Chapter 3 - Symptoms from 'Terrible Things' has just been posted. I would really appreciate any feedback at all and certainly any votes. I'm more than happy to exchange a read for a read too! :) Here's an extract - Enjoy!
Up until now her solution had been symptom management and not to cure the condition. But it seemed to be evolving more rapidly than she had seen before and they were running out of time. Once the meditations and medications stopped working entirely, he would not be the only person at the mercy of his condition. She'd never seen a situation like Noah's in all her years doing what she did. Maybe it was his sensitive and inviting nature, or maybe there was something darker in his background that he had buried too deeply for her to detect offhand. But she had run out of time stalling him, and she needed to do what he had been asking her to do since that first day on the beach. But what if I can't help him?
Em suddenly remembered the last thing her brother said to her the day she told him she wanted to move out on her own. "You can't live by yourself. What if you get hurt? What if you get lost? What if you can't make enough money to pay the rent? What if you can't find anyone to help you?" These were questions that had settled in the shadows around her mind and that whispered softly to her in her loneliest nights. They were also the questions that had pushed her out that door.
Em also remembered the last thing that she had said to her brother the day she told him she was moving. "'What ifs' don't exist, and I'm not going to waste my life in fear of things that don't exist." And she didn't.