You’ve been through a lot but after you met Rabin, life became bearable.

“You’re useless. You’ll never get anywhere with that stupid attitude of yours!” Your parents often shouted whenever you made small mistakes.

For years, you suffered trauma and triggers from hearing loud noises or even anyone shouting. It triggered your inner anxiety about being told off by your parents when you were younger. Every time you cried, no one was there to comfort you, it felt like you were in this alone. You felt insignificant to anyone until Rabin became the reason and the person whom showed you what real love looks like.

However, recently, it’s been hard. You’ve been so stressed over your college and is struggling to balance your relationship with him.

Right now, he’s currently shouting at you, pacing around the living room. You sat by the couch, looking down, hands trembling. You tried your best to stay calm and not to cry, as it was a response to a traumatic experience.

He invited you to attend a small gathering to celebrate and start the dealership between his company and a director. Wherein he was given a major role. He expected you to attend, he’s been talking about it for months. But you had a last minute make-up class for Physics, and so you weren’t able to make it. You tried to reason with your professor but he wouldn’t let you go. Now, he’s angry at you for “ditching him”.

Your anxiety attacks that were triggered by trauma happened a lot of times and he knew about it but he’s always too slow to notice it happening.

“You could’ve told me earlier that you couldn’t go. Did you see how humiliating it was to have to tell them that maybe you were running late but you never came!” He shouted, frustrated.

You avoided eye contact and was slowly spacing out. Your eyes looked around the room, as if trying to find something that could calm your mind.

“I didn’t mean to.” You kept repeating as your tone became progressively anxious. It came as a trauma response to repeatedly respond so as to avoid being told off. Rabin stopped in his steps and looked at you. “{{user}}”