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today,” he says. A couple smiling and holding hands walk out as I walk in, his previous clients. Wow, couples’ counseling and they are smiling? Okay, maybe Dr. Evan isn’t a quack after all.
    The office is quiet as I follow him to the end of the hallway where his office is. He opens the door and gestures me to the chaise lounge, then goes to his desk to retrieve a notebook and pen. I see he has several files on his desk, and he closes one. It’s not like I can see it from here.
    “So, how was the first day of senior year?” he asks.
    “It was good. Typical, and a little bit of karma for a girl who needs it.”
    “How so? Why do you say this girl needs it?”
    I smile. I shouldn’t have opened with that. Counselors and their probing questions can’t just let a dog lie. “This girl, Coral. Well, she’s a bitch, and she’s Daniel’s ex-girlfriend. She’s nasty to everyone, sits on a high throne. She got knocked down a peg today with an accident. What’s interesting is I was thinking about this accident, and karma delivered it, so yeah universe!” I pump my arm and laugh.
    He leans forward, looking more serious than before. “So, you thought of what should happen, and it did?”
    Ice breaking playtime over.
    “Kinda.” I tuck my legs under so I’m sitting cross-legged on the chaise.
    “I just saw her hugging Daniel, and she was giving me this look… so I briefly thought ‘nosebleed.’ An innocuous thought, right?”
    “A nosebleed?”
    “Well, the way my friend described it, it wasn’t a simple nosebleed. She ran out of class, then ran into another person and fell, possibly chipped a tooth in the process.”
    Why was I feeling bad all of a sudden? I shook my head to clear it.
    “Coral had a rough day, by the sound of it.” Evan’s lips curve upward.
    I nod.
    “Tell me, were you happy about Coral’s accident? It’s interesting that you thought it and it happened.”
    Where is this going? “It’s a coincidence. Coral isn’t just mean to me and my friends. She and her crew are nasty to everyone. Everyone is beneath her. I hate that.”
    “It’s interesting that sometimes your coincidences are a trending thing. In Dr. Bauche’s notes, you wanted to hurt the boy who attacked you. You wanted to break his arm and throw him backward. It all happened, and then the fire was something you envisioned as well.”
    “No, no, that’s completely different. I was overwhelmed with adrenaline, and I was able to break free. I can’t help it that his arm broke. It was at a funny angle, I’m guessing the way I turned put pressure on it and broke it. The fire… that wasn’t me at all! There were trashcans around that were burning. I was in a bad part of town and it… there were homeless around. I think someone helped me.”
    “Why were you in Boston, Willow?”
    “I got turned around. We just moved to Chepstow, and I was there with Mrs. Scott shopping. We were going to meet up at this one store. I dunno, it was all just messed up.” I stammered.
    “Do you blame Mrs. Scott?”
    I untuck my legs and stand. “No! Why would you say that?”
    “She wasn’t there to help you when you needed her.” Dr. Evan stands up and places his notebook on the desk, then ushers me back to the chaise. “I’m simply curious as to your thoughts on this. How you ended up alone. How you ended up in that alley. How you got away relatively unharmed, but your attacker was hospitalized with multiple injuries.”
    “My thoughts? My thoughts?! I tell you what, that jackoff was telling the court he was trying to help me when I attacked him! He has a record of assault and molestation, and he was blackmailing my father with his lies.” I’m breathing faster. I know that if I don’t get control, the tears will fall.
    Breathe, Willow. Breathe.
    “I don’t want to get into this. It’s over. Why can’t the past be the past, and we just move onward?” I wrap my arms around myself and lean back into the chaise, closing my