Chapter 5

Straight Jacket’s P.O.V.

“where should I begin?” I decided to come clean and tell Tangent everything I remember, including my violent past, which is probably the reason I don’t remember. It’s too painful.
“Tell me everything, starting with you, then Toxic, them me.” Came her calm reply.
“Okay, but be warned, it’s not pretty” I shudder before beginning. “When I was three, I had an accident. It destroyed half of my brain and I had to learn everything all over again. BL/nd said that I was mentally insane because of this, and took me away to the B. L. asylum. It wasn’t better living though. I was locked up in a padded cell for three years, while dracs experimented on me. The rest of the time I was sat on a chair in a huge room with lots of other patients chained to chairs in strait jackets. It was horrible. Nobody cares if you're losing yourself, you're just an object to them. Our uncle who was already a killjoy died when he broke me and some of the other patients out. I heard his screams as they electrocuted him to death. Toxic and you were at home when this happened, so I don’t know much about life in battery city. We escaped together the next morning. I never really knew you as a child, because they took me away four days after the asylum incident, and put me in an institution for the criminally insane, until I managed to escape years later. Then I joined you guys, and had no memory of anything whatsoever. I’m sorry, but I don’t think there’s any more to it. Mama and Dad are dead, uncle Noose is dead, EVERYONE IS FUCKING DEAD!!!!!”
Tangent looked horrified at this, and came to sit on my knee, curling her small arms around me, and holding me tight. “I’m sorry I had to put you through this Lillian, but I needed to know.”
“It’s okay, I needed to tell someone, and now I don’t have to explain to the guys either, coz they’re ALREADY LISTENING!!! You might as well come in guys, I can hear you with the glasses against the wall.”
I watched as Ghoul and Poison came into the room like nothing like listening in to a private conversation had ever happened, followed by a really embarrassed looking Jet. Stringent and Cry Baby were in their room, you could hear Cry’s guitar and the bitter sweet sound of melancholy laughter drifting in from their open door. Toxic is resting, but Kobra is nowhere to be found. The other guys were with Dr Death, and would be for another week. It was their turn to help him out in Bat City.
“Yo guys, where’s Kobra? Shouldn’t he be sat here guiltily with the rest of you suckers?”
At that Ghoul started giggling, and at that moment I knew there was something they were hiding.
“Okay guys, what is it?? You’re hiding something, I can tell!!”
“Kobra has a crush on you, he didn’t want to spy because he thought it might ruin his chances if we got caught – “
“You mean when you got caught, you had NO chance” I said with a coy smile, hugging Tangent who was now giggling into my black and red hair.
“So, do you like him back, he was gonna ask you out tonight” Party asks, hoping his brother doesn’t get shot down. Like that would ever happen! I’ve fancied Kobra for a while now, he’s just so nice to me, and he doesn’t just fool around with me. He’s the guy I go to sit with when I get nightmares, not Party, not Ghoul or Jet, and certainly not Tangent, it’s not fair on her, she’s too young. My blush I can feel creeping onto my normally paper white face gives me away, and they all run off, even Tangent, cackling like a group of old women.

Notes

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