Michelle Freeman- The Drinking Therapist.
Thursday Morning
Miriam Davies smiled at the bottom of the stairs as she wrapped her arms around the soft waist of Michelle Freeman and gently kissed her on the lips. She quickly released her hold and took a step back and ran her tongue along her lips and smiled. "Oh babes, how naughty, the Malibu mouth wash again this morning!" She winked and ran her hand through her dark hair and tidied her ponytail with her green fluffy hairband. Sook a deep breath of air and licked her lips again of the sweet Malibu.
"Guilty as charged babes." She saluted, "but honestly babes it was just a very small one!" She happily grinned.
Miriam shook her head, paused, and then tucked her equally dark hair behind her ears, "Don't go too quickly today babes as ever it's a long one, as such you better get yourself ready...okay babes?" She smiled and patted and affectionately squeezed her on her pert black dress skirt covered bottom.
"I'm on it!" Michelle replied as she wiggled her backside with emphasis and disappeared through the door into her office as the doorbell went. With a preparatory deep breath Miriam opened the door to the front door of their building.
"Welcome, you must be Tina Bailey?" Miriam offered her hand to the slim mousey brown-haired women, "and you must be Catlin?" She smiled as the identikit looking but teenage daughter. "Please don't be scared, we are all going to have fun, please come in follow me and please make yourself comfortable in my office. I will introduce you to my par...colleague Michelle in a moment."
She turned and pushed open the white door into her little office, the walls were white, the floor was red tiled and there was a grey filing cabinet with an unloved practically dying houseplant, kettle, and kitchen roll on top, all behind the pine wood desk which had a black phone and papers scatter on it, "Take a seat." She stated and pointed to the two black chairs opposite her desk. "I would and should offer you a tea or a coffee but ultimately that would be pointless exercise as the real drinking of the proper stuff will start shortly." She grinned as she made herself comfortable in her office chair, running her fingers through her hair again, and adjusting her white blouse as Tina and Catlin sat down nervously looking at each other.
"For our risk assessment and to determine the drinking plan, can you introduce yourself and let us know why you have taken our services?"
"Err well I Tina have been too protective of my daughter Caitlin for far too long."
"Right?"
"Well, she is off to university next month and I have never allowed her to drink alcohol."
"And?"
"Well..." She looked at Catlin and then back to Miriam, "...she will want to drink not being under my control and like 5 years late, I don't want her to be a lightweight date and yes I could get her drunk at home, but that is completely different environment, and I am not sure I could!" She smiled nervously and bit the corner of her bottom lip, as concern crossed her face.
Miriam rubbed her hands together and leaned forward on to the desk.
"Not a problem, my partner Michelle is an expert, and I call her professional drinker, what I still recommend after our phone call last week is our Beer to Spirit and Back programme. Over the next few weeks, you come in and for a two-hour session and you have a drink and play some games with Michelle, and soon enough you will be learning your limits and you go can in our environment safely learn to go beyond your limits so in the future you will know how to behave when drunk?"
Catlin looked at Miriam as she nervously nodded and then turned her head back to Tina. "Are you sure mum?"
Miriam smiled confidently and interrupted. "The room is totally safe, for example we have removed any sharp edges for when you predictably stumble and fall over you shouldn't hurt yourself. From this point of view and for your safety we record all sessions and delete them as long as expected everything is just drunkenly fun. Along these lines I will need you both to sign these forms to accept that we are going to provide alcohol to you both as adults and that you have paid for the alcohol upfront and that that we accept no liability for any liquid damage to clothing or if unfortunate any broken body parts through the activity of enjoying plenty of said alcohol." She finally breathed whilst offered the pen to Tina and with a quick glance at Catlin she signed the bottom of the document without reading it and then handed the pen to her daughter and with a disbelieving shake of the head signed too.
With the pen resting on the papers Miriam pulled out the card machine from the desk draw and tapped in the numbers and Tina put the card in the machine and almost grimaced as she tapped her four-digit pin in.
"Excellent, it's all gone through!" Miriam triumphantly and over the top way announced as the machine printed out the receipt. "I know it's only eleven in the morning but it's a Thursday, the sun is out, it's warm, you are more than welcome to go over to Michelle's office for a celebratory first beer?"
Tina nervously nodded "Come on, you ready? Let's do this."
Caitlin nodded back nervously.
Miriam picked up her phone and rubbed her lips together waiting for it to be picked up before saying "Hey Babes, all good!" and swiftly put the phone down again a few seconds later the door behind them opened as dark haired, rosy cheeked, wide hipped and bottomed Michelle Freeman appeared "Good morning you two." She smiled her cheery face. "If you would like to both, come with me and take seat, first just follow the white line to the two chairs?" She asked held the door open as the two women flowed through the door into the other side. As Catlin and Tina looked at each other shrugged their shoulders and easily followed the line to the desk.
The room was a mirror image of the opposite office, large rectangular room, with red tiled floored space and there was a white gaffer taped straight line down the middle from the door to the pine wood desk in one corner a comfortable chair behind it and two hard chairs with green fluffy towels on top in front. Against the back wall there was a long counter with a radio CD player on top and white fridge whining underneath, and in the end wall there was a white door through in the small wet room toilet.
"Please make yourself comfortable on the towels, I don't expect you will use them today. As my mission for this morning is not to get you legless, but to give you the first enjoyment of the delightful buzz that alcohol will give you. I understand you have signed up to the full programme. The rather enjoyable state that comes from pushing your limits to see what we can and can't achieve will come at later date. Please take a seat and I will get you the first drinks." Michelle stated as she walked over hips and buttocks jiggling with every step as she made her way to the fridge. She opened the door and bought out three bottles of Corona. She shook her head and bent back down and got a lime out and a knife from a draw under the counter and walked back to her desk her stocking covered legs swishing as she walked. She opened the draw of her desk and brought out a chopping board and cut the lime in to six wedges and then reached back into the draw and got the bottle opener out.
She handed the bottle and the bottle opener to Caitlin.
"Your first job is to open the beers." She grinned as Caitlin looked as if it was a trick.
She initially fumbled with the bottle opener before easily popping open the bottles, Michelle offered the chopping board and asked her to push the lime in the top.
"So, this bottled lager is not too strong, and when drunk with the obligatory lime, really does make it taste rather nice, it is a great summer beer." Michelle stated as she took the opened bottle back.
Caitlin took a gulp and winced, "Oh the lime is sweet but ugh."
"Great! Keep going!" Michelle said picking up the bottle and taking a gulp herself.
