Lina has agoraphobia and severe OCD and hasn't left the farm her and her mother own in over 2 years but what happens when he mother rents out the barn to a family and a 17 year old boy with striking features and is grieving the loss of his dad move...
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Two months. That's how long I've gone without so much as laying eyes on him. I didn't want to. I avoided him like the plague.
Over the past two months I've been leaving the house a lot more thanks to Toni and Hayden. Hayden took us out in the car and filled it with hand-gels and wipes and helped me begin to overcome the fear that controlled my life for years.
After Jake left that day everything went dark for over a week. It's like my brain didn't want register that it actually happened. Like it couldn't believe I faced him but what it struggled with the most was everything else. Well everything that Adrian did. The fact he knew who I was before he came here with the intent of hurting me, maybe not physically but he knew what he was doing and he followed orders from Jake like a good soldier. I lost all faith in myself for weeks. If he could really believe that I did something like that, what chance would I have against a judge or a jury. Why should they believe me if the one person I told and needed to believe me, didn't?
Eventually, I managed to get over it, granted it was after Toni saying Adrian was irrelevant 99% of the time but I did. If anything I felt stronger. I faced him. I faced the person who assaulted me, manipulated me and abused me for months and I didn't die. I was scared, yes, but I did it and that made me feel something. Something I haven't felt since he took that away from me. I felt powerful, like I finally had the upper hand and that was its own kind of victory.
Now it's two months later and the house is ready for us to move back in to and Hayden is moving into his flat near his college and everything is getting back to normal. Not the normal where I didn't leave the house, the normal before then when I wasn't scared of being outside. My OCD is more under control then it has been since I could talk. I still take my sanitisers everywhere I go but I don't go through nearly as much as I use to.
So now I'm in Toni's room, packing up the stuff I brought over and have gained over the past two months.
"I'm going to miss you!" She sighs and flops onto her bed.
"T. I'm literally going to be thirty feet away in the house you can see from your window." I laugh as I run to the bathroom and grab my toothbrush.
"Yeah but you won't be here every night!" She exclaims causing me to laugh again. "Who will I talk to now that you and Hayden are leaving?"
"Your mum or your brother, your in the house with other people T." I chuckle.
"I'm not speaking to my brother." She adds sternly.
She's right. Since the incident two months ago, Toni hasn't spoken to Adrian unless it's to hurl insults at him on my behalf and as much as I don't condone that, it made me feel a little better knowing she believed me to the point she was furious at her own twin.
