Lost Memories

By Jean-Pierre Le Roux

An unconventional story of a therapist with a hidden secret and a patient that has a heartbreaking past. Everything starts to unravel when the lost memories start to come back. These two strangers has a lot more in common than they previously thought.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jean-Pierre Le Roux
• Release date: Jun 10, 2019

Jean-Pierre Le Roux

Young writer Jean-Pierre Le Roux travels the world while writing his books.

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Chapter 1: The Memory

The wet, cold air seeping through from underneath the door, peeling the heat from my skin. This is all I can remember.

As I sit on a stranger’s sofa years later trying to remember anything good from that time of my life, nothing seems to come to my mind, just the cold. Cold feelings, cold love, cold heart, cold life...just cold.

I look up from this memory and just to see my phycologist sitting there in judgment, not knowing the feelings I describe. She has only felt the feelings of books telling her how to react to patients. Never has she felt real pain, real danger, real fear. Mary is her name, trying to get me through this pain and anger.

She doesn't understand, nobody does. I find myself waking up in the night from a pathetic sleep lying on the cold tile ground because it's all I know. Gasping for air, sweat dripping from my face into my humid reflection on the tiles.

Mary keeps telling me to explain what I feel, how I feel it, wherein my body does this pain come from. It's like asking a cancer patient where does it hurt. I keep talking to myself and motivating myself to go through with the therapy but It is slowly coming back to me and I don't want to deal with it. He has brought me so much pain already, why can't he just leave!

Mary asked me yesterday if I remember anything yet? We have been doing a type of therapy that's supposed to bring back memories locked out by our brain to protect yourself.

I keep lying to her about them, telling her that it isn't working but I am starting to remember.

Should I tell her? Will it help me? Will bringing back that