Icy Heart and Warm Love

Chapter Ten

It was hard for Kalda to get over the nightmare that she had dreamt of the night before.

Kalda could tell that her brothers were concerned for her because they kept asking Kalda if she was okay, giving her books to read, and trying to play music to calm her down.

Kalda thought that it was nice of them to do that, but then she later realized that they weren't doing that for her at all: they were doing it for themselves.

"You don't think that I'm posessed, do you?" Kalda randomly blurted out at lunch. "I mean, I have dreams about the past and my old life it feels like, I made a drawing and had a dream about that, then I have a nightmare about getting sexually assaulted by drunk men at a party."

"I thought that you said that the dreams stopped," Romano said firmly.

"Well, they did," Kalda answered honestly, her voice soft, "but now they're coming back."

It's not my fault! Kalda thought. They just come and go as they please!

"Aw, don't be so hard on her, Romano," Veneziano stated cheerfully. "She's just under a lot of stress."

"It's not stress," Kalda told him. "It's nothing at all. I'm sure they will just go away again. They always do."

"Well, you're not possessed," Romano told her. "We'll just take you to a doctor."

"Well, a doctor won't help much," Kalda said. "And this isn't even my fault!"

"We never said it was," Veneziano replied calmly.

"You're making it sound like it!" Kalda snapped.

Kalda sighed, knowing that she was being unpredictable and mean.

They're just worried for me, Kalda told herself. I would be worried if this happened to them, too.

"I'm sorry," Kalda apologized calmly. "It's just...I don't know what's going on. Spirits don't possess people until Halloween night, anyway."

"Maybe it's just the thought of Halloween that's getting into your head," Veneziano resolved happily.

"Maybe," Kalda agreed with a laugh. "I'm sure I'll feel fine once the spooky season is over."

"We will still see a doctor," Romano stated. "Just to make sure."

"Ugh!" Kalda groaned in annoyance. "Fine."

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"She's perfectly fine," the doctor said, running a hand through her blonde hair. "I mean, I could recommend her to a psychologist, but I don't see anything physically wrong with her."

"What's a psychologist?" Kalda asked dumbly.

Romano face-palmed, and Kalda blushed madly in embarrassment.

The doctor softened, seeing what her older brother had done.

"They just ask you questions like a normal doctor, sweetie," she told Kalda. "They may run a few tests, but I'm sure that it's nothing that you can't-"

Kalda yelped in fear at the word "tests," running out of the doctor's room.

She stood in the hallway, and she saw her brothers and the doctor walk up to her.

"She gets really scared by the word "tests," Veneziano informed the doctor with his usual smile.

"I'm sorry," Kalda apologized awkwardly. "Is a psychologist visit a recommendation?"