Chapter 4

Alex's POV

The next few days went by with failed pursuing of Regan to come to my home with me and it was weekend, I decided to meet my friend who landed in America a few days ago. We decided to meet in the cafe near my house so I just changed into tracksuit pants and a loose t-shirt, and headed to the place after interacting with my housemates.

" Guess what, only I am an early riser, huh" I sighed seeing no signs of my friend. I ordered a blue mountain with cherry pie for myself and a tea latte with a chocolate truffle pie for my friend.

" Listen actually my friend is running late, so I would like to wait a few minutes before receiving my order." I said to the waiter. He nodded and left me. After few minutes the idiot finally arrived, face hidden in mask, did I tell she is an idol? Probably didn't.

" Look who decided to show up finally!" I said with my arms open for her, she ran into them and swing me left to right.

" So sorry Al, there were paparazzi in the way, I swear" she said in the hug.

" Hmm.. okay forgiven" I said gesturing her to sit down, " your favorite, I already ordered " I said signaling the waiter to prepare our order.

" So how have you been, sista!" She squealed a bit.

" Oh dear, you know your crazy fans can recognize your voice right?" She laughed while I just shook my head.

" But on a serious note, wassup you sounded so stressed on call like there is a problem to your optimistic life, Miss Psychologist" I laughed hearing it.

" Well I know I can't hide it from you, so might as spill" she nodded her head and hummed.

" You see" I sighed and continued," I have been transferred to a new place, it's quite the same but there is this guy who is a bit peculiar," I told her while the waiter served us.

" Hmm, I see, must be special guy to have intrigued my beautiful bestie like thisss!!!" She teased me in a voice that almost gave me cringes.

" Yah!! Aria!!" I said and hit her shoulder.

" Okay okay I will stop, so tell me more" she said while laughing.

I told her everything regarding his history of the other hospital, how he became silent and how he was first happy but then sad about leaving the hospital to come to my place.

" Are you out of your mind, Al?" She shouted, " you are asking a mental patient to come to your damn house? What were you thinking!!"

" Calm down Aria, he is not harmful, he is traumatized, he needs help." I tried to calm my crazy idol looking at the people giving us weird glances.

" And how do you know he is harmless?" She questioned me with an eyebrow raised.

" His eyes tell me, all of his emotions, how he was in pain when I first saw him, how he wished to leave that place but something is stopping him." I said looking at nothing in particular but his face in my mind.

" You sound like someone in love, eh!" I rolled my eyes on her but she laughed," okay seriously, why is he different though I mean there must be something in his actions which might tell you"

I thought for a while then said," Hmm..the other day when I was about to leave the hospital"

*Flashback*

I was just about to close my office room after talking to a patient. I got to meet Regan in the morning then my whole day was busy, so I decided to check on him before leaving and moreover I bought a chocolate for Lara.

I made my way towards the patient dorm in which Regan and Lara both live, as I was about to open the lobby door, I heard some whispers from inside, it was the two persons I was about to meet.

" Regan you called me here for something, I am a good girl so I want to go to bed early, tell me what you want to say fast" Lara said with her childlike temperament.

Regan as always just stayed silent, put his hands in his pocket, took out some tokens and handed them to her.

" Wow! So many tokens, from these I can get Chocolate, TV and playing time, yayyyyy" she jumped a bit and then stopped, " can I really have these?" She asked him.

Regan just nodded his head without any expression on his face.

" Thank you so much Regan, you are so good" she said in delight, " by the way you know I saw you with doctor Alex today you both look so good together, like couples cute cute"

And I can't believe what I saw Regan had a little smile on his face!

" Oh yes you should smile like that then she will like you and you both will look more cute" she giggled while Regan stopped smiling.

I then decided to show up I made it look like I just came by making stomping sounds by my shoes and then opened the door.

" Ahh Lara and Regan, I was just coming to meet you both," I reached them and took out the

chocolate from my purse, " here I got this for you Lara"

" Wow! Is it my lucky day, look! Regan gave me these and now I have a chocolate" she said showing me the tokens.

" Really Regan gave them to you, did you thank him?" I said playing along not to get myself exposed.

" Thank you Regan, I will go to my room now bye Regan, bye doctor" she said and skipped back to her room.

I turned to Regan, he was just staring at me.

" Well I will again say , come with me, a lot of people wish to have a chance to be out of here why aren't you taking it?"

He just stayed silent.

I sighed and said again, " I am still not forcing you, but remember I am always here to help you" I said to him but he just looked in my eyes for a few seconds and went to his room.

*Flashback end*

"And so I think he is harmless, he is like kind and he gives off the vibes of a normal person, like he doesn't belong there" Aria nodded.

" When that day I said I am always here to help, his eyes showed some trust, maybe he needs time to build up his trust on me" I said again thinking.

" Hmm maybe he does have trust issue of course he would if he has those whatever you told disorder " Aria said sipping her coffee.

" Schizophrenia, delusion of persecution it is " I said feed up with my friends memory.

" Anyways you said he smiled when someone paired you both, what about that?" Aria again questioned.

" Hmm it's just Transference, it's good for my work anyways" I told her casually.

" But what if turns to counter transference what will you do then?" She said seriously this time but one thing about her is if she is serious she is joking and vice-versa.

" Seriously that was the only concept that you remembered out of all the things I told you about psychology right?" She tried to not burst into laughing.

"Still? In case what will you do?" She asked again.

" Maybe I will try not to let it affect my work with him while letting my feelings free" I said looking at my pie.

"Woah! Woah! You didn't say 'oh no it will not happen' or ' I won't let it happen' miss Alex do you already-"

" Yah! What is up with you, do I look like Google to you, stop with your questions!" I cut her off before she could say anything.

" Okay okay, just take a chill pill babe" she said finally shutting up.

The rest of the day went normally with us chilling together but one thing kept bothering me.

' what if I did fell for him ? '

But shaking it off I continued my day with my bestie.

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Schizophrenia:- personality disorder.

Delusion of persecution:- delusion that others are out to get you or plotting against you but it's not reality.

Transference:- extreme feeling of love or hate on the part of client towards the therapist.

Counter transference:- extreme feeling of love and hate from the part of therapist towards the client.

These are all psychological terms hope this helps ☝️