Lie Still by David Farris

Author:David Farris [Farris, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-04-30T05:00:00+00:00

LIE STILL

201

I sat silently. I knew dodging to be a virtual admission, but better than an outright declaration.

“Other drugs? What . . . marijuana? Opiates? Pills?”

I sat quietly, trying to convince myself the obvious logic of the greater issues would prevail.

“Cocaine?”

Still, I sat quietly.

“You will not answer whether or not there was cocaine involved in your relationship.”

Every movement I made, every blink, swallow, glance, weight shift, or roll of a finger hurt. I felt like crying. I said only, “No.”

“Then, were there or were there not drugs used between you two?”

A long pause. “I think,” I said as calmly as I could, “I am entitled to withhold certain answers.”

The nerd said, “Well, I think we have an answer.”

Another pause. “Your urine test was entirely clean,” Dr.

Montoya said. She was apparently the ever-compassionate doctor, giving me a bit more rope that I might not hang myself.

I only nodded, pointlessly clinging to the strategic notion of seeming to know all along that it would be. Another pause.

“How could you satisfy us,” said Dr. Kerlin, “that you have never used drugs?”

“Well, Doctor”—I took a deep breath—“no disrespect intended, but I could no more prove that than you could prove you’ve never molested small boys.”

He snorted, “That is outrageous.”

“I mean, sir, in a purely logical way of looking at it, it’s awfully hard to prove you’ve never done something.”

“Have you ever used drugs?” asked Dr. Nerdly.

“If I smoked a joint in college, would that bother you?”

“Did you?”

“Does it matter?”

“Yes. I want to know if you smoke marijuana. I want to know if you ever did.”

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