[ WP ] A schizophrenic falls in love with one of her hallucinations .

He was a handsome guy. In his early 20s. Smart, kind, funny too. The voices were never kind to him; they did n't even have the courtesy to show their faces. They haunted him like the cruelest of people. He always saw the others in the street. The real ones. And envied their connections with other people around them. All he wanted was to connect to another person. A real person. But those ones, the cruel ones, would never let him. They ridiculed him if he ever tried and eventually the real ones would be scared away. One day he saw her sitting there in the room with him. Kind enough to show her face, and he found her absolutely stunning. He was speechless. For some reason her beauty silenced the cruel ones. She spoke to him with a gentle voice, with kindness and love. He knew that it would never be the real connection that he had always longed for, but her presence worked, where all the pills and injections had failed. She gave him peace. He knew that the connection with the real one would never be real, but he was okay with this. There was finally peace.
