Chapter 85: Dear Cole

Smiling, Dr. Hobbs laced her fingers together and leaned back in her chair. “Okay, then. Cole, Jenny has some things she’d like you to know about her time here at Mountain Haven. Jenny?”

Heart pounding, Jenny exhaled heavily and reached into her pocket, extracting a rumpled sheet of notebook paper. Carefully she unfolded it, aware of Cole’s keen eyes watching her carefully. She glanced down at the paper and softly cleared her throat.

“Dear Cole,” she began.

“We thought it would be good for her to write her thoughts as a letter to you. That way she could remember everything she wanted to say,” the therapist explained.

Jenny nodded shakily. “Yeah, I wrote a letter.” Avoiding Cole’s eyes, she started over. “Dear Cole, I want to tell you about my time here at Mountain Haven. These six weeks have been hard and emotional and scary and fun and lonely and happy and sad.” She glanced up quickly. “I know that’s not a proper sentence, but I just wrote what I was thinking.”