Laureen, to yet another knock on the door, which once again interrupted the thread of his argument, closing his eyes and sighed, considering that he had rented a studio in the clinic staff rather than continuing to use her sister's.
had become not only a requirement on the grounds that she had begun to practice, contrary to initial expectations, but needed a place to shut themselves up to study and evaluate the experiments on patients, writing reports without a patient every two to three Shawn, his secretary or his sister the same stop.
"Next," he murmured in a tone of resignation now, taking off his glasses and rubbing the bridge of the nose with thumb and forefinger.
Brian appeared at the door. A smile of fact, did not wait even a 'Sit down' that closed the door behind him and approached the desk.
Laureen smiled under his mustache, thinking perhaps to intimidate?
"Good morning to you too Brian."
The man looked at her and demanded only by a nod of the head if he could sit. Laureen raised the eyebrows, "No," replied with a nasty smile on his face that froze to Brian.
She shrugged: "We need to sit back and talk but you have not seen a word since you came in, I do not see why you should sit down," she ruled, the elbows desk, hands folded, quiet smile.
Brian looked down and could not suppress a chuckle, shaking his head. "Hi Lauren, sorry if I came without an appointment but I need to talk. I sit down? "
Laureen higher smiled:" Yes. "
Brian looked at her and sighed:" I was doing an important report and the fact that we are friends I do not think you authorize to pounce here without even calling, plus with that expression on his face, I am sure, intimidating relatives, friends and customers, but certainly not me, "she ruled first.
Brian looked at her with a smirk on his face. Admired strong people, encourage them.
"I'm not here to intimidate, I would not have reasons, and I know perfectly well that it would not be so simple undertaking, however," conceded the man.
"So you're not going to show disapproval of all you feel for what happened between Michael and Ben?"
Brian shrugged: "Can I have my ideas, but this does not mean that you are wrong. In addition there has to externalize thought Shawn and I saw how served: at the moment. So ... "
Laureen satisfied smile, nodding and staring into his eyes:" I like people who understand when to be silent. "
Brian merely bow his head to make ironic mo 'thank you.
"So you wanted to talk to me tell me," she granted without offering coffee or chats more comfortable on the couch.
"I Michael know. "
Dr. exploded into involuntary laughter stopped putting a hand over her mouth.
"I find this so funny?"
"Very," she agreed serious - "Do you think that Ben has come to ask the same thing and it is ; was quickly rebound. He is the companion to Michael. Give me one reason why I should talk to you. "
Brian felt a surge of anger that only knew the first time I spoke to the sister of the woman sitting at the same desk. Breathed in trying to keep calm.
"I do not care his confessions, let me know at what point is to understand how to act with him as it will be on vacation with us."
The woman nodded aware: "So we do not know to manage our best friend. How much do you destabilizes this? "
Brian and suggested a serious look deep and Laureen thought it would be a very difficult patient.
"If I tell you what I destabilizes then answer me or do we spend the morning playing 'I do something to you and you give something to me?'" Said the quiet man .
Laureen smiled a sigh from the nose: there was no way to it open, he knew. We had tried.
"The situation at the moment I would say that Michael is optimal. Certainly shaken, it may be sad sometimes, but otherwise not a precious Ming vase can be safely treated as an adult without the fear that goes to pieces. If this is what you wanted to know. "
" Yes, this is more or less, "conceded the man.
"As far as him and Ben and what they decided, what Michael has evaluated and everything else you think he has already talked about him, why is not mine to tell you."
"Yes, told me about it. I just wanted to know from you as ... "
" Working? "
Brian breathed a breath exhaled but not trapped in the lungs. handle it. It was the right word, yes. But only now sounded horrible to the ears. And Laureen
knew it perfectly, just for what he had used that exact word.
The woman leaned back: "It's not a problem child of three years, Brian. You a grown man fully capable of discernment. You have no need to 'manage', to the limit to be near him as a friend, not like driving blind. "Brian sucked his lip in the mouth and Laureen took advantage to continue:" I understand that the dynamics of your This is based on friendship and death of Hunter has been emphasized, but it's time to give us a break. Time to emancipate Michael. He is ready. Are you? "He asked with a deep look of defiance.
Brian looked at her blankly. He did not feel accused of anything, it was strange to find himself alone in front of someone who was telling the uncomfortable truth without mincing words. Only Justin, Shawn and Debbie we had managed over the years.
nodded and looked at her. Laureen smiled: "Good. First go to the home of your friend Emmett and not with you and Justin, "began the woman.
"I do not see why it can not be with us," Brian argued instead that he had already arranged everything for the poor Michael abandoned them under his roof.
"Now I'll explain with very simple words," she challenged him showing off a tone as if Brian was a patient in need of simple and delayed scanned:
"A) because your friend's house is his daughter and I feel nice that a fortnight with her, "Esposito fussy Laureen counting with their fingers the different motivations requested by Brian -" B) Why are you and Justin with your child, and Michael seems to me much more, in fact considered that all other friends are in the villa next door. C) Why do you still see every day and has no need of you close to me all the time. D) because it is high time you come into my head that is not your son Brian. Of children you have two, occupied them and still can not even save their suffering. You can not spare anyone. "
Brian looked down and swallowed heavily.
"I know that they all were, to put on a pedestal. Pedestal on which your pride basked. But it is time to fend, all. And you go down with us and start living your life as a man and not a hero. You have forty-two, almost sunset, it seems a bit 'anachronistic to continue to play the superhero. "
Brian, hit a nerve, raised a furious look on the woman who was unimpressed with the blink of an eye.
"anachronistic and counterproductive if you really want to know. For you and for them. He puts the world on his shoulders because you have the news, which would run even without you. If you were dead of cancer they would still be here, everyone. Safe and sound. And you'd be a reminder once a year and a flower left to dry until the next of your extended family does not pass in front of the cemetery and remember that maybe the tombstone Brian needs a fresh flower. "
Brian raised his eyebrows and nodded his smile of ironic and irritating.
"That sister was intelligent and insightful Shawn. I've seen it three times and you already know all the dynamics of my psyche. "
" Why you are a classic psychoanalysis, Brian, "she objected quiet.
"Really?" He asked, pretending to be hit.
"Really," she agreed - "Everybody likes to be adored. But it has a downside: it is just sitting on our beautiful throne, while others live we have to watch and, above all, you're never wrong. You are the pivot on which turn your friends, I've always been and it was useful in many ways. It was for Michael in his youth, it was definitely Justin, the mother of Gus. You honestly and genuinely helped all they are complacent. Let them go. Are adults. They're doing themselves. And if not, Brian's their business, not yours. Only Scarlett and Gus are none of your business. And to a certain point. "
" Why are you telling me this? "Brian asked in a tone of melancholy and Laureen smiled enter that armor was simple in the fund, perhaps because wanted to do it, we failed.
"The question, Brian, is that because you're listening to me?" he asked softly.
The man sighed deeply and raised his gaze on a woman who could not help but think, with lack of professionalism and a lot of humanity, it was fascinating.
She smiled, he smiled back.
"I let you finish your work with the insane."
"The DPM is not a psychosis, Brian," she pointed out incapable of not putting the dots on 'I'.
He shrugged, chuckling: "It's not a psychosis, but one who thinks he's twenty people so it will not be right!"
Laureen could not help but smile in return.
Brian stood up and held out his hand: "Happy Holidays."
"You too."
'Everybody's changing '- Keane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSNmgE6L8AU&feature=fvst
****
Brian ran his fingers to rub his tired eyes, trying in every way to close the receptor channels in the ears not to feel the rumble in the brain screams, shrieks and classifieds speaker wishes and complaints of his surroundings.
was sitting inside the gate where he awaited a flight to Los Angeles. In three-hour delay.
"Tired?" Asked Michael at his side.
Brian opened his eyes slowly, as he had awakened, and the view of airport patrons with their luggage, their snack nauseous, their chatter telephone, flip-flops, Bermuda shorts and t-shirts already ; the sweat provoked a sense of nausea.
'A little, "you replied trying to smile to his friend -" Children? "He asked back to present himself and looking around.
"With moms making the rounds of all duty free."
poisonous Brian sneered: "They've already done an hour ago and it is not a flight internationally, there is nothing free of charge, "took issue.
Michael looked at him and saw him tired and drawn, not to mention the fact that it was more testy than usual.
"The holidays always make you this effect," he asked trying to play down.
"Usually, yes," confirmed Brian stretching back in his chair in an attempt to stretch the muscles become sore after hours of waiting.
Michael nodded aware. He was sure that Brian the idea of spending two weeks in Malibu with the tribe in full force was not the first option in its list of preferences, and perhaps even the second. But he knew equally well that he and Justin would make life separate from the group, every now and then, taking advantage of their presence to leave Scarlett trusted people and go get their own way.
The problem was that Justin was not there. At the last moment had come the call from the Chicago Museum of Art: Justin was to appear the next day to discuss the procedures and timing for submission of painting to the museum, and there was no room for compromises. The only space was to give up work.
So he changed his reservation in Los Angeles to Chicago, where he would remain at least two days, if all went well, then would follow them. But doing a shot of the day, estimated Michael, including travel, stay and departure to reach them, the first week of vacation, Justin would have jumped at least four days.
"Same to you has happened to change destination at the last minute. Three years ago, even while you were already inside the gate, "pointed out Michael decided to break the silence that enveloped the conspiratorial discourse friend 'Justin commitments'.
Brian snorted through the nose gaze fixed straight ahead. "I have a headache, Justin has nothing to do."
"Yeah right," Michael smiled consciously.
"Mikey, why do not you reach your daughter and my false duty free? So contains the damage that they will be making sure the lesbians. "
Michael looked at the profile of his friend and shook his head: Laureen was soon to talk.
'Talk with Brian, do it to vent, you will also'
Easy! Brian was a wall on some topics on which Michael was always rebounded. And he was still going well! For Michael that wall was a simple rubber, no hurt. For anyone else had a concrete wall: schiantarcisi risked him.
"Are not you glad to see Scarlett?" attempted mess.
Brian raised his eyes to heaven and sighed: "Yes I am glad to see Scarlett. Now you want to finish to explore those you think are my concealed resentment? "
" Have not you? "
" No, "said Brian dry.
Michael looked down and did not insist. What the doctor said that he knew Brian for a lifetime, knew him better than anyone else. You should be patient and wait for him to speak if he wanted to do it. Insist only served to anger and make it close like a clam.
The friend knew better than anyone else at that moment that probably would have wanted to say 'How we ended up like this? You and I travel with our children and men around the world to lead their dicks? ' but he never told him.
And the reason was that it probably did not say even to himself.
"Ok," granted with a friendly smile - "I go to retrieve the crew."
Brian nodded. "The prof has arrived? How are you? "
Michael smiled closing his eyes here that was beginning to take care of him.
"All right, has arrived and is doing well. I heard it twice yesterday and he told me that he thinks will be an interesting experience, "he lied.
Brian nodded skeptical and tightening her arms around his chest, threw back his head and closed his eyes pretending to want to stay close to the speech.
Michael got up and went in search of friends and children lost in the airport stores in Pittsburgh.
was not true that he had heard twice. She had heard only on arrival and had chatted quickly saw the rate plan that covered an indecent phone call Pennsylvania / Cambodia.
they would feel using Skype later.
Then Ben had sent a text message saying she had settled, was still talking to Daphne to define the details of his job, the weather was terribly humid and he was tired because of jet lag that would have gone to rest. They would feel the arrival of Michael in Malibu.
sighed looking at the various shops that sell everything to anyone that shops had to take almost normal under counter: packs of cigarettes a thousand pieces, bottles of liquor in the shades legal limit does not exist in a chocolate shop normal.
Contrary to what he thought he felt almost serene idea the holiday. He spent fifteen days with Jenny, and all his friends. Ted and Emmett in front of everyone. Like when they were young. Indeed, no child had ever spent holidays together.
He knew that his friends would take care of him but in a discreet way, without even realizing it, perhaps. And he placed great expectations in the 'mission' of Ben. After all he was born to that life.
And if he decided not to return?
A shudder ran through the veins and the ice cream was just the sight of Jenny who ran encounter with a giant lollipop in his hand that prevented him to dwell on that cutting edge thinking and smiling at the girl.
'Hasta Manana' - Abba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft-nhTtvYvs
***
"Love, Dad will probably not responding because it is in flight," Justin inquired into the cordless house between ear and shoulder as she wandered in the kitchen preparing a sandwich.
The next day Lisa would go to the loft and would clean up from top to bottom, corner to corner, window to window, taking advantage of their absence fortnightly. It could also leave something around.
"Yes, the plane was late but my grandmother knows ... not going to take it because it comes in three hours and then rent a car for a dad Once there. So come alone ... ... ... Oh Scarlett, one of the baggage and the way until then it will take at least an hour ... ... ... I come from three or four days or three or ... ... ... four love, I know you say now ... ... ... "the mayonnaise jar slipped from his hands and went to implode on the floor, creating a blur of glasses and yellow sauce. Justin looked up at the sky "... ... I broke the jar of the majo ... ... are you laughing? "The boy smiled at the sound of the happy laughter of her daughter -" the love, now I have to go to get everything ready for my departure tomorrow ... we ... feel when dad comes, ok? Ok ... ... greets his grandmother. Kiss kiss! "
snorted Then looking at the jar on the ground: it did not take. Now he had to clean up everything and anything that stands between the frenzy of having to do 'something' and put in place, as annoyed Justin if the project were missed forever.
took three towels to untap and at once picked up glass and sauce and threw them in the trash, then took a rag from under the sink, it passed quickly under running water and lie down, washed good to the floor. It would have been an aura, he knew. But Lisa would have thought.
He now had a whole day and night to be reminded of something new, intriguing and fascinating to propose to the Chicago museum.
had arrived at three in the final selection for winning the contract for the space available at the museum was to be his.
waiving the right to a second straight sandwich and bit into the toast empty headed downstairs in the playroom for children.
He made sketches on the blackboard on the wall.
'Till I collapse' - Eminem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3oBZ4_TNys
***
"Benarrivato" Daphne smiled from the entrance of the small bungalow park Ben. The man sitting at the table with his hands over his eyes, he had to tighten the eyelid to focus on the figure of the girl, a silhouette against the light.
Daphne She got up and met him, embracing him.
"Thanks," Daphne Ben smiled and looked at him with a serene smile on his face - "I see you've already taken care of."
Ben raised his eyebrows skeptical: "Yes, more or less. But it's always so hot in here? "
The girl burst into a giggle their way to Ben's bed and sitting on the edge. She wore a tight green t-shirt, whose av neck hung a badge with his picture, name and title of 'pediatrician', a pair of khaki shorts, skinny legs and discovered that comfortable leather sandals.
"I think so. If you feel that eighty percent of the territory is used as a rice field and we are below sea level is practically breathes water instead of air, "joked trying to fathom the man's face.
really did not expect to agree, not so fast anyway. He had received the OK from Ben after just an hour he had sent the mail. It had been a bit 'dazed by the fact that he had informed early on that Michael was there.
Justin had written to ask how the situation was and the boy had explained to his knowledge, developments.
Ben nodded with his usual condescending smile but no comment.
Daphne sighed looking away and feeling embarrassed. He decided to throw the conversation about the purpose of the journey of Ben.
"When you're ready, the director of the education center is waiting for you to volunteer to discuss the details."
"Okay," Ben said placing of gray and brown shorts in the drawer of the cupboard that was rough near the entrance.
"Do you know where the center?" The girl asked.
"I'll find, I do not think this huge area."
Daphne took air through the nose slowly rising from his bed: "OK, so I'll leave you alone. See you around? "
Ben just nodded.
'We Are All Very Worried About You' - Fun Lovin 'Criminals
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