Chapter Fifteen:
After that I left the place immediately, without saying a single word, lost in my thoughts, not knowing what to do or where to go. I felt as if the ground was no longer stable beneath my feet, as if everything around me had started to collapse slowly.
I found nothing in front of me except to run… to run without a clear goal, only escaping that feeling pressing on my chest like an iron fist.
I headed toward the bathrooms, the only place that seemed to me at that moment like a temporary refuge. I entered quickly and locked myself in one of the stalls, then sat on the toilet seat without awareness, as if my legs could no longer carry me. I could not hold myself any longer, so I started crying intensely, a cry I could not suppress, as if all the fear, anxiety, and brokennes
