Rafael settled fast in his new house. The cold man had done him a huge favor as the house had all the essentials needed. He was a good man after all it seemed. However, Rafael had a problem. He kept remembering that he had been advised to start therapy before he went insane. It was a disturbing thing. He couldn't afford to be crazy. To lose his memory and go haywire. It reminded him of his brother, Joey.
He had been born with a certain mental illness. This had been traumatizing for his mother and slowly she had fallen into depression because she was not strong enough. Remembering that, he felt guilty for not visiting him in the assylum he had grown in. Taking him there had been the doctor's advice so as to be able to save their mothers health. It had been a very hard time for him and his father. For months they had tried to go back to how they were living.Normally. If there is anything like that.
However, Joey had already made a permanent change in their lives. Their mother blamed her husbands family lineage. She kept saying that it was their fault for having members with mental illness. As a result, he distanced herself from her own family and did nothing but cry for her sick son and regretting a lot of things in her life. All this had ruined Rafael's family and he had fled from her always angry daddy and his mother. Not long after his escape from home,her mother had killed his father and attempted to kill herself too but she had been caught in time. She now served a lifetime jail in a different assylum. Termed as harm to the society never to be let out.
Rafael wanted nothing to do with assylums and mental illness and was ready to seek for help. A week later after looking for an odd job as a security guard in a hospital in Bordeaux, an incident happened one evening. A drunk woman was dropped by a taxi at the gate. The taxi left immediately, not ready to give an explanation about her. She was beautiful but Rafael was not one to take advantage of women. The woman clung to him like a bacteria and kept trying to kiss him multiple times but being stronger than her, he clasped her both hands together and managed to tame her. He then carried her to his security room at the gate.
She had fallen asleep luckily, and he went back to work. His shift was almost over and he planned to deal with her afterwards. When she was sobber and awake. How wrong he was. His shift ended and the lady had not yet woken up. He thought of leaving her there and not give a care but then he imagined what some men could do to her and thought otherwise. He had nothing to be afraid of anyway and so he carried her on his shoulder like a sack and walked home. Thank his stars, he leaved just three blocks from the hospital but still it was embarrassing. people looked at him as if he was a rapist.
In his house,he placed her on the couch and went to have a bath. It was late at night and he immediately slept on top of the bed. On top of the blanket. Shirtless with only his boxers on. He had forgotten that he was no longer alone. In the living room, the lady had just woken up and was having a painful headache. She sat up and seeing her surroundings immediately searched herself and phewks! All her clothes were intact.
The house smelt masculin and the decor screamed it too. The leather sofas were brown in color, the curtains grey and the carpet ,though feathery was ebony black. She stood up and walked to the water dispenser and drunk a glass of ice cold water. Next she needed to pee and she impulsively walked into the next room. She ran straight to the washroom and was relieved to find a toilet seat. This bathroom smells nice , I guess I will have a warm bath before I leave.
She had just finished her bath and wrapped herself in a towel and walked out humming happily. She threw her clothes at the bed and went to the wardrobe. It was full of male clothes, and she wondered, how come I've not seen anyone in the house by the way.? She walked slowly backwards and sat on something. She jumped up and was shocked to see a man's hand being pulled back. She followed it and was even more flustered to see a man groggily sitting down with her lacy bra on his face.
"Wtf..you should be sleeping and not walking around with my towel in my house.."he said annoying but at the same time eyeing her thighs.
"You..You were there the whole time?"
"Of course. It's my house....what did you expect?"
"Am before we get into an argument, which I hate, I'll apologize. I'm sorry and all I needed was a hot bath to refresh. I didn't mean to intrude into your room." as she spoke the end of the towel which she had tucked in the back, loosened. The towel was gradually falling. Rafael quickly stoood up throwing the lacy bra on the floor and ran to her side. He caught the falling towel mid air and accidentally touched her buttocks.
"Perv! How dare you shameless scumbag,"she screamed."Leave me alone . Get awy from me,"she said and no sooner had Rafael loosened his grip than the towel fell. She quickly pulled it up again and unfortunately she had couldn't cover her beautiful glowing body. Her hands fumbled with it and then embarrassed she sat on the bed facing him and cried.
Rafael walked to his wardrobe and grabbed a shirt and his tightest sweatpants which he thought would be at least her size and walked out. She was grateful for his kind act and quickly dressed up. She found him sitted on the couch she had slept on and sat next to him cross-legged.
"My name is Ariella. Do you mind if I know yours?
"Rafael Seydou." he answered and stood up to go back to the bedroom. trying to avoid small talk.
"Hey am a therapist in Charles Perrens hospital and you? Where do you work?" she asked. Why is she so nosy about my life? But wait she just said she's a therapist? I ;ll do anything to get some connections.
"Wait, you are a therapist?"
"Yeah.I just said that."
"I really hope you'll help' Iam desperate to find a therapist and now I have one in my house."
"You look sassy, open up handsome boy." she said.
"First, don't call me a boy. Two, I was advised by a doctor to start therapy sessions and now here you're just in front of me." he laughed, "I guess we should start. We know enough about each other."
"whoa..not so fast. You don't even know how much I charge."
"What if you do this first session for free or I pay with something else."
"I want something else and I'm the one asking for it. Deal."
"Okay. Tell me. Anything at your disposal."
"I want sex."
"What!"he couldn't believe his ears.