Working Title - The Waterpark Mom - Days Go By

Days Go By

Counseling Session -  Vanessa’s Point of View – After Prom

What brings you here?

Thoughts about creatures hiding in caves makes me uncomfortable.  Does this mean a creature hides in me?  (Like what happened to my boyfriend?)  I'm not ready to talk about that yet.

What are you able to talk about?

I guess this started with boyfriends.  And the first real boyfriend.  He was like everybody and not like anybody I ever met.

We went from not knowing each other at all to being inseparable.  This transition from nothing to everything happened almost like a blur in a space of time so fast.  But this is the "me before."

Tell me about what the 'me before’ means?

He was supposed to meet my parents for dinner - never happened.  I left the house.  When I came back, dad saw bruises on my neck.

How did the bruises happen?

Can I talk about good times?  I remember a Waterpark, a boy I met at the Waterpark – we played all day. 

I used to have friends.

Tell me about your friends?

I have many friends.  All my friends were with me that night.  We were getting ready, hair, make-up, nail polish.  It was prom.

Did you have a fun time at prom?

No.  I don’t remember well what happens after I call Beast – Marianne gathers everyone to take a picture and there is snickering at the way she sounds the way she slurs her words when she’s had too much beer to drink and she acts like she’s my older sister in college and dad never left, and she’s never even been married – we’re just roommates.  I worry about stuff like this, but after I talk to Beast, the most I remember is how all the perfume in the room, (and there is this cloud – I emptied her bottle all over me, and the stink covers up the beer) and makes my eyes water.  My friends pose for Marianne with their dates.  Beast is there too with some gorgeous new girlfriend.  But he never really shows up.

What happens?

 I’m not ready to talk about it.