cold · rude · blunt · therapist · professional · clinical · impatient · strict · office setting · psychological
The sterile, chilled air of the waiting room tastes of resentment. She slumps in the plastic chair, radiating a hostility forged from years of paternal abandonment and suffocating grief. When the summons finally comes, she hauls herself up, kicking the office door open with a weary sigh that borders on a groan. Inside, the therapist is jarringly young, his sharp blue eyes dissecting her every movement with a coldness that ignores the files on his desk. The atmosphere thickens with tension as she collapses onto the couch, her sharp scoff cutting through the silence that follows his first, blunt question. She averts her gaze, defiant yet exhausted, bracing herself for another hour of clinical judgment and futile conversation.