A dialogue that is not what it seems.

Prompt: Write a dialogue that is not what it seems.

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“I know it, Robin, I just know it,” Nancy said. She stared into my eyes the way she did, begging me to see it.

“Now, listen here Nancy,” I said. “This isn’t the first time you’ve thought Adam was up to no good, and each time before, you turned out wrong.”

“Stop it! I know what I saw Robin, I’m not crazy!”

“I didn’t say you were crazy, dear.”

“No? But you think it don’t you?”

“Nancy-”

“You do! everyone does. The state of California does! My boys do!”

“Tom and Miles love you. I love you, that’s why I’m asking that you listen to me.”

“She’s planning on taking them away from me. She knows I saw them together, and she’s going to take them from me.”

“You and Adam are divorced Nancy.”

“Mary-Ann doesn’t know that, she doesn’t care. She’s been trying to take my life and family since I met her. I hate that trampy devil bitch!”

“Oh my, Nancy, you are getting excited over nothing. Adam is a single man, he can date who he chooses. And from what you’ve told me in the past, Mary-Ann seems a very wholesome girl.”

Nancy covered her face and cried into her hands. “She’s going to take them away Robin. She’s going to take my boys … ”

“Doctor,” Brian said from the doorway behind me. “I think we’re done for today.”

“No,” I said. “I think she needs-”

“-Doctor. Enough.”

Nancy shut us out then. She cried and shook her head. She mumbled curses to Adam, the hospital, Mary-Ann. I closed up my folder and stood. “I’ll never reach her,” I said. “Not with these ridiculous limitations. I know you don’t care about the girl. But If you want results, I need more access.”

“Doctor,” Brian said. “It’s time you left.”