DEMARCATION

Six

AVA

I opened my eyes but everything was a blur. I could hear their relief in my waking up. Suddenly a face appeared before me. Even though it was still a blur I could see the white coat identifying him as a doctor.

I sat up to see a worried Joe with a blotch of blood on his cheek near my bed. Liam stood just outside the door but he seemed to have got into a fight. On seeing him I grabbed Joe which made Liam to leave for the time being. The doctor left after ensuring everything was fine with me except for the concussion.

"What happened? I mean how did you find about it? And why is Liam still here?" These were the first things I asked Joe after the doctor left.

"I heard something crashing in your room. You know the walls are so thin that sometimes I could even hear you talking to yourself. I knocked several times and left since there was no response and the crash alerted me. I broke in to see an unconscious you in Liam's hand and a shattered vase on the floor. We got into a fight and others came too. Jane called the doctor and I don't know how he is still here. After you rest up we can meet Jane in her office for clarifying this." Joe left after instructing me to call him whenever I needed something.

I skipped lunch as I didn't want to face Liam after what happened. I avoided leaving my room as that allowed me to be myself and ponder over the things. After a short rest I started working on my book but still my mind wandered in the past occurrences and I had to rewrite the same part again as it got mixed with my confusions. By dinner time Jane came and informed that I have to attend the dinner as she was going to talk about the recent issue. 

"As you know whatever happened today was nothing pleasant to think about. So we have reached a solution to avoid such incidents in the future.."

"The first thing to do was inform the police about this. He would have killed her if it was not for me." Joe was getting worked up.

"He is right and I feel threatened to stay here" Amy supported

"Sorry for the trouble but nobody can leave now as per the course rules. So we decided to let everyone know about each others problem so they could help each other while they healed themselves. I would insist Liam to start this session as the issue needs to be clarified."

"Uhh.. I'm sorry for what I did to Ava and others if I had offended them in any ways for the past one day. When I first joined I thought I could hide this and try to overcome slowly through the course but now it should be disclosed. I have 'Intermittent explosive disorder' and due to this I'm not able to socialize and almost pushed my friend of the cliff. My girlfriend broke up with me and I'm at the verge of loosing my job. My friend recommended this to me  and so signed up for this course to cure it."