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Knocking twice on the grand white door, I waited in the cold with my hands stuffed in my pockets.
A couple moments later, the door swung open, and Misty stood with her hands on her hips, giving me that annoyed look. “You’re late.”
“I didn’t want to even fucking come.” I pulled a bag of weed out of my pocket and handed it to her. “Cut me some fucking slack—unless you want me to tell Aunt Linda about you turning to weed to deal with your family falling apart.”
She ripped the bag from me, growled, and let me into her house. After she had gone off to college to make something of herself, she had come back to Redwood for some stupid reason, but now, she lived on the good side of town, and I hated her more for it. Between her eight-room mansion, art collection, and shitty attitude, it ticked me the fuck off.
Once she closed the front door, she led me to the living room and gestured toward the couch. “You only have a half hour. I have another appointment at three p.m.” She sat in the chair opposite of the suede couch and pulled out a notebook. “Never thought you’d ask for therapy from me, but—”
“Don’t fucking push it, Misty.” I gritted my teeth. “And don’t mention this to anyone.”
For once, she dropped that annoyed expression from her face. “It’s against my ethics.”
I rolled my eyes. Ethics?
“Now, go on. I’m listening.”
Taking a hesitant seat on the couch, I dug my fingers into the soft material and stared at her for the longest time.
This was a mistake. I shouldn’t be here. I shouldn’t have called her yesterday. I should’ve left school with João and Kai.
“It’s hard,” Misty said, voice softer than it usually was with me, “opening up to someone. I mean, for you especially. You’ve never been one to talk about your feelings. We don’t have to talk about anything until you’re ready to.”
Just the thought of becoming like Dad sickened me to the point where I wanted to heave up lunch. But no matter how bad it was, I didn’t know if I’d ever be ready to talk about this. I was screwed the fuck up. Nothing could fix me.
