Kayla continued through the forest. She became weary from all the slicing she had done, clearing her path of shrubs and fighting off wild animals. Suddenly, Kayla came across a river. Kayla stopped with a sigh of relief. She saw a babbling brook. Kayla took a step back in fear after having a flashback of her being pulled out of a lake by her adopted parents, the Murphy’s.
The experience made Kayla become a hydrophobic at an early age. She remembered that during the summer, when the other kids went to the local swimming pool, Kayla stayed at home. Taking a shower was a different thing—yet sometimes the same nightmare ran through her head in the middle of her doing so! Kayla took another step back and looked around for an alternate route. Unfortunately, the stream stretched for miles in bot
