She asked me more questions about my daily life, what I liked, what I thought of this or that, even colors and shapes. I saw her fill pages and pages of her notebook. In the end, after two more sessions, she told my parents that I had a delusional disorder, a mixed type, but she felt I might outgrow it. She thought regular therapy sessions with her over time would quicken my recovery.
My mother wasn’t as enthusiastic about it as my father was, but I told them I didn’t mind seeing Irma now and then.
“I might even be able to help her more than she can help me,” I said.
My mother gasped and brought her right hand to the base of her throat, something she always did when she was a little shocked or surprised. “Why do you say that?” she asked. She looked at my father, and they both waited for my response.
“She has tiny black dots in her eyes,” I explained. “She’s going to do something very bad someday if no one helps her.”
“How would she know something like that?” my father asked my mother.
She shook her head. “No. Obviously, she’s not going to do Sage any good,” she concluded. “This is going nowhere, and it might even take her in the wrong direction altogether.”
Eventually, things settled down enough for them to stop sending me to Irma anyway, but I felt bad for her. A year later, she drank too much at a party and hit a woman and a man crossing the street at night. The woman died, and Irma was charged with vehicular manslaughter. My father was the one who read about it and remembered what I had predicted.
“Did you ever tell anyone about Irma Loman?” my father asked me. “About what you thought would happen to her?”
“No. I didn’t tell anyone anything about her at all, not even that I had seen her.”
“Thank heavens for that,” my mother said. “Finally, at least this once, anyway, you listened to us.” She looked relieved.
But by then, it was too late for lots of reasons.
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