Autumn’s POV
You say you're gonna hurt me as a joke and I see that you realise it acts as a sort of psychological control. So I will respond as the soft everyday-cruelty it really was. My anger when you are selfish is justified, though I will work on responding with greater calmness. So don't joke that I'm a crazy woman, or that it's my 'time of the month,' or say you'll call the cops when I've done nothing to warrant that. "Jokes" such as those are the hallmarks of dysfunction and disrespect.
As she looks up into the a, she sees herself as a messy paintwork of colours, a fragmented reflection seeking to reform into something new, hopefully something beautiful again. His childish face, his mischievous grin, had been a brick dungeon, a place she had felt so unable to get out of, unable to
