"Okay, Mrs. Thompson, what seems to be your problem today?"
The curvy, blue eyed blonde heavily sighed, her huge boobs raising far out as it was like she took all the air in the room. Crossing one of her thick legs over the other, she answered, "My son hates his father, my husband, Daniel."
The therapist sat there, her eyebrow raising a little in confusion. She fixed her glasses on her face, staring at the tattooed woman in front of her. She asked, "Do you know of any reason why he would hate his father?"
Mrs. Thompson, or Rita, rather, folded her colorful, sleeve tattooed arms, and nodded her head. "I know exactly why, Marla. It's because he's jealous."
"Jealous of what?" Marla, Rita's psychiatrist for the past six years, inquired.
"Jealous that his father has me," Rita bluntly answered.
Being a psychiatrist, Marla's mind immediately began to overanalyze and overthink. It's what her job entailed, finding all the little details to discover the reasons for something. After a few moments, the slender brunette twirled her ink pen in her fingers and let her notepad rest on her lap. Finally, she hypothesized, "He's jealous of your husband because he has you, someone that he's in a relationship in and loves him deeply. Someone who he cares for and in return, shows that same care and affection back. Your son is jealous because he wishes he had that someone."
"No," Rita stated as she nervously ran her fingers through her very light blonde hair. "I mean, he's jealous of me. Like me, the person."
"I'm sorry?" Marla leaned in with a perplexed expression. "I don't know if I'm following."
"He does wish he had what my husband had," Rita did acknowledge as her eyes wandered to the side of the dimly lit, relaxing office. She then added, "But he doesn't want it with someone else. He wants it with me."
Marla stared at Rita, watching her patient's full lips intently so she could understand every word coming out of them. She wasn't quite understanding what the forty-eight-year-old was talking about and it was taking her a minute to try and get it. After some time to think, Marla's eyes widened when she seemingly came to a revelation, one she hoped she was wrong about. "Mrs. Thompson, I do believe I know what you're talking about, but I am wishing that it's an incorrect assumption."
"As much as I wish I could tell you to get your mind out of the gutter, I simply can't," Rita told her. Rubbing her chubby thighs with her hands, she breathed, "The reason I came to you today is because my son wants me."
"Rita, this is a very huge claim, and quite disturbing one at that, to make. What would make you think that?" Marla sputtered.
The blue jeans-wearing woman, who wore a black blouse and gray cardigan with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows along with a pair of black boots, fixed her eyes on her slightly older psychiatrist. She then began, "We can start with the hugging that lasts just a little too long."
"Now, I do remember you saying that a few years ago when he was in high school, he had a long phase where he completely closed you out," Marla recalled. She then explained to the 5'5 woman, "Seeing as to how he completely ignored you and never gave you anything physically, it could just be your mind and body adjusting to him finally giving it to you. Likewise, maybe he just really appreciates his mother and shows it through hugging."
"Okay, then why is it with every hug he gives, his hands seem to get just a little lower?" Rita mentioned. "He started at my shoulders, now they find themselves at my lower back. Not to mention the smelling."
"Smelling?" the 5'10 woman repeated.
Rita clarified, "He does this weird thing sometimes when he hugs me. I'll hear him sniff a few times and the hug gets a little tighter and he presses against me a little more."
"Maybe a comfort mechanism," Marla tried to defend against the outrageous claims. "Your scent could calm him or make him feel better."
"Alright, doctor. Since you think it's all innocent, then please explain this," Rita dared. "Why is it that one day, when him and I were talking, he randomly brought up the topic of relationships and said, 'When I get a girl, I want her to be just like you. Truth be told, I want my girl to be you."
"W...I me...Well..." Marla stuttered, trying to think of something to say to that.
Rita went on, "And why is it another time, a few weeks ago, I went in his room to check on him and he was laying on his bed, fully naked and clearly recently masturbated. He was asleep, had his phone in his hand with the screen on. It was a folder with a bunch of my pictures on it! Can you explain that?"
"Could've easily swiped or hit his screen a few times while he slept," Marla countered. She may have said it out loud, but she was in no way believing it. She just couldn't believe that it was true.
Rita then brought up, "There was also the time we were doing the dishes and he made the point to always rub a part of himself against me. There's als-"
"Alright! Alright! I get it. I was just hoping it wasn't true," Marla interjected and put her hand on her forehead. "Christ, how long has it been like this?"
"For like the last two years," Rita said before clarifying, "But it has really revved up over the last couple of months."
"Have you talked to Mr. Thompson about this?" Marla queried. "Have you tried getting Mr. Thompson to talk to his son?"
"No, not exactly something you talk on the phone about," Rita spoke. "And no because he wouldn't dare. He already has a disdain for his father, not even wanting to think about him, let alone be around him or say a word to him. It'd be even harder getting him to talk to him now that he's away."
Marla got a little intrigued hearing about the circumstances of Rita's husband. She asked, "Away? Away to where?"
"Ever since he got promoted a few months ago, he's been on business trips all across the country. He may come home for one or two days, but he's right off to somewhere else," Rita laid out with a heavy exhale.
Suddenly, the gears in Marla's head began turning. The hint of a smirk appeared on her face, but her patient didn't see it. Had she, she would've seen the maniacal grin and gotten a little uncomfortable. The psychiatrist moved her bang out of her brown eyes and questioned, "Do you miss him?"