"Hey." Rey said to Josh as he walked thru the door.

"Hey, I thought you were going to therapy today?" Josh inquired.

"I am but my appointment isn't until two so I thought I could get some work done before I go." Rey said as he sat down at his desk.

"Ok, well." Josh started as he sat down. "Lets get to it."

Hours past and the duo still hadn't matched any couples. Josh could tell that Rey was distracted so he decided to step in.

"Hey, lets just call it a day." Josh said and stood up.

"What? Why?" Rey looked up at his best friend.

"Because, you are clearly distracted and nervous about meeting with the psychologist."

"Am I that readable?" Rey asked and Josh nodded. "Fine, we'll stop and I'll head over to the doctor's office early." Rey said and stood up.

"Good." Josh said as he grabbed the files. "I'll clean all of this up and you head over to meet with your shrink."

"Thanks, I'll see you tomorrow." Rey said as he grabbed his belonging and started to walk out of the door.

"And remember." Josh called out and Rey turned around and looked at him. "Just breath and come clean."

Rey chuckled. "Thanks." He said as he walked out of the door.

Josh quickly cleaned up the office and put away all of the files after Rey had left. Josh packed up all of his things and locked up the office. Josh pulled out his phone and dialed a number as he got into his car.

"This is Randy."

"Hey baby."

"Hey, what are you doing?" Randy asked.

"Nothing, I'm off for the rest of the day." Josh answered.

Randy smiled. "Do you want to do something?"

"Depends on what it is."

Randy smirked. "Meet me at my house in thirty minutes."

Josh hung up the phone and smiled. It was time to have some fun.


Rey walked into the therapist office and up to the reception desk.

"Um…excuse me." Rey said and the older woman looked up at him and smiled.

"You must be Dr. Gabriel's two o'clock." The woman said and Rey nodded.

"Yes ma'am."

"Hold on a second." The woman said and picked up the phone and pressed a button. "Yes, your two o'clock is here…OK bye." The lady hung up the phone and then looked up at Rey.

"You're a little early so the doctor is straightening up and then he'll call you back, have a seat until then." The woman explained and pointed to the brown chairs up against the opposite wall.

"Thanks." Rey said and walked over to the chairs and sat down.

Rey waited nervously in the chair. He had never seen a therapist, psychologist, or whatever you wanted to call them in his life. In his community, seeing a psychologist meant that you were insane and he was far from insane. Rey shock his head. This visit wouldn't be that bad. From what he had heard, this doctor was very nice and specialized in sex related topics. He would be able to help him. If he couldn't help him, then no one could.

"Rey." Rey looked up the man that was calling out his name. Rey assumed that he was his doctor even though he looked much younger than Rey. He wore black slacks and a white oxford shirt. His black square framed glass hung on his nose. His silver Rolex shone very brightly on his wrist. "Come on back." He finished.

Rey got up and walked through the door that the doctor was holding open for him. Rey walked into the office and looked around. It looked like the stereotypical psychologist office except the furniture wasn't black, it was white with blue stitching.

The doctor shut the door and turned to Rey. "Hi, you must be Mr. Mysterio."

"Yes but please call me Rey."

"Then call me Justin…please have seat on the couch." Justin motioned to the couch and Rey sat down. Justin sat across from him in a white and blue chair. He grabbed his notebook and pen.

"The furniture isn't black." Rey commented.

"Yeah. I don't use black in the office. Black is often associated with death so I use white, which is often associated with life, and blue, which is looked at as a calm color." Justin said as he flipped through the pages of his notebook. Once he had arrived at a blank page, he clicked is pen and looked up at Rey.

"So, why are you here today Rey?"

"Well…I don't like to beat around the bush so…I want to have sex with my boyfriend but I can't." Rey admitted honestly.

"Are you ashamed of your body? Do you have a physical disability unknown to him?" Justin asked as he wrote something down.

"No, nothing like that. It's more of a…mental handicap."

"OK." Justin said in understanding. "If you don't mind me asking, how far have you gone with your boyfriend?"

"I mean, we've…he's touched my manhood before but that's as far I can go. When he tries to put his mouth on me or touch my ass, I can't. I lose it." Rey admitted.

"Why do you think this is a mental handicap? Did something happen to you when you were younger?"

Rey nodded. "Yeah…when I was little, I was repeatedly…raped."

"And it affects you to this day." Justin commented.

"Yeah, it's just hard to trust people…with my body."

Justin nodded. "Was the person who rape you close to you?"

"Yeah, it was." Rey stops. "This stays in this office right?"

"I'm not allowed to tell anyone anything, unless you give me permission."

"Yeah well. It was my dad." Rey confessed. "I told my mother what happened and she didn't believe me." Rey shook his head. "She let it happen. These people are supposed to protect me and they ruined me."

"Ruin is a strong word." Justin commented.

"Well, that is what they did to me. I can't function normally in a relationship because of them."

"It seems like…the reason you can't have sex with your boyfriend is because you're still holding onto the memories and the past. You haven't made your peace with everything."

"Are you saying that I should forgive and forget?"

"I do know if you'll ever be able to truly forgive your parents, but you need to make peace with them and yourself before you can truly be one with your boyfriend. And don't ever forget. You'll need to remember this so this doesn't ever happen again to you or to someone close to you. You'll have to face your fears and confront your demons head on in order for you to feel confortable in your own skin." Justin explains.

"And if I don't?" Rey asked.

Justin took off his glasses and looked into Rey's eyes. "Then I don't think you'll ever be able to be intimate with anyone."

Rey sighed and fell back on the couch. He had a lot to thing about.


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