How to act around the man you love- I have to do the protecting this time. The wait was long. I paced around the room, pulled on the rubber band on my wrist, counted all the lights in Soren’s office, even tried to count the ripples in the glass walls but still, it wasn’t enough. Nothing was enough. Time was ticking and all I had to do was sit in one place. It wasn’t working. My last attempt to keep myself busy was too pick up the glass prism on Soren’s desk and play with it. But before I could pick it, my body was overcome with foreign emotions. Extreme anxiety and panic. I falter backwards and hold my chest, dizzying immediately. It felt like I’d been punched in the insides, so much so that it f.orced blood into my mouth. And then the panic begins to feel like my own. ‘Soren?