It's funny to think that it's so easy to get addicted to something until its too late.

Like me for example, I was just going to the hospital to get a check-up for my schizophrenia and grabbed the cheapest meds I could find and it ruined my life. Here's my story.

I walked onto the cold and slippery concrete driveway and hopped into my beaten and batters grey car. I pulled out of the safety of my driveway and headed off of my street and onto the busy streets of Ronio, the best city you could live in. As I slowly drove I looked over to see a kid who looked 12 with a cigarette and a beer bottle in his hands, I furrowed my eyebrows and thought to myself about how kids can suddenly do such things. My thoughts were interrupted by the loud honking of cars behind me, I quietly murmured a quick sorry and started driving. A few hours and I was finally at the hospital, I parked and hopped out of the car wondering how this appointment will go. I walked up to the door and hesitated before opening it than heading to the check-in area. "Ah, hello there sir!" the check-in woman said "now, why might you be here?" I smiled up at her and stuck my hands in my jeans pockets "I'm here for my schizophrenia check-up" she looked up at me "Ah, I see. just fill in the questions on that clipboard right there and ill go get the doctor, by the way, what's your name?" she asked while sliding the clipboard to me "Oh, I'm Matthew Edwards, sorry I didn't tell you earlier" I apologized to her and grabbed the board "Oh no, don't apologize it's totally fine" she reassured. I grinned and walked over to the waiting area and sat on the first chair, going through the questions and answering as truthful as I could then going over the questions again to make sure I got them all "Matthew Edwards?" I looked over to see a nurse looking at me, I stood up and slid the clipboard on the check-in table then walked over to the young nurse "so your Matthew, alright follow me" she mumbled and walked into the doorway with me following behind her. After walking around a few hallways we made it into the little office room "Mr.Arnason will be here shortly" she said and walked out the room, I sat on the little bed and waited for a few "Ah, my favorite patient, Mr.Edwards!" I looked up to see my doctor Tim walking into the room "how have things been?" he asked while pumping some hand sanitizer into his hand "well, not much has been happening but I have been trying to keep contact with my parents" I mumbled, I have never had a good relationship with my parents. I had always been a rebellious kid until I got my job as a race car driver, I had been doing it for years but I finally retired after I got a bad injury causing my ribs to break and my face to be bloody "So, how have your hallucinations been? like, have you been seeing slight movements or have you been seeing full figures" Tim asked me making me snap out of my little memories "uh, well I have been seeing full figures but I don't think much of it" I said fidgeting with my hands "alright," he said writing something down on a little board and looking back at me "well, I do know there's a kind of medicine some of my other clients use that is at the local pharmacy and ill just write it down on here and ill give it to you so you can go pick it up" he said writing it down on a sticky note and handing it to me. He got up and walked out of the room and I did the same, I walked out into the waiting room and headed to the door "Bye, Matthew!" yelled the check-in lady "bye" I said back to her not wanting to sound rude, I walked out to my car and hopped in and headed to the pharmacy. Once I got there I headed out of my car and into the pharmacy, a faint bell rang while I stepped into the small store and I speed walked to the isle the note said it would be, I looked on the shelves until I was looking directly at it "54 dollars? why the hell it that expensive?" I mumbled to my self and looked at the other meds and saw the cheapest one with no label, I smiled to myself and grabbed the small bottle and headed over to the check-out. I placed it on the table and looked at the short red-headed woman, she jumped slightly and looked up from her phone "one second, sir" she said in a heavy Brooklyn accent "ok sir, this is all your getting?" she asked me grabbing the bottle "yes ma'am" I said staring at the bottle "alright, that will be 18 dollars and 23 cents" she said sliding the bottle to me as I grabbed the money from my pocket and placed them on the table "thank you" she said placing the money in the register, I nodded and walked out the pharmacy and into my car.