Soulmates

Chapter 10

Professor Linda Peter-Grayson was expecting a lot of patients today, but Spencer Haynes wasn't one of them. Not that he was foreign to her office; she wished he was.

People who regularly tended to her office -most of them at least- needed extra care and more delicate approaches.

She was surprised, though. Spencer only showed up for his appointments. No surprise visits, or casual ones.

Seeing that he tried committing suicide earlier that week made her concerns about him double. She cared for him, really, like he's one of her children.

She welcomed him in, and waited for what he had to say. It wasn't at all about him, despite what she had in mind. Her suicide patients, as sad as the thought was, weren't usually bothered by other people's lives. Nor their own. Made sense considering suicide is about ending a life instead of making it.

"Jack and I have a common friend, a very dear mutual." Spencer struggled to say. She knew he was talking about his comatose roommate. They struggled with so many sessions that involved him. Spencer's believed he's the reason the guy is hurt and unconscious. "And he has a mutual friend with Jack. He's friends with his
best friend."

Linda wasn't new to these kinds of issues, and she definitely didn't like where Spencer was going.

"She says Jack is not alright. At all." He added.

"Not alright is a very wide spectrum I must say." Linda countered.

"He's seeing things," Those three words made the blood still in her veins. Nothing good ever comes of hallucinations.

"Seeing as in-"

"People." He breathed slowly, calming himself down. "He sees this person he believes is real. Jessy has seen him talk to someone isn't there. Her girlfriend saw him at the café having a coffee with someone who wasn't there. She said, and I quote: he looked like he lost his wits."

Then and there, Linda knew she had to see Jack.