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“Two years.”
“Drew…”
I hesitate. “Actually, technically, longer than that. Because I actually stopped our sessions because I had feelings for you, so…Two years and change, really.”
Dana is quiet. Her chest rises and falls with a nervous breath. I hope I haven’t ruined everything.
“Too tight?” I ask about the bracelet.
She shakes her head, curls wavering. “No. Perfect.”
I start to draw away, but she grabs my hand, pulls herself toward me and kisses my cheek softly.
“Thank you.” Her whisper causes goosebumps to break out all over my body. “You have no idea what you mean to me.”
“Dana–” I touch her cheek and pull away so we can look at each other. “You have no idea what you mean tome.”
Her eyes are full of love, but her lips are screwed tight together.
“What is it?” I ask.
“God, Drew. I’m scared.”
I chuckle. “Me too.”
“I don’t want to ruin this or hurt you or hurtme. Anyone.”
“I recall someone–”
“Ugh! Don’t use things I told you in counseling against me! It’s annoying!”
We both laugh.
“You’re a good teacher. A lot of it stuck. What can I say?” I say with a little shrug.
“I just don’t know if it’s fair. That I know so much about you. I’ve heard you express your deepest thoughts and fears to me in confidence.”
I smile. “That’s good! You know me so well–”
She shakes her head. “But, Drew. Some of those things scare me.”
My smile falls.
“And that’s not fair to you. For me to come into a romantic situation knowing all this about you and–”
“You don’t know everything about me, Dana,” I say abruptly.
Her eyebrows jump up.
“Like my dad. You don’t know about that.”
Dana nods slowly. “You don’t talk about it, that’s true.”
I swallow.
“You don’t have to. You don’t have to reveal everything to me in order to be…” Dana shakes her head. “You know, with everything with my mom, I’m just scared of people leaving me.”
Dana doesn’t know how I’ve been left too. She knows about my absent father. But she doesn’t know just the extent of how that impacted me. How he hurt me. I’ve never been able to tell her about it. And I’m not sure I can now that she’s expressing her fear of being left. After everything with her mother, I can’t imagine how hard it is to trust people. At least my dad had one foot out the door the whole time.
