Seed by Ahlborn Ania

Author:Ahlborn, Ania [Ahlborn, Ania]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

Doctor Copeland’s oversized desk made Jack feel small. Even the chairs across from the desk, while comfortable, seemed huge. It seemed odd to Jack that a doctor who was supposed to make people feel better would choose to dwarf them first.

“So,” Copeland said, folding his hands on top of the varnished desktop. “Tell me what’s bothering you.”

Gilda had met with Copeland alone a few days before, and Jack could only imagine the horrors she had told him. For all he knew, she had recapped The Exorcist, after having replaced the movie characters with their own family, exchanging that fancy brick house with their dilapidated trailer. Jack lowered his chin and looked down his nose at the doctor as if sizing him up, looking for signs of what Copeland did and didn’t know.

“Is anything bothering you?” Copeland asked.

Jack held his silence. It was never smart to make the first move, in case you ended up giving yourself away.

Copeland frowned at this lack of participation, but he was prepared to fight. Leaning back in his squeaky chair, he folded his hands across the slope of his round belly and watched Jack with earnest curiosity.

“You aren’t going to talk to me?” he asked.

Nothing.

“Are you afraid of what you might say?”

Jack narrowed his eyes, thinking it would make him look harder, tougher; but all it did was give Copeland a non-verbal answer.

“Okay,” Copeland said. “You obviously don’t want to be here, but your mother won’t let either of us off the hook until we get some work done, so why don’t we cut to the chase? Tell me about the cat.”

Jack stiffened.

“You know the one,” Copeland said. “The cat you strung up in the front yard tree.”

Jack’s fingers dug into the cushion of that fancy chair. He imagined his nails biting into the fabric, boring holes into the upholstery.

“Did that cat bother you?”

Jack flinched.

“Had it wronged you in some way?”

It had hissed and run. For no reason.

“Jack?”

He felt his breath catch in his throat. He felt hot.

“Jack, are you with me right now?”

He was sure that at any moment he’d lose the ability to suck in air, that he’d forget how to breathe.

“I didn’t want to do it,” he spit out. “I didn’t know.”

Copeland peered at him, contemplating Jack’s revelation. Then he leaned forward and scribbled a note.

“That cat had it coming,” Jack whispered. “He had it coming.”

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