Thorns Of Juliet

Symptom XX

A/N: This is the last chapter. Thank you so much for your patience. I hope this book is worth the read for you.

From the journal of Patient Sixteen written under the initials of CTL dated in 8 of September 2001; voice recorded by Dr. Quirrero

T W E N T I E T H S Y M P TO M:

[Beeps of the recording; static noise in the background]

❝Ho una domanda, Detective. ❞

[Silence]

❝Putting yourself in her shoes, what do you think you will do? Will you still desperately try to live on when your sanity is already tied on knots?❞

[Silence]

❝Are you ignoring me?❞ [Chortles]

[Giggling continuously] [Clicking of the heels in the background] ❝Alright, alright. Here is the last voice recorder for the first half. Siete pronti?❞

warning:
mention of suicide attempt

1

RUNNING AWAY has always been a dangerous instinct for Catalina Juliet regardless of the certain cognizance that walking back to the things she escaped from will bound her into circles no matter what the circumstances may be. It is a persisting quintessence of an unhealthy coping mechanism that instead of pulling herself above the water, she just continuously drowns to the unstable currents of her contorted past and the scars beyond the present.

Constantly sinking to the roaring sea of despair and obscured sorrows make it difficult for her to swim as the only anchor at the bottom of the sea is just a fragment of herself.

"You are not responsible for what has been done to you, Juliet. You were just a child... defenseless in the harm of manipulation," is what Dr. Gavon had told her one time in their fifty-minute-session in an attempt to make her realize that she does not deserve the blame she puts in herself.

But then, does she suppose to be grateful for surviving all the pain?

How can she be when her body remembers everything that she has forgotten. It keeps on remembering...

and remembering...

It just keeps on remembering as if every corner of her body has no ounce of pity on her sanity.

Sorridi, Catalina. You have to smile in front of everyone, va bene? Smiling will ease the pain you are feeling right now. Your smile will make your mother happy. Se ce la metti tutta andrà tutto bene.