A/N: So, I've started a new story at last! I haven't written anything for a long time because I'm TERRIBLY depressed (well, less than I was last June). I'm having my final exams this week, so I don't have much time for the internet. But I promise to update this story soon. This chaptar wasn't beta-ed, but the next one will be, I think.