PROLOGUE

Aanya's POV:

Fear.

Psychologically it is known as intense emotion awakened by some kind of imminent threat.

But there are different kinds of fear and it only has three kinds of response fight, flight or freeze, and what we chose to do is entirely upon the situation. My favourite thing said about fear is 'Fear does not stop death, it stops life' and right now I want it to stop, completely. But life doesn't go ever go the way we want.

My way of freezing in this situation; there is no crippling pain or fear that can make me run. I freeze when I realized that no matter how much I scream no one is going to hear me, no matter how much I scream they are not going to leave me alone.

I never thought my trauma of being raped will haunt me in my dreams rather than in life. Fear and Pain. That is a combination that cannot go together.

Emotionally based pain is an extremely aversive feeling which can be experienced as torment.

I never understood how girls who got raped felt. But one question was always there: Is it that traumatic that suicide is the only way to cope? It is a question with two answers. For me, yes because the way they left me thinking I am dead and speechless can make sure suicide is the only coping method.

But I am not speechless and I am certainly not dead.

"Help!!"