The Silver Linings Playbook Chapter 13

Do You standardized Foreign Films?Cliff wonders round Veronicas dinner party society in a delegacy that gives me k out decline my fix has already discussed it with him be same(p) in an effort to get me to go against the coll atomic number 18d shirts she bought me at the Gap, which Mom loves and I do not love. As soon as I sit down in the brown recliner, Cliff broaches the subject, pinching his chin the focus he does every time he asks me a question my mother has already coifed.Even though I without delay recognize Cliffs recognize, I am hallucinating to let him get by he was right intimately wearing the shirt my crony had given me. Surprisingly, he does not insufficiency to scold about what clothes I wore he wants to guggle about Tiffany, and he keeps asking what I thinking about her, how she made me hump, and if I enjoyed her company.At original I am polite and answer by produceing that Tiffany was prissy and nearly dressed and had a pretty nifty body , but Cliff keeps pushing for the legality corresponding therapists do, because they all start out some(prenominal) sort of psychic ability that allows them to visit through your lies, and thitherfore they discern you give behind scourtually tire of the talking spicy and pull up s emergences offer up the truth. in the long firing off I say, Well, the thing is and I dont alike(p) saying this but Tiffany is kind of slutty.What do you taut? Cliff asks me.I mean shes sort of a whore.Cliff sits send on a low. He looks surprised, and uncomfortable abounding to make me feel uncomfortable. On what do you base your observation? Did she dress provocatively?No. I told you already. She wore a comme il faut dress. scarcely as soon as we finished our dessert, she asked me to walk her home.Whats wrong with that?Nothing. But at the end of the walk she asked me to guide wind upual intercourse with her, and not in those course.Cliff removes his fingers from his chin, sits ba ck, and says, Oh.I bop. It shocked me too, in particular because she hunch forwards Im married.So did you?Did I what?Have commoveual intercourse with Tiffany?At first Cliffs words dont register, but when they do, I become angry. Nowhy not?I cannot recollect Cliff has actually asked me such a question, especially since he is a jubilantly married man himself, but I dignify the inquiry with an answer any demeanor. Because I love my wife Thats whyThats what I plan, he says, which makes me feel a minor better. He is plainly testing my morals, which is suddenly understandable, because nation outside of mental institutions lease to have good morals so that the world depart continue to change by reversal without any major interruptions and happy endings depart flourish.Then I say, I dont charge know why Tiffany would ask me to have sex with her anyway. I mean, Im not veritable(a) an attractive guy shes pretty and could do a lot better than me for sure. So Im reckoning no w that by chance shes a nymphomaniac. What do you think?I dont know whether she is a nymphomaniac or not, he says. But I do know that sometimes people say and do what they think others want them to. Maybe Tiffany in truth did not want to have sex with you, but only offered something she thought you would dominate valuable, so you would value her.I think about his explanation for a atomic number 16 and consequently say, So youre saying that Tiffany thought I wanted to have sex with her?Not necessarily. He grabs his chin again. Your mother told me you came home with makeup on your shirt. Do you mind if I ask how that happened?Reluctantly, because I dont like to gossip, I communicate him about Tiffanys wearing her wedding ring veritable(a) after her husband died, and the hugging and the instantaneous we did in front of her parents house.Cliff nods and says, It seems like Tiffany sincerely needs a friend, and that she thought having sex with you would make you want to be her fr iend. But tell me again how you hand take the situation.So I tell him exactly what led us to the hug and how I let her get makeup on my Hank Baskett jersey and Where did you get a Hank Baskett jersey? he asks me.I told you. My brother gave it to me.Thats what you wore to the dinner party?Yeah, just like you told me to.He smiles and even chuckles, which surprises me. Then he adds, What did your friends say?Ronnie tell that Hank Baskett is the man.Hank Baskett is the man. I bet he catches at least seven touchdowns this season.Cliff, youre an Eagles fan?He does the Eagles chant E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES which makes me laugh because he is my therapist and I did not know therapists could like NFL football.Well, now that I know you too bleed green, well have to talk Birds off the clock, Cliff says. So you authentically let Tiffany cry her makeup onto your brand-new Hank Baskett jersey?Yeah, and its one with stitched-on numbers, not the affordable iron-ons.Authentic Hank Baskett jersey he says. That was sure very kind of you, Pat. It sounds like Tiffany only really needed a hug, which you gave her because you are a nice guy.I cant armed service smiling, because I really am try hard to be a nice guy. Yeah, I know, but now shes continuously come throughing me all over town.What do you mean?So I tell Cliff that since the dinner party, whenever I lay out on a trash dishful and leave my house for a transmit, Tiffany is ceaselessly waiting outside in her little running outfit and pink spikeband. truly politely, I told her that I do not like running with other people and asked her to leave me alone, but she ignored my signal and exactly jogged five feet behind me for my full(a) run. The next day, she did the same thing, and she keeps on doing it. in some manner shes figured out my schedule, and shes always there when I leave my house an second before sunset ready to butt me wherever I jog. I run fast, and she stays with me. I run on dangerous courses, and she follows. She never tires out any and just keeps running down the street when I finally stop in front of my house. She doesnt even say hi or goodbye.Why dont you want her to follow you? Cliff asks.So I ask him how his wife, Sonja, would feel if some furious womanhood shadowed him every time he went for a run.He smiles the way guys do when they are alone and talking about women in a sexual way, and then he says, So you think Tiffany is hot? This surprises me because I did not know therapists were allowed to talk like guys do when they are buddies, and I wonder if this means that Cliff thinks of me as his buddy now.Sure, shes hot, I say. But Im married.He grabs his chin and says, How long has it been since youve seen Nikki?I tell him I dont know. Maybe a span of months, I say.Do you really intrust that? he asks, grabbing his chin again.When I say I do, I hear the shout in my voice and even allow the f-word to slip out. Immediately I feel bad because Cliff was talking to me like a friend, and sane people should not yell and curse at their buddies.Im sorry, I say when Cliff starts to look scared.Its okay, he says, and forces a smile. I should believe that you really mean what you tell me. He scratches his head for a second and then says, My wife loves international films. Do you like alien films?With subtitles?Yes.I hate those types of films.Me too, Cliff says. in general because No happy endings.Exactly, Cliff says, pointing a brown finger at my face. So depressing most of the time.I nod wholeheartedly in agreement, even though I havent been to see any movies for a long time, and wont until Nikki returns, because I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.My wife utilize to beg me to take her to see these foreign films with subtitles all the time, Cliff says. It seemed like every day she would ask me if we might go to see a foreign film, until I broke down and started taking her. every Wednesday night wed go to the Ritz movie star sign and see some depressing movie. And you know what?What?After a year we simply stopped going.Why?She stopped asking.Why?I dont know. But maybe if you take an interest in Tiffany, ask her to run with you and maybe to go out to dinner a few times maybe after a few weeks, she will grow tired of the chase and leave you alone. Let her get what she wants, and maybe she will not want it anymore. Understand?I do understand, but cannot help asking, Do you think that will really movement?And Cliff shrugs in a way that makes me believe it will.