Sessions
All characters are fictional
Aspen pov
All my life I thought I was like every other kid, their parent giving them a puppy or TV on Christmas as well as relatives who treat them with gifts on birthdays. I'd find out later that was not my life, I don't even remember my childhood I get flashes of it and its not pretty, I thought everyone had blackouts every once in a while until they got worse when I was 17. I woke up in places I don't remember going to wearing clothing I'd never wear. I would have never known that my experience would be answered with 3 words. This is my story told from my perspective and the perspectives of my alters, as well as some friends along the way.
I wake up in the bathroom, in rip black jeans and a floral white top and bralet, I don't remember getting up or getting dressed or anything, I look at my phone it says it's 5:00 pm.
"What the actual fuck is going on?" I mumble to myself and grab my bag feeling a weird tired sensation, I stare at the floor, 'who am I?' Is the the last thing that comes to mind before everything is dark.
Kara pov
Continuing what Aspen was doing I grab our bag and my bracelet that was pink and gold and grab the others it's how our theripist tells who she's talking to in the session but Aspen thinks there just pretty bracelet not knowing the meaning that we are here.
I walk downstairs to see Aspen's mom and step dad.
"Hey pops, mom whats up?" I ask, there eyes atomadicly look at the bracelet as a cue who I was. "Kara? Right?"
"Correct, someones gonna have to drive me to the session this morning cause I feel Sal close and she's twelve so she doesn't drive too safely." I say as pops grabs his keys and I take a muffin off the table eating it in the car feeling Sam and Sal the closesed
Can I come out - Sam
No keep Sal in or at least try - Kara
Asshole - Sal
I roll my eyes at them as I hop in pop's car. The car ride is silent till we get to our theripist office.
I give pops a hug and head up to her office. When she sees me she looks for what bracelet it is.
"Hello Kara, I didn't expect to see you today." She says guiding me into her office.
"Yeah well I haven't been out too much since Aspen doesn't know that she has us."
"Would you be comfortable to start revealing yourself to her?" She asked the one question that I was debating on.
I fidget with my hands and say "Well I personally really want to but the others like Brian not so much." I say as she nods in response
"Well I won't push you. If you want to let her front." She says I nod and try and find a thing in the room than replicate disosiation. I start to drift back into the headspace pushing Aspen out.
Aspen pov
I wake up in my theripist office. "What the actual fuck is going on?!" I raise my voice asking my theripist she looks at me with pity in her eyes.
Hey Aspen - ???
"Who said that?" I ask kinda freaking out
"Aspen, that was Kara you have dissociative identity disorder, she's one of your alters along with a few others, that bracelet you have on is her's she was just talking with me."
"What?! You sound crazy! I'm not like that character from 'Glass', there murderers." I yell, I wanna just get up and leave but she seems serious.
"Its your body's response to a situation that would put you in danger, that movie did harm to the mental illness reputation, it's not true your not murders." She says looking me in the eyes "Try and talk to Kara." I do as said
Kara you there - I say
All ways been- Kara says, feeling more people around I ask Kara
Are there other people around-
Yep some are not comfortable yet introducing themselves yet, I'll introduce myself while we're here: I'm Kara I'm 17 like you, one of the three females in the system. - Kara
"That's wild, have you talked to any more of them?" I ask Mrs B smiles
"Yes many of them there all somewhat ok with me knowing there around like Kara she's very protective of you. I'm going to give you a paper with all the details of your disorder to look at later, but for right now, can you please let ask Kara to let Cody out?" She asks
Kara?-
Still here, whats up?- Kara
Can you push Cody to talk to Mrs B? -
I get that weird tired feel again and I don't black out I'm sitting on a couch with Kara, she has red hair, bright blue eyes and freckles scadering her pale completion completely diffrent then my dark brown hair, green eyes and tan skin.
"Wow that's crazy." I say she nods
"Yep we've been switching all day, it was Brian, me, Brian, you, me, then you and now Cody." She say her voice had a Irish actsent to it
"Where did you learn all this lingo you've been using?"
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Mrs B pov
I watch as the young 17 year old in front of me shift into a ball like posision on the coach infront of me, her head was down so looking at her knees and she fidgeted with her fingers.
She dug through her pocket for one of the bracelets, pulling out a blue and yellow one telling me that it was for sure Cody.
"Hello Cody, it's nice to see you. How are you?" I say making my voice very light. From what I've heard from Aspen's alters Cody holds most of the trauma memories from their childhood so he stays at age 9 till he feels like he can coop with them. Inside their headspace Sam says he has messy black hair and brown eyes, looks asian
"I'm f-fine." He says twisting the bracelet back and forth
"Are you ready to start school tomrrow?" I ask knowing monday school starts up again.
"No the loud noises hurt." He says, which makes sense his flashbacks would get triggered by the banging
"I'll call your school so if you get triggered out by something you can go to your school nurse, okay?" I ask he nods "can I go back now?" I nod and her eyes drop to the floor and stares for about 5 minutes before abruptly groaning in disappointment geting out a red and black bracelet and sitting cross legged rolling her eyes. It's Brian, he's one of the four protectors, and who switch most often. Kara says he's a muscular man in is late 40's but age slides but stays in either 30's and 40's tho, he has blonde hair the sides of his hair is shaved and the top is longish.
"Hello Brian, did you wanna come out or was that forced?" I asks
"Neither, I was the only one in the movie room cause Aspen is busy with Kara, which is really fuckin' annoying!" He says, apparently geting ahead of himself "fuckin' shit, sorry disosiating." I give them their time, as I'm waiting, Aspen's dad walks in.
"How is she?" He asks I get up
"Well Mr Brook I think we made major progress with Aspen she meet Kara, Brian and Cody." I say as Aspen shifts in her seat and looks around taking off the bracelet and swapping it for the blue and white one, then gets up and leaves
