Ch. 23 – We are... Locked in Therapy
Elsewhere, in the San Fernando Mental Rehab. "Tamara, tell me when did these delusions began." Tammy sits in a chair, with a pillow snuggled up to her lap. She looks at the doctor, with a nasty look.
"I am not delusional. Frankie Gaines is a robot. No one believes me."
"Tamara this not the first time, you have been admitted here for abnormal behaviors. When you were taking the Adderall, you were not sleeping. Staying awake for days can take a hazardous toll on your mind and body. And when you started acting differently your friends and family had to hold an intervention. I am not hear to judge you or shame you. I am here to get to the bottom of what is making you act out in this way. Is it something mentally, or just stress."
"I do not want to be here. I just want to go to school, and be with my friends. But, they will not even talk to me. I am the reason they got kicked out of Brain Squad. If I had just left Frankie alone, I would still be at school."
"Tell me why, is this Frankie such a cause of Anguish for you?"
"She came out of nowhere, and she was so much smarter than me. And the boy that I liked is always paying attention to her."
"What makes you think that she is a robot?"
"Her literally malfunctioning in front of me. She came up to me, and start saying the same thing over and over again. And she never ate in front of anybody, but then she started to. I went to her house, and her family was acting weird, they would not let me go in her room."
"Tamara, you have the idea in your head that Frankie is a robot, so you apply anything she does, to fit with your beliefs."
"Because she is. And when my 72 voluntary hold is up, I will expose her. I will show everyone that under her skin is a robot." Her psychiatrist writes something else down in her notebook.
"Thank you Tamara. Your session is over. You may return to your room." Tammy leaves, knowing that her parents will come and get her in a few hours.
The psychiatrist puts down her notebook, and it reads "Tamara still shows increased belief in fantasies. If she leaves the rehab she has threatened to harm the object of her obsession. I believe that she should be placed under involuntary hold."
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We Are Androids (Frankie Gaines & Andrew LaPierre)
RomanceI thought I was one of kind. The first android in the world, but I am not. He knows what is like to not be human, but not what is it to be cared for. Until he revealed himself to me. I will free him. I am Frankie. He is Andrew, and we are androids...
