The next day, after finishing their online classes and eating lunch, the six of them strolled along the shore to check out the beach and watch the fishing boats catching fish in the designated zone connected to the city harbor. Gary invited the others to board his family's yacht and head out to sea. When Dennis passed by the villa from last night, he stopped for a moment and looked back, then continued walking while gripping his smartphone inside his shorts pocket.
He glanced at Daisy Number Seven walking beside him, then took his phone from his shorts pocket and began scrolling through articles about a mental illness called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)—a condition where a person has a primary personality and several other personalities with different thoughts, like other versions of themselves or alter egos. The cause is often rooted in severe, repetitive childhood trauma, such as physical and social abuse.
