Chapter 0500

Emma

I walk into Mia's office for yet another therapy session. Just like we always do, I first take off my shoes before sitting down.

"Hi Emma," Mia asks, smiling at me. Her smile, just like always, is inviting and warm. It makes you calm and relaxed.

"Hi Mia"

"Okay, you know what we have to do first, right?"

She asks and I nod my head.

I take a deep breath before closing my eyes. I sort through my thoughts. I don't hold onto them for long or dwell on them. Instead, I let them go without trying to dive into them.

I push out the thoughts about Calvin, Gunner, my brother, mom and Ava. I clear my head until there is nothing. Until my head is empty and I am at peace.

Once that's done, I open my eyes.

"Are you ready for us to begin?" Mia, who was watching me, asks.

I nod "Yes."

you are ready to get your life back together. How's

on her and let her question bounce in my head as I try lock down what I

have a branch here in the city and they were happy

been two years since I had a mental breakdown because of guilt and out of nowhere,

took the leap to call them and ask for my old job back, I expected them to turn me away and tell me to fuck off. I was surprised when my senior got excited

your life back?" Her

doing all this. He is

"What about him?"

mess now, can I?" I give her a sheepish smile. "I quit my job and moved with my mum while I was basically wasting away in my bedroom.

nods her head and then writes something in her note book before turning

but I am worried that you are using Gunner and Calvin as a bandaid. I am afraid that you are settling for them since you didn't end up with Rowan, given he was

would think this way about me and about my intentions to mend things with Calvin and

come out of my mouth. It opens and closes, but nothing. I lack the words to express what I feel

eyebrows, "I can see that I've offended you... That was my intention. Gunner may be too young to understand everything but if that's what I am thinking, then that's what Calvin will think too. Are you sure

same thing. Calvin and Ava are friends so he knows that she and Rowan are together. He knows Rowan chose Ava. What's to stop him from thinking that the

Mia. I am not doing this because I am settling but because I genuinely want forgiveness and a chance at redemption. I want

should

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