The Frenzy by Francesca Lia Block

Author:Francesca Lia Block
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Social Issues, Love & Romance, Love, Family, Dysfunctional families, Juvenile Fiction, Family problems, Fantasy & Magic, General, Family & Relationships, Young adult fiction, Supernatural, Identity (Philosophical concept), Shapeshifting, Adolescence, Fiction, Werewolves, Identity, Love stories
ISBN: 9780061926662
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-09-28T05:12:40+00:00

“Help” came the next day, in the form of an exam by the family doctor (proving I had not been molested or physically injured in any way and, luckily, not revealing anything else abnormal about me) and a visit to Dr. Nieberding. He fell back into the reclining chair as he always did, as if that motion and the sound it made signaled the beginning of his fifty-minute hour.

“So, Olivia, do you know why you are here this time?” he asked me.

“Liv,” I said. “It’s still Liv.”

“Do you know why you’re here, Liv?”

I shrugged and looked past him out the window, wanting to escape to the forest. There was a small tree in the courtyard of Nieberding’s building. I imagined that it was dreaming of the woods, too.

“Do you think that you might have some new issues that need to be addressed? Some things that you feel you can’t express at home?”

I picked at my cuticles. “Not really.”

“Your mother still feels that this condition of yours is affecting your self-esteem.”

I folded my arms in my lap to hide the hair.

“Would you say that is accurate?” he asked.

I needed sarcasm to keep him at a distance. What if he got me to reveal too much? “The hirsuteness? Because you can just come right out and say it.”

“She thinks you might have internalized it even more than before. She says some of your behavior has seemed almost … animalistic.”

What if they knew? They would never believe it but what if they knew something? “Like what?” I asked warily.

“She told me you didn’t come home last night. Until the morning. And without your clothes? You seemed to imitate some of the qualities of a … well, a wild animal.”

I tensed in my chair. “My mother has a tendency to exaggerate,” I said.

“You sound angry at your mother. Would you say that is accurate?”

I shrugged and looked at my shoes.

“Have you been taking your medication? Do you think this may have something to do with the behavior?”

I had to change the subject. “I’m angry. Yes. I stayed out once one night and my father hit me in the face. Then I stayed out again because of that and my mother decides I’m an animal and need treatment.”

“Your father hit you?”

“He has before.” Besides that last incident there was the time when I turned thirteen and my mother killed the wolf. When I came back from the woods my father smacked me hard across the mouth. But I didn’t mind it so much that time. I almost welcomed it as punishment for the thoughts I’d had about my mother. It didn’t make me mad or make me frenzy again; I only hung my head that time.

The doctor made a note on his pad. I resisted the impulse to snarl at him and lick my chops. He continued to ask me questions about my parents, my friends, starting school in the fall. I evaded everything. I was thinking about Corey and part of me wanted to

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