Arthur and Calvin

Arthur Kevin Clark knew that everything was just, well things, with meanings attached. Words were just lines and curves in a certain order that had meaning attached to it. The same went for numbers, names, times, colours, and feelings. So why then were these things bothering him?1

Arthur knew he was okay. He knew he was not insane, mentally disabled, paranoid or had irrational fears. He knew because the guy inside his head told him so. So why then was he starting to feel all of these things? It didn’t matter. They would go away soon; all he had to do was listen to the guy in his head. The one with the raspy, leviathan voice, the one that told him everything would be okay as long as he did what he was told.2

The one thing that Arthur Kevin Clark did not know was that he had schizophrenia and he was about to have another episode.3

Calvin Arthur Klak knew he was happy, happy to finally be back after a long coma. Calvin knew he had problems; well that’s what other people called them anyway. He knew it was not normal to enjoy his or others pain. He knew it was not normal to find the thought of murder and rape pleasurable. He knew he was happy to be like this. So why then was he starting to have second thoughts about everything he was thinking? It didn’t matter. It would all be okay soon; all he had to do was listen to the guy inside his head. The one with the sweet, smooth voice, the one that told him it would all be alright as long as he did what he was told.4

You see, one of the many things that Calvin did not know was that he was the manifestation of a sixteen year old boy’s schizophrenic mind.5

Calvin and Arthur didn’t know each other, they didn’t even know that the other existed. However, they could always feel one another at the back of there minds, saying that what they were doing was wrong; Always constantly fighting each other for precedence. So obviously when one finally gained superiority and the other sank to the background of the incessant noise that is the mind, there would be a blank spot in their memory. One day they will be showering the very next instant they are on their first date with someone they don’t know. Now depending on their personality they will generally make up their own story for themselves to explain what happened. Arthur, now he seems to just simply black-out a lot. Calvin? Well he almost always gets bound and drugged and beaten and tortured. Although he has never tried to ask himself why there are no marks and no pain.6

The two lived reasonable well except for a few rare moments where their head would feel like it exploding with pain, as they pass each other in the street and know instantly who that person was. 7

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