CatchingFear

(The Psychiatric Disorder, Schizophrenia) Nia O'Brien's shivers shook her entire frame but she hardly noticed. She was waiting anxiously for River Bateman to arrive, her hands occasionally running up and down the length of her arms in an unconscious attempt to keep warm. The eighteen year old girl was standing on the grassy path of a motorway. It was 12:30AM on a foggy February morning, so the sky was an ominous black-blue colour and the trees were menacing silhouettes that emitted hostility and danger. Each car passing by, scarce as they were, unsettled her thumping heart and quickened her unsteady pulse. She could hear it, throbbing throu