Receipt
"Lena - really these socks are ghastly cheesy - pink, so from last year"
Colin had the light for this Sunday and the young man wanted to look more closely at the things that Helena had bought yesterday. Because the 18-year-old had told the other very clearly that they have to keep their eyes shut when shopping - through the annoyed tone of the teenage girl had happened and no one had said anything against what Helena bought would have. However, Colin had a little more fashion understanding than Helena or Brandon did.
"Besides, smileys on socks have not been in for two years"
Critically Colin took the pair of pink socks with yellow smileys in her hand and had not much desire to throw this fashionable bad buy in the trash can. Only Colin knew as well that Helena would kill him for it, or she would take her own chair and kill him at the very best opportunity.
"Why did not you ask Barry if he was doing anything? Surely he would not support such a bad buy," Colin muttered to himself, deciding to put the pink socks with yellow smileys back in the drawer of the closet ,
The 24-year-old had been keeping an eye on Barry since the first time Leslie had talked to him at the cafe. Barry was something special in Colin's eyes, the way he smiled, the way he spoke, and the sparkle of talking about fashion in those Blue Eyes, in which Colin could always lose himself. What a bad luck, but also that he had not had the opportunity to get to know the fashion lover in person. Of course, Colin hoped that would change that.
"How would Jason say, oh yes - with Merlin's beard, how can she buy something like that No - no, I can not accept that"
Colin slipped off his facial features as he spotted another thing Helena had found on her shopping trip yesterday.
And Colin did not mean the Joker DC T-Shirt or even Slyterin T-Shirt - no, it was something that absolutely did not work. A shirt with stripes.
"Oh, Lena - you know make stripes thick - and you certainly do not want to do this fashionable body - where is the receipt, I will personally go to the store tomorrow and give it back"
Colin picked up the striped shirt with his pointed finger as if it were a venomous rat that would bite him every second.
"How well I'm responsible for Naya's fashion skills and good looks - and I do not want to expose such a catastrophe to the poor girl"
Colin set about folding this fashion sin and then packing it in the bag of the shop where Helena had bought it. Now Colin only had to find the receipt.
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A very difficult project for the 24-year-old had to find after three quarters of an hour of searching for the receipt that Helena had thrown him away - how nice it was of her to keep that on a note on the fridge.
"Good, then I'll dispose of it myself - hopefully it will not rain," Colin mumbled, grabbing Naya's cell phone, house key, and bag and putting on a fashionably up-to-date jacket before leaving the apartment to bring the bag to go to the nearest clothes collection container and dispose of it - this horrible striped T-shirt.
"May other people take it easy - for Naya it's an absolute no-go"
Fifteen minutes later, Colin stood in front of the clothes container and was about to put the bag in the container when he heard footsteps and turned around to look at Barry's face.
"I'm so sorry what happened - Dennis saw it as necessary, no it was not really necessary at all - it was his turn on the light and I could not convince him to give me a few more minutes - wait a minute, you wear your hair differently than Helena and your jacket is out of the current Sasion "
Barry looked at the jacket fascinated and this little detail had only noticed him now - that it did not have to be Helena.
"Fucked - this jacket immediately caught my eye and - I was in shock-in love - sorry my manners should be better, I'm Colin," Colin introduced himself and gave Barry a short charming smile.
"Colin, what do you bring to the container?" Barry replied, giving Colin a friendly smile.
"Oh - a horrible bad buy by Helena," Colin reported with a grin and threw the bag now finally in the container to then turn his attention back to Barry can.
"Tell me more," Barry researched with interest.
"A shirt with stripes"
"An Absolute No Go"
"I thought so too"
"So you also like fashion?"
"That should not be a question but a statement - and you do not believe me, which Helena probably lost on purpose"
"What has she lost - do not tease me so much on the torture Colin"
"She simply threw the receipt away"
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"Why do we have to go to these sessions again? They are so boring"
Helena walked in with Barry and both were on their way to Dr. Forlet's practice. The teenager was anything but enthusiastic about the psychologist's weekly visits and would rather do other things - things that were more fun than sitting on a couch for an hour and talking about what happened - if she wanted to solve her problems, then Helena could just watch a Netflix series and forget the world around her - but no, she had to go to a psychologist so that Naya is in good hands.
"Dr. Fletcher helps us - to master our everyday lives and our problems Helena It is important that we talk to her," Barry said and held the 18-year-old the door to the house complex a few minutes later.
"We do not need Dr. Fletcher, we've found you, we can help each other with our problems - what do we need like a psychologist?" Helena replied, thinking it was a wonderful concept - Naya and Kevin both had DID and so they had found someone to talk to. So you did not need to visit .
"That would be quite a possibility - but Helena you do not know some of the others - they are not thrilled with the friendship we have," Barry replied and a slightly worried smile appeared on his face.
"Hello, how can not like me, I'm so great, you can party with me, drink and shop - the perfect combination of fun and action," Helena explained, and that sentence elicited an amused smile from Barry.
"You are a very joyous person, Helena, and many of us value that - but there are people who would not respond positively to you or anyone else of yours - because their views are different - bleaker," Barry replied.
Honestly the guy is crazy - I had to eat your two pop tarts - but you do not know any of us either, and let's make a big deal out of it - no, "Helena stopped on the stairs and crossed them Poor in front of her chest, she did not want to understand why Barry was so concerned that the friendship that had arisen between them in the last few days - should be something negative.
"No - not Dennis, I know he is weird but wants to protect us and Kevin - we did not meet some of you, that's true but we do not know if it fits in with the conversations, and I would be happy to meet the others Helena, "Barry assured and suddenly a mocking smile appeared on the 18-year-old's lips.
"Ah, I understand - Colin told me that you two, after this clothes throw thing very much - have talked a lot with each other - are there already sparks on the fly? Both fashion singers - singel - and Colin is not the ugliest of us," Helena said teasingly, remembering Colin telling her that he was beginning to feel something for Barry.
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The teenager could watch Barry cheeks turn red.
"Colin is a very nice person - why should I tell such a private person to a teenager with a big mouth?" Barry replied amused.
"Um, hello, because we're friends, until now, Felicia and Dennis got to know you - that's reason enough," Helena replied, briefly fumbling her cell phone out of her jacket pocket to see how much time she had left to sit with Dr. Fletcher had.
"Good argument, and we've had the honor to meet Jason, Brandon, Leslie, Colin, Naya, and you - there are two missing if I remember correctly," Barry said, and that was a point Helena did not could deny.
"We are a complex system - there is still missing Fynn and Liana - but they said that they want to come too - at some point at least," replied Helena and then leaned against the banister.
"I just want to protect you from the personalities - who may not want you to be good," Barry said, laying a soothing hand on Helena's shoulder.
"Sweet - do not worry about the Colin, who would instantly succumb you and take you here - but I know what it's like to care about the safety of others - there are not just good people - you do not need to protect us 'We know all too well Barry,' said Helena gravely. She knew it too well when one of the other - less well-disposed personalities took the light and put everyone else in danger that was not connected with good intentions.
"Okay, then I'll suggest the others after the session with Dr. Fletcher - ah of course Hedwig had asked me to give Naya a picture he had painted"
Barry pulled out of his shoulder bag a picture where in crooked letters Hedwig's name stood and a meadow with flowers was on it.
"Flowers - how creative," Helena said, and took the picture to stow it in her shoulder bag.
"Yeah he went to a lot of trouble - oh we have to go up now, Dr. Fletcher is definitely waiting - we'll write Hel after all?" Barry said and pulled Helena into a short hug again before going up to the apartment the psychologist left. Helena smiled briefly.
"You do not need to protect anyone who has to deal with the same bullshit problem as you do - but it's a nice touch," she mumbled thoughtfully.
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"What did you do in your spare time Helena?"
Dr. Fletcher sat opposite the 18-year-old and had spent the last half-hour of the session telling Helena how the last week had been for her and of course for the others. Helena had told her that Colin had thrown away a garment she had bought - because she did not like the fashion lover's claims. Dr. Fletcher had already met Colin and she liked the young man, who was not afraid to say his opinion. Nevertheless, Karen also wanted to know what exactly Helena had done in her spare time.
"Just normal teen things - you know, chilln and look at Netflix - do you know that once you've started a series and have such an addictive addiction factor - that you can not take a break while looking in? Happened to me and I was the next day - really bad mood, "Helena said and Karen watched the grin on her face, the bright sparkling eyes and the swift movement of her hand - in all the years Karen had been working as a psychologist - she knew exactly what signs people could have if she did either want to hide something or have experienced something that should not necessarily come to light.
For a moment, Karen wondered if Helena wants to cover up what traumatized Naya at the time. Because Karen had not even talked to that young woman about this one particular point. It was something completely private and mostly associated with emotional outbursts - Karen absolutely did not want to put Naya in a position that would mean chaos for her and the others. Many of her DID patients had told Karen that all the other identities wanted to protect the wounded - they did not want to send her through the pain tunnel again.
And that's why Karen wanted to take this step in peace and when the time came. But she had now recognized which of the personalities she had gotten to know - the dominant ones are - Leslie is one of these people, as Karen Helena should assess. After all, Helena was a teenager who was mostly in a good mood.
"Oh times are long gone for me Helena - but today's youth do not like Netflix, did you talk to Colin about why he threw away her garment?" Karen continued to investigate and was sure if Naya She wanted to open up to her or one of the other personalities would then open to her about Naya's past - if they feel ready for it. Her own time, where she had spent the nights around the ears - with things other than the youth today with Netflix.
"You still look young - of course, when my time was over in the light - I told Colin how unfair it is that he threw my shirt off and -"
Karen noticed how Helena stroked her upper arm with her right hand and her facial expression changed, she became a gentle smile, the expression in her eyes was different and Karen suspected that someone other than Helena had seized the light.
"That top was a fashion sin - I could not allow that - oh, Dr. Hazletcher, I did not want to interrupt the session with you and Helena - but I could not stop that," Colin said, and Karen thought it was, even after all the years still incredibly admirable as the personalities seemed to argue about the light or did not appear on schedule.
"They have the light, or Colin," Karen inquired, not resenting the young man.
"Yeah - well, it's unplannable, but Helena will understand - she's not supposed to act like that, the top is horrible and it was a must to have it disposed of," Colin said, grinning and relieved that it was not a problem for the psychologist, he seemed to have the light now.
"We all have different views and Leslie also thought it was horrible, she just did not say anything because - huh? I think it's more than fair, you've been after Helen and you have not talked to Dr Fletcher for a long time - yes, yes I ask her is okay - Dr. Fletcher Leslie is just asking if it's okay to take over the rest of the session? "Colin asked, and after Karin nodded, his expression changed again.
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"Children - you know how that is not doctor? But in this case I have to - forgive me Helena, Colin agree.I would not have chosen this top - it would not have in my fashion taste is different from that of Helena, but also different Colin's - but we also have completely different views on other issues - like a family - there is also rarely an opinion on various topics not? "said Leslie and Karen recognized in the woman again recognize the adults, the person the was responsible for the responsibility, almost like a mother and sometimes that could be something good.
"Helena seems to be somebody - bringing variety to everyday life, but it's nothing negative if you have different views - have some spare time before after this session - I'm just very curious," Karen said, giving Leslie a smile ,
"That's not a problem doctor - I'll probably have to go shopping - Jason and Liana have eaten all the cornflakes and the sweets - you must know I have a taste for chocolate with mint as a flavor," said Leslie and the shopping counted the tasks she had to do among other things - with changes from the others. But Leslie could live with that particular view - she was the only one who thought of fruits and vegetables - you had to try to find a healthy diet somewhere.