Sinking

——by  Deerhapsody

Alan's cell phone rang.

     It was an alarm clock that showed him having an appointment with a woman named Nova at five o'clock in the afternoon.

     Linda didn't even make a fuss.

     In fact, she is not completely without trouble.

     She made trouble at least a dozen times, and every time Alan seemed to not hear the phone ringing, without explanation, blindly hugging her, cold tears flowed down her neck, along with Allen's mouth full of love.

     Let Linda's heart gradually sink to the bottom.

     What's more, in the first three times, Linda collapsed before Allen, pushed open the door and rushed out.

     She was hit by a car whizzing outside the door, and returned to this point in time.

     Later, Linda dodged the car, but was squeezed by the chaotic crowd from the crowded bridge and fell into the water and drowned.

     Or the ground suddenly collapsed.

     Or inexplicably encountered a fierce battle between police and bandits and was hit by a stray bullet.

     Even if she doesn't go out, the car outside can crash directly into her and crush her underneath.

     Even a healthy body can suddenly become ill.

     In other words, whoever the woman named Nova is, it doesn't matter anymore.

     There is no end to this hour.

     Take her to the unnamed fear of death again and again.

     Linda looked at everything around her that was originally familiar, and at this moment she only felt extremely unfamiliar.

     She pushed Alan away.

     "Enough," Linda tried to calm herself down, "that’s really enough. I don't care who she is anymore, let's get a divorce."

     Alan looked at Linda blankly: "Why? you know I love you and can't live without you."

     Linda closed her eyes.

     At that moment, she had an extremely strong intuition that, like every previous time, she was going to be trapped in the loop again.

     When Alan screamed, Linda didn't even open her eyes and calmly faced her death.

     The chandelier smashed on her head.

     Nova sat on the couch, looked at the man in front of her who was crying loudly with his eyes closed, and rubbed her temples irritably.

     "Alan."

     She put two fingers to her lips, and remembered that she couldn't smoke while hypnotizing, so she got up and opened the window, and took a deep breath before returning to her place.

     "If your wife knows that you are in such pain after her death, even in another world, you will not be able to feel at ease."

     That being said, but Nova was already planning to transfer this troublesome guy to another hypnotist.

   Nova doesn't know how many times Alan came, and she felt that not only was the treatment not progressing, but Alan was getting increasingly confused about the cause of the quarrel and how his wife died, sinking into it repeatedly.

     However, this process makes both the hypnotist and the patient increasingly painful.

     Nova was even thinking, if it doesn't work, let's change her job.

     Just thinking about it, Alan's cry weakened, but his voice became intermittent because of sobbing: "No, no, Linda is not dead yet. She won't leave me, and she loves me so much. Linda, don't sleep. Today is our wedding anniversary, and I have a surprise for you. ”

     Nova sighed deeply.

     "I say one, two, three, and then you'll wake up and come back to reality. One, two, three, open your eyes. ”

     The moment Alan opened his eyes, he wanted to reach out and hold something.

     Almost fell off the couch.

     "Linda,"

     He whispered, "Linda is gone. Why can't I get her back? ”

     Hypnosis can cure heart disease, but it cannot save the self-willing.

     Nova gritted her teeth, turned her face away, and tried to soften her words: "Next, I'm going to take a long vacation at least half a year. Do you want to think about ......"

     She didn't finish, because the corner of her eye caught Allen's shocked expression.

     "You mean, I won't see Linda for half a year, half a year?" Alan shuddered.

     The pressure that had been accumulating for so long destroyed Nova's sanity, and she even raised her voice a little louder: "Your wife has been dead for a long time!" ”

     Tears instantly filled Alan's face.

     He broke down completely, shouting "Linda is dead" as he got up and ran towards the window.

     By the time Nova reacted, Allen was gone.

     She doesn’t know if she heard a heavy object falling to the ground.

     The screams and the honking of the ambulance came back and forth, but it was as if they were being isolated from the consultation room, or just by Nova.

     A small square space, the air is stuffy, like Nova's heartbeat, totally silent.

     She’s going to be out of breath again.

     Nova seems to have seen a long, long time ago, when she was locked in the closet by her parents, and since then she has been afraid of the dark and small spaces.

     Hypnosis once saved her, so she also learned to save others.

     It's been a long, long time since I went back to that cramped closet.

     At this moment, is it going back again.

     Nova wanted to open a window.

     There was a knock on the door, and the assistant's briefing came into the consultation room: "Doctor Nova, it's five o'clock. The next patient, Alan, has arrived. ”