[WP] It became normal for us to be in the same room for hours at a time and not acknowledge the other’s existence.

It became normal for us to be in the same room for hours at a time and not acknowledge the other's existence. The vile and sobering reality that sometimes time doesn't heal all wounds seems more apparent now than it ever has. It is perhaps most crushing to think of what we used to have, the way things used to be. I have heard it said that the birth of great enemies can only come from the ruins of a great friendship. Actually, I haven't heard this said, but if I had it surely would've stricken my ears with a tone of undeniable truth.

I first met Jacob when I was younger, maybe 14, it was when I first started high school. Back then I didn't get along with many kids my age, I was awkward, so stuck in my head, worried what my peers were thinking, sure that they all hated me. But Jacob was different, he was older, he was smart. He talked to me too, I liked that, I mean most people didn't talk much to me, especially older kids. At first I only saw Jacob at recess when the kids of all ages were outside at the same time. We would just hangout, talk, joke, explore, just have fun and it was fun. Jacob sometimes wanted me to pull "pranks", his pranks were crazy though. It started off simple, but directed, in a way. Jacob loved sabotage and somehow he knew who was mean to me, he focused on them. It started off simple, stealing that prick Jasons clothes while he showered after gym class bringing him, naked shame, things like that. Jacob made it clear that no one could know we were behind the pranks, actually, no one could even know we were friends, he said never to talk about our friendship to anyone, easy enough. I loved hanging with Jacob so I didnt wanna mess that up.

Me and Jacob started hanging out more, like every day, after school, sometimes he would sneak out of his house and spend the night at mine. Jacobs sabotage turned more cruel, more direct. At first it was apprehensive about it, but soon I loved our sabotage. I got back at everyone in the most beautiful acts of deserved revenge. You know that teach, Mrs. Johnson, yeah the one who laughed cause I was struggling to read out loud to the class (for the record I can read but my heart was racing so fast I couldn't force myself to speak). Well I caught her in the office with Principal Jennings, they told me if I told anyone id be suspended. Me and Jacob made sure their doings became a more public matter, and despite their threats, it wasn't me who ended the day suspended. Then I think we started taking it too far, I think. I mean Julia was a brat. I used to have such a crush on her and when I finally gained the courage to tell her she made fun of me, "I'd never like a weirdo like you HAHAHAHA everyone HAHAHA Jeremy just said he likes me." fuck that. So one day me and jacob caught her on her way home from school and, well once we started it felt so right to seeher feel pain the way she did I. Jacob did everything, I swear, he beat her up pretty good too, I wont lie, I watched with a sense of joy and fulfillment. Maybe thats why I like Jacob so much, he stood up for me, I hated her for what she did to me and he made it right.

After the incident with Julia I was arrested, Jacob was not arrested however. Julia accused me of the entire thing! I saw Jacob do it, so did she, why did she blame me. The cops fucking questioned me for a while and then I was evaluated by some stupid doctor. The whole time I repeated the same thing, they had the wrong guy JACOB did it. In fact Jacob was at the police station when I was being interrogated, evaluated, he watched through the window and I screamed "there he is!" "just ask him he did it."

Instead of my innocence proven, I was transferred to a facility, they told me they would explain when I arrived. Jacob hid and came with me through the whole trip but I wouldn't talk to him I WAS SO MAD that he wouldn't take the blame when he did it. When I got to the facility some crazy guy told me something really stupid. He said Jacob didnt exist, that I was sick, that I was the one who hurt Julia. SO dumb since I saw it happen, they just didnt know about Jacob because he wouldnt fess up. Now so many doctors, therapy every day at this stupid facility. The whole time jacob just following me around watching me be subjected to this bull shit and just watching with no expression of sorrow. Yet they persist, Jacob is not real, I am delusional. Ok OK I see what I see , Im not dumb I know if something is real or not. But im smarter than them, I started agreeing saying Jacob was fake that they were right , that I was cured (even though IM LOOKING AT HIM). Well I finally played their game for so long they let me leave the facility. But Jacob never fucking left, hes ALWAYS around now, but fuck him, I dont talk to him anymore for what he did. I do, miss what we had though, but it will never be the same, thats something I have to expect, the world is cruel, people are cruel, jacob is cruel.

Journal Entry by Jeremy Jones a Paranoid Schizophrenic, written two hours before he took his life

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