This is a chapter based around the same timeline as chapter one (so basically a flash forward), the actual chapter is still being worked on so I figured I'd spend a few hours working on this instead, it has not been grammar checked, spelling checked or in anyother way re-checked so if you're wondering about the bad speeeling ann graamur mistakes... the no re-checking thing would be why, lol.

Anyways, soz for taking do long but here it is... an update...yay! (empty silence and crickets chirp)... Seriously is anyone still readin this?

Lol.


Jack lay on his bed enjoying the surrounding darkness that the night provided, he glanced to his bedside table, a small digital clock blared the numbers 3:40 in green at his, eerily cutting through the blackness of the room. It was that late already? Jack shrugged to himself, and lay his head back on the pillow so he could stare up at the ceiling somemore. He never really knew why he liked staying up late so much, he figured it was for the darkness. It was strange really, despite the fact that his 'dellusions' generally got worse when it was dark and silent... he still found it peaceful, the only time he could really just relax and feel like himself without being called a freak, psycho or creep by the judging eye of society.

Jack let his mind wonder- ignoring his body's need for sleep- what tactic would he use during the next xiaolin showdown? Those xiaolin losers had basically demolished his entire robot army, he figured it would take a good few weeks before all of them were fully prepared and operational, he just hoped there weren't going to be any shen gong wu revealing themselves until then. He switched on his mp3 and the song 'hate me today' began to play.

Jack shrugged to himself- maybe he should get some sleep... but he didn't want to. Tomorrow was school and he hated that, he always found it slightly strange how you could be sit a class with 30 other kids and yet still feel more lonely than if you just spent the entire time home alone instead. He was also put off by the fact that tomorrow was double maths meaning that the little gits from primary school (now big gits in high school) would spend the morning trying to wind him up. Jack tossed on the bed vaguely thinking about ditching school tomorrow, it wasn't like he was really learning anything there anyway...

The song 'hate me today' had begun again and was half way through when Jack realised he hadn't set his mp3 to replay. He glanced curiously at the device in his hand and pressed the pause button so the device would light up and show him why it was playing repeats. The song didn't pause and mp3 didn't light up, Jack shrugged and resigned himself to the fact that pause button was broken. He pressed stop but the music didn't stop, great! the whole hardware of it was broken!. Jack took the earphone off and settled dow to sleep, before realising that he could still hear the music play.

Jack grabbed the mp3 and took off the back so he could get to the battery- but there was none, Jack's eyes widened- he took calming breaths assigning him self to the fact that it was one of his schizophrenic delu-

Tick tock, tick tock- where was that coming from, he didn't have an anolog clock, tick-tock tick-tock-tick-tockticktockticktockticktock! The clock noise got faster and faster and Jack began to unconciously do the one thing that always made everything a whole lot worse-he panicked.

"WHO-WHO ARE YOU!", Jack shouted, manging to sound more confident that he actually felt, "SHOW YER SELF YOU FUCKING COWARD-YOU THINK AM AFRAID? COME ON! SHOW YER". - Jack stopped as he heard something, someone was knocking- no, pounding on the front door. Jack gulped and clutched the covers surrounding him, he wasn't going to answer no way-

The pounding got louder and louder, Jack wished Wuya was still there (she'd sided with chase once again), she would be able to tell him if there really was someone upstairs or he was just 'dreaming'. Jack gave an involuntary squeak of fright as the front door sounded like it had been knocked down, almost immediately after he heard his bedroom door being forcefully rattled and shook- proof enough that it was a delusion (there was no way someone from the front door could get to his bedroom door so fast).

Even so... Jack glanced nervously back to the door and shot under the bed as he heard the door being shaken again. He pulled the covers over his head and took a battery (he always kept at least one for emergencies like these) out of his trouser pocket and put it into the mp3.


He finally fell asleep at 5:30 in the morning- entire body hidden under the bed and mass of covers he'd pulled under the bed with him. Music blaring out of the earphones sso loudly, it would be a truly suprsing event if he didn't wake up at least parcially deaf.


Jack woke to see Adria looking under the bed at him, "rough night huh?", she asked. His mp3 had already died out so he heard her and nodded, "heh yeah...".

"Wanna skip school today?". Jack's eyes widened, she was usually the one telling him to not skip school, he shrugged and grinned, "sure, why not...". There was a slight pause before Adria asked "video games?". Jack smirked, the fear of last night almost instantly forgotten "video games!" he repeated before racing her to the living where the games were.

He grinned to himself, running as he realised something- maybe it wasn't the sunlight that he feared but the disaproving society that came along with it. Either way, Adria was here now and whether fake or real, in a world that makes no sense, a dependable friend made all the difference. ...Maybe there were some up-sides to schizophrenia afterall...

But enough of that, he had a video game to win...


Anyways, as said earlier this was just a mini chap to get me back onto the story SCHIZOPHRENIA- hopefully I'll complete an 'actual' chapter sooner rather than later... This chap just loosey fit in with the time scale of chapter 1 incase anyone was wondering...

Thanks to all reviewers of SCHIZOPHRENIA who I'll get back to in the 'actual' chapter when it's finally finished- soz it took so lomg to get back to this story, and special thanks to kisshufan4ever who basically reviewed the same last chapt 3 times-gotta admire that kinda commitment lol.

As always- plz read and review!