Claudia - Glass prison
Claudia is a girl in her twenties, suffering from multiple mental disorders: she is agoraphobic and schizophrenic. Because she never leaves her home, there aren't many people who know about her problems and who she is friend with. She knows that something isn't quite right with her. She often feels like she is trapped in her own apartment, in her own mind and body, like in a glass prison, but she tries to ignore those feelings and keeps living her life in constant fear and anxiety.
Even though she is agoraphobic and schizophrenic, she has a beautiful soul and beautiful phisycal features as well. She lives in big city and that makes her more anxious and fearful that if she will go outside to discover Miami, something bad will happen to her. Despite of that, she talks with a few of her neighbours whom she considers to be her friends, but only two of those people know about her problems. One of them is Debrah Morgan, Dexter Morgan's sister, who knows about her struggles and wants to help her by being close to her. But the only person which she considers to be her friend and confidant is Mrs. Laderman, her neighbour.
Mrs. Laderman - White rose
She is a lovely lady in her 40's who always gives good advice, cooks nice food and is keeping Claudia in touch with the outside world. Or that's just what Claudia thinks of her...
Claudia doesn't have a boyfriend, as she never leaves the apartments she's living in, but she imagined herself one.
Quentin - The woods
She named him Quentin and he does whatever she wants and loves her unconditionally. His appearance changes to suit her moods, but he is most of the time tall, blonde, with beautiful blue eyes and smart dressed. Because Claudia imagines him being really handsome, she often thinks that other women see him like that too, and every woman who meets him falls in love with him instantly. He is, though, just a project of Claudia's imagination and no one else but Claudia can see him. He is real just to her, while to others it doesn't exist.
Claudia only talks to him on the telephone and lets him visit her only at night, when everybody else is sleeping, so no one can see him. She doesn't know that this happens only in her dreams at night and she believes all this to be real. She once told Mrs. Laderman about him, about how nice he is, but now she regrets it deeply. She thinks that since then, Mrs. Laderman's attitude towards her has changed, and that maybe that's because she and Quentin are secretly seeing each other.
In fact, Mrs. Laderman had designs on Claudia, but she never admitted this. Since she found that Claudia has a "boyfriend", she started feeling betrayed and heartbroken and she stopped visiting Claudia that often.
One day, she finally decided to express her feelings towards Claudia and visited her, bringing a beautiful bouquet of white roses, as a sign to express her "pure" love towards her.
When she entered Claudia's room, she found her talking at the phone with Quentin, and, surprised, dropped the bouquet. When Claudia saw her, she thought that she was secretly stalking her talking with Quentin, and started yelling at Mrs. Laderman to leave her house. Mrs. Laderman felt rejected and betrayed again, and promised herself to never visit Claudia again. She left her house and didn't pick up the white roses though, hoping that Claudia will see them and come to thank her and that they could reconciliate.
Claudia's thought that Mrs. Laderman and Quentin have a secret relationship grew bigger and bigger and she started hating her. She throw the bouquet of roses on the window right after Mrs. Laderman left, so she can see that she doesn't need her attention and she doesn't want to be close to her again...
Left with no other friend to talk to, Claudia started confessing to Debra about what happened, but she didn't really took her seriously.
Time has passed and she forgot Mrs. Laderman. She actually started missing her, so she phoned her to invite her over.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Laderman's feelings of love mutated into hate, and she kept building a plan in her mind to destroy the love between Claudia and Quentin. She didn't know that Quentin wasn't real...
As soon as she received Claudia's call, she started planning how to mutilate her so Quentin will no longer love her. She bought a bottle of acid and went straight to Claudia's home.
Mrs. Laderman rang the bell. Claudia, excited to see her, opened the door straight away, and Mrs. Laderman threw the bottle of acid on her face, reaching half of it and the shoulder and leaving her to fall on the floor. Happy that her plan succeeded, she yelled to Claudia: "So you'll never see Quentin again!" and left, leaving her devastated.
Claudia was left there, blinded and scarred by the acid that was burning her face slowly. She lost her consciousness and fell down...
Soon after this, Debra came over and found her lying on the floor, in the door. She immediately took her to the hospital and started investigating what happened with her. Claudia was unable to talk for days, but Debrah remember all that she said about the incident with Mrs. Laderman and started questioning her. She investigated the case with help from her brother, Dexter, and found Mrs. Laderman guilty, but they couldn't imprison her and and left her free despite the frustration and the obviousness of the case. There were no witnesses. Mrs. Laderman's younger brother was a successful lawyer who managed to help her escape the sentence, with the reason that Claudia's mental health was precarious.
Dexter saw the injustice and couldn't bear it. He decided to go himself after Mrs. Laderman and punish her for what she did. And he did so. He killed Mrs. Laderman a night before the morning when Claudia killed her in her hallucination, in her dream, from her mind.
Meanwhile, Claudia was slowly recovering but her mental state became more unstable. She was hospitalized in a mental health centre, where doctors were taking care of her. But she couldn't find her peace. She wanted revenge. She wanted to tell Quentin what happened, but she only could "speak" to him on the phone. Luckily, Debra came to visit her and brought her a few of her belongings, her lapton, her favourite pillow and her phone.
That night she finally could call Quentin. She hid herself in the hospital's bathroom and "called" him, telling him everything that had happened. She felt that he was the only one that believed her. And he was, because, he was in her mind. He existed there and he knew everything that she knew. He was completely real, but only in her mind. So he wanted to show her how much he loves her and seek her revenge. That morning, Quentin killed Mrs. Laderman and buried her in the woods outside of the hospital. That was the last thing that Claudia saw, and the last morning sunshine that she felt through the hospital bathroom windows. Right after she "saw" this, she couldn't take it anymore and she killed herself taking all the medications that she had for her mental illness and her acid burns. She was found dead on the bathroom floor by a nurse. Did she die, or did she just escape from the glass prison where she was captive all her life?
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