"And what about mind control?" Jane suggested during that rainy Saturday afternoon with a raised eyebrow while she and Charles discussed possibilities to explain the Lawndale phenomenon.
"Wouldn't that involve the drugs? Remember we said drugs aren't it?" He objected.
Jane sighed and let herself lie on Charles bed while he looked at her from a chair nearby her.
"I'm going to sound like the guy from the documentary but-".
"Documentary?" Charles interrupted.
"A couple of months ago" Jane started her explanation while using her fingers to nervously play softly with the three earrings that were in the holes she had pierced years before, just like Taylor, the cat, had done many times when she was asleep ", Daria and I watched this documentary. We found it by accident on this weird conspiracy website. Anyway, we were there making fun of the stuff people published there and then we found a 50-minute documentary, starring a guy that kinda looked like DeMartino but with normal eyes and obesity. It was pretty much 50 minutes of a summary of all the crap we had already read and then he used 10 minutes to warn about the CIA and the government making experiments with different drugs and other stuff to make people change their behavior and make them do whatever the controller guys wanted. Back then we watched it as joke and made fun of the guy. But now... I don't know, I may be losing my mind more than the people who are making me lose it did. What I'm trying to say is that they may not use only drugs".
Charles didn't say a word. He was thinking about it. It was indeed crazy, but wasn't the whole town crazy anyway? Jane's theory equaled madness, and what other thing can make people go mad that isn't madness itself? He tried to find reasonable theories that didn't involve government agencies plotting to make two teenagers lose their sanity in the name of science by waiting until the went to sleep and then replacing the minds of their friends and family giving not a single explanation. What would anyone possibly want from such a crazy experiment?
"How do you think they could had brainwashed everyone in one night?" Was his first question.
"Maybe that's why we're not crazy yet. They didn't have enough time and we were the only two left".
Jane was making an amazing amount of sense for such a dumb subject. Or it was just that Charles was going insane at the same time she did, therefore they were speaking the same language of madness and if anyone had heard them, that person would had raised an eyebrow or laugh.
"Let's assume that's true, Jane. What can we do? If they did this on purpose, why would they make it go back to normal? And if they left us here by accident that could mean they will come back for us, probably when our minds begin to fry".
"My mind is already frying" she screamed ". This whole shit it's like a fucking hallucination, it's like an endless bad trip".
"What if we're the ones who are on drugs and not them?".
Jane opened her eyes widely analyzing the possibility. It didn't take her long to remember what being high on every drug she had tried felt like and what she had heard from Trent about heavier drugs and bad trips. The situation she was living didn't seem like any drug that she knew about.
Jane shook her head.
"Trust me, we're not on drugs".
Charles shrugged, defeated, because he could not think of anything else which meant he was almost forced to believe in the crazy theory.
"Hey, I have an idea!" He yelled with excitement.
"Go on".
"You said you find the documentary on the Internet, right?".
Jane nodded.
"And you said people published things on that website".
"Wow, you really do pay attention to all my bullshit, don't you?".
"Did you see if there were any people posting from somewhere outside of Lawndale but not too far away?".
"Let me think... Daria said something about some guys, I said 'I can't believe you're going to go to college in a city with so many conspiracy dudes' so I guess I was talking about Boston. Yes, Boston!" She said with a big smile as she quickly got up from the bed ". Turn on the computer, Ruttheimer, we're going on the weird side of the Internet".
"Is there a normal side?" He commented.
"Sometimes you just know how to remind me of Daria in the right moments" Jane smirked and covered Charles with an unexpected hug.