I have no idea what type of car Leah has, so I am going to guess.
Seth's Session
I heard the rumble of Leah's Ford Focus pull into my driveway, and I heard bickering between the two siblings.
"Why can't I see Edward?" asked Seth, coming in the door.
"Because I don't want to be in vampire territory more than I have to," said Leah.
I smiled as they walked in. "Hey guys," I said. "There is grape soda in the fridge, and Leah feel free to watch some TV in the living room."
Seth glared at his sister while he grabbed a soda, and walked into the therapy room.
"Everything okay?" I asked.
"He's being a baby," she said.
"I am not! Your prejudice!" yelled Seth.
"Isn't there a place where Edward and Jacob exchange Bella at the border?"
"Yeah," said Seth.
"Why don't Edward just drop Seth off there at say seven o'clock?"
"That is no time at all. I have to be here an hour!"
"Seth, take it or leave it."
"Fine," he said, crossing his arms and sitting down.
"I'll send Jacob," said Leah. "See ya."
Leah bounded out the door and got into her car. I wondered how she would do for her session in two days, but now was not the time to worry about that.
I went into the room where Seth was sitting, and grabbed my notebook.
"So Seth, how is your day?"
"Fine. Now that I get to spend time with Edward."
I smiled. "You value his friendship."
"Yeah. He is nice to me."
"So you saw me last week, and I asked you to take some papers to your mom and have her sign them, did you do that?"
"Yeah," he said, getting the papers out of his backpack. "They're a little wrinkled."
"Well, its good enough for government work," I said smiling at him. "Now did you read them? Did you understand these papers?"
"Same rules as in Group, but it's just me. You have to tell my mom if someone is getting hurt, but everything else is a secret."
"Basically, yeah. And if I decide that something needs to not be a secret I will tell you first, then your mom. Okay?"
"'Kay," he said.
"Alright last time you asked me if you were normal, and we decided the right question to ask is if you are healthy? Right?"
"Yep. It's normal to do drugs in high school, but its not healthy to do drugs in high school."
"Exactly."
"And we decided there are four areas of health that we need to focus on: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. And your assignment was to assess yourself in all of those areas and see if you were happy in those areas. So what did you come up with?"
"Well physically, I am good. I do great in PE. I can do just about anything I want. I am strong, fast, and healthy for my age."
"Excellent."
"Mental, we said that meant like school, logic, IQ and stuff right?"
"Yep."
"Well, I am getting straight A's and everything comes pretty easy. I am good at memorizing things, and then logic, I am good at figuring things out. I can solve problems faster than Leah."
"Okay good."
"The other two are weird."
"Okay let's talk about them. Emotional health, do you feel like you have a good handle on your emotions?"
"Do you mean do I like to get out of control?"
"Or do you think you bottle things up?"
Seth thought a minute, and shuffled his feet. "I tend to bottle things up."
"Do you think that's a good thing or a bad thing?"
He shrugged his shoulders.
"What do you do when you are really mad, or really upset?"
"I don't let myself feel this way. It's bad to get upset."
"Who said that?"
"Sam, Edward, Billy," he said.
"They all say its bad to be upset?"
"Yeah. Pretty much."
I am going to nip this in the bud right now. "Okay, Edward is not a werewolf, so he does not get to say what feelings are good and what are bad, because he doesn't experience feelings the way you do, okay. Now what did Billy and Sam say exactly?"
"Well, Billy said that we are powerful and we could turn very quickly so we have to be careful."
"Yeah, careful not robots. There are going to be things that get you upset, and there are going to be things that get you upset enough to phase. You have to make sure that you are in a safe place free of wandering eyes and humans. But that does not mean that you cannot get upset."
"Edward says that werewolves are monsters. I am going against my nature and being civilized that is why he likes me. He says I am pure."
I tried to keep my face neutral, but my eyes widened. Edward said something like that to a child, to a young werewolf who could not turn to his father for comfort. And this was said in the session so I can't rip his throat out.
"How did it make you feel when Edward said that?"
"It felt weird. I think he was trying to pay me a compliment but it felt like a challenge, like I have to keep it all together to be worthy. What if I fail? What if I do something that makes me unworthy or corrupts me, will I lose my friendship with Edward?"
"There are a couple of things that you can do. The first one is to tell Edward how that compliment made you feel, and see what his reaction is if you become 'less pure'. It is possible he was just saying that you have a good heart or something and it came out wrong. Another thing you can do, is you can ask Edward to not judge your thoughts and impulses because you have no control over these, and only judge your deliberate actions. You're not a bad person Seth, you would never hurt someone deliberately. The final thing you can do, is to not value Edwards opinion. This would be hard because it would break a strong bond that has been cultivated."
Seth thought for a minute, "I am going to do the first one and tell him how I felt. Edward is kind of a direct person, and if he thinks I can become less pure, I want to know now rather than later."
"Good. Keep me updated, and I will see you next time," I said.
