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Tina ca better, despite using up half the box of paper towels Breakfast had gone down okay I was hoping to get the catheter out again, but hadn’t asked about it due topresence in the room

"You look better," Tina said "These your parents?"

"Yes Moraround No need to bring up the suicide part

"It’s so nice toon the striped stockings "What do you do in your art therapy?"

"I just started today We’re drawing" Tina sat in Gavin’s empty chair "I’h a satchel and pulled out a clipboard "Do your parents rab a cup of coffee downstairs?"

My stouys in a bit, okay?"

Mo "Come on, Arthur Nice to meet you" She led Dad out of the room He looked back like I was about to be taken away or so Poor Dad

"I didn’t expect for you to be one of iven our shared history, the social worker -- shoot, I forgot her nalasses--"

"Sabrina," I said

She snapped her fingers "Yes, Sabrina I’ve learned too et more out of you than she did"

"I didn’t want to be sent to psych"

"I don’t think they’d do that The ward rarely has an eht keepYour case is open for possible mental health issues And you and I both know they are there They asked me to just chat with you, only because we are friends, but I can decide what to tell them I’m not a therapist and they know that All I’m supposed to do is say whether or not to enroll you in my therapy once you are up and about"

I felt wary I liked Tina, but now she was here officially And she already knew more than I would have liked I had assuered the white sheet on my lap "I told Gavin about the marijuana And the professor"

"So what did he do?"

"He had a secret of his own" My chest tightened, and I had to grip the rails to breathe, sucking in air

Tina leaned forward and squeezed my arm "Maybe we should do this another tih"

I shook ht toof how the therapy part affects the physical I feel so unqualified for this job"

I breathed in and out slowly until I had a handle on ht?"