“You McHughs areallalike. You come in and use people and ruin shit and do whatever you want. All you care about is yourselves.” She’s waving her arms around wildly as she talks. “Look at what you did to me,” she says, jabbing a finger into her own chest.
“WhatIdid to you?” I ask, though I immediately wish I hadn’t.
“Yes! We were best friends—you totally ditched me!”
“We weretwelve years old! Annie, my mom is missing. And I’m really upset. I just—I can’t do this now. I need to go.” I start to step around her, but she blocks my path.
“Well, my mom isfreaking out! So tell your dad to leave her the hell alone, the sloppy-haired fuck. Or maybeI’lltell him myself.” As she wobbles triumphantly away, she calls back, “Because maybe that’s what he needs, someone to make him back off—for good. I mean, look how well it worked with your mom.”
TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED SESSION
DR. EVELYN BAUER
SESSION #5
CLEO McHUGH:
Kyle has started sending customers to mess with me. He says I owe him two thousand dollars. That it cost him that much money when I stopped working for him, which isn’t true. And anyway, Kyle doesn’t care about money. He has so much already. The drugs, the dealing—it’s all a game to him, something to piss his parents off. His dad is a total monster.
EVELYN BAUER:
That sounds upsetting. But you seem pretty matter-of-fact about it.
