Crazy

Drama Fiction Horror

Written in response to: "Center your story around a character who is struggling with something no one else in their life knows about." as part of Weather the Storm.

The girl sat there and Katrina didn't know what to do because she had to walk by her to get into her apartment upstairs and the girl sat there silently smoking her cigarette and she just sat there and sat there. Katrina knew she was thinking about katrina's boyfriend and how much she loved him and how much, she thought she was getting over on Katrina by having a secret relationship with him, they all lived in the same building. Katrina upstairs in front, there was a store owner below her. Then Katrina's boyfriend lived in the back lower apartment. And this girl lived above him, and there was a secret passage that passed between the 2 of their apartments in the back so Katrina could hear them through the wall in her neighbor's apartment up top. And she knew they were talking on the phone, so you could hear conversations passing by windows, and this had been going on, ever since they moved in 2 and a 1/2 years ago, and the girl was rather psychotic and Katrina said, this is the last straw, I'm tired of living in this situation, I gotta get out of here and so she went on to an apartment search, online and found an apartment and talked to her program and her family helped her move, and she finally was free. Then what happened was, she had a new life? And she was really happy, but then her new neighbor knew her old friend who she had a baby by 20 years ago, and they had some notion that Katrina had done something wrong to the father of the baby. By publicizing her pregnancy in the hospital where she got pregnant by him, and they were her new nemesis, and she sort of knew that they lived there near where she was moving in, but she did it anyway thinking maybe they'll be there, maybe they won't, maybe they won't harass me, but you never know, because she didn't even really know what she was being accused of but they said she had done him dirty or something, but she felt herself that she was innocent, not knowing that The rumors were all exaggerated how I guess. Maybe the father felt exposed that he was known as the father of her baby by everybody and didn't wish that to happen but Katrina was glad she had the baby. The baby was fine, adopted by her family's friends down south and actually the father had died, getting struck by lightning and dying of cancer years later. But these friends of his seemed to have some aggression toward Katrina and wouldnt leave her alone, banging on her door, blasting their music. They sort of were happy that she lived there so that they could target her with her their hatred, and so Katrina looked for another place to move to, this one was downtown near the river. Where she used to live with her former ex-husband Who she had a different baby by who was, well anyway.She was adopted too, but it was a closed adoption.So Katrina didn't see much of her either, but life went on and she was actually 60 years old.Now, all she wanted to do was clean.The city take pick up the garbage and sweep and clean the bus stops and just be happy.But she didn't realize she didn't understand why she had so many haters , but I guess like even popular people like john lennon, or martin.\n Luther king Jr., but then she realized that's just how people are so she said, maybe I'll go visit my ex-husband and she stayed with him for a while sitting there visiting room and the baby was there and her daughter and everyone was happy and the mom was there of him her husband and they had a nice day and it was like a better celebratory thing I know this is really drowning out, but I just wanted to say her heart was still with her boyfriend, she left with that weird girl, but What can you do.

So Katrina finally got put in a nursing home when she couldn't walk anymore and they discovered that she needed help and she had been looking forward to that day, but she got along she had her little broom and she did her little duties and she had her little schedule and routine and she liked the people at the nursing home, it was a well fit for her, and she was helped around in a wheel to gruold and died. Well, everybody when she died after her parents were all gone. But her sister and her brothers cried and cried at her funeral saying, you know, that girl really did a lot for a lot of people and no, she never got credit at all for any of it, then her youngest brother said he could see her spirit. In the room at the funeral that she was trying to get them all to dance and her other brothers said , yeah , that's just like hersey always wanted people to be happy.

Epilog, the history of my life is that I had an incident involving one of my family members and went into it deep depression and had to go into mental health, even though I was really doing good in school, I had scholarships and applications to college even out of 10th grade and piling up in my mailbox. And II was the second smartest girl in person in the class. And after this happened, I just fell. And II never really reported the incident like to a court so that I could be redeemed, because I was afraid of what would happen to the family member if they were exposed or if they were, you know, if if they had to be jailed or whatever, I don't know if it's a real crime that would end them up in jail, but It's just like I never went for being righteous and claiming my dignity back. I just accepted that I'm just gonna have to live with all the nonsense of the mental health system and all that, but I built myself back up and I have a podcast, I'm i'm in the art so. This weekend and I do paintings. I have so many paintings and I also wrote Sixteen books on amazon katy , p , thank you.

Posted Jul 12, 2026
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