• Chapter 1

    Tess stares out the window, eyes focused on nothing in particular. “Well how do you feel about what your ex did to you?” “Tess?” Their therapist, Lena looks at them with concern. Tess’ eyes start to tear up and their throat tightens. “Betrayed, lied to like he broke me.” They swallow hard as tears fall from their face. they continue “I guess in a lot of ways he did break me.” “Why do you say that?” Lena asks pen hovering slightly over the Manila folder on her lap. “Because look at me, stuck in mental hospital after my ex has beaten me, what makes you think I’m not broken?” Tess nearly shouts too upset to even think straight.
    “Look you may think your broken but in many ways that’s the beauty, you know in Japan they actual fill in broken pieces with gold because it only adds to the beauty.” Lena glances up at the clock. “It’s time for meds looks like we’re done for today.” Tess sighs and goes to get up. “Wait one more thing while your here try to find something small to hang on to till you can go see Hailey something to make you smile and know no of this was your fault, he did that on his own accord.” Lena stands up smiles pleasantly and leaves the room, leaving Tess all alone for just moment before getting up themselves and going to their room being sure to skip meds for now. “ I need to think, I want to call to him and figure out what the ******** he was thinking? maybe we can make it work? but I’m not sure how that could even happen, how do we come back from this?” They think out loud questions coming to fast to be answered. Tess bites their lip, wanting to cut again.
    “Tess?” A tech looks in, “You doing alright? It’s med time?” They nod “I’m fine just tired. Ill get my meds after I eat I don’t want to get sick.” The tech looks at Tess, early 20’s with a shock of orange hair cut into a pixie, a plus sized body, dressed down in pjs and compression socks, tattoos dancing down their ...
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