Suddenly A Kitten

Chapter 5

This chapter is going to start... a little sad... so...

Sorry. 😭

Reagan slowly sat and heaved a sigh.

"To start, we will play word association. I say the word and you will tell me what comes into your mind."

He slowly nodded holding me to his chest.

"Scary."

Reagan shuddered. "People."

She wrote swiftly and continued.

"Uncontrollable."

Reagan's whole body clenched.

"Emotions."

She pondered and spoke.

"Pain."

A gasp of distress came from Reagan's mouth.

"Warren."

The girl paused pen not moving.

"Now that's something, who is Warren?"

Reagan was frozen.

Completely frozen.

I looked up at him in concern.

"Nerd?"

Reagan shook his head and forced himself to speak.

"H-he was my friend."

She nodded. "Was your friend? What happened?"

His heart was pounding, fingers clenching and unclenching.

"We played games all the time... but then..."

He trained off looking into the distance.

"What? What happened?" The woman asked kindly.

"He said he loved me."

His voice was emotionless, empty.

To be honest it terrified me.

"Did you love him?"

That snapped Reagan out of it.

"N-n-no! Not a-t-t all!"

She cocked her head to the side.

"Then? Was he upset?"

Reagan pulled me close and pulled his knees up to put a wall between them.

"Y-yes. H-he ran away- he w-was crying."

Reagan shook violently.

"I-I -I didn't know! I didn't know he w-would be so a-angry, that he would h-hurt me!"

My heart dropped to the bottom of my chest.

Hurt him?

Oh, oh my god...

"What did he do?"

He began to cry, cry so hard it seemed he had stopped breathing.

"He touched me! H-h-he wouldn't s-stop-p!"

Tears pricked my eyes.

No wonder...

That girl,

And acting like a child...

Reagan was traumatized.

"Then? What happened after he touched you?"