Chapter 6: The "Therapeutic-Cure"
Tricia and Jared where less than thrilled that today was again—the day for "The Meeting." Wow, how the last week had flown by. Tricia thought a lot about the Master's last words... about a "Therapeutic Cure" for their questions...it excited her and worried her all at the same time. She wondered what he would have to say tonight.
Jared finished his work and loaded up his tools, another week done he thought to himself. I wonder what will be said tonight at the meeting as people share? And what will the Master say about Tricia and her indecisiveness? What will this "Cure" he is thinking of be? Hope it's nothing too embarrassing...
In the car on the way Jared asked Tricia if she was nervous...
"You bet, aren't you? I mean how could I not be? I have no idea what he's gonna tell us to do."
"Well, I just hope he doesn't try to embarrass us in front of all the others, even if we can't see their faces in the dark, I still feel like we already know them pretty well, I mean it is pretty delicate stuff we've all been sharing with each other." Jared replied.
As they pulled into the parking lot they saw a gorgeous redhead under the lights, getting out of her car and a motorcycle pulling in right along side her...
"Hmmm...looks like someone enjoyed last week's stories...together after—I mean..." Jared remarked as he looked over in their direction.
"I knew someone would have to end up hooking up before all this was through." Tricia replied.
Tricia wondered to herself if either of them had told their stories in the group sessions yet, and if they had...which story was theirs? She sat dazing and thinking for a minute—trying to put one of them together with a story....
"What the hell are ya doing over there anyways? You waiting on an engraved invitation or are ya gonna get out of the car sometime this evening? I don't want to go in there and face any of this either. But that
IS
the whole reason why we're doing this...might as well bite the bullet and get it over with...." Jared sighed.
"Yes, of course...I was just trying to match one of them with one of the stories we'd already heard...that is one of the fun things about this whole deal...hell, it's the only fun thing about it!" Tricia smirked a little giggle.
"The sooner we go in the sooner we can come out—and go home and try to forget about all of it until the next time!" She continued.
"True, how very true..." Jared replied.
"Although I kinda like not forgetting about some of the others' stories...some of them are pretty great material for fantasizing about!" Jared added with that devilish little twinkle in his eye.
" You are such a perv!" Tricia chuckled.
"That's why I married you though!" She laughed and gave him her great sexy smile...the one that always drove him nuts.
At the doorway to the rundown studio they grabbed up their candles, lit them and threw their matchsticks into the metal holder left by the door.
Tricia sighed deeply as they entered the door...she was okay at the first meeting...but as she felt her stomach doing summersaults she knew she was NOT ready for this one!
After everyone was seated the Master approached to the middle of the circle and began to speak,
"Tonight we are going to hear more of your secrets, but we are also going to do something a little different towards the end...so hold onto your hats, and I encourage you to be sure to stay until the conclusion of tonight's meeting...you'll certainly miss a lot if you duck out early—"
Tricia wriggled in her seat and nervously flipped her hair from her shoulder as Jared tapped his feet back and forth first one and then the other...after 7 years of marriage they read each other's nervous habits like a book.