[ If she doesn't answer -- and she doesn't, doesn't even lift her thumb like she's considering how to phrase the responses at all -- it's not that she's not answering. It's not even that she's refusing.
It's that he really will be here soon enough.
And he really will bring her water and aspirin even if she doesn't.
And it still hurts. More than her head does. More than waking up without pants is annoying. And embarrassing. And stupid. Childish. She can hear the therapist voice in her head, not that she's telling her this -- How does that make you feel? and Do you think that was a wise choice? and What other ways could you have handled this?
And she just lays her phone on her chest and studies the ornate, inlaid ceiling, waiting for Luther. ]
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It's that he really will be here soon enough.
And he really will bring her water and aspirin even if she doesn't.
And it still hurts. More than her head does. More than waking up without pants is annoying. And embarrassing. And stupid. Childish. She can hear the therapist voice in her head, not that she's telling her this -- How does that make you feel? and Do you think that was a wise choice? and What other ways could you have handled this?
And she just lays her phone on her chest and studies the ornate, inlaid ceiling, waiting for Luther. ]