Page 63 of Together in Harmony
Now we are scratching our heads.
Harry has not returned, but he sent us a message saying he was taking Screech to the airport and putting him on a flight back to LA.
I hear the front door open and move into the hall, tense and ready.
It’s Waldo.
“Lennox,” he says. Then taking in the scene, he stops.
“Everything alright? Is she OK?”
I run a hand through my hair, completely at a loss.
“I honestly don't know, Waldo. She freaked out when she saw this guy in the studio. I don’t know what's wrong.”
Waldo strides into the room. He drops to his knees by the couch.
“Who did you see?” he asks Harmony. “You are safe here,” he tells her, echoing everything we have been saying.
Waldo turns to Hugo. “Who came to visit y’all?”
Hugo frowns. “What the fuck is it to you?”
“My family knows her family. There are things that you don’t know. She’s had a bad time.”
Someone gave my baby a bad time?
I am going to find out who that ‘someone’ is and fuck them up fuck, big time. I can’t believe Waldo knows more about her than us.
We should have tried harder to get her to open up.
“We know she’s estranged from her dad and brother. What has that to do with that douche Screech Towers being here? Why is she terrified of him?” I say.
Waldo grunts.
“Because that Screech person,” he looks at us all, “is her brother.
Waldo stands. "Now you look after her, I’ll feed the cat.”
HARMONY
Ihave to stop crying, and get my shit together. The guys are going to be freaking out.
But, why?
Of all the people in the world. Why Screech? Here, in my safe place.
He was standing there, completely relaxed. Laughing with Harry about something. Relaxed and comfortable inmyworld, in my space, with my guys.
The guys. They’ll think I have gone completely mad.
But how do I explain to them that my half-brother spent most of his life basically torturing me?
I don’t want to have to talk about it, explain everything, but I know I have to.
What would Janet say?
Janet is the therapist Sheila and Patsy arranged for me to see in San Francisco.
