Starting with A Divorce by Gloria Warren

Chapter 86 Chaotic Perception

After Ainsley came out of the bedroom, she found that Manuel had already left. There were breakfasts for two on the dining table.

After Ainsley washed up, she finished her breakfast and applied burn cream to herself. Serina was still asleep.

Just as Ainsley was thinking about Serina’s condition, she received an unfamiliar call.

“Hello? Hello?” Ainsley asked doubtfully.

A chuckle came from the other side of the line, followed by Mollie’s voice. “You can’t recognize my voice so quickly? After yesterday’s Quiz Show, I didn’t have time to ask about your condition. How is your leg now?”

“Thanks, Mollie. It doesn’t hurt too much now, but it’s still red and swollen. I just finished applying the burn cream. Are you going back

soon?”

Ainsley remembered that Mollie only stayed here for seven days, and today was exactly the seventh day.

“Yes, tonight’s flight. I have a meeting over there in the early morning.”

“So fast?” Ainsley was a little surprised.

Mollie smiled and said, “There’s no other way. There are many other things to do after I return to America. I have met many excellent psychologists in Seattle. They provide ideas that are worth a try.”

“Mollie!” Ainsley checked the time. “Are you free now?”

Mollie was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, “I am currently at Harborview Medical Center. I will be free after the meeting here

is over. What’s wrong?”

“Serina… She is not well now. I want to talk to you.”

Ainsley felt that Serina’s current condition was a little tricky.

“Okay, how about this? The meeting will end at around three o’clock. There will be an hour free later.”

“Thank you.”

After hanging up the phone, Ainsley noticed that Serina had woken up. Serina was standing behind her,

staring at her blankly.

“Serina, you’re awake?” Ainsley was not sure how much Serina had heard from the conversation just

now.

But what surprised her was that Serina just walked to her side and sat obediently next to her. Serina

started to eat and did not answer

her.

“Serina?” Ainsley called out worriedly.

“Ainsley, have they all left?” Serina looked around in horror.

Ainsley was stunned and replied, “They have all left.”

“Ainsley, let’s hold on for a little longer. Manuel will come and save us. Don’t let them hurt you.” Serina

stared at Ainsley’s injured leg with bloodshot eyes.

Only now did Ainsley feel that something was really wrong.

Ainsley looked at Serina carefully. “Serina, who are they? Right now, there is no one around us. There

are only the two of us. Tell me

quietly. No one will hear us.”

But Serina just shook her head. “No, I can’t say it! I can’t say it!”

Her voice grew louder and louder. It seemed that she would gradually lose her mind. Ainsley quickly

consoled her, “It’s fine. Let’s not talk about it. Serina, just have your breakfast. I won’t be hurt.”

Serina finally calmed down and continued to eat the sandwich in her hand. However, she was still

fearfully staring around, as if a few

monsters would pounce on her at any time.

What made Ainsley very glad was that at least now, Serina had always been very obedient and was not

as crazy as yesterday.

It was almost three in the afternoon. Ainsley took Serina to Harborview Medical Center. Mollie had just

finished the meeting, so the three of them casually found a coffee shop near the Medical Center.

Mollie’s assistant waited outside the private room. In the private room, a waiter brought three cups of

coffee.

Serina nervously pinched the corner of Ainsley’s clothes and kept her head down, looking at the coffee

on the table.

Mollie looked at Serina curiously. She knew that Serena was sick. She had never seen Serina acting like

this. After all, when Manuel asked her to treat Serina, Serina had always been in a stable state. Mollie

hadn’t met such a condition.

Now, Serina no longer had the domineering and lively manner she had when they met yesterday. It had

only been a day, but there had been such a big change.

“Have you thought about what stimulated her?” Mollie said in a very low voice.

Ainsley looked at Serina worriedly. “Yesterday, when she saw my scalded leg at my house, she became

like this. Yesterday, she was more agitated than now. She was afraid of everything she saw. In the end, it

took me a lot of effort to let her sleep.”

“I think I know. Serina should have had some trauma in the past. Now, all the reactions are trauma stress

disorder. Maybe the psychological factors are deeper. Serina was stimulated before, so now she is stuck

in the environment after being simulated again, and it is difficult to come out.” Mollie thought for a

moment and said.

But this was not the question that Ainsley was puzzled about. “If she is stuck in the environment at that

time, it makes sense that she is very afraid of everything unfamiliar to her. Even when facing her brother,

she is a little afraid. But she shows a kind of unconditional trust and dependence on me, and I have not

known her for long.”

What Ainsley wanted to express was that Serina should not trust and rely on her so much.

Mollie frowned slightly and said thoughtfully, “I think you have been too immersed in what kind of trauma Serina suffered at that time, but in fact, for everyone who has a psychological illness, the symptoms are different. Their perception of time and space is also

confused.”

Ainsley was suddenly enlightened, “I know what you mean.”

These few days, Ainsley had been tangled up in this problem, but she had forgotten that for people with psychological problems, the time they were in was different from the time they stayed in their minds, and their perception would also be chaotic.

Serina only subconsciously trusted and relied on Ainsley. In the state when her mind operated in chaos, she might force herself to mix people showing up at different times together, and now Ainsley, who she relied on, was also pulled to that time.

“But I think that with her serious condition, maybe the treatment time will be longer. My advice is to take herbal tea and psychological intervention at the same time, which also includes occasional channeling stimulation. Try to make her understand that she is safe

and bring her out.”

“I will.”

Mollie glanced at the back of her hand. “I saw that you were limping just now. I’ll send you back later.”

Ainsley nodded. She looked worriedly at Serina, who was focusing on her coffee cup, constantly adding sugar with a spoon in her

hand.

“Serina, it will be too sweet for you to put so much sugar.”

However, Serina did not listen to Ainsley. She continued to stubbornly hold the sugar spoon by spoon. Her hands began to tremble. The sugar cubes were sprinkled everywhere by her.

“Serina?” Ainsley was nervous.

Ainsley did not tell Manuel that she brought Serina out this time, nor did she take her pocket watch.

Mollie was also a little nervous. She tried to lower her voice as much as possible and said to Serina, “Serina, it is safe now Nothing

will happen…”

As Mollie’s voice became more and more gentle, Serina’s hand gradually stabilized. She threw the spoon to the side fiercely. “Ainsley! There are bad people! It is not safe. Someone wants to kill us!”