Love After Pain by Torrie Robles

Author:Torrie Robles [Robles, Torrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Torrie Robles
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

25

David

SEVEN MONTHS

You would think after five months of coming to this office that I wouldn’t feel the looks of judgment from the staff or other patients as I wait in the lobby. I’m sure they wonder what I’m being seen for. If I have some sort of personality disorder or addiction. Last week I had a woman pull her daughter towards her as I stepped out of the office. Like I was some whack job that was going to hurt her girl. People can be so judgey. So quick to point fingers, sometimes, we as humans suck. “David, she can see you now.” I hear the receptionist say from her windowed office. Did I tell you the windows are bulletproof. Yeah, the staff needs to be behind plate glass windows for their own protection.

I open the door from the waiting room to the hall where Dr. Bernstein’s office is located. Of course the receptionist has to buzz me in because they need that type of security dealing with the patients they see here. I guess I should feel good since they no longer escort me back like I can’t be trusted to walk down a freakin’ hallway without making trouble. I knock on her office door, just because I’m polite like that. “Come in, David.” I enter and see her sitting in her chair, with her tablet resting on her lap. “You don’t have to knock, David, I’m expecting you.”

“Yeah, well I’m surprised you don’t have a buzzer installed on your personal office so you have the liberty to buzz those who you want in and keep those out who you want out.”

“Well, someone is in a mood today. I haven’t seen you this foul and sour since your first visit. What’s got your panties in a twist?”

The relationship with the good Dr. Bernstein and I has evolved over the months. She seems more relaxed around me, but still professional. She doesn’t allow me to spew my bullshit and I often wonder if she’s getting advice from Olivia on how to handle me. Because that woman knows how to deal with this David McAllister.

“Nothing really. Just life I guess. Don’t you ever get tired of dealing with people’s problems? Don’t you get tired of having patients drone on and on about crap they just can’t get or work through?”

“Are you excluded from these people? Because please, correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you one of those people who drone on and on to me?”

“Exactly. Don’t you ever want to tell me, ‘Jesus David, just get your shit together and move on.’”

“I do. I do want to tell you that all the time. But if I did that then I would be out of a job and there would be several people who would feel like they don’t know what to do with themselves.”

“I’m tired of the looks. I’m tired of seeing your patients in the waiting area staring at me, trying to figure out why I’m here. I feel like I should wear a sign that says, ‘I’m not crazy, my wife died.

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