Session Three
SESSION THREE
DESERT FLOWER THERAPY
“This might be where it really begins. My story, I mean." I shift on the couch. "I know I said it was the fire, and technically it was. But some days I wonder if Gabriel was the fire. Because it honestly felt like after I met him, my entire world was engulfed in flames.”
“You had chemistry.” Dr. Ruben says it simply, but that one word cannot encompass all we had. All we were.
I trail a fingertip over my forearm. Even now, I feel it. That heat, just from talking about Gabriel. “It was like I came alive when I met him. Like I was asleep, and he woke me.”
Dr. Ruben frowns, disapproval in the parentheses formed on either side of his mouth.
I don’t ask why.
I know why.
He gestures for me to speak.