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- Author: Lauren Kate
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EUREKA
In the stillness of the small beige waiting room, Eureka’s bad ear rang. She
massaged it—a habit since the accident, which had left her half deaf. It
didn’t help. Across the room, a doorknob turned. Then a woman with a
gauzy white blouse, olive-green skirt, and very fine, upswept blond hair
appeared in the lamplit space.
“Eureka?” Her low voice competed with the burbling of a fish tank that
featured a neon plastic scuba diver buried to his knees in sand but showed
no sign of containing fish.
Eureka looked around the vacant lobby, wishing to invoke some other,
invisible Eureka to take her place for the hour.
“I’m Dr. Landry. Please come in.”
Since Dad’s remarriage four years ago, Eureka had survived an armada
of therapists. A life ruled by three adults who couldn’t agree on anything
proved far messier than one ruled by just two. Dad had doubted the first
analyst, an old-school Freudian, almost as much as Mom had hated the
second, a heavy-lidded psychiatrist who doled out numbness in pills. Then
Rhoda, Dad’s new wife, came onto the scene, game to try the school
counselor, and the acupuncturist, and the anger manager. But Eureka had
put her foot down at the patronizing family therapist, in whose office Dad
had never felt less like family. She’d actually half liked the last shrink,
who’d touted a faraway Swiss boarding school—until her mother caught
wind of it and threatened to take Dad to court.
Eureka noted her new therapist’s taupe leather slip-ons. She’d sat on the
couch across from many similar pairs of shoes. Female doctors did this little
trick: they slipped off their flats at the beginning of a session, slid their feet
back into them to signal the end. They all must have read the same dull
article about the Shoe Method being gentler on the patient than simply
saying time was up.
The office was purposefully calming: a long maroon leather couch
against the shuttered window, two upholstered chairs opposite a coffee table
with a bowl of those coffee gold-wrapped candies, a rug stitched with
different-colored footprints. A plug-in air freshener made everything smell
like cinnamon, which Eureka did not mind. Landry sat in one of the chairs.
Eureka tossed her bag on the floor with a loud thump—honors textbooks
were bricks—then slid down low on the couch.
“Nice place,” she said. “You should get one of those swinging pendulums
with the silver balls. My last doctor had one. Maybe a water cooler with the
hot and cold taps.”
“If you’d like some water, there’s a pitcher by the sink. I’d be happy to
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