Anyway, Hank and Tracy, Tommy and Katie. Katie, who had always been second-best, the most pretty girl after Tracy, the most popular one after Tracy. When asked, everyone always said they thought Hank was cuter than Tommy, but everyone knew he wasn’t. Not that anyone cared right now. Captain and Head Cheerleader. The world was right.

“Sit down. So, did you go to see a therapist?” Tina didn’t try to conceal her question. She thought it’d be best if she just asked it at once. She was desperate for some honesty in her life.

Bette rubbed her neck and blushed. Somehow she felt like she was acting snobbish and ungrateful for not taking Tina’s advice. 

“Uhm… no, actually I haven’t. The thing is, you see, uhm, they’re far away and I don’t have my own car and my sister really needs hers for work and I can’t ask her to use it because I wouldn’t want her to know…”

Tina nodded. “I see. I understand if a therapist doesn’t quite… fit into your budget.”

Bette blushed even deeper, when possible. “Mildly put, yes.”

“You could talk to the school therapist.”

“I could.”

“But I take it that you don’t want to?”

Bette finally took Tina’s offer to sit down, just to have something to do. “The thing is, I don’t see how it would help me. For all these years, I thought my mother had died in a car accident caused by my father. I already blamed him for her death. Now I know that he really intended to kill her. I admit that it scares me that I’m not surprise, that I think he would be capable of doing this if his suspicions were true. But what is going to a therapist going to change about that? My mother will still be dead, my father will still be a murdered. I didn’t like him before and I certainly don’t right now. My only dilemma is, do I keep it to myself or do I have to tell the police? How could a psychiatrist help me with that? Because, you know, I never liked Melvin Porter, but he’s still my dad. Can I turn my own father in? Doesn’t it just say he’s right – I’m not his daughter? Can I put my own father behind bars, the man who after all made me?”