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Chapter 54

~Tuesday~

10:25 am

<Tiana's P.O.V>

My caregiver decided to bring me to my therapy session a few minutes early, I don't know why. But I guess it's better to be early instead of late.

"Hey Dr. Evans"

"Hello I see you came a little early, that's actually good because I have something in store for you"

"Um ok?"

I was honestly confused because I didn't know what he was talking about. We started off with some small talk until it was 10:30. Then we heard a knock on the door.

"Come In!" The therapist yelled.

Soon as the door opened I turned to see Chris with the same confused look on his face.

"What's going on?" Chris asked while walking to the chair next to me.

Then Dr. Evans smiled and spoke "Well I purposely wanted both of you to be here. I noticed that the situation both of you guys are going through tie into why you two are here now"

"Well me and Chris are friends so I don't know why we are here. I personally came here to talk about my personal issues"

"But your problems were triggered by Christopher. And his personal issues were recently triggered by the relationship that you two were in"

Then Chris interrupted "I understand what Tiana is saying. I feel like it'll be more appropriate if we talked to you about our personal issues privately"

"That's another thing that both of you share. Both of you never talk to each other about your problems. You brush it off and never address the elephant in the room"

I stayed silent because he was right. I noticed that me and Chris never discussed our issues with each other. All we did was either ignore it or sweep it under the rug.

Then Chris spoke up "Maybe I'll just come back another time"

As he started getting up Dr. Evans spoke.

"Chris it's not healthy to run away from your problems"

Then I looked at Chris to see a look on his face that was unrecognizable. It was a mixture of pain and disappointment.

"I'm running because I don't want to hurt her again. I love her too much to see her hurt again." Chris confessed.

I grabbed Chris arm "Chris it's ok just please sit down. We gotta go through this in order to take our next step in our relationship"

He softened up and sat back down. While he was sitting in the chair he was looking down not giving any eye contact.

"Ok now Chris tell Tiana how you've been feeling and why you came here"

I held his and said "Chris... it's ok just look at me and breathe"

Chris looked at me with a faint smile then he took a deep breath and spoke.

"I...feel scared. I don't want to lose you. After I cheated on you I felt so guilty I couldn't believe I was throwing away my love just to get lust from someone I knew I didn't care about."

Chris stopped and took a deep breath.

Then I tried to comfort him "It's ok just talk"

He continued "When you got into the accident it tore me up inside I knew if I lost you or the baby I would've lost my will to live. I blamed myself everyday for the death of our child. I felt like if I was truly there for you none of this shit would've happened"