Anthony was just enjoying his breakdown in relative peace and quiet, until nothing was peaceful and quiet again. Anthony stopped crying for a moment in sheer shock about this entire thing. What the hell? Is he seeing this right? He wondered for a brief moment whether the familiar-looking kid beating him with a stick was just a hallucination, because if so, it was the worst hallucination ever. 

Either way, it didn't help his mental state. "What do you want?" he asked through his tears. Worst case is that he was talking to himself like a madman, best case is that the person is actually real.