April

As I am coming through the door of a place I could probably call my home, I felt myself having a mix of emotions. The sofa a few feet across looks really tempting. I plop on it and immediately use my fingers to rub against my temples. This action often relieved me of my tough headaches but right now, nothing of that such is happening.

Therapy with Jack was something that I think I would never get accustomed to. He only let me skim the surface of his personality, giving in snippets of some things I needed to know, but he never went in too deep. It was really frustrating.

Although, I understood that this was hard for him I could not help but wish that he could open up to me. Now I got why no one could cure him, that man was a real piece of work. I myself knew that.

I needed to try harder, something or someone made him feel this way and I will just have to find out what it was or whoever it is. It was my job as his doctor.

Trying to forget about today for at least a moment, I breathe out a sigh and dig my hand through my backpack and collect my phone, I type on the keypad a number I knew offhand and click the call button.

'Hey.' I hear from the other end.

"Hi, Chris." I greet smiling a little at the sound of his voice.

"Did you find anything?"
Chris does not answer immediately. I knew why. Chris was probably eating those chips he was obsessed with, the crunching noise made it too obvious.

'Yes, I did actually.'

"What is it?" I urge my interest piqued, visibly from my change into an alert position.

'April, he's deaf.'

"I know that." I say relaxing back on the sofa.

'I knew you would know that. Besides, you're his therapist.'

"Did you find anything else?" I press my sudden interest diminishing.

'No.' Chris speaks saying the word I dreaded to hear.

"Okay."

A moment goes on without Chris saying anything, even his munching noise has stopped.

'April, are you there?'
Chris's voice booms before I get to end the call.

'Yes, I am.' I sigh answering.

'I promise I'll double my efforts.' Chris assures.

At least, Chris was been supportive at the very time I needed him to be. It was something I found promising.

"Please do." I beg.

'I will, now cheer up alright.' Chris assures.
'Bye.' He says when I do not speak anymore.

"Bye." I state, my mood worsening.

I look to my phone and feel slightly better. Maybe something from the internet had come up about Jack. It might just be possible.

The reason I actually asked for Chris's help was because of the trouble I had searching about information of Jack. I remember typing his name in the search box, the same way I am doing now.

That day when I searched, I really did expect something unexpected to pop up, it never came. It was even extremely hard to get his address at that time.

There was no more information I could get about him. All I knew was that his surname was Bryan and that he lived about a half mile away from my home. There was nothing more.

Even the information about his address came at a huge cost. It was hard to find it. I would have never known if not for the silly tweet someone made on social media that gave it out.

It was shocking. I mean whoever could cover a much amount of such simple information like who his parents are or something like that must have really wanted the information confidential.

Luckily I have got Chris. I am sure he will help me get through this. With a sigh, I hit the search icon and within about two seconds I see the result. It could only be possible because of the sophisticated sort of Wi-Fi my mother had installed.

I still see the same thing I saw about Jack just like I did this morning. I scroll down a bit, the little hope I had gathered vanishing. I am almost through the whole page of the same thing I had seen over and over again. I even had some parts of this page memorized just in case something changed.

I must have been lucky today. There is something I am seeing for the first time written in an Italian font and it is in a very tiny size. Something that I had missed.

I zoom on it. Maybe, I could get a bit more knowledge relating to Jack from it. I wonder how I could not have seen this before. I soon copy the text and paste it in the search box.

More than eagerly I click on the search icon. If I could not get anymore knowledge about Jack, then I would just have to get more knowledge about the people who are most likely close to him.

I just hope it was as easy as that