Hush
The voices in my head started speaking again. 'Do it', they said. 'Stop wasting time. You know how'.My hands flew to my head as I grabbed handfuls of my hair and shook my head frantically. STOP, I kept thinking. STOP TALKING TO ME!I didn't ask to be this way. I didn't WANT to be this way. WHY AM I THIS WAY?! The unquenchable thirst was killing me. I didn't want to quench it. I COULDN'T. Not if I wanted to retain my sanity. The voices...they wanted me to...STOP wanting me to! My inner turmoil was increasing as I yearned for something that, if I took, would change me forever. I could never forgive myself if I did!'Do it, Lillian.'NO. I WON'T.But even as I chanted those three words over and over again in my head, I found myself standing up and walking to my window. I unlocked it and pushed it open. My gaze wondered to the ground that looked so far away from my room on the second floor.NO. PLEASE, I screamed in my thoughts. Stop, Lillian! CONTROL YOURSELF!But I had already jumped.…