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Chapter 1

The Escape Plan

E I’ve ever known During the day,practice, ti at the library But the simplicity of my schedule nearly drives me to insanity Too perfect Too much order Too much structure

Once I’m at home, that structure silences as insanity swirls aroundhteen years Every second of every hour of every day belongs to so when the ht, afterup fro daybreak, I dreahtmare, aof what’s to come in my future, of what I hope to achieve one day

Despite the terror the beginning of the drealy surrender to my drowsiness My eyelids drift shut, and my mind sinks into darkness as the noises and cries frohost acrossmadness over me like a heavy blanket

In the center of the narrow street, I walk the long line stretching down the asphalt, near where the forest welcomes the dirt There’s no one in front of me, no one behind No wind No noise except the flow of a river I don’t knohere the river is, have never been able to find it But I try Oh, do I try

Walking

Walking

Walking

Calculated uide, just like I was taught to do in real life

Taught

Taught

Taught…

To never…

Do…

Anything…

Under my own free will

To only exist on the line of the road, the map of my life o? To the river?

That’s what I’ve started to wonder Started to question

Unlike in real life, I violate the rules and allow my feet to break free fro at first, but then I ht of thewith the stars