My Splitting Headache

Arhh! The pain comes stabbing through me a lot harder

than any time before. I'm sitting in an upright

position in my bed. It's pitch black my eyes adjust to the light but all

I can see are the outlines of the bigger objects

like my bed, the desk in the corner and the book shelf.

The rain is attacking the roof in armies of drops.

Ahhh, dammit it feels like my head will split open

and then it does, a long crack like a dropped egg covers

the top of my head. I can feel something squirming there then

a finger comes out dragging it’s hand with it and then

an arm comes out then a leg and then a head and body and soon

there is an exact replica of me sitting on the bed in

front of me and then it says hello.

It all happened a few days ago I was walking with

Jack C, he was making fun of me for tripping

over the footpath and then I had a sharp pain in the back

of my skull like someone had shoved a knife there

and then I doubled over and threw up

whatever I had for breakfast on the grass (just

to let you know it was rice bubbles). Jack went and

got help but before he had even got around the corner I

blacked out. It was a weird sensation. I was falling unable to

stop myself and when I hit the ground it was as if I hit the

border between reality and a dream because all of a sudden I

was standing in a pond and were cats were doing

the can can and I knew it was a dream.”well this is weird” and

I open my eyes, I'm in a hospital bed I turn my head

to find an IV drip next to me. The TV is turned off and I can’t

find the remote so I just sit there until the doctor comes.

Two hours later I'm sitting on the couch at home.

Everyone at home kind of skirts around me

for fear that they might get whatever I have (they might as

well build a wall around me and feed me through a tiny hole

like they did with the people that had leprosy).

But every once and awhile I anywhere at any time I'll feel

a crazy headache but I haven't thrown up or

blacked out since that time. 

Back to the present 

The things sits on my bed awaiting me to answer

“hello” it says repeating to make sure I can understand it

“um hi” I say “What are you”

“Im you”

“No you’re not”

“Yes I am” 

“Prove it”

“Well I just climbed out of your head If that

doesn't prove it nothing will”

“Yeah but, ok”

“So if you’re me then why did you climb

out of my head”

“Well it was pretty boring in there, it was like

sitting in a cardboard box” 

“Wait are there any more people like you up there?”

“Nah the other left ages ago when they realized

how boring it was up there”

“Ok so why do you look like me”

“Well I am basically you, well actually I don’t know

what I am. It's not like we have school anyway. I'm going to

go explore the world and find out who I am”.

I look out the window as he walks up the driveway and onto

the road but stops to tie his shoe and is run over by a truck,

that’ll teach him to get out of my head.