Trigger warning: This chapter has an image of self harm and suicide. Though we don't see the act itself, readers who may be sensitive to that kind of material may want to skip this chapter. Or you can just skip the paragraph starting with ‘As the world’ and then pick back up on the paragraph that starts with ‘the image around us shook.’
As the world reformed itself in front of my eyes I struggled to figure out where exactly I was and what I was looking at. Once I started to put it together, I realized it was my mind's way of saving me from seeing what I was in fact seeing. The flooring was brown and white tile. I was standing in the bathroom decorated in a kind of beach theme. The theming was subtle and none of the art on the walls was kitschy but it was still defined enough of a theme
