Paranoid

They're trying to kill me.

No they're not.

Why of course they are.

Why would they try to kill you? Us?

Maybe we're important.

Narcissist.

Positive self-talk, please.

Exactly. Maybe we're important, and they're trying to kill us.

What makes you think they would kill you? They're your family. They love you. And they've never shown otherwise.

Yes, but maybe that's all just a lie. Maybe we're not even theirs.

But what about the photos from birth?

Photoshop, easy.

But did they ever actually try to kill us?

Lizzie did.

She was just a child. She didn't know what she was doing. She's our favorite person in the world, nobody knows you better. You know she wouldn't kill you if it came down to it.

Yeah, but she could be in on it. You know that if she ever had to make a choice, you'd be the sacrifice.

We'd sacrifice ourselves, wouldn't we?

...

What about Mom? You know she's smart. If anyone could kidnap me, or lie about my entire life to me and then kill me it would be her.

Oh come on. Has she ever even once tried to even harm you?

She looks at me weird sometimes.

She looks at you weird.

Yes. And plus, what about Tom? He came out of nowhere, really, and you kind of look like him, even though he's your adoptive Dad... what if he was my biological father, and my mother lied about it, because scandal, and then they got together after all the drama subsided, at a believable time. What if they're watching us? All the time? With cameras? It could happen, you know, it's real. And of Course, they could all read minds, that's for certain-

Stop. Stop right there. I don't want to go down that rabbit hole again. And besides, you've already searched the whole house for cameras.

And with Dad, I mean, seriously- do you think he'd even have the guts to try anything like this? Do you hear yourself?

He could be lying. They could all be lying. You know it.

You're absolutely schizo, you know that?

Am I?

Oh dear God.

I mean, think about it. We didn't get ADHD, or Autism fully and legally diagnosed because she didn't want anyone thinking any differently of me, or me thinking differently of myself, and so that I'd be able to get jobs easier. It's possible schizophrenia is the same way. It's possible they always suspected, or always knew, and didn't tell me, thinking that might've cured it. Or, or it was part of a new experimental, like, possible cure for schizophrenia, which would mean they're definitely watching me and-

And it means they don't want to kill you. Problem solved.

Yes, but-

"Charlie, are you cold? Do you need a coat?"

She's interrupting your thoughts process. She could read your mind and knew that you were getting close-

Shut up. She cares about you.

Do you want the dang jacket or not?

I don't know.

We're literally shivering uncontrollably. Take the jacket. She loves us. She cares about us. It's the most obvious thing in the entire world. We're cold. We'll take the coat.

"I'm okay, thanks,"

Should've taken the jacket. She wouldn't think any less of us, she was offering.

Yeah, but what if it was a test?

It wasn't a test

But what if it was?

We're cold we should've taken the jacket.

"Are you sure?"

See, she can read minds.

For the love of Christ!

Can we say that? We're not even Christian. Are we?

"Yeah, yeah."

Oh darn you, Charlie.

Positive self-talk!

It's okay, we'll be inside in two seconds...