You'd Better Believe it

[Zane Frost]

Madness was a wonderous thing. No matter where you looked you saw to your amazement something there in the way of it. In your mind you were what you were, no hidden masks, no unmentioned truths. If you didn't know yourself then who did know you? Such things were what he pondered with as he stood upon the edge of the building staring out at the balloon that was filled with the fliers. The people of new pretty town gathered around, laughing in their splendor. Zane knew better than to look stupid so when someone looked awkwardly at him he belted a laugh out into the brightly lit area. After consuming those pills with Talley everything was so clear to him. And yet his head throbbed painfully every time he tried to think about something. But he was cured. He didn't have those bubbly thoughts, that idiot's calm. He had freedom. He could be a man again with his own thoughts, with his own actions. Talley was off somewhere with the Crims, doing something interesting. He stopped, turning those large grey eyes from the ground to the sky above him. A girl to his left screamed and dropped from the side, giggling as the bungee jacket caught her and she bounced down a row of flowers, turning somersaults in the air.

He heard others urging him to do the same. His eyes turned to the crowd. His head was already starting to hurt and staying put would mean that he'd not be able to get away. Bubble heads didn't fear. They just did.

He stood up, sucked in a breath, and turned his attention over to the fall. Bubbly. Think Bubbly.

And d**n, was he right! He watched the ground racing up to meet him with a cringe, his