And then I got mad.
They didn’t want to be around me because of Flynn. And Flynn didn’t want to talk to me either. He had given me his friendship and then had taken it away. It didn’t matter that I had pulled away first. It was his fault I felt this way.
I hated him.
I grabbed the box of fireworks.
“You know, Freaky hates loud noises,” I mused, looking down at the colorful explosives.
“Yeah, so?” Stu asked.
I held up the box. “Wanna go make him wet himself?” I asked, grinning maliciously.
Stu laughed and Dania whooped. “Hell yeah!” she shouted.
We finished our beers before heading over to the Hendrick’s house.
It was time to prove that I wasn’t a freak lover.
That I hated him as much as everyone else did.
So why didn’t my heart believe me?
**
I didnotwant to go with Flynn to his therapy appointment.
I felt like stomping my foot and refusing to go.
When I was a kid, Julie would take me to counselor after counselor, hoping one of them would provide the magic fix to make me a happy and healthy little girl. I would be forced to sit in an office with a stranger staring at me as though I were under glass.
Some of them tried to play with me. Some of them asked tons of questions that I refused to answer.
Some of them had tried the tough love approach and went straight for the subject of my mother.
None of it had been successful.
I had come out of each and every session the same I had been before going in. Julie tried everything from play therapy to support groups. She had me evaluated and put on a meds. She was convinced I just needed the right combination of drugs and therapy to be all better.
But I would never allow my guard to drop long enough for any of it to work. Therapists and doctors had tried to get past my impenetrable wall but with no luck.
After a while Julie stopped making counseling a requirement on my service plan. And I swore I’d never walk into another shrink’s office ever again.
Yet here I was, getting ready to walk into the lion’s den all over again. Love made you do things you’d never consider doing on your own.
Fucking love.
I knew Flynn relied on his counselor for a lot. He used to talk about Kevin, his therapist in North Carolina, who he saw while he went to college. I knew that both Kevin and now Leonard worked with him on his social skills and how to react to stressors without losing his shit all over unsuspecting bystanders.
I saw firsthand that their efforts were working. Flynn, while still brutally honest, was learning that sometimes what he thought didn’t necessarily need to be said.
He was less likely to melt down over seemingly trivial things. His OCD was still obviously present but he was trying to be more flexible. Letting wash the clothes and sheets was a huge step for him.
But that didn’t mean that I was ready to sign up for my own head examination.
However, Flynn had asked me to come. I knew that being together required that I incorporate all facets of his life into mine. Otherwise we’d never work. I had just really hoped that wouldn’t include his therapy.
But we were too complicated. On our own, we were too problematic. And if Flynn was willing to go to New York, the least I could do was see his therapist and help him feel more comfortable with the plan.
