Doctor-Patient Confidentiality: Chapter Eleven (Role Play Edition)

 

一分钟后，崔克茜回来了，脸上露出了大大的、头晕目眩的笑容。

 

“Oh my God, you little slut! I totally saw that,” she says to you as she sits down.

 

You raise your eyebrow. “What?”

 

“好像你不知道一样，”她轻蔑地挥了挥手。 “你和 Jamie Wrighton 在自助餐厅中间互相打量着对方， 那是 什么。”

 

“I was not. He was just apologizing for bumping into me,” you say nonchalantly.

 

Trixie can be extremely dramatic when it comes to two things in life—Bill, and anything college sports. She’s pretty much the only reason you’ve attended any of the games you have, even going as far as buying you a sports ticket package so that she’ll always have at least one person to go to football and basketball games with.

 

她无休止地试图让比尔参加更多比赛，但他只是不喜欢运动。不过，这并不能阻止她继续尝试。她不像以前那样烦他和她一起去的唯一原因是因为她不想忍受和吉娜一起看一场比赛。不用说，崔克茜受不了她，也无法理解比尔在“贱人”中看到了什么。

 

是的。崔克茜也给她起了一个绰号。

 

“就是它 全部 he said?” she asks, bringing you back to your ‘discussion’ as her whiskey eyes search yours with impossible curiosity.

 

“Yup,” you lie. You take a sip of your coffee and wish you hadn’t. It tastes awfully bland, and you might as well have put the money you just spent on it in a shredder instead of on the cardboard-encased cup in your hands.

 

“我不相信你，”崔克茜说。

 

The girl can read you a lot better than you’d care to admit sometimes.

 

“他还说了什么，罗尼？”她推。

 

You sigh, knowing that she’ll just keep poking and poking at the matter until you say something. You might as well just get it over with.

 

“He said he saw me singing at the Mushroom and thinks I’m alright,” you admit, now picking at your bagel.

 

The round pastry is beginning to look like it was made to go with Swiss cheese from all the craters you’re absently making in it.

 

崔克茜只在谈论她痴迷的事情时才会发出尖叫声——在这种情况下，是大学运动和与之相伴的“热门运动员”。

 

“他问你电话号码了吗？”她带着明显的期待问道。

 

“No,” you answer simply.

 

“嗯，你有没有 提供 它？”她脸上带着难以置信的神情，仿佛只要因为他们是一名运动员，就把你的电话号码告诉任何你接触的人是轻而易举的事。

 

You feel your mouth curve into a slight frown. “No. Why the hell would I do that?”

 

“Because he’s Jamie fucking Wrighton, Ramona! Duh!” she says dramatically, waving her hands for emphasis. She goes on and on for a few minutes, telling you you should know better by now and insisting that you should have given him your number as if world peace depended on it.

 

In the midst of Trixie’s dramatics, you notice that Bill is unusually quiet. After you and Trixie go back and forth a few more times, you turn to him with a bit of concern.

 

“一切都好吗，比尔？你通常会告诉崔克茜现在有一个新的爱好。”

 

“是的，Poochie，”她带着戏谑的微笑表示赞同。她试图模仿小丑的声音。 “怎么这么沉默？”

 

比尔沉默了几秒，仿佛陷入了沉思，然后深深地呼了口气。他揉了揉鼻梁，又用手揉了揉头发，显然是在为某事苦恼。

 

“账单？”崔克茜又问了一遍，她的表情现在多了几分担心。

 

“I think Gina’s cheating on me,” he blurts suddenly, avoiding your eyes.

 

The hurt expression on his face gives you the impression that he’s pretty sure his speculation is true. He can be a bit private about certain things, like you am, and he’s definitely not the paranoid type. So the fact that he’s telling you that he thinks his girlfriend is being unfaithful to him means he’s probably been feeling this way for some time.

 

He still doesn’t look at you.

 

You look over to Trixie. She’s equally silent, but her eyes are seething. She looks like she wants to kick something; no doubt, Gina’s forehead.

 

Suddenly, you feel even shittier than you did before. You can’t even begin to imagine how betrayed he must feel. You really hope it doesn’t turn out to be true, but somehow, you’re certain it is. You wouldn’t put it past Gina to do that to him. He’s a bit of a pushover when it comes to her, and she knows it and takes full advantage of it.

 

她这样做的事实激怒了崔克茜，但她能做的只有这么多。比尔爱上了

吉娜，几乎无可救药。

 

You never want to feel betrayed like that.

 

Fuck love with a sandpaper dick. You want no part of it and the inevitable mess that it eventually causes. That’s why you keep avoiding guys who show interest in you or anyone you can actually envision yourself being with.

 

“I’m just gonna go. I’ll see you guys later,” he finally says. He gets up from his chair and leaves before you can say anything else.

 

You’re not sure if you expected Trixie to openly gloat or bask at the sign of possible turmoil in Bill and Gina’s relationship, but you didn’t expect her to be so quiet about it, either.

 

随着她的皱眉加深，她额头上的皱纹变得更加突出。

 

她生气了。

 

真的 生气。

 

这是她唯一一次如此安静。

 

“Trixie, don’t do anything stupid,” you warn, your voice dripping with concern—for both her 和 Gina. She looks at you but she continues to remain silent.

All you can hope for now is that she doesn’t run into Gina any time soon.

 

或者 去找她。

 

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