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Triggering - The Devils Child *Trig SA, SI*
He follows me from the bus stop, as I speed up he quickens his pace. I look behind me to see if he's still there and walk straight into the arms of a burly man. "Got her", he whispers.
They laugh. Push. Push.
I try to scream but no sound leaves my mouth. I'm frozen, hurting, trapped.
"Mary? Mary?"
I feel a nudge on my shoulder and I'm back in my English classroom with my SL worker, Viv, staring at me, eyes gleaming with concern.
"Come on", She whispers gently, "Come on, lets go have a chat". I feel sweat seeping through my shirt as she pulls me from my chair and steers me out the room.
"You look so pale"
"No...Fine..", I try to force out a sentence but my throat is dry and I can't stop the shaking.
Viv wraps her arm around my waist and frogmarches me into our usual quiet interview room. She sits me carefully into a chair and then plants herself in the one opposite. I still hear laughing ringing throughout the room, I still feel his hands running up my leg as he approaches my...
.."Mary? are you okay? Do you want some water?"
The jerk back to the reality was too sharp and tears began to sting my eyes. I couldn't help as they fell, I just wanted someone to help me. To wrap me up safe in a blanket and tell me it was all a bad dream. Viv was the only adult I could trust and she was so clueless to what had happened just a matter of weeks ago.
"Hey hey sweetpea, what the tears for eh?", she cooed, reaching for a box of tissues behind her.
My chest erupted, I felt like my heart would jump out my mouth if I didn't say something soon and before I knew it a tiny voice from my lips ushered the words.
"I'm pregnant"
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